Comments on: McCain Discusses Iraq Market Visit

Arizona Senator Speaks Exclusively With Correspondent Scott Pelley

[keinsignal]

Agreeing w/ surflaw02 above. 26 people have now been murdered by insurgents in the area around that market since McCain's visit, and it is certainly legitimate to ask if these two things are related. I certainly hope 60 Minutes will ask Sen. McCain (and the other congressmen on this trip) to comment on these deaths as well.

Not to mention NPR's followup on the visit where a merchant, Ahmed Al-Kurdi, who gave Rep. Mike Pence a free rug, and whom the congressman described thus: %u201CHis eyes, like so many others, radiated with affection and appreciation.%u201D, told NPR the following (from Editor and Publisher, see http://tinyurl.com/3d547k):

"I didn't accept the money. I said to myself, 'they must be guests, so I must give them a good impression of Iraqis.' After all, we are occuped by these Americans -- and they are accompanied by a lot of U.S. security."

Al-Kurdi then said that actually he favored the insurgents: %u201CWe are not against the resistance. We are with them. However, he who claims to be with the resistance must fight the occupiers, not the Iraqi people. A huge number of U.S forces came yesterday. Why didn't they shoot at them -- instead of harming us?%u201D

[kimlindy1]

MCCAIN, YOUR THE BIGGEST DAM--- I HAVE EVER SEEN.YOUR NOT A MAN YOUR A MOUSE...YOU USE OUR TAX $ TO TRY AND MAKE GOOD BY GOING OVER TO IRAN TO SHOW HOW SAFE THE STREETS ARE, BULL YOU HAD TWO HUNDERED AROUND YOU AT ALL TIMES, WITH A COPER ABOVE ,THE STREET YOU WALK DOWN ,SO CALLED WALK DOWN WAS DOMDED THE NEXTS DAY, WHAT THE HECK DID YOU DO? WHAT DID YOU THINK WOULD HAPPEN FOR SURE THEY BOMDED THE STREET ,YOU MADE LIFE WORSE OF THOSE THAT USE TO HAVE A HOME ON YOUR SO CALLED STREETS, NOT NOW, YOUR SUCH A DUM---,TO MAKE A POINT TO SHOW OFF , I CANT EVEN BEGIN TO SAY HOW I FELL ABOUT THIS JERK,ENYONE THAT KNOWS ENYTHING ABOUT THE WAY LIFE IS OVER IN IRAN KNOW JUST AS SOME AS HE REPORTS HOW SAFE ANY STREET,CITY ARE THE FIST THING THAT WOULD HAPPEN WOULD BE SOMEONE BOMBING IT,YOU AND I KNOW THIS ,SO DID HE, WHO O.K FOR MCCAIN TO EVEN GO?

[centaur4321]

Senator McCain, at American taxpayer expense, flies to Iraq, surrounds himself with a hundred or so US soldiers, at American taxpayers expense, cocoons himself in body armor, at American taxpayer expense, and then walks through a market place and declares how much safer it is now, how much improvement has taken place.

How stupid does he think the American public is?

Why is 60 minutes airing any of this bogus posturing?

I can only hope that the focus of the entire segment will be to point out that Senator McCain, like so many of our politicians will do anything to distort the truth to gain voter approval.

If there ever were a chance of my voting for McCain for President it has vanished. We already have an arrogant, ignorant man in that office, why would we want to elect yet another to follow in his footsteps?

As to 60 minutes, if you buy into this propaganda, and don't clearly show how distorted Sen. McCain's claims are, you maty count me among one less viewers.

[surflaw02]

They need to include the fact that 21 Shia market workers were ambushed, bound and shot dead north of the capital. The victims came from the Baghdad market visited the previous day by John McCain, the US presidential candidate, who said that an American security plan in the capital was starting to show signs of progress.
London Times Reporting:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article1604931.ece