Quote Originally Posted by thcbongman
There are merchant accounts disputing what McCain stated on the security of Baghdad. Fish here isn't a ranting buffoon.
You're kidding, right?
Not a buffoon? lol,lol,lol,lol.
Ok...how about uninformed propagandist? Factually impared? Or...better yet...misguided revisionist foreigner.

As far as the article...yellow journalism is rampant in the NY Times, and not the best source for honest representations of the truth, especially in Iraq. How about the fact that the market is open in the first place?
When is the last time you heard the Times write of the infrastructure being expanded and repaired? Where are the stories about the schools that are open to all? The hospitals that care for all Iraqi's, regardless of sect? Where are the stories about the political reconcilliation going on in the Maliki government? What about the facts regarding the overall sucesses the US military training the Itraqi security forces, and the results of that training?

What do you folks think they'd do, going into the Baghdad proper. Drive around in an open-to convertable, like a Kennedy in Dallas? Of couese there was more security. Would be pretty stupid to parade our presidential hopeful, with no additional security.
Tell ya what, let's send those liars, Billary and Osama Obama over there with no security. Just for the fun of watching her "ducking sniper fire" story come full circle, lol.