Let's come back to the House, Senate, and President deciding we can torture (as Barack Obama said, hopefully the courts will overturn this one, and we'll be back to the beginning). We can talk later about Macaca DeerHead. Today we'll hear from Senator Trent Lott's hair (not, as far as I can tell, from his porch).
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush barely mentioned the war in Iraq when he met with Republican senators behind closed doors in the Capitol Thursday morning and was not asked about the course of the war, Sen. Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, said.
"No, none of that," Lott told reporters after the session when asked if the Iraq war was discussed. "You're the only ones who obsess on that. We don't and the real people out in the real world don't for the most part."
Here we pause, because this is stupid. This is "go jump in a woodchipper" stupid. The real people in the real world don't talk about Iraq? You'd think they'd have learned from Bush's "I honestly don't think about him much" moment with Osama bin Laden. But no. Message to all you "in the real world". While you might think that Iraq is a big deal, it's just not. Really. Not a big deal at all - our elected officials barely talk about it. Stop obsessing about the war. You know what, if you think about the lower gas prices, you'll never notice the dead bodies (2708 Americans, and roughly 45000 Iraqis, as of this morning), and you'll feel all warm and fuzzy and Republican.
Continuing:
Lott went on to say he has difficulty understanding the motivations behind the violence in Iraq.
"It's hard for Americans, all of us, including me, to understand what's wrong with these people," he said. "Why do they kill people of other religions because of religion? Why do they hate the Israeli's and despise their right to exist?
Why, indeed, Trent. Why did the Christians carry out the Crusades? Why do we fight over having the word "God" in the Pledge of Allegiance? Why does George Allen hide his Jewish heritage? All good questions, really.
But as ignorant as that is, and as much as we should be talking about how our "leaders" are willing to ignore the dominant issue of our time, or how stupid Trent Lott is for not understanding that religion has been the cause of many, many wars throughout history, what made my wife wonder why I was cursing so loudly was his summation:
Why do they hate each other? Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me."
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How do they tell the difference?
They all look the same to me?
Trent, you complete frickin' racist idiot, here's a little question - do the Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland look a whole lot different? Would it be better if they did - then could you understand why they killed each other?
Reading this actually caused me pain. Although, thankfully, it's now okay for our government to torture people.
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Holy Crap! I had not heard those comments.
As I've noted before, I kind of like the new, "out" racism the 'thugs are showing us these days.
It's the only honesty we've gotten from them in 12 years.
It is special, isn't it? Of course, when they get reelected, it also tells you something about the people in their districts. There are reasons I would never live in the south.
Even if Duke or U Va or Vanderbilt came a'callin'?
Not even if NASA wanted me to run things.
As much as I agree with you on life south of I-80, don't forget that there are plenty of racist cracker nutjobs up here. In fact, you could argue they are scarier than the "out" ones like Lott and Allen.
Well, they have their talking points --- it's all about legally beating the snot out of scary brown and black people...
Runs along the same theme of "Bush on the Couch". Read the book, excellent analysis of the sociopath in command.
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