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rw wrote:
I love this story.

Some goober Repub nutcase, running for the seat of disgraced, convicted,
sentenced, and serving-time-for-bribery Rep. (R) "Duke" Cunningham, put
a photo of a peaceful Iraq town on his website, citing it as an example
of how everything was hunky-dory in Iraq, despite all the biased
only-bad-news from Iraq coming from the so-called left-wing media.

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/atty...es/003008.html

The only problem is that it was a photo of Istanbul, Turkey.


I am surprised you missed this one, though I don't follow all of these,
so I could end up with egg on my face :).

I just heard this on the Real Time podcast. Apparently Babs Bush donated
to the Katrina victims with the express instructions that the money be
used for Educational Software, which, by coincidence is the business son
Neil is in, who, by coincidence, is backed by our good friends The UAE.

As Bill Maher said, "You can't have a good Bush scandal without a Sheik
involved."

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Gary M wrote:

I am surprised you missed this one, though I don't follow all of these,
so I could end up with egg on my face :).

I just heard this on the Real Time podcast. Apparently Babs Bush donated
to the Katrina victims with the express instructions that the money be
used for Educational Software, which, by coincidence is the business son
Neil is in, who, by coincidence, is backed by our good friends The UAE.

As Bill Maher said, "You can't have a good Bush scandal without a Sheik
involved."

Babs was deeply moved by the photos of those poor Katrina victims on
roof tops holding up signs saying, "Please, for the love of God, send us
educational software!"

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I'm far less charitable. My gut feeling leans toward him being
dishonest and arrogant. I personally don't believe he ever got down
into to the "quiet" streets of Baghdad, much less took a picture
there. Whether or not the photo was an honest mistake, his portrayal
of his experience there was likely a lie. Once his Turkish street
photo was exposed as a lie, he posted another of Baghdad, but this time
from high on a hotel balcony. If that's as close as he got, that
strongly suggests the streets of Baghdad are indeed as dangerous as
reported by others, and reporters and visiting politicians are not safe
outside their hotels. And two, he's a lying ******* to say otherwise
and probably thought he'd get away with it.

That said, I'm just as sure that some semblance of normal life does
exist for these unfortunate people; but it shouldn't be newsworthy
that an average citizen can safely walk down his street to buy
vegetables. I'm sick of right-wing toadies trying to put a positive
spin on this debacle. Were it not for this latest incident fitting
neatly into that pattern of disinformation, I could dismiss it easily
enough; but I'm sick of the lies, even small ones.

Joe F.

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rb608 wrote:
I'm far less charitable. My gut feeling leans toward him being
dishonest and arrogant.

I was just being snarky. The guy is a complete asshole. I just hope he
gets the Repub nomination for "Duke" Cunningham's seat.

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