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What’s Wrong With This Picture?

Posted by SHAUN MULLEN, TMV Columnist in At TMV.
Mar 2nd, 2008 | Comments

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What does it say about the state of world affairs that when high-ranking U.S. officials visit Iraq they wear flak jackets, there is no advance notice and the trips are rushed and cloaked in secrecy, whereas when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad drops by as he did today his trip and itinerary are announced well in advance and he is greeted with pomp and ceremony?

Photograph by The Associated Press

  • EEllis
    That the insurgents are not going to blow off the hand that gives them the AK?
  • EEllis,
    The U.S. government has been giving guns to practically all sides in the Iraqi civil war.
  • EEllis
    I wish we had smileys because I could put one rolling it's eyes while I ignored the comment.
  • We replaced a secular strongman who despised fundamentalists and Iran with a Shiite government that is a huge ally for Iran. Way to go, Brownie.
  • cosmoetica
    I know it's not what you meant Shaun, but Ahmedinejad's face looks like he's got diarrhea and is wincing as he clenches his buttocks so to not soil himself.
  • StockBoySF
    That Bush is paranoid? No, wait....
    That we're considered occupiers in a country we invaded and the Iraqis want us out?
  • Slamfu
    It says what everyone knows. Things are not going well.
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