Friday, September 29, 2006

Some of my best friends are Iraqis

I know people like to think that their representatives in Washington know something about the things they legislate on. Unfortunately, most of them are completely clueless, one might say willfully ignorant. Trent Lott on the war 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 do they hate each other? Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me."

Do they all look like macaccas to him?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I come from Manhattan, and I don't understand either. But we should have realized that we don't understand these people before we went in in 2003 and shot this country up.

Mark said...

Well, you weren't elected to Congress. One would think that a Congress that consistently writes the President multi-billion dollar checks would have a rudimentary understanding of the political system in a country where 9700 Americans have died over the last three and a half years.