Ha Ha -- look what idiot Delay is saying about lovely Iraq:

[mainer]

From Salon.com:

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Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, DeLay was resolute that the situation in Iraq was improving and blamed the media for misconstruing the war.

"You know, if Houston, Texas, was held to the same standard as Iraq is held to, nobody'd go to Houston, because all this reporting coming out of the local press in Houston is violence, murders, robberies, deaths on the highways," the Texan told reporters. "And if you took that as the image of what is a great city that has an incredible quality of life and an incredible economy, it's amazing to me. Go to Iraq. And see what's actually happening there." DeLay proceeded to insist, "Everybody that comes from Iraq is amazed at the difference of what they see on the ground and what they see on the television set."

Currently, the U.S. military death toll in Iraq has exceeded 1,700, with more than 12,000 wounded. The civilian death toll is estimated to be far greater than that of U.S. forces, possibly numbering in the tens of thousands.

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My second cousin in the State Department is coming home from Baghdad after spending a year there. Lemme tell you, he has quite a different view of just what an "incredible quality of life" those Baghdad residents are enjoying right now.

[bryant69]

1. You see what you want to see, sometimes

Certainly in this case.

Bryant
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[merci_me]

2. Then I suggest the friggin chickenhawk

go to Baghdad and tool around for a couple of days just like if he was in Houston. No armed guards, just in his golf duds. Go out to dinner, take a couple of "tours of duty" on the golf course, stop at the local mall, read the funnies at Starbucks and spend the evening on a front porch with a bottle of wine and gaze at the stars.

Then, when they ship his body home...............

M

[oasis]

6. No "Green Zone" in Houston. (eom)

[Wright Patman]

3. This is why everyone in Houston

is leaving for Baghdad. Iraqi summers are not any cooler than Houston's, but at least it's a "dry heat."

[FrannyD]

4. He is so deluded

As scared as Texas makes me, I would reluctantly rather be there than Baghdad, no matter their fantastic quality of life. Ha.

[NV Whino]

7. Welcome to DU, FannyD

And let's stay in NoCal

[AllegroRondo]

5. Houston has electricity and running water

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. I wanna see DeLay go for a walk outside the Green Zone

[Gabi Hayes]

9. Al Franken is talking about it right now

thank god for that channel; leavening all this insanity being spewed forth, without adulteration in the MSM, with humor is probably the best way to fight it

[Gabi Hayes]

10. Franken talking about how our own amBASSador to Iraq

is "horrified" by how bad it is there

makes point that they cover car accidents, etc., in Houston as a matter of course, but, last time he checked, there weren't any IEDs exploding there

[napi21]

11. Well, I lived in San Antonio for 6 years, and EVERYONE said

OH GOD!!! You don't want to go to Houston! It's the damn armpit of the world!

If DeLay loves it so much, I suggest he return to Houston and leave Gov't all together!

[Bridget Burke]

14. DeLay doesn't live in Houston.

He's an Outside-The-Looper from Sugarland.

Here's an oldie but goodie from the HOUSTON Press: He had graduated from the University of Houston at the height of the Vietnam conflict in 1970, but chose to enlist in the war on cockroaches, fleas and termites as the owner of an exterminator business, rather than going off to battle against the Vietcong.

He and Quayle, DeLay explained to the assembled media in New Orleans, were victims of an unusual phenomenon back in the days of the undeclared Southeast Asian war. So many minority youths had volunteered for the well-paying military positions to escape poverty and the ghetto that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like himself. Satisfied with the pronouncement, which dumbfounded more than a few of his listeners who had lived the sixties, DeLay marched off to the convention.

www.houstonpress.com/issues/1999-01-07/news/columns2.html

[ComerPerro]

12. I'm still waiting for his apology to Houston.

[oasis]

13. kick