Rep. Westmoreland((R-GA)Warns That Iraqis Won’t Just ‘Go Back to Tending Sheep and Herding Goats’

[RedEarth]

Rep. Westmoreland Warns That Iraqis Won’t Just ‘Go Back to Tending Sheep and Herding Goats’
During yesterday’s House floor debate on escalation, Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) unwittingly demonstrated his profound ignorance of Iraqi culture. “Some people from the other side seem to believe that if we pull out of Iraq, the Iraqi people are going to go back to tending sheep and herding goats,” he said

watch the moron here ..............

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/14/iraq-goats/

[joanski0]

1. Shows you how much he knows about Iraq.

Besides, I thought all the people with the ways and means had already left the country. Only ones left are too poor to grab a plane to the US and blow themselves up.

[bullimiami]

2. Rampant Racism. Not unusual for republicans these days.

mesopotamia was civilized millenia before america was discovered but of course their civilization peaked with sheep and goat herding.

[shain from kane]

3. Much to his ancestor's chagrin, blacks didn't go back to picking cotton for nothing

after The Civil War.

[Bluebear]

4. Lynn, I know it's Valentine's Day but get your mind off of the sheep.

You're at work, ferchrissakes.