…eminating from the mouths of lunatics. The prez just gave a rambling cherry picked assessment of how wonderful it’s all going in the country that didn’t attack us, and that we need to be there forever, just give it a chance. McCain gave an equally glowing and bizarre assessment of a sunday stroll in anytown Iraq.

“There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods, today,”

The Raw Story | Audio: John McCain says…

Reality check:

And despite John McCain’s happy talk about how safe Iraq is, McCaffrey offers another assessment:
The government lacks dominance in every province, he added. One result is that “no Iraqi government official, coalition soldier, diplomat, reporter, foreign NGO [nongovernmental organization], nor contractor can walk the streets of Baghdad, nor Mosul, nor Kirkuk, nor Basra, nor Tikrit, nor Najaf, nor Ramadi, without heavily armed protection.”
Militias and armed bands are “in some ways more capable of independent operations” than the Iraqi army, he added.

US facing “Strategic Peril” in Iraq says General McCaffrey

And this from the man who “strolls” daily in Iraq:

“Honestly, Wolf, you’ll barely last twenty minutes out there. I dont know what part of Neverland Senator McCain is talking about when he says we can go strolling in Baghdad.”

watch it: Michael Ware