The Crooked Dissembler Local

The Straight Talk Express is up on blocks in BS Ville, USA.

This week, John McCain took on war critics as being too critical of the status of Iraq. Sort of his special take on the whole "defeatist" line the President was so fond of for a while. First he said Baghdad is so safe that General Petraeus often wanders outside the Green Zone in an unarmored vehicle. CNN checked with Petraeus' staff. They said he never leaves the green zone in anything less than "an uparmored humvee."

Next, McCain said that there are neighborhoods in Iraq that anyone can just walk around carefree as a lamb. General Barry McCafferty, who just returned from Baghdad had this to say when queried: "No Iraqi government official, coalition soldier, diplomat, reporter, foreign NGO, nor contractor can walk the streets of Baghdad, nor Mosul, nor Kirkuk, nor Basra, nor Tikrit, nor Najaf, nor Ramadi -- without heavily armed protection."

I think there are many roads to the Presidency. Being an ass is not one of them.