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Journeyman

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4. This is akin to McCain's Baghdad trip, when he claimed it was perfectly safe to stroll about. . .

Reply to bigtree (Original post)

Thu Jul 17, 2014, 09:27 PM

Jul 2014

all the while he was accompanied by “100 American soldiers, with three Blackhawk helicopters, and two Apache gunships overhead.” Still photographs provided by the military to NBC News seemed to show McCain wearing a bulletproof vest during his visit.

Ah, of such metal are our brave politicians molded.

http://thinkprogress.org/default/2007/04/01/11556/mccain-iraq-stroll/

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