MSNBC interview gives the lie to McCain's accounts....


Did you watch MSNBC tonight, the report on Iraq.



It was Reynolds who was reporting on current events in Iraq.



It gives the lie to everything McCain says and show him to be either an incorrigible liar or so misguided that I wouldn’t trust him to give me directions for crossing the street.



I remember when Reynolds first started. He was right out of school and traveled to Iraq doing freelance writing. Later, he was picked up by NBC to be their man on the spot. He was full of enthusiasm, anxious to make his mark.



Not today! Today, he is a changed man.



Here's an update.



Reynolds moved to the Green Area several years ago.



Life was originally pretty good there.



But things have worsened for him.



He has lost friend after friend. He says that he is unable to leave the zone so he sends Iraqi photographers to cover the scene and pick up on what he’s missing.



He admits to being a virtual prisoner.



Any ventures out are few and far between after the last kidnapping attempt.



He has had his hotel room blown out three times and that’s in the Green Zone.



And he has seen many of his good friends killed from bombs or targeted efforts.



It sounds the polar opposite of the way McCain describes it.



Reynolds reports on people living delusional lives. They can’t go out, so they pretend that they are going out. They get all dressed and stay home. Men are drinking more.

Nobody sleeps throughout the night.



Reynolds who was rock calm four years ago, now seems depressed, nervous and a pale shadow of himself.



To see somebody so fall apart before your eyes is an indictment of everything that our government says that we are doing to alleviate the problems and make Baghdad a safe city.



Clearly, it is not working.

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And anyone seeing this special on MSNBC would get the message.



If McCain is going to hang his hat on this flimsiest of arguments, he is already dead in the water.



But no one ever went broke underestimating the American public.



So much for McCain’s version of Thru the Looking Glass….



Les Aaron

The Armchair Curmudgeon