(Sen) Chambliss says Iraq progress "truly amazing"

[sabra]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON Senator Saxby Chambliss said today that he found "truly amazing" progress during a trip to Iraq this weekend.
Despite a particularly deadly month for U-S soldiers in April, the Republican from Moultrie said he is optimistic that the ongoing military offensive can quell violence and stabilize the government.

Chambliss spoke to reporers in a conference call after his fifth visit to Iraq. He said it is "very encouraging" to sse the progress in the country.

...

Chambliss acknowledged today that what he called "challenges" persist, particularly on the political side. But citing progress in the city of Ramadi west of Baghdad, he expressed confidence that the military strategy of rooting out insurgents and "holding" unstable areas would work.

Read more: http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6486550

[aquart]

1. What effing progress?

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

22. the new brothels in the green zone are world class!

[ljm2002]

28. Ha, ha, I thought you said "news brothels"...

...which also works.

[Kikosexy2]

29. Stayed mostly...

in the Green zone and traveled to less threatening areas...Dream on, Dream on....if he's that confident, he should have wandered the streets of Baghdad without bodyguards, etc....just like insane McCain...yeah..sure there's progress...benchmarks, skidmarks, stretchmarks...all the same shit...

[liberal N proud]

2. If progress is more death and destruction then it truly is.

What do they take us for? OH Never mind, they lied to us for 6+ years, why would they tell the truth now.

[youngdem]

3. This guy must be smoking from the CIA private stash

[saigon68]

25. He's smoking something

This is the mother fucker who attacked Max Cleland

[villager]

4. As "truly amazing" as the electronic vote-counting switch that put him in office?

n/t

[bullimiami]

5. dont forget whos lying dirty mouth uttered this.

he smeared max cleland, an actual war hero.
yet hes a chickenshit chickenhawk that wouldnt know what was going on if he actually saw it but which he probably didnt.

""In the 1960s, during the Vietnam War, Chambliss was given a student deferment so he could attend law school. After that, he received a medical deferment (4-F) because of a bad knee""

he won in georgia thanks to diebold, when, despite polling that showed cleland up by a goodly margin it was surprisingly reversed when the votes came in.

'rob georgia'.

chambliss is scum.

[jefferson_dem]

6. And he stole the Senate seat in 2002 by smearing hero Max Cleland.

Scum...indeed! Let's hope we can put up a reasonable challenge against him in '08.

[Up2Late]

19. Sorry, that just won't happen until we get rid of these damn Diebold machines...

...and they have already locked them in for 2008. I think they said they "might" test more paper printers in 2008, but with ALL of our State government now controlled by Diebold sElected Legislatures, that probably won't happen either.

We need Federal Help here, but I don't see that happening before 2009.:argh:

[Up2Late]

15. Exactly right, he's a total A-hole.

If we actually had our Votes counted here in Georgia, there is NO WAY he would have been elected, and would be long gone by now.

He Sucks.:mad:

[Xipe Totec]

7. It's beyond amazing - simply incredible

in the strict sense of the word.

[CottonBear]

8. I detest my senator. He'll go to hell for what he did to Senator Cleland.

:grr: He's just another GOP chickenhawk blathering on about war, a topic which he has no first hand knowledge.

[Orsino]

40. War is peace. Slavery is freedom.

And Chambliss is our representative.

[stanwyck]

41. I hear you. Another Georgian stuck with this idiot. n/t

[gratuitous]

9. Darn the luck!

It seems there was room in the story for this paragraph:

"Chambliss said in January that he expected to see quick results from President Bush's decision to send a surge of soldiers into the war. As the new troops began hitting the ground, April saw an increase in American deaths, with 104 soldiers killed, the highest number since December. At the same time, a series of suicide bombings recently have killed hundreds of civilians, and there are signs that the nation's fledgling government may be fracturing."

But there wasn't enough room for Chambliss to list any of the amazing progress he saw - or maybe that was it?

[DinahMoeHum]

10. ". . .citing progress in the city of Ramadi. . ." Did he actually go there?

or did he just spout some talking-point bullshit while sitting on his ass in "Emerald City" (aka The Green Zone) in Baghdad?

Gotta also wonder where that conference call actually came from.

:evilfrown:

[Barrett808]

38. Recent news from Ramadi:

Chlorine gas blast kills 6 in Iraq's Ramadi
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30432980.htm

Two suicide car bombs kill 20 near Iraq's Ramadi
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L07166243.htm

[cliss]

11. Good for Mr. Chambliss.

I vote that we make Mr. Chambliss King of Iraq. He can go there, and enjoy all the "progress".

Kissing you good-bye, buddy.:smoke:

[Monkeyman]

12. Max We Need You To Run

[hobbit709]

13. The fact that this oxygen stealer

can walk and talk at the same time is "truly amazing"

[Cant trust em]

14. I want specifics

I need to hear more about "progress". What does that even mean? To me progress means not tripping over dead bodies. With 105 soldiers killed in the month his standards of progress must be pretty low. "Today, 100 Iraqis were able to pat their heads and rub their bellies at the same time. Yay!"

[napi21]

16. This AH represents ME in the Senate! I consistently send him

messages of how much I detest his positions on EVERYTHING, but he continues to send nice letters back answering lots of questions I didn't ask, but none that I did!

I scream every time I see his mug standing behind Shrub at some signing celebration, and you will notice...he's ALWAYS THERE!

God, I hope the Ga. Dems find a knife weilding opponent to run against this AH!!!!!

[sinkingfeeling]

17. Guess Chambliss wasn't trailing along with Sen. Snowe. Can't find much on Saxby's comments, but a

lot of stories out there on what Snowe saw and said.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2007/05/05/snowe_fellow_senate_intelligence_committee_members_visit_iraq/

Snowe was visiting Iraq over the weekend with Republican Sens. Kit Bond of Missouri and Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, who serve with Snowe on the Senate Intelligence Committee. U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who is on the House Intelligence Committee, was also on the trip.

The group arrived Saturday and met with U.S. military commanders, U.S. troops and Iraqi officials. They planned to return to Washington on Monday.

On Saturday, Snowe said she met with a number of soldiers from Maine and asked them about their mission. One soldier, she said, told her that his Humvee had been hit three times by roadside bombs.


http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/070506snoweuse.html
Snowe is scheduled to return from Iraq on Monday. She stayed in Baghdad's Green Zone Saturday night and was scheduled to tour areas outside the capital.

http://www.bangordailynews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=149530&zoneid=500

Speaking with reporters during a satellite telephone press conference, Snowe, R-Maine, said she found little to be cheerful about after her first full day on the ground as a member of a Senate Intelligence Committee fact-finding tour.

"The good news is mixed; the bad news is downright troubling," Snowe said during the interview.

[The_Casual_Observer]

18. And we're supposed to believe a guy named "Saxby"?

[louis-t]

20. I think the reason these idiots are claiming to see "progress'

is: When the embarrassment in the WH dumps this war on the next president (who will be a Dem) he can say "well, WE were making progress and now it's a mess. YOU messed it up."

[RaleighNCDUer]

35. There ya go. nt

[BlueStater]

21. Sounds like he caught whatever form of dementia McCain has n/t

[tabasco]

31. Yes, it's a form of dementia known as ...

"He's a lying piece of shit."

[David Zephyr]

23. Is he up for re-election in 2008? Is Max running again?

?

[Ezlivin]

24. Saxby probably went to a Ramada Inn and thought it was Ramadi

Room service was the sign of progress he was looking for.

[RubyDuby in GA]

26. I really want to know why I'm being punished so badly by having this asshat as my Sen.

:banghead:



:cry:

[stanwyck]

42. I think it's payback for that horrible "The Devil Went Down

to Georgia" song. We have to pay. And so we have these truly moronic senators.

[daleo]

27. I hope he found some nice rugs

Like McCain did.

[BigDDem]

30. Titanic

is one "truly amazing" ship!

[neverforget]

32. Ignorance is ChamBLISS.......

[damntexdem]

33. Yeah, amazing. In the same sense that the levees in New Orleans were amazing.

Prepare to be perpetually amazed.

[RaleighNCDUer]

34. I must agree.

Any progress at all would be absolutely amazing.

[CTLawGuy]

36. Darboy says (Sen) Chambliss "truly amazing...ly idiotic"

NT

[jody]

37. Gee I'm glad we're winning! I wonder what losing would look like? n/t

[onehandle]

39. Asshole. I voted for Max Cleland.

Diebold voted for this chickenhawk.

Bite me, you Rove puppet.

[gasperc]

43. if I smoked crack, I'd believe everything is amazing too