Santorum uses Lord of the Rings to Defend the Iraq War

[ECH1969]

Embattled U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum said America has avoided a second terrorist attack for five years because the “Eye of Mordor” has been drawn to Iraq instead.

“As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else,” Santorum said, describing the tool the evil Lord Sauron used in search of the magical ring that would consolidate his power over Middle-earth.

“It's being drawn to Iraq and it's not being drawn to the U.S.,” Santorum continued. “You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the Eye to come back here to the United States.”

A spokesman for Democratic opponent Bob Casey Jr. questioned the appropriateness of the analogy.

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/111-10172006-728120.html

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. What kind of maniac would say something like that?

[truebrit71]

2. Holy. Fucking. Shit.

What a moran.... :wow:

[aquart]

15. A desperate one.

[madmom]

3. but..but...but...that's talking about magic and wizards and evil stuff

that we can't have...what will we tell the children??????????:scared:

[ECH1969]

7. Sauron/Cheney 2008

Because, Mordor must be liberated.

[rodeodance]

4. recall the Eye of Modor had limitations-Frodo and Sam snuck threw the

doors.

[rodeodance]

5. In other words---he got his storyline is out of wack!

[Rob H.]

6. He claims to be a big fan, and yet...

he doesn't know that it's the Eye of Sauron, not the Eye of Mordor. Either way, though, he's still :crazy:.

[rodeodance]

9. i have seen both Eye of M and Eye of S.----since s. is illusionary ---the

COULD dwell Mordor-----the immaginary land.

[rodeodance]

8. he's “a big "Lord of the Rings' fan.”

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......In an interview with the Bucks County Courier Times editorial board late last week, the 12-year Republican senator from Pennsylvania said he's “a big "Lord of the Rings' fan.” He's read the first of the series, “The Hobbit” to his six children.

A spokesman for Democratic opponent Bob Casey Jr. questioned the appropriateness of the analogy.

“You have to really question the judgment of a U.S. senator who compares the war in Iraq to a fantasy book,” said Casey spokesman Larry Smar. “This is just like when he said Kim Jong II isn't a threat because he just wants to "watch NBA basketball.' ”

According to a Harrisburg Patriot-News editorial, Santorum said the North Korea dictator “doesn't want to die; he wants to watch NBA basketball” as a reason why Iran is the bigger nuclear threat.

Faced with a no-fantasy re-election battle against Democratic challenger and state Treasurer Bob Casey Jr., Santorum has positioned himself as strong on national security.

[Bonhomme Richard]

10. Maybe, but if true the Eye of Mordor is not in Iraq.

It is on Pennsylvania Avenue.

[JHB]

11. Nai du altuva Manwesauronathon nen ulee

(or something like that)

"May the Great Eagle-hosts of Manwe piss on thee"

(from college days, trading insults in Tolkien Elvish (I think))

[Crunchy Frog]

12. Bush has the Ring. When do we get to throw him into a volcano?

[geniph]

13. Dammit, self-delete, duplicate

Damn forum bugs!

[geniph]

14. I wonder if Sen. Foamy Substance sees himself as Samwise?

I can totally picture him writing slash fiction...BAD slash fiction.

Then again, I do have to admit to some bemusement at discovering that the Fascist Easter Egg himself actually can read.

[bluedogyellowdog]

16. Yess my preciouss

We likess nassty dogses doesn't we my preciouss? Yess. Hobbitses on dogses.

[Johnny Appleseed]

17. If he had compared Bush to Tom Bombadil or Cheney to Gollum

that might have been more appropriate. And, Ironically, a good portion of the rest of the world considers the US to be Mordor, with Barad-dur resting atop the white house.

[mcscajun]

18. Bush is the Lord of the Nazgul.

"The Black Rider flung back his hood, and behold! he had a kingly crown; and yet upon no head visible was it set. The red fires shone between it and the mantled shoulders vast and dark. From a mouth unseen there came a deadly laughter."

Santorum reminds me of Bill Ferny.