McCain Croons Bombing of Iran, While Baghdad Burns

The obscenity that is American politics, circa 2008.

This is funny, and the Reverend Wright’s comments are outrageous? What planet am I living on?

Meanwhile, Bush is having his second delusional bout of “mission accomplished” buried by an Iraqi offensive that has all but shut down the Green Zone, with all of Baghdad on 24 hour curfew.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Baghdad was on virtual lockdown Friday as a tough new curfew ordered everyone off the streets of the Iraqi capital and five other cities until 5 p.m. Sunday.

Iraqis survey damage to their home Friday in Baghdad’s Sadr City after residents reported a U.S. airstrike.

1 of 3 That restriction didn’t stop someone from firing rockets and mortar rounds into the capital’s heavily fortified International Zone, commonly known as the Green Zone. One slammed into the office of one of Iraq’s vice presidents, Tareq al-Hashemi, killing two guards.

Chris Floyd has his own take on “Operation Permanent Presence.”