John McCain is an asshole, part 1

And so are all Republicans and Democrats, and anyone who has ever opened their stupid mouth and offered empty words that supported the Iraq War and the vile, evil, blood-dripping monster occupant of the White House.

On a Sunday visit to a Baghdad market, the McCain "delegation arrived at the market, which is called Shorja, with more than 100 soldiers in armored Humvees — the equivalent of an entire company — and attack helicopters circled overhead, a senior American military official in Baghdad said. The soldiers redirected traffic from the area and restricted access to the Americans, witnesses said, and sharpshooters were posted on the roofs. The congressmen wore bulletproof vests throughout their hourlong visit."

McCain's pal Mike Pence then told reporters that the market was: “like a normal outdoor market in Indiana in the summertime."

Local Iraqi shopkeepers then told reporters after that the security measures were "abnormal." And so is anyone with their moral sense in the sewer that is American politics, a sewer so disgusting that George Bush and his party saw fit to start a war that guaranteed their reelection in 2004 and lotsa contracts for their corporate buddies. Bush had one policy in 2000, and that was to start a war. The man looked like, smelt like and was a schmuck then, and the media looked at him and didn't call him a schmuck, and I guarantee you there are reporters everywhere who knew that he wasn't fit for office and didn't say a word.

Why is this allowed to happen? Does anyone else share my sense of fury that this sort of shit is happening before our eyes? People at this market will die in terrorist attacks in Iraq before the year is out, but this is a fair price for McCain and company to get a photo-op.

Is there any material difference between this sort of behavior and eating human flesh?