McCain's Phoney Baloney

Why on earth is anybody paying any attention to Senator John McCain any more?

McCain wants so badly to be president that he's gone into the circus business. When he decided to tell all the world that things were turning just dandy in Baghdad, he sent out the jugglers and contortionists to announce a lovely April 1 shopping trip with his fellow clown Lindsay Graham.. What McCain did not announce included the following:

* The Shorja market area--located about three minutes from the super-fortified Green Zone--underwent a thorough security sweep beforehand.

* When the happy shoppers ventured forth (whether with shopping bag in hand, I know not, but McCain wore a bulletproof vest), they were protected by at least 100 U.S. soldiers, some of them snipers posted on rooftops. Overhead protection was supplied by three Blackhawk helicopters and two Apache gunships. No Iraqi soldiers or police were utilized. (Who would want to take that chance?)

The next day, according to merchants, the usual Sunni snipers were back to the market area. They kill an average of one person a day.