Yes, it is that time again…..some public official has to put his foot in his mouth….this time it is Sen. John McCain….no5t that he is immune from making an anal statement…God knows he made enough of them while running in the ’08 election….but you would think that a senior senator would be a little more careful when making a blanket statement…….

With all the turmoil in the Middle East….McCain stood up and said……

“You will not see this type of dissent coming from Iraq”……..  (it is a paraphrase but you get the idea)

It seems he believes that the forced democracy of Iraq will be immune to the civil unrest that is gripping the area……OOPS!

Journalist David Walsh reporting on the situation in Iraq…….

The wave of protest in Iraq against government corruption, unemployment and wretched public services entered a new stage Wednesday.

A protest by 2,000 people against lack of jobs and electricity in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut, some 160 kilometers south of Baghdad, turned deadly when private guards employed by the provincial government fired directly into the crowd. Reports differed as to the number of fatalities, between one and three; some 50 people were injured. One of the dead was a 16-year-old boy shot in the chest.

After the shooting outside the Wasit provincial government headquarters, the enraged crowd attacked the building, an eyewitness told the Washington Post, “as the governor escaped through a back door with his bodyguards … Footage broadcast on Iraqi television showed black smoke billowing from the headquarters as protesters clambered over walls into the compound. Other members of the provincial council also reportedly escaped, and the Iraqi army was called in to quell the turmoil.”

Once again Sen. McCain shows a serious lack of a grip on the situation…..maybe it is time that he consider retiring to the countryside and joining some lobbyist firm that deals with the Pentagon…..his judgment is seriously lacking……