I’ve got an insane “quote of the day” for you.
I saw (via Josh Marshall) that George Nethercutt (R-Wash.) got a little “carried away” after he returned from a four-day trip to Iraq.
Nethercutt, who is running for the Senate against incumbent Sen. Patty Murray (D), said he saw strong progress being made in Iraq.
“The story of what we’ve done in the postwar period is remarkable,” Nethercutt said. “It is a better and more important story than losing a couple of soldiers every day.”
Huh? Over the last several months, we’ve helped open a few schools and brought power to some of Iraq. Nethercutt sees this progress and believes it’s a “more important story than losing a couple of soldiers every day”?
I wonder how many families of the troops in Iraq would agree with Rep. Nethercutt’s analysis.