Trent Lott enlightens us on Iraq

September 29, 2006

Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) sure is a fount of wisdom, isn’t he? Emailer K.K. mentioned yesterday that during the debate on torture, Lott told his colleagues, “Who hasn’t been attacked by a dog when they deliver laundry?”

Better yet, Lott spoke to reporters yesterday after the president stopped by the Senate, and explained a bit about their chat.

President Bush barely mentioned the war in Iraq when he met with Republican senators behind closed doors in the Capitol Thursday morning and was not asked about the course of the war, Sen. Trent Lott, R-Mississippi, said.

“No, none of that,” Lott told reporters after the session when asked if the Iraq war was discussed. “You’re the only ones who obsess on that. We don’t and the real people out in the real world don’t for the most part.”

It’s a little hard to believe Lott could say something this foolish. Lawmakers don’t “obsess” on a bloody, costly war, which is making us less safe, and which costs $2 billion a week? Shouldn’t they start obsessing a little more?

Indeed, the dismissive attitude reflects an almost Bush-like detachment from reality. “Real” people, Lott says, don’t bother worrying about the most serious foreign policy and national security crisis in a generation. As if concern for American troops and the future of the Middle East is somehow passe and unworthy of Lott’s time.

And then Lott managed to make matters slightly worse.

Lott went on to say he has difficulty understanding the motivations behind the violence in Iraq.

“It’s hard for Americans, all of us, including me, to understand what’s wrong with these people,” he said. “Why do they kill people of other religions because of religion? Why do they hate the Israeli’s and despise their right to exist? Why do they hate each other? Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.”

First, for someone with a troubled racial background to say “they all look the same to me” shows remarkably bad judgment. Second, Lott is an experienced senator asking rather basic questions about the Middle East. Shouldn’t he have a better sense of history and international affairs? By his own admission, he seems completely bewildered by the factors that are driving hostilities in the region. After a quarter-century in Congress, why is that?

Remember, we’re supposed to trust Republicans on defense and national security because of their vast knowledge and expertise. Please.

Are you ready for some football?

  • well, actually, no, we’re supposed to “trust” republicans because they are willing to torture, wiretap illegally, and engage in fruitless and stupid invasions of countries that haven’t attacked us.

    their “vast knowledge and expertise” has nothing to do with it.

  • Holy (sorry NPI) crap, what a dumbass.

    First of all what does “Who hasn’t been attacked by a dog when they deliver laundry?” mean? Who the hell is Trent Lott delivering laundry to? I have one for you Trent “Who hasn’t bumbed their head while looking for a sock under the dresser?”

    Lott obviously thinks being a simple southern man who just does not understand why the darkies fight is the recipie for success. Sadly, I doubt a majority of his constituants think there is any problem with this. I wonder if he and George Allen are close? They should call up Judge Roy Moore and play golf.

  • “they all look the same to me”

    I’ve said that myself about the varying shades of rednecks I spend time around.

  • Trent, you dumb cracker, have you learned nothing? I tried introducing a darkie to the Real World and I’m still wiping the doo-doo splatter off my Boots.

    Somebody turn off that fan!

  • NIE on Iraq prepared for Trent Lott:

    One sect is fully of happy go lucky Islammers who are thus called Sunni.

    The other sect is full of shiftless Islammers who don’t give a shi’it and think everything is awi’ite. Thus they are Shi’ites.

    And Mr. Lott is correct. They do all look alike naked, hooded and drenched.

  • Lott’s failure to understand why Iraq is fractured is not apalling because of his insensitivity to ethnicity. Rather, it’s because he proudly represents a state that has, on its flag, the emblem of a rebel movement.

    Because, really, why do Southerners hate Yankees? How do they tell the difference?

  • “You’re the only ones who obsess on that. We don’t and the real people out in the real world don’t for the most part.”

    Translation: If you are currently fighting in Iraq or know some one who is fighting in Iraq, living in Iraq or have an ounce of empathy in your blood for those currently stuck in this mess, quit yer whining.

    “Why do they kill people of other religions because of religion?”

    Translation: My good friend George McMonkeyFuck had no idea what he was getting into when he sent in the soldiers.

    “How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.”

    I am a racist disgrace to a whore’s womb and should be dropped off in Basra and left to meet whatever hopefully prolonged death is in store for me.

  • Well, the real story here remains, after you peel away the good ol’ boy veneer, this–it’s not polite for our Senators, or Americans in general, to question Dear Leader about the war; it’s not polite to even look at the war. Trent says: “”No, none of that,..You’re the only ones who obsess on that. We don’t and the real people out in the real world don’t for the most part.”

    Yep, and nobody’s gonna “obsess” until they feel personally the threat of this war. Day one of the reinstituted draft, we’ll see the beginning of the end of wars of choice. Nothing makes you obsess like your own (or your child’s) ass on the line. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…

  • Where the hell is this “Real World” Trent Lott and George Felix Allen Junior talk about?

    What a waste of a Senatorial office this guy is. There are people in this country who could be doing a lot more for us with the room.

    Lack crack whores.

  • Trent Lott is the pefect example that the people who get elected to Congress and other high offices are slimy gladhanders who prostitute themselves to whomever will shell out a campaign contribution and only acts out of self-interest once in office. Our democracy is thoroughly broken when idiots like him keep getting elected and are allowed to chart the course for this nation.

    It’s a sad indicator of this nation’s intellectual prowess when speaking out with such foolish comments as Lott regularly does is looked upon as “folksy” and so “regular kinda guy” that his constituents still abide his serving in their stead.

  • “You’re the only ones who obsess on that. We don’t and the real people out in the real world don’t for the most part.”

    Somebody should “obsess”. One might have thought it would our leaders, who have taken an oath to “preserve, protect and defend” our Constitution and who get to live the lives of fat-assed, highly paid, overly indulged slobs at our expense as a result. No one expects hoi polloi to obsess, or even collectively know much about, anything — except, in “the old days”, about the basics of being an American. That’s why they elect you as their representatives, cracker Senator. Maybe y’all should take your hood off once in a while and see the world as it is.

  • Trent Lott, a living example and wonderful arguement for the value of congressional term limits. There are too many entrenched bozos like Lott in Congess.

  • I suppose it is unnecessary to point out that nobody can tell the difference between a Republican and a Democrat by looking at them, either. Even more misleadingly, Dick Cheney and a turnip look completely different.

  • He may well have used Marie Antoinettes’ infamous line,
    “Let them eat cake!”

    And then what happened to her?

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