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2007/8/31

Is a New Approach to Controlling Congress Superior to Campaign Finance Reform?

@ 11:04 PM (27 months, 4 days ago)

A military airplane carrying four members of the U.S. Congress came under fire over Iraq on Thursday but the plane was not hit and no one was hurt, a spokesman for one of the lawmakers said on Friday.

Three rocket-propelled grenades were fired at the plane. But a senior U.S. defense official in Washington said small arms fire appeared to have been responsible.

"There was a flash of light, and the plane started banking in different directions."

The whole incident was over in three to five minutes and the aircraft flew on to Amman, Jordan.

A statement from U.S.-led forces in Iraq said the plane "observed surface-to-air fire" upon departure from Baghdad and dispensed flares and conducted "standard evasive maneuvers."

The fire originated several miles from the plane's location, the defense official in Washington said, speaking on condition of anonymity as U.S. forces in Baghdad were officially responsible for commenting on the incident.

"They (the crew) did all the right things, they took all the appropriate precautions, but it appears they were at an altitude that did not put them at any danger from the type of small arms fire that they received," the official said.

The lawmakers had spent the day in Baghdad and were briefed by U.S. Iraq commander Gen. David Petraeus. A number of U.S. lawmakers have been visiting Baghdad ahead of a series of pivotal reports to be delivered to Congress in coming weeks on the security and political situation in Iraq.

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Whoops dodgy stuff.

Comment by Jean-sweet pea— 2007/09/03 @ 07:05 AM — (Reply)
I would certainly not advocate the deaths of our duly elected officials. However, I would advocate replacing every single one of them. I would start with putting Fred Thompson in the White House and go from there. Hopefully Tom Tancredo and other honest similiarly minded seasoned Americans as true patriots would persuade sensible Americans to be short term elected officials who would be replaced with other true sensible Americans on a regular basis.

Comment by Ernie Els— 2007/09/03 @ 09:09 AM — (Reply)
Any political plane crashes today involving democrats?

Comment by Ernie Els— 2007/09/03 @ 08:58 PM — (Reply)
at least the troop surge made it that much safer for those dignataries

Comment by aza spade— 2007/09/03 @ 09:29 PM — (Reply)
I say those democrat politician jackasses need some guns and quality Iraq time. Especially Hillary. That bitch.

Comment by Barry G.— 2007/09/03 @ 09:44 PM — (Reply)
yep, put them on a humvee with a 50 cal. that should do it..

Comment by aza spade— 2007/09/04 @ 03:00 AM — (Reply)
That's too nice. Let them walk around with a pistol and knife. Oh all right, give them some body armor.

Comment by Ernie Els— 2007/09/04 @ 08:08 AM — (Reply)

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