Liberal in the Land of Conservative: St. Cloud Times LTE: Does Bachmann Have Bionic Vision?

St. Cloud Times LTE: Does Bachmann Have Bionic Vision?

1:36 PM | Posted in LTE, Michele Bachmann

In a wonderfully sarcastic smack down of our 6th District Representative, Rolf Westgaard ponders how one could come away with such a glowing assessment of Iraq in a matter of hours and in the confines of a security zone.

From the St. Cloud Times:

Letter: Bachmann makes bold claims from Green Zone
By Rolf E. Westgard, Deerwood

Published: December 27. 2007 12:30AM

The latest batch of congressional warriors being ferried to the carefully protected Iraq Green Zone includes our Michele Bachmann.
A few hours after arrival, she indicated seeing improvements in security in Iraq ("Bachmann says she has seen progress in Iraq," Dec. 23 St. Cloud Times.)
She noted more trust of our troops by the Iraqi people, a remarkable feat by her from within the fortified walls of the Green Zone, whose Iraqis are mainly coalition employees.
She also commented on improvements in "hospitals and elementary schools" and concluded with a positive evaluation of the services from Iraq's electric power grids. All these things represented "incredible developments" since her last visit to the Green Zone in July.
The 6th Congressional District is certainly blessed to have a representative with the amazing ability to grasp so much about so large an area in so short a time. She was apparently unfazed by complex issues that involve so many people in Iraq. More remarkable, the issues that inhabit an area the size of California.

In any other profession, this type of myopic assessment would be looked on as sheer laziness as the assessor couldn't possibly have made an honest attempt at understanding the situation. However, in the world of Michele Bachmann and others like her it is more important to speak the propaganda before actually doing any investigating.