Rep. Westmoreland Warns That Iraqis Won’t Just ‘Go Back to Tending Sheep and Herding Goats’
During yesterday’s House floor debate on escalation, Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) unwittingly demonstrated his profound ignorance of Iraqi culture. “Some people from the other side seem to believe that if we pull out of Iraq, the Iraqi people are going to go back to tending sheep and herding goats,” he said.

Here is the transcript of his three minutes of brilliance:

“This is not about President Bush because I think President Bush has tried every way, Mr. Speaker, he knows how to make this a successful campaign in Iraq and Afghanistan. And he continues to come up with new ideas through the help and the advice of his military commanders to win this war on terror. This is a global war on terror. Some people from the other side seem to believe that if we pull out of Iraq, that the Iraqi people are going to go back to tending sheep and herding goats. That’s not what’s going to happen. If we pull out of Iraq, what’s going to happen is you are going to see more bloodshed than we have seen in a long time in this world.”

Lynn left out the baby Jesus and the three wise men.

Now imagine that Rep. Westmoreland might say the following about his next re-election campaign:

“This is not about me because I don’t have the ability to think and I do next to nothing in the House. Now if ya’ll don’t keep me in the Congress, and I lose my bid for re-election, some people from the other side seem to believe that the people of 8th District are going back to working on their cars up on cement blocks in their front yards, repainting their double-wides and raising hogs. That’s not what’s going to happen. If I lose my re-election bid, what’s going to happen is you are going to see more partying than we have seen in a long time in this state.”

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