Tending Sheep And Herding Goats

Thanks, Lynn. Thanks so much for stepping out and doing your part to set national perceptions of our fair state back another fifteen or twenty years.

Oh, you didn’t hear? This is what Mr. Westmoreland, R-GA (8th District), said this morning during his alloted five minutes of resolution commentary:

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.

You can read more about it and see video of Westmoreland’s unfortunate ovine invocation at ThinkProgress.

  • http://www.radicalgeorgiamoderate.org/ Rusty

    He and state Rep. Steve Davis would make quite the pair.

  • Emily

    I just can’t believe that someone who voted to “liberate the Iraqis” knows so little about Iraq and what it was like before we destroyed it. Sure, they have some farmers, but that is like bombing Atlanta and then saying, “eventually they’ll go back to growing peanuts and picking peachers.

    Actually, I can believe it and it makes me sad.

  • http://dramawench.livejournal.com Alyssa

    *headesks*
    Good god.