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Rep. McHenry Calls Green Zone Security Guard “Two-bit”
Apr 4th, 2008 by Bob Owens
Cross-posted at Confederate Yankee:
Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) has referred to a “two-bit security guard” in the Green Zone in Baghdad who would not let him into the gym without having the proper ID.
What a jerk.
His political opponent Lance Sigmon is capitalizing on the statement, as he should, but I think those who are claiming that McHenry belittled a soldier are probably not accurate, or are at least jumping the gun.
The Green Zone certainly has American personnel, but many are Iraqis or foreign security personnel.
Somehow, I don’t think the liberals at Think Progress who have built a reputation lately of getting the facts wrong would not care nearly as much if McHenry had uttered his comments to a security guard contracted through Blackwater, even though they face many of the same risks.
Update: Yep, Amanda at Think Progress screwed up again. The guard in question was not a soldier, but instead was what liberals like to refer to as a “hired killer,” or as the rest of us call them, a security contractor.
Amanda either needs a break, a new fact-checker, or a new career.