Howard Kaloogian, a Republican candidate in the Southern California CA-50 specical election (Randy "Duke" Cunningham's old seat) posted a picture of downtown Baghdad on his website. It showed happy pedestrians calmly walking about on a busy commercial street.
Kaloogian wanted to show how badly the mainstream press is misrepresenting all the "good news" in Iraq with their alarmist and negative daily accounts of constant violence and mayhem.
The problem is it's not a picture of Baghdad at all. It was taken in Istanbul, Turkey.
Is there anything these creeps won't lie about?
Update: No, that's not it either.
Jesus's General kindly sent this picture of "Baghdad" to Assemblyman Kaloogian.
Unfortunately for the General, that's as wrong as Kaloogian's shot of Baghdadinople. First of all, it's Bagdad, CA, not Baghdad. Secondly, I've been there, and there's nothing at the site of the former town except a tree, some broken glass, and the stumps of a few buldings, with old Route 66 running through it.
The General's pic looks like the main street of 29 Palms or Joshua Tree.
Bagdad lives on though, in the great movie "Bagdad Cafe."
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