Posted on 03/30/2006 3:10:53 PM PST by NormsRevenge
SAN DIEGO - A congressional candidate is under fire for a Web site photo that purported to show a peaceful Baghdad neighborhood but was actually taken in a suburb of Istanbul, Turkey.
"We took this photo of Baghdad while we were in Iraq," the accompanying caption on Howard Kaloogian's Web site read. "Iraq (including Baghdad) is much more calm and stable than what many people believe it to be."
Internet bloggers began questioning the photo earlier this week because none of the signs was in Arabic and billboards were advertising Western products.
Kaloogian, a former state assemblyman who founded Move America Forward to support the war and is now running for Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham's House seat, took the photo down on Wednesday.
He said it was innocent mix-up that arose from a trip to Baghdad that he took last summer with Move America Forward. Some of the travelers went home through Istanbul, he said. The group pooled its photos, and his Web master mistakenly selected one of Istanbul, Kaloogian said.
"They used a picture that was wrong. There's nothing sinister about it," he said.
Kaloogian, a Republican, is one of 18 candidates seeking to replace Cunningham, who was convicted of bribery and conspiracy and sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison.
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On the Net:
http://www.kaloogianforcongress.com/
I see you spinning on that other thread.
You have zero loyalty for any candidate.
You support whoever will lose, thus helping the Democrats.
Howard is toast...who's next?
But not with Buchanan. Correct.
says you.. lol
you must have missed my disclaimer I posted later to specifically address folks like you.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1606887/posts?page=27#27
Your disclaimer is obvious. See post 81.
I've noticed that you never use a first name when discussing "Buchannan". Is there a reason for this?
I don't use George, either. I do use Arnold because his last name is a nightmare.
Gotcha. Getting back to the Specter thing, do you think Specter is less of a destructive force in this country than Pat Buchannan?
Specter is relevant and has won an election. Pat Buchannan is not and has not.
Less destructive? To whom?
To Americans in general. I suppose we'll disagree on this. It's a pretty gay argument anyway. I mean George Bush, Sr is currently fundraising with Bill Clinton. Guilt by association is not a great debating tactic.
That's a nice meaningless throw-away line. How do you define successful and not successful for a member of the Legislature? If Howard wasn't successful, tell me who was, and what made them successful in your book.
I worked with Howard while he was there as Assembly Republican support staff. Howard was always one of the die hard conservative warriors, and always at the forefront of the prolife movement.
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