Operation "Fast and Furious" a HUGE FAILURE!

Why are you blaming Holder "for screwing up big time"? I do not see that he is responsible. Moreover, he leads DoJ, not ATF. Are you taking Chuck Grassley's word for it? I found the Fox wording quite interesting (and telling) ".....trying to get to the bottom of what went wrong and who’s to blame". http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/06/15/sen_grassley_on_gun-running_sting_without_a_doubt_the_doj_was_involved.html And some people accuse Obama of "the blame game". Oh, the irony........

I'm also bemused by the depiction of Arizona as a hapless bystander, wrongly accused. Their immigration laws have been questioned as being discriminatory but how that figures into the Fast and Furious operation is a mystery to me, particularly the "personal punching bag" characterization.

I meant to ask earlier about the gun store owners as innocent victims ("owed an apology") meme. By all means do provide us with more details since all I've come across refers to ONE "Federal Firearms Licensee in Arizona". http://tucsoncitizen.com/view-from-baja-arizona/2011/04/16/gun-shop-owner-warned-atf-that-walking-guns-to-the-mexican-drug-cartels-was-wrong/ Nor have I seen any blaming (there's that word again) of sellers who were used as conduits for the Fast and Furious weapons.

In other words, a whole lot of claims are being made without substantiation. Emotional descriptives like "colossal failure". Lacking overwhelming evidence, I suggest that "dumb and dumber" might apply best to those who arrive at conclusions before all the facts have been ascertained.

Grassley wrote to the AG, apparently on the assumption that Holder should be held accountable for each decision made in his department.

Oh, it's probably got something to do with the sheer magnitude of stupidity, arrogance, disinformation, monetary cost, and most damning of all, loss of life or limb. I didn't mention the number of vets who are still grappling with physical or mental injuries from which they are not likely to ever fully recover. I didn't mention the Iraqis who have seen their lives ripped asunder, lost loved ones, seen homes reduced to piles of rubble, seen their society fall prey to sectarian violence and struggle daily with uncertainty about things as mundane as whether they'll have electricity from one hour to the next. http://www.theage.com.au/world/revealed-iraq-wars-grim-toll-20101023-16yj7.html?skin=text-only

Then there was nutter Dana Rohrabacher, who suggested that Iraqis should reimburse us...... http://www.ajc.com/opinion/readers-write-6-15-977020.html

Show me something, anything that Obama has done which comes close to replicating the scale of got-it-wrong which typified the invasion of Iraq.

Speaking of "what the heck", how about some facts on F&F rather than quotes from self-serving politicians? Facts, BTW, aren't the same as characterizations.