Remember the good old days when bin Laden was all we had to worry about? I guess Gadhafi/Kadhafi/[however the hell you spell it] is the new boogie man in town.
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Remember the good old days when bin Laden was all we had to worry about? I guess Gadhafi/Kadhafi/[however the hell you spell it] is the new boogie man in town.
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You forgot Qadaffi.
It used to be so much simpler.
In South America and S.E. Asia the leaders in clean uniforms with lots of medals were anti-communist good guys, the ones in army fatigues were commies.
In the middle east the leaders in nice uniforms were anti-commies as were the ones in clean dishcloths and sunglasses while the ones in black dishcloths were anti-communist but also anti-american.
Respect that man! The name is Kahdaffy.
#2 Thing is, you’re as ignorant now as you were then. Nothing changes, I guess.
New? He was Reagan’s favorite boogieman back in the eighties. He’s a convenient target when you can’t get at the ones you really want to bomb.
Isn’t he pointing toward the White House??
Nah its all Arabs now that the Soviets are gone.
If the Arabs hadn’t come by then it would be the Chinese or Venezuelans.
Wish it was the French again. That would be sweet.
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Gadhafi was Arab boogyman of the decade through the 80s. American’s are still made at for shooting Doc Brown.
The real boogie man is corporate takeover of government where the people’s role, make that sheeple, is to be dutiful consumer of goods and services. Your children to compete for jobs with Chinese labor.
G’Daffy serves as a convenient red herring.
#8 And your sheeple vote helped keep that corporate takeover going. Nice one!
I recommend tasing and then water-boarding. We’ll get the little bastard to talk.
#6 – except Arabs in clean dishcloths with sunglasses and Rolexes are still our friends.
Arab politicians in newly democratized countries who wear suits are our friends – if they know whats good for them
Arab politicians wearing uniforms in countries next door to the above are our friends – for now – but we know where they live and have the coords dialed in. At least they are better than women politicians in the same country who keep going on about democracy
I don’t hear much of an “emphasis” on Kdaffy being crazy or evil as was the case with Sadam, still the case with Kim Jong and Bin Laden.
Sadly, thats not because we have become more mature in our analysis and discussion. No, its because too many people would rather attack Obama for “everything” he does or doesn’t do.
Stooges. Every single one.
Including those who do it posting here. All criticism–no ideas, no alternatives. Just mindless BS’ing anti-Obama because he’s a Dumbocrat or isn’t “following the Constitution” which is SO arguable as to be beneath contempt. The honor and expertise of Congress? Don’t make me puke====and thats about as bi-partisan as it gets.
Last week I found out a man I’ve known for 2 years knows Colonel Khadafi personally and his father has worked for him for over 40 years. He said “The Colonel is a good man who has been very kind to me and my family for many years and the things your government says about him are not true.” I never expected to meet a person with personal knowledge of this guy I thought was just a raving mad tyrant.
My opinion is: anybody who turns his army against his people should be assassinated. Any soldier who shoots his own countrymen should burn in hell forever. Problem is I don’t believe in hell.
Also:
I don’t believe we ever tried to find Osama Bin Laden. To pretend the U.S., with all its resources, can’t find the only 6’4″ Arab in the world who gets dialysis 3 times a week is a sick joke. There is a trail of medical supplies that has one end in Bin Laden’s body and I’m sure any competent investigator could figure out where he is in a few minutes.
#13 Kent State
or if you are a Brit, Belfast
In #6 Cursor_ said: If the Arabs hadn’t come by then it would be the Chinese or Venezuelans.
Nah. We the Chinese have lent us too much money. It would be like trying to hold up your loan officer while not wearing a mask.
The Chinese are getting a pass on lots of things, (remember they have nukes, and missiles, and they shot one of their satellites right out of orbit scattering garbage all over space. We’re definitely not going to fuck with them.)
its about shelf life those cruise missiles were about to expire anyway
they were built for bin Laden but since we could not get them to him before there Best if used by date had come due well what-ya gonna do?
Jon Stewart…
“I don’t want to be a pain in the ass, but don’t we already have two wars?”
“You know wars aren’t kids, where you don’t have to pay attention to the youngest one because the older two will take care of it.”
In #13, Micromike said: To pretend the U.S., with all its resources, can’t find the only 6’4″ Arab in the world who gets dialysis 3 times a week is a sick joke..
The moment Bush sent the US Air Force to shift rubble in Afghanistan way back in October 2001, I knew he was making an ignorant and idiotic mistake.
The Taliban leadership, viz: Mullah Omar, was screaming at the rest of the world (including the Arab world,) that we all had to feed them.
The Taliban were starving, broke and absolutely everybody hated them.
The Taliban’s idea of something progressive was blowing up giant stone statues of the Buddha, shooting people in a former sports stadium for not growing their beards or for having sex.
It certainly didn’t have a thing to do with sitting behind a Massey-Ferguson or a John Deere and learning how to plow a furrow and plant some seed.
Mullah Omar, one of the most psycho-sociopathic one-eyed men in history, was universally reviled and the Taliban’s pleas were falling on deaf ears, including Arab ears.
The entire situation could/should/would have been settled without firing a shot. No wars on foreign soil at all.
BUT NO…
Shrub decided he wanted that this was too good to pass up. So he sent in a bunch of bombers to shift the rubble, troops to seize territory as a warm up to setting Sadam Hussein straight, straight to hell.
Bush had shown some sense and some sensitivity.
Shrub his son, had no such idea (or much of anything else, on his mind. He was going to use the boogey-man bin Laden to get his way.
Bin Laden went from the most wanted man in history to the best hidden man in history.
He’s so well hidden that he could go anywhere in the world with out any worries.
Nobody’s Looking for him.
#17 – and exactly how would that have helped a defense sector suffering from the end of the cold war? And how do you justify the TSA, warrantless phone taps, universal surveillance if you are just giving people food.
Where’s Bin Laden??
This is absolutely fascinating, and may be absolutely correct.
“Alan Parrot, the film’s subject and one of the world’s foremost falconers, makes the case that bin Laden, an avid falcon hunter is pursuing the sport relatively freely in Tehran.
Parrot, who was once the chief falconer for the Shah of Iran and who has worked for the royal families of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, used his contacts in Iran to talk about bin Laden’s life there. One of those contacts, described as a warlord from the north of Iran and disguised in a balaclava, reveals in the film that he has met bin Laden six times on hunting trips inside Iran since March 2003.
He says the world’s most wanted terrorist is relaxed and healthy and so comfortable that “he travels with only four bodyguards.
Parrot’s story is supported in the documentary by former CIA agent Robert Baer, an outspoken critic of US policy in the Middle East on whom the film Syriana is based.”
http://news.com.au/world/bin-laden-living-a-relaxed-comfortable-existence-in-iran-apartment-documentary-claims/story-e6frfkyi-1225862175752
That’s terrible – after everything we’ve done for Iran to betray us like that
But since we went to war on the basis of a cab driver’s story (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6948283.ece) why not?