All Hank, all the time.

[SlaveNoMore]

Tyrone Slothrop
What are his aides telling him?



Oops.

The shit that Condi is spewing is NOT a good sign.

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
The shit that Condi is spewing is NOT a good sign.

What shit is Condi spewing?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

So, Hank, what can you tell us about Hon. Anna Diggs Taylor?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
So, Hank, what can you tell us about Hon. Anna Diggs Taylor?

it's clear she makes her own rules.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
it's clear she makes her own rules.

Don't hate the playa, hate her game.

[Spanky]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
If the point of the profiling is to ask some people a second time whether they packed their own bags, why bother?

Couldn't profiling also mean that they get a more intensive search before they get on the plane? Why would it be limited to just another question?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Spanky
Couldn't profiling also mean that they get a more intensive search before they get on the plane? Why would it be limited to just another question?

The point I was trying to get at, though not spelling out, is that I am less interested in changing the rules than I am in changing that system so that security personnel are empowered to use informed and reasonable discretion to find the people who are a threat. Saying you're going to start profiling is like saying you're going to start using computers -- not necessarily a good or bad idea.

[SlaveNoMore]

Here's our "moderate" Muslim ally Indonesia and partner in the war on terror:

JAKARTA, Indonesia — An Islamic militant jailed for the Bali bombings that killed 202 people was released from prison Thursday as part of Indonesia’s independence day celebrations, and 11 others linked to the blasts had their sentences reduced.

It is an Indonesian tradition to cut jail terms on holidays, but the decision was likely to anger countries that lost citizens in the twin nightclub attacks four years ago. Family members of the victims said they were pained by the news.

Three militants serving time in East Kalimantan’s capital of Balikpapan received reductions of four months, paving the way for one, Puryanto, to walk free on Thursday, said Edi, a prison official who uses a single name.

Nine other men imprisoned on Bali island had their sentences cut by four months, said justice ministry official Djoko Bambang Untung.

[SlaveNoMore]

Here's more from Carter:

SPIEGEL: Should there be an international peacekeeping force along the Lebanese-Israeli border?

Carter: Yes.

SPIEGEL: And can you imagine Germans soldiers taking part?

Carter: Yes, I can imagine Germans taking part.

SPIEGEL: ... even with their history?

Carter: Yes. That would be certainly satisfactory to me personally, and I think most people believe that enough time has passed so that historical facts can be ignored.

It's been 60-something years, so he thinks it's about time to ignore the Holocaust, don't you?

[SlaveNoMore]

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What shit is Condi spewing?

er...this...

"I don't think there is an expectation that this force is going to physically disarm Hezbollah. I think it's a little bit of a misreading of how you disarm a militia. You have to have a plan, first of all, for the disarmament of a militia, and then the hope is that some people lay down their arms voluntarily"

Hezbollah, after successfully holding off, if not actually repelling, the IDF, is going to voluntarily lay down their arms?

Since when did Condi check her brain at the door?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
It's been 60-something years, so he thinks it's about time to ignore the Holocaust, don't you?

I think he was pretty much advocating that Jews be rounded up and put in concentration camps.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Since when did Condi check her brain at the door?

Whose foreign policy do you think she's trying to implement?

[Spanky]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
The point I was trying to get at, though not spelling out, is that I am less interested in changing the rules than I am in changing that system so that security personnel are empowered to use informed and reasonable discretion to find the people who are a threat. Saying you're going to start profiling is like saying you're going to start using computers -- not necessarily a good or bad idea.

Wouldn't you agree that putting all people of middle eastern dissent through the most rigorouse search option open to the security people that that would significantly reduce the odds of deaths caused by terrorists?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Spanky
Wouldn't you agree that putting all people of middle eastern dissent through the most rigorouse search option open to the security people that that would significantly reduce the odds of deaths caused by terrorists?

I like "middle eastern dissent". That's fantastic, even if unintended.

Reduce the odds relative to what? Why can't we do what the Israelis do? It's not like they ignore who they're talking to -- quite the opposite.

[SlaveNoMore]

Tyrone Slothrop
Whose foreign policy do you think she's trying to implement?

You tell me.

The folks at the New Republic say Leo Strauss and Norman Podhoretz

The folks at Kos say Rummy and Wolfowitz

The folks at DU say a consortium of Israel, Fox News and Halliburton