“a” is for al jazeera
January 20, 2006 – 11:05 amFrom ABCnews.go.com’s story on Bin Laden’s latest single, in which he offered the US a truce:
But there was nothing weak about what he had to say.
Later in the same article:
White House spokesman Scott McClellan said it was a sign of weakness.
“We do not negotiate with terrorists,” McClellan said. “We put them out of business.”
I gotta go with Scott on this one. We just wacked 3 or 4 of their top guys in Pakistan. Now all the sudden it’s truce time. Sounds kinda weak to me.
Frankly, for strength of rhetoric, Bin Laden is being eclipsed by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In the last few weeks he’s denied the holocaust, proposed Israel move to Europe, asserted his right to nukes and kicked out CNN for saying so. There’s nothing truce about that.
2 Responses to ““a” is for al jazeera”
theses a problem with good old boy scott saying that we put terrorist out of business.
because we haven’t.
in fact.
we’ve put them super in business. *coughs* hamas.
and seriously..
how many of their “top guys” have we killed so far?
100?
that’s amazing…
seeing in 2001 there were only 188 known members of that little osama bin laden group we hate.
i always enjoy yr our discourse, joel.
i just think you need to climb back to the top of the fence.
we all belong on it…not on either side.
i forgot to ask…
would you like me to send you a harddrive?
so perhaps belfry, the could have more space?
i’ve got one.
i’d offer.
lemme know.
By Ekul on Jan 31, 2006
Are you seriously calling Hamas a terrorist group? I thought they were into building daycare centers and taking part in democratic elections. I thought they were freedom fighters fighting for the independence of their people from the crushing tyranny of Israel’s illigitimate fascist puppet lapdog hegimonist-toady state.
//how many of their “top guys” have we killed so far? 100?//
From where are you pulling this figure of 100 “top guys” killed? Awfully convenient for the Bushies as it is, Al Qaida’s numbers changed after 9/11/01. Their numbers went up; killing over 3000 people on American soil is great recruitment copy, to use PR speak. Furthermore, the US government doesn’t tell us about each “top guy” they kill or capture. (Again, how convenient.) So where are you getting yr like, numbers, dude?
I always enjoy our discourse too. I mean, you really gave me a chuckle with your, “we all belong on the fence” line. That’s classic!
Are you experiencing problems with storage on the arphod blog? Email me if so. Looks like you guys are well below the current disk quota, and if you should happen to get up toward the limit, I’ll be glad to bump it up. Any friend of the fence is a friend of the farmer. Or whatever.
By Joel on Jan 31, 2006