Comments on: Did WH politicize capture of top al Qaeda leader? http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/ Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:10:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Chocolate Jesus http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/comment-page-3/#comment-3947365 Chocolate Jesus Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:34:55 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/#comment-3947365 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq19jul19,0,886772.story?coll=la-home-center http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq19jul19,0,886772.story?coll=la-home-center

]]> By: Chocolate Jesus http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/comment-page-2/#comment-3947318 Chocolate Jesus Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:40:28 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/#comment-3947318 >The last thing you do when you catch someone in a spy network assuming they really did catch anyone at all. I remember awhile back, someone caught them claiming they had killed the same person twice. personally, I think the vast majority of the time, they fabricate this stuff from whole cloth and make sure whatever "intelligence" they received just so happens to support some stupid claim their making.. Has anyone trustworthy even ever actually seen on of these messages they claim to have intercepted between Iraq and Pakistan? >The last thing you do when you catch someone in a spy network

assuming they really did catch anyone at all. I remember awhile back, someone caught them claiming they had killed the same person twice.

personally, I think the vast majority of the time, they fabricate this stuff from whole cloth and make sure whatever “intelligence” they received just so happens to support some stupid claim their making.. Has anyone trustworthy even ever actually seen on of these messages they claim to have intercepted between Iraq and Pakistan?

]]> By: Devil's Advocate http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/comment-page-2/#comment-3947020 Devil's Advocate Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:39:28 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/#comment-3947020 Looks to me like they have "captured: so many top Al Qaeda leaders over the past few years that Al Qaeda is all but decapitaded... Does anyone believe anything that comes out of the WH or any GOP mouth? Looks to me like they have “captured: so many top Al Qaeda leaders over the past few years that Al Qaeda is all but decapitaded…

Does anyone believe anything that comes out of the WH or any GOP mouth?

]]> By: Devil's Advocate http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/comment-page-2/#comment-3947018 Devil's Advocate Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:37:41 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/#comment-3947018 Did WH politicize capture of top al Qaeda leader? Is the Pope catholic? Do bears sh*t in the woods? Did WH politicize capture of top al Qaeda leader?

Is the Pope catholic?

Do bears sh*t in the woods?

]]> By: Marie http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/comment-page-2/#comment-3946783 Marie Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:16:17 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/#comment-3946783 And how many tv news anchors and mainstream newspapers reported that he was actually caught two weeks ago? How many times must we endure this criminal cabal in the White House play us for fools? Bush is a dimwit, but when he manages to fool the people as often and as predictably as he does, who is the fool? And how many tv news anchors and mainstream newspapers reported that he was actually caught two weeks ago?
How many times must we endure this criminal cabal in the White House play us for fools?
Bush is a dimwit, but when he manages to fool the people as often and as predictably as he does, who is the fool?

]]> By: katy http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/comment-page-2/#comment-3946699 katy Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:48:59 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/#comment-3946699 i wasn't able to listen to her whole rant, but rachel maddow is on the story of "U.S. military spokesman Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner"... she spelled out several instances of this guy's tricks... like announcing recently another capture of a top leader, except it was also announce last year... (something like that)... ... i wasn’t able to listen to her whole rant, but
rachel maddow is on the story of
“U.S. military spokesman Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner”…

she spelled out several instances of this guy’s tricks…

like announcing recently another capture of a top leader,
except it was also announce last year…
(something like that)…
…

]]> By: veritas http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/comment-page-2/#comment-3946643 veritas Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:31:52 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/#comment-3946643 JG: Regarding Olberman's classic - You ceased to be the President - and Bill Moyers specials - all great and noteworthy (not to mention based on Truth). Thanks for providing the links - always appreciated so we can spread it around. JG: Regarding Olberman’s classic – You ceased to be the President – and Bill Moyers specials – all great and noteworthy (not to mention based on Truth). Thanks for providing the links – always appreciated so we can spread it around.

]]> By: veritas http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/comment-page-2/#comment-3946633 veritas Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:28:56 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/#comment-3946633 Guess the Shrub was saving this big information for a moment when he needed it most? Besides, he couldn't get OBL when he knew exactly where he was located, why bother to trump up this accolade and pat himself on the back now? He failed....doesn't he get it? To this new capture, all I can honestly say is: Big Deal! Big *ucking deal! Guess the Shrub was saving this big information for a moment when he needed it most? Besides, he couldn’t get OBL when he knew exactly where he was located, why bother to trump up this accolade and pat himself on the back now? He failed….doesn’t he get it?

To this new capture, all I can honestly say is: Big Deal! Big *ucking deal!

]]> By: missmolly http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/comment-page-2/#comment-3946404 missmolly Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:26:17 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/#comment-3946404 "Then they found out they could get votes with terrorism. Now they’re madly in love with it and can’t stop talking about it for an instant." Comment by Perry Logan — July 18, 2007 @ 4:54 pm That sounds awfully familiar. What does that remind me of? Hmmm...(thinking)...I got it! Joe McCarthy and communism! And he didn't care about the lives he ruined -- just as long as his political star kept rising. Like a fairy tale, it had a happy ending. American eventually saw McCarthy for what he was. The same thing will happen to today's fearmongers. “Then they found out they could get votes with terrorism. Now they’re madly in love with it and can’t stop talking about it for an instant.”

Comment by Perry Logan — July 18, 2007 @ 4:54 pm

That sounds awfully familiar. What does that remind me of? Hmmm…(thinking)…I got it! Joe McCarthy and communism! And he didn’t care about the lives he ruined — just as long as his political star kept rising.

Like a fairy tale, it had a happy ending. American eventually saw McCarthy for what he was. The same thing will happen to today’s fearmongers.

]]> By: Loonie http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/comment-page-2/#comment-3946389 Loonie Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:21:33 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/#comment-3946389 Did WH politicize capture of top al Qaeda leader? Say it ain't so! Did WH politicize capture of top al Qaeda leader? Say it ain’t so!

]]> By: missmolly http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/comment-page-2/#comment-3946346 missmolly Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:00:29 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/#comment-3946346 This is very good news. I only hope they keep having this great success against AQ in Iraq. The moment we make it easy on AQ in Iraq is the moment we start the fight with AQ in New York city again. I am assuming we are all supporting out troops great effort on this one. No one wants AQ attacking our wives and grandparents on American streets afterall. Comment by Roger_Roger — July 18, 2007 @ 3:20 pm WHY do people still believe this load of crapola? Do people honestly believe that picking off soldiers one by one in Iraq is more appealing to terrorists bent on the destruction of America than blowing up a building here? We are not containing Al Qaeda in Iraq, nor are our actions there preventing them from planning and executing further acts of terrorism. If anything, we are fanning them with a bellows. I won't even get into the silliness of the idea that AQ would especially target wives and grandparents. This is very good news. I only hope they keep having this great success against AQ in Iraq. The moment we make it easy on AQ in Iraq is the moment we start the fight with AQ in New York city again. I am assuming we are all supporting out troops great effort on this one. No one wants AQ attacking our wives and grandparents on American streets afterall.

Comment by Roger_Roger — July 18, 2007 @ 3:20 pm

WHY do people still believe this load of crapola? Do people honestly believe that picking off soldiers one by one in Iraq is more appealing to terrorists bent on the destruction of America than blowing up a building here? We are not containing Al Qaeda in Iraq, nor are our actions there preventing them from planning and executing further acts of terrorism. If anything, we are fanning them with a bellows.

I won’t even get into the silliness of the idea that AQ would especially target wives and grandparents.

]]> By: Perry Logan http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/comment-page-2/#comment-3946333 Perry Logan Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:54:43 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/#comment-3946333 Republicans didn't care jack about terrorism until 9/11 happened on their watch. Then they found out they could get votes with terrorism. Now they're madly in love with it and can't stop talking about it for an instant. Not the bombing of abortion clinics, of course. That's not terrorism--just white guys expressing strong opinions. Republicans didn’t care jack about terrorism until 9/11 happened on their watch.

Then they found out they could get votes with terrorism. Now they’re madly in love with it and can’t stop talking about it for an instant.

Not the bombing of abortion clinics, of course. That’s not terrorism–just white guys expressing strong opinions.

]]> By: SKdeA http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/comment-page-2/#comment-3946331 SKdeA Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:54:07 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/#comment-3946331 <em># So how many times have we now captured the “top Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq”??? Seems to me this happens every time the administration needs a boost for their side. Comment by missmolly — July 18, 2007 @ 4:49 pm </em> And every time, it fails to distract, and makes them look even worse. #

So how many times have we now captured the “top Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq”??? Seems to me this happens every time the administration needs a boost for their side.

Comment by missmolly — July 18, 2007 @ 4:49 pm

And every time, it fails to distract, and makes them look even worse.

]]> By: missmolly http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/comment-page-2/#comment-3946313 missmolly Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:49:02 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/#comment-3946313 So how many times have we now captured the "top Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq"??? Seems to me this happens every time the administration needs a boost for their side. So how many times have we now captured the “top Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq”??? Seems to me this happens every time the administration needs a boost for their side.

]]> By: gummitch http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/comment-page-2/#comment-3946302 gummitch Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:45:35 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/#comment-3946302 <em>Then she could have claimed Harvardian Privilege. Comment by Egreggious</em> That Havardi is some good cheese, too. Then she could have claimed Harvardian Privilege.

Comment by Egreggious

That Havardi is some good cheese, too.

]]> By: JMiller http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/comment-page-2/#comment-3946301 JMiller Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:45:29 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/#comment-3946301 I saw on CNN that this terrorist we've captured has direct ties to Osama bin Laden. You know, that one guy who's trail has been "stone cold" for two years... as of last September. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/09/AR2006090901105.html Politicized? More like "aggrandized." And if this story doesn't stink of horsesh|+, then we need to get some spy agencies that can find a rat on the rocks because the ones we've got demonstrably can't. I saw on CNN that this terrorist we’ve captured has direct ties to Osama bin Laden. You know, that one guy who’s trail has been “stone cold” for two years… as of last September.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/09/AR2006090901105.html

Politicized? More like “aggrandized.”

And if this story doesn’t stink of horsesh|+, then we need to get some spy agencies that can find a rat on the rocks because the ones we’ve got demonstrably can’t.

]]> By: Gregor Samsa http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/comment-page-2/#comment-3946290 Gregor Samsa Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:39:22 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/#comment-3946290 Well, it certainly wouldn't surprise me; it's all part of a pattern: the Bush administration politicised Pat Tillman's death, Jessica Lynch's rescue, Saddam Hussein's capture.... all of which were conveniently spun, re-written, scripted, covered up -depending on what the administration needed at the moment. Well, it certainly wouldn’t surprise me; it’s all part of a pattern: the Bush administration politicised Pat Tillman’s death, Jessica Lynch’s rescue, Saddam Hussein’s capture…. all of which were conveniently spun, re-written, scripted, covered up -depending on what the administration needed at the moment.

]]> By: bogtrotters http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/comment-page-2/#comment-3946282 bogtrotters Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:35:05 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/#comment-3946282 Actually, the guy is a key leader in Al Gayda. He was planning next year's Pride Parade when we busted him. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Actually, the guy is a key leader in Al Gayda. He was planning next year’s Pride Parade when we busted him. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

]]> By: Buck Fush http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/comment-page-2/#comment-3946276 Buck Fush Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:33:30 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/#comment-3946276 First off, there is no God. Second, yes, the right wing trolls are pathetic. First off, there is no God. Second, yes, the right wing trolls are pathetic.

]]> By: 186 http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/comment-page-2/#comment-3946261 186 Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:27:37 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2007/07/18/did-wh-politicize-capture-of-top-al-qaeda-leader/#comment-3946261 God are you guys pathetic. God are you guys pathetic.

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