Comments on: State Dept. Official On Afghanistan: ‘Nobody Can Tell Me It’s Not Going In A Positive Direction’ http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:55:54 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: williamf http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/comment-page-2/#comment-4250397 williamf Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:07:38 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/#comment-4250397 And here we go cheerleading the death of a fellow human. Maybe a bad guy ok, but where does this death work end. Yay we killed somebody and that means what? This guy is food for the BS machine back in Washington. There are more where he came from. Like this is a big deal in the infrastructure of a covert operating system jeez. Well be happy, yell and leap for the death of this man, and then with your cold, cold heart go hug your kid. Somebody hugged this man back when. When you kill, even if it's an enemy, the joy of it leaves soon enough. Yay to nothing. And here we go cheerleading the death of a fellow human. Maybe a bad guy ok, but where does this death work end. Yay we killed somebody and that means what? This guy is food for the BS machine back in Washington. There are more where he came from. Like this is a big deal in the infrastructure of a covert operating system jeez. Well be happy, yell and leap for the death of this man, and then with your cold, cold heart go hug your kid. Somebody hugged this man back when. When you kill, even if it’s an enemy, the joy of it leaves soon enough. Yay to nothing.

]]> By: williamf http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/comment-page-2/#comment-4250390 williamf Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:01:00 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/#comment-4250390 If people are dying dumbass, it ain't positive. Excuse me, is your son in Afghanistan? Why don't you ask the Russians how are their bullshit walked and talked on Afghanistan. Wake up smiley, smell the coffee and learn a little then maybe you'll be ready for the big leagues. Suddenly, you wake up and start talking about Afghanistan because it's what, a diversion from Iraq? Answer me this Mr., ain't nobody tellin' me nuttin, why wasn't Afghanistan sexy in 2001 like it should have been? That's alright let me answer in two words: oil and Israel. Did I get close. If people are dying dumbass, it ain’t positive. Excuse me, is your son in Afghanistan? Why don’t you ask the Russians how are their bullshit walked and talked on Afghanistan. Wake up smiley, smell the coffee and learn a little then maybe you’ll be ready for the big leagues. Suddenly, you wake up and start talking about Afghanistan because it’s what, a diversion from Iraq? Answer me this Mr., ain’t nobody tellin’ me nuttin, why wasn’t Afghanistan sexy in 2001 like it should have been? That’s alright let me answer in two words: oil and Israel. Did I get close.

]]> By: Exley http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/comment-page-2/#comment-4250372 Exley Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:42:49 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/#comment-4250372 Good news out of Afghanistan/Pakistan Theater of the War: Top Al-Qaeda Commander Killed in Pakistan By Karen DeYoung Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, January 31, 2008; 4:21 PM Abu Laith al-Libi, one of al-Qaeda’s most senior commanders, was killed in Pakistan on Monday, Western officials said today. The officials declined to comment on whether Libi’s death was related to a reported U.S. missile strike, launched from an unmanned Predator aircraft, that killed at least a dozen people Monday in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region. U.S. officials had offered a bounty of $200,000 for Libi, who used a nom de guerre and whose true name was not known. He had been identified by U.S. officials as having orchestrated the 2007 bombing of the U.S. base in Bagram, Afghanistan, during a visit by Vice President Cheney. Good news out of Afghanistan/Pakistan Theater of the War:

Top Al-Qaeda Commander Killed in Pakistan

By Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 31, 2008; 4:21 PM

Abu Laith al-Libi, one of al-Qaeda’s most senior commanders, was killed in Pakistan on Monday, Western officials said today.

The officials declined to comment on whether Libi’s death was related to a reported U.S. missile strike, launched from an unmanned Predator aircraft, that killed at least a dozen people Monday in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region.

U.S. officials had offered a bounty of $200,000 for Libi, who used a nom de guerre and whose true name was not known. He had been identified by U.S. officials as having orchestrated the 2007 bombing of the U.S. base in Bagram, Afghanistan, during a visit by Vice President Cheney.

]]> By: slappy magoo http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/comment-page-2/#comment-4250149 slappy magoo Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:00:10 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/#comment-4250149 Off-topic a bit, but in 1980, when Lorne Michaels, the original producer of Saturday Night Live, left the show, and what was left of the original cast and most of the crew went with him, NBC hired a realtviely untested Producer, Jean Doumanian, to replace him. She was Talent Relations for the show and had produced a special featuring the comedy duo Bob & Ray, which was so filled with SNL talent, it was essentially Bob & Ray hosting SNL. And Lorne did most of the producing from the sidelines. Anyway, aside from a few kinda-smart hires (Joe Piscopo as a regular, Eddie Murphy as a glorified extra [at first, anyay]), the show's ratings took a tremendous hit, critics lined up to crap all over it, and through it all, she never stopped believing it was going relatively well. She didn't know what she was doing, and she wouldn't listen to people who were in a position, either from experience putting together television shows or from being executives within the network, to help her out. No one could tell herthings weren't going well either. She lasted about half a season before she was replaced with Dick Ebersol, a person who not only helped get SNL on the air back in 1975, but had just enough humility to get people on the show who had previously worked on the show, and who knew how to put a show together. If only responsible grownups gave as much of a crap about our overstretched military as NBC execs gave about a damn variety show... Off-topic a bit, but in 1980, when Lorne Michaels, the original producer of Saturday Night Live, left the show, and what was left of the original cast and most of the crew went with him, NBC hired a realtviely untested Producer, Jean Doumanian, to replace him. She was Talent Relations for the show and had produced a special featuring the comedy duo Bob & Ray, which was so filled with SNL talent, it was essentially Bob & Ray hosting SNL. And Lorne did most of the producing from the sidelines. Anyway, aside from a few kinda-smart hires (Joe Piscopo as a regular, Eddie Murphy as a glorified extra [at first, anyay]), the show’s ratings took a tremendous hit, critics lined up to crap all over it, and through it all, she never stopped believing it was going relatively well. She didn’t know what she was doing, and she wouldn’t listen to people who were in a position, either from experience putting together television shows or from being executives within the network, to help her out. No one could tell herthings weren’t going well either. She lasted about half a season before she was replaced with Dick Ebersol, a person who not only helped get SNL on the air back in 1975, but had just enough humility to get people on the show who had previously worked on the show, and who knew how to put a show together.

If only responsible grownups gave as much of a crap about our overstretched military as NBC execs gave about a damn variety show…

]]> By: Doc Rock http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/comment-page-2/#comment-4250096 Doc Rock Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:27:07 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/#comment-4250096 Nobody can tell these idiotologues anything, apparently. Nobody can tell these idiotologues anything, apparently.

]]> By: andy phx http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/comment-page-2/#comment-4250015 andy phx Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:30:54 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/#comment-4250015 The country has gone from zero heroin production before the invasion to being the top supplier of heroin in the world-supplying 80% of the worlds heroin. And why has this come about? In exchange for letting the war lords grow poppies, the Bush Admin. gets to build the oil pipeline the US, UK and European oil companies have been trying to build for the last 80+ years. Quid pro quo. Isn't it a weird coincidence the country that needed to be invaded after 9/11 is the very country the oil companies have been trying to get said oil pipeline built for almost a century? And the other country we invaded has the second largest oil reserves in on the planet? The CIA is nothing more than the mob that does the bidding of Big Corporate. They are the muscle behind Corporate America's greed. And who was it that Reagan used to train those 'Freedom Fighters' we now call terrorists when the Soviet's were trying to conquer Afghanistan to build the very same pipeline? You got it: the CIA. The country has gone from zero heroin production before the invasion to being the top supplier of heroin in the world-supplying 80% of the worlds heroin. And why has this come about? In exchange for letting the war lords grow poppies, the Bush Admin. gets to build the oil pipeline the US, UK and European oil companies have been trying to build for the last 80+ years. Quid pro quo. Isn’t it a weird coincidence the country that needed to be invaded after 9/11 is the very country the oil companies have been trying to get said oil pipeline built for almost a century? And the other country we invaded has the second largest oil reserves in on the planet? The CIA is nothing more than the mob that does the bidding of Big Corporate. They are the muscle behind Corporate America’s greed. And who was it that Reagan used to train those ‘Freedom Fighters’ we now call terrorists when the Soviet’s were trying to conquer Afghanistan to build the very same pipeline? You got it: the CIA.

]]> By: pete http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/comment-page-2/#comment-4249998 pete Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:22:29 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/#comment-4249998 <em>um… is it just me, or is an increase in the cell phone market actually a bad thing because cell phones can be used as cheap detonators for bombs?</em> Comment by raynman — January 31, 2008 @ 3:26 pm I'm glad someone else connected those dots. Add in our arming of all parties in a civil conflict, in Iraq, and you see what passes for "progress" in the eyes of Bushco. um… is it just me, or is an increase in the cell phone market actually a bad thing because cell phones can be used as cheap detonators for bombs?

Comment by raynman — January 31, 2008 @ 3:26 pm

I’m glad someone else connected those dots. Add in our arming of all parties in a civil conflict, in Iraq, and you see what passes for “progress” in the eyes of Bushco.

]]> By: ForTruth http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/comment-page-2/#comment-4249986 ForTruth Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:17:25 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/#comment-4249986 Did this guy put his fingers in his ears and yell "la, la, la I can't hear you"? Did this guy put his fingers in his ears and yell “la, la, la I can’t hear you”?

]]> By: Wayne http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/comment-page-2/#comment-4249944 Wayne Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:59:39 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/#comment-4249944 Real progress for the CIA’s cash cow maybe… Comment by RUCerious — January 31, 2008 @ 3:19 pm You know Bush Sr's nickname, given to him while in the CIA, is "Poppy", right? Real progress for the CIA’s cash cow maybe…

Comment by RUCerious — January 31, 2008 @ 3:19 pm

You know Bush Sr’s nickname, given to him while in the CIA, is “Poppy”, right?

]]> By: RUCerious http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/comment-page-1/#comment-4249936 RUCerious Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:56:07 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/#comment-4249936 Please, someone, overnight, rush delivery, urgent - mail this clown a clue! Please! Please, someone, overnight, rush delivery, urgent – mail this clown a clue! Please!

]]> By: Anacher Forester http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/comment-page-1/#comment-4249901 Anacher Forester Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:39:31 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/#comment-4249901 Boucher's response: "LALALALALA! I CAN'T HEAR YOU! LALALALALA!" AF Boucher’s response: “LALALALALA! I CAN’T HEAR YOU! LALALALALA!”

AF

]]> By: ralph the wonder llama http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/comment-page-1/#comment-4249883 ralph the wonder llama Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:32:24 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/#comment-4249883 <strong>State Dept. Official On Afghanistan: ‘Nobody Can Tell Me It’s Not Going In A Positive Direction’</strong> That sounds about right. The generic version of this headline would be <em>State Dept. Official On Anything: ‘Nobody Can Tell Me Anything I Don't Want to Hear’</em> State Dept. Official On Afghanistan: ‘Nobody Can Tell Me It’s Not Going In A Positive Direction’

That sounds about right. The generic version of this headline would be

State Dept. Official On Anything: ‘Nobody Can Tell Me Anything I Don’t Want to Hear’

]]> By: Winski http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/comment-page-1/#comment-4249881 Winski Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:31:25 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/#comment-4249881 For more Kool-Aide?? Or is this from just excessive shoe shopping..... For more Kool-Aide?? Or is this from just excessive shoe shopping…..

]]> By: raynman http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/comment-page-1/#comment-4249876 raynman Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:26:05 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/#comment-4249876 um... is it just me, or is an increase in the cell phone market actually a bad thing because cell phones can be used as cheap detonators for bombs? um… is it just me, or is an increase in the cell phone market actually a bad thing because cell phones can be used as cheap detonators for bombs?

]]> By: RUCerious http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/comment-page-1/#comment-4249861 RUCerious Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:19:14 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/#comment-4249861 NYT ~ August 25th "LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Aug. 25 — Afghanistan produced record levels of opium in 2007 for the second straight year, led by a staggering 45 percent increase in the Taliban stronghold of Helmand Province, according to a new United Nations survey to be released Monday." Real progress for the CIA's cash cow maybe... NYT ~ August 25th

“LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Aug. 25 — Afghanistan produced record levels of opium in 2007 for the second straight year, led by a staggering 45 percent increase in the Taliban stronghold of Helmand Province, according to a new United Nations survey to be released Monday.”

Real progress for the CIA’s cash cow maybe…

]]> By: burro http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/comment-page-1/#comment-4249844 burro Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:09:31 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/#comment-4249844 What a f'n idiot. Afghanistan sentences journalist to death for downloading report on women's rights http://www.americablog.com/2008/01/wheres-laura-bush-now.html What a f’n idiot.

Afghanistan sentences journalist to death for downloading report on women’s rights

http://www.americablog.com/2008/01/wheres-laura-bush-now.html

]]> By: calibleu http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/comment-page-1/#comment-4249842 calibleu Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:08:13 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/#comment-4249842 more bad news for you: top al-qaida leader killed by U.S forces today in Afghanistan. Comment by ct — January 31, 2008 @ 2:37 pm I guess you don't pay very close attention to the fact that when one of these people are killed, there are many more to step in and take their place. more bad news for you: top al-qaida leader killed by U.S forces today in Afghanistan.
Comment by ct — January 31, 2008 @ 2:37 pm

I guess you don’t pay very close attention to the fact that when one of these people are killed, there are many more to step in and take their place.

]]> By: RUCerious http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/comment-page-1/#comment-4249836 RUCerious Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:05:34 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/#comment-4249836 I guess delusion is a communicable disease...! I guess delusion is a communicable disease…!

]]> By: stewarjt http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/comment-page-1/#comment-4249832 stewarjt Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:04:31 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/#comment-4249832 <em>"Nobody can tell me it’s not going in a positive direction."</em> I've made my mind. The facts will just confuse me. “Nobody can tell me it’s not going in a positive direction.”

I’ve made my mind. The facts will just confuse me.

]]> By: Buckie Boy http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/comment-page-1/#comment-4249826 Buckie Boy Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:58:47 +0000 http://edit.thinkprogress.org/2008/01/31/state-afghanistan/#comment-4249826 He is part of this War Criminal Organization that Bush/Cheney have built, what do expect except anything but lies and denial. Buck Fush He is part of this War Criminal Organization that Bush/Cheney have built, what do expect except anything but lies and denial.

Buck Fush

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