Comments on: Pentagon IG has just one Arabic-speaking auditor.

By: MapleStreet

MapleStreet — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:37:08 +0000

44. Galmud, please place the /sarcasm tag earlier in your post. ;-)

As Garrison Keillor observed, when reality is so bizare, humorists are in trouble.

By: Marie

Marie — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:43:34 +0000

I just saw the /sarcasm —
I think he was speaking tongue-in-cheek — if so, I take back my words.

By: Marie

Marie — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:42:33 +0000

Galmud is a sanctimonious, condescending fool who enjoys feeling superior.
I don’t think his god would approve of his pride.

By: galmud

galmud — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:15:36 +0000

Remember Arabs is a primitive people who intially only understand the language of violence. So at first there is a need to bomb, shock and awe them into submission to make them understan we mean buisness

Then in the ashes of destruction we plant the seed of democracy which will grow and open like a beautifull flower speaking the universal language of freedom to the Arabs

Westerners dont need to understand their language or their culture. We are there as liberators and as educators. They have nothing to teach us, but we have so much to teach them. They cannot achieve freedom and democracy on their own.

We must help them, guide them and constantly monitor and control their progress towards their road to independence and freedom. This poor uncivilized people desperatly need this helping hand from their great white superior benefactor. They cannot be free without us.

Just like when we spread the word of God and the way of the white man to the suffering Americas, Africa and Asia.

[/sarcasm]

By: MapleStreet

MapleStreet — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:50:51 +0000

And how many people were tortured, shot and/of killed because they couldn’t understand what was being said ?

By: Bilbo Hussein Baggins

Bilbo Hussein Baggins — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:17:56 +0000

Wow, I wonder why very few Arabs would want to work for this administrations????
maybe because its bombing the sh*t out of their countries
Comment by help.me.jebus

There is one other reason. If they cooperate with the US and are caught, they will die. The US also won’t allow them to immigrate. Think of all the translators who were promised refuge in the US if they needed it who were then turned away because we had reached our 500 arbitrary cutoff number of Iraqi’s allowed in our country.

By: belac

belac — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:09:27 +0000

You go to war with the auditors you have, not the auditors you would like to have… and if we learn Arabic now, the terrorists have won!

By: DieNowForPeace

DieNowForPeace — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:07:11 +0000

In order to hire translators in Arabic, one must first care about them.

By: StratRat

StratRat — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:52:31 +0000

Makes you wonder what theyâ€™re really listening to.

Comment by toasterhead

These patriots are listening to the enemy – You and I! In their eyes, loyal Americans are to be spied on and watched. Loyal Americans want change, and the current criminal enterprise doesn’t want change – so they target those who insist upon change, and that is what makes them enemies. Not an enemy of the country, an enemy of the status quo. An enemy to republican and authoritarian rule.

Make no mistake – we are the enemy now.

By: toasterhead

toasterhead — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:45:04 +0000

Janis Joplin?

Comment by RUCerious â€” March 11, 2008 @ 2:41 pm

Correct!

I would also have accepted Elliot Spitzer and/or hookers.

By: RUCerious

RUCerious — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:41:16 +0000

Makes you wonder what theyâ€™re really listening to.

Comment by toasterhead â€” March 11, 2008 @ 2:17 pm

Janis Joplin?

By: Doc Rock

Doc Rock — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:34:29 +0000

Moreover, throughout DoD language-qualified individuals tend to be promoted more slowly and to be viewed with some suspicion even if they ALSO have comparable skills in specialties IN ADDITION TO their language skills.

By: Shayne

Shayne — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:28:19 +0000

Makes you wonder what theyâ€™re really listening to.

Comment by toasterhead â€” March 11, 2008 @ 2:17 pm

They’re listening to Democrats talking to hookers.

By: Zimzone

Zimzone — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:25:40 +0000

Makes you wonder what theyâ€™re really listening to. -toasterhead

Ummm, Spitzer & Hookers? (Not necessarily in that order…)

By: Nevar

Nevar — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:24:35 +0000

Makes you wonder what theyâ€™re really listening to.

Comment by toasterhead

All the rest of those dangerous English speaking people…..

By: toasterhead

toasterhead — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:17:05 +0000

Stories like this make me wonder about all those people the NSA has listening to all those wiretapped conversations. Unless they’ve sucked up all the Arabic interpreters in the DC metro area, it’s probably safe to assume that they don’t have too many native speakers either.

Makes you wonder what they’re really listening to.

By: Nevar

Nevar — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:10:03 +0000

“Last year, the New York Times reported that just â€œ29 of the 610 people deployed in Iraq as part of the provincial reconstruction program have extensive knowledge of Arabic culture, history and language.â€

The other 581 people deployed in Iraq had extensive knowledge of Corporate Culture, history and language.

By: bs

bs — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:07:24 +0000

….what a complete f. joke. these jerkoffs are telling each and everyone of us that they don’t give a damn every time they open there mouths. the american folks complain, whine, and cry over no oversight, the privacy, we don’t know our candidates and the connections. well…..get on the pc and search. apply a little common sense, follow the money and those attatched. no pc….well library, friends….. there is absolutely no excuse for being uniformed and folks this is our duty

By: Tobie Tall

Tobie Tall — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:07:23 +0000

White House Press Secretary Dana Perino mentioned in a press conference that she is not allowed to talk about the value of the U.S. Dollar. She says that the Treasury Secretary is the only one allowed to discuss the U.S. Dollar. She even said that she would be fired if she talked about the U.S. Dollar.

By: robbez_92107

robbez_92107 — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:06:14 +0000

If you talk REALLY LOUD, anyone can understand English.

Comment by Zimzone â€” March 11, 2008 @ 1:53 pm

Even the deaf!!!!! Too funny!