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elchip		2010-02-15 11:31:23 PM

dholway		2010-02-15 11:32:01 PM

queezyweezel: Who's the Commander In Chief, and what does he do again?

President Obama! He captures evildoers!

(Did he murder those Afghan civilians the other day?)

Norad		2010-02-15 11:32:07 PM

brainiac-dumdum		2010-02-15 11:33:02 PM

Sgt Otter: GaryPDX: And this will stop airline bombers how?

Thank you, Code Pink.

code pink sounds like a euphemism for menstruation

DamnYankees		2010-02-15 11:41:14 PM

I look forward to Dick Cheney going on TV and telling us (1) Obama is a failure and is making the world more dangerous and (2) we should torture this guy.

chemical_angel		2010-02-15 11:45:17 PM

I swear ... Some of those right wing guys around here are low level AI bots.

brainiac-dumdum		2010-02-15 11:50:31 PM

DamnYankees: I look forward to Dick Cheney going on TV and telling us (1) Obama is a failure and is making the world more dangerous and (2) we should torture this guy.

He should try and get the guy tortured on TV! Americans would love that

mediablitz		2010-02-16 12:03:27 AM

chemical_angel: I swear ... Some of those right wing guys around here are low level AI bots.

Terrorists killed: Well YEAH. Now we can't "interrogate" them. Great job Obama!

Terrorists captured: Oh sure. Make them martyrs. Great job Obama!

I think it runs off the Limbaugh 2.0 scripting language.

Limbaugh 1.0 (pre-2009 version) had it all backwards. Saying those things made you anti-American. BIG BUG.

chemical_angel		2010-02-16 12:12:50 AM

mediablitz: chemical_angel: I swear ... Some of those right wing guys around here are low level AI bots.

Terrorists killed: Well YEAH. Now we can't "interrogate" them. Great job Obama!

Terrorists captured: Oh sure. Make them martyrs. Great job Obama!

I think it runs off the Limbaugh 2.0 scripting language.

Limbaugh 1.0 (pre-2009 version) had it all backwards. Saying those things made you anti-American. BIG BUG.

Nice!

Diogenes		2010-02-16 12:13:39 AM

dholway: Diogenes: Republican President Captures AQ Honcho: Decisive!

Democratic President Captures AQ Honcho: meh

It's cute that you think that Obama captured him.

It's cute you probably think Dubya kept us safe with his rock.

wejash		2010-02-16 12:17:21 AM

The Pakistani ISI taking out the head of the Quetta Shura is a huge deal. It's like the Gambino Family turning on the Lucheses instead of renting them the rooms to hide out while the cops are lurking.

jmaster306		2010-02-16 12:21:37 AM

DamnYankees: I look forward to Dick Cheney going on TV and telling us (1) Obama is a failure and is making the world more dangerous and (2) we should torture this guy.

I'm predicting more of a "First Obama says no torture, then when we actually get a person of interest, we're forced to let the Pakistani's interrogate him. All because Obama is too much of an elitist hypocrite to admit than the enhanced interrogation techniques are necessary."

Yeah, I know, way too complex to make it onto a Teabagger sign, but I'm sure some conserva-douche will be making this argument any minute now.

Diogenes		2010-02-16 12:21:47 AM

wejash: The Pakistani ISI taking out the head of the Quetta Shura is a huge deal. It's like the Gambino Family turning on the Lucheses instead of renting them the rooms to hide out while the cops are lurking.

Why would you poison this thread with your relevance when there's good partisan sniping to be done!

Fark It		2010-02-16 12:30:32 AM

Diogenes: GaryPDX: Well..if one of these clowns hadn't set his pants on fire on Christmas day, I would probably have held my tongue

Baloney. You don't know how to hold your tongue.

But honestly, your comment was silly. You're trying to connect things that are way out of scale and context with each other.

i4.photobucket.com

You're talking about tard-screed here.

yogaFLAME		2010-02-16 12:41:58 AM

dodecahedron: Ghani Baradar Nikto

Nice.

JerseyTim		2010-02-16 12:45:20 AM

Obama is such a fool and going about this the wrong way. We should set him free. If he comes back, he is ours. If he doesn't, it was never meant to be.

brainiac-dumdum		2010-02-16 01:13:13 AM

JerseyTim: Obama is such a fool and going about this the wrong way. We should set him free. If he comes back, he is ours. If he doesn't, it was never meant to be.

nah, Bloodhound Laws haven't been used for quite a while.

Obnox		2010-02-16 01:25:15 AM

GaryPDX: Sgt Otter: GaryPDX: And this will stop airline bombers how?

Thank you, Code Pink.

Sgt Otter, I actually think I know who are, local boy. And I have a lot of respect for you. Does "67N" Huey Crew sound anywhere familiar to you?

Dear god, you're going to try to hug him, aren't you?

brainiac-dumdum		2010-02-16 01:28:09 AM

Obnox: Dear god, you're going to try to hug him, aren't you?

To be fair, Sgt Otter is pretty awesome.

Somacandra		2010-02-16 01:35:11 AM

FTFA: Mullah Baradar has been in Pakistani custody for several days, with American and Pakistani intelligence officials both taking part in interrogations, according to the officials.

images.starpulse.com

"I wouldn't give a squirt of piss for your ass right now."

/hotter than Kelly LeBrock

Obnox		2010-02-16 01:35:12 AM

brainiac-dumdum: Obnox: Dear god, you're going to try to hug him, aren't you?

To be fair, Sgt Otter is pretty awesome.

Yeah, but this is a drunk-hug. "Hug me, you bastard! Ah luuuuv yoo!"

WFern		2010-02-16 02:01:02 AM

I'm glad they caught this prick, but I'm also a little amused. It seems we capture a new "#2" every month.

These guys have all the shelf life of Darth Vader's #2 and seem to be replaced just as easily. Not an enviable position.

ultraholland		2010-02-16 02:02:50 AM

Hell yeah! They finally got him!

www.x-entertainment.com

voran		2010-02-16 02:02:59 AM

LOL, Obviously a mistake by the Obama administration, everyone knows the war is in Iraq, not Pakistan.

WFern		2010-02-16 02:03:38 AM

Fark It: You're talking about tard-screed here.

"Tard-screed" is now officially my favorite term.

006andahalf		2010-02-16 02:05:07 AM

This is a transparent ploy by the BHO administration to trump trivial issues to divert the attention of the American public away from the important issues.

Slightly (only slightly) more seriously, the guy was asking for trouble for being in Karachi anyway. There is a sort of tacit agreement that if they stay in NWFP (Peshawar) or Balochistan (Quetta), the internal security forces won't really try to come looking for you.

RsquaredW		2010-02-16 02:05:21 AM

GaryPDX:
Yea, we'll come back to this when a dirty bomb gets set off in some major city.

Why do you lefties think there is no risk?

Because terrorism has killed approx. 4,800 Americans over the course of the last two decades and car crashes have killed two hundred times that? I'll be worrying more about my Toyota than Osama, thanks.

// hey podunk towns, you're not terrorist targets
// maybe if you lived in DC or NYC you might have a little something to worry about
// but probably not

boobsrgood		2010-02-16 02:05:35 AM

Hurray! Now no one will ever do bad things again! Terrorism is finally defeated!

at80eighty		2010-02-16 02:05:53 AM

this IS a pretty big deal - you should be congratulating your boys; not being skeptical, you polarised moron. you know how you are.

keytronic		2010-02-16 02:06:01 AM

WFern: I'm glad they caught this prick, but I'm also a little amused. It seems we capture a new "#2" every month.

These guys have all the shelf life of Darth Vader's #2 and seem to be replaced just as easily. Not an enviable position.

Actually, we catch #3 a LOT. But number #2, that's a little more significant.

fragMasterFlash		2010-02-16 02:07:11 AM

Misshunz acomplisht!

Mock26		2010-02-16 02:08:19 AM

Approves of the imminent suicide bombing in Pakistan!

WFern		2010-02-16 02:08:26 AM

keytronic: Actually, we catch #3 a LOT. But number #2, that's a little more significant.

You may be right (I may also be getting the Taliban vs. al Qaeda #2's confused). Regardless, their rank and file system seems quite bizarre.

NEDM		2010-02-16 02:09:19 AM

keytronic: WFern: I'm glad they caught this prick, but I'm also a little amused. It seems we capture a new "#2" every month.

These guys have all the shelf life of Darth Vader's #2 and seem to be replaced just as easily. Not an enviable position.

To put this in WW2 terms: We catch Stilwell alot. We went and captured Marshall this time.
Actually, we catch #3 a LOT. But number #2, that's a little more significant.

Fano		2010-02-16 02:09:45 AM

brainiac-dumdum: Obnox: Dear god, you're going to try to hug him, aren't you?

To be fair, Sgt Otter is pretty awesome.

He's a refreshing change from our usual gang of marine core soldiers, naval aviators, and special forces commandoes. I disagree with him sometimes, but I respect his opinion.

I Am The Egg Matt Drudge Smears Upon His Body		2010-02-16 02:10:33 AM

Pakistan.... where we should have been EIGHT FARKING YEARS AGO.

RanDomino		2010-02-16 02:10:58 AM

okay srsly wtf is going on in Marjah. Some were saying days ago that it was over; some are saying there aren't enough attack helicopters to deal with all the firefights! Some are saying the Taliban has been driven out; some are saying they're getting close enough to shoot mine-removal vehicles!

Mock26		2010-02-16 02:11:16 AM

GaryPDX: And this will stop airline bombers how?

They capture top ranking terrorist.
You make stupid comment.
The terrorist are incapacitated by your massive stupidity.
Clear as crystal.
Surprised you even had to ask.

:-D

Fano		2010-02-16 02:11:57 AM

Mock26: Approves of the imminent suicide bombing in Pakistan!

60 seconds to midnight, 60 seconds to NOWHERE, baby, prepare to EAT CEILING!!! ahahahahhahahaha

NEDM		2010-02-16 02:12:19 AM

NEDM: keytronic: WFern: I'm glad they caught this prick, but I'm also a little amused. It seems we capture a new "#2" every month.

These guys have all the shelf life of Darth Vader's #2 and seem to be replaced just as easily. Not an enviable position.

To put this in WW2 terms: We catch Stilwell alot. We went and captured Marshall this time.
Actually, we catch #3 a LOT. But number #2, that's a little more significant.

Ouch. HTMFAIL on my part right there. Should read:

To put this in WW2 terms: We catch Stilwell alot. We went and captured Marshall this time.

felixecho		2010-02-16 02:12:37 AM

And now there will be a new guy. And so on, and so on, and so on.

at80eighty		2010-02-16 02:12:45 AM

GaryPDX: Yea, we'll come back to this when a dirty bomb gets set off in some major city.

Why do you lefties think there is no risk?

goddamn man. how paranoid are you that you need to add a partisan element to even something thats a collective good?

you like to think of yourself as a patriot but spin it however much you like, scream with your comebacks but the fact is you & your kind are the cancerous rot that will kill your own country.

PunchDrunkPanda		2010-02-16 02:12:54 AM

FTA:

Most immediately, they hope he will provide the whereabouts of Mullah Omar, the one-eyed cleric who is the group's spiritual leader.

Just me or does that sound like a 20-man instance boss?

JQPublic		2010-02-16 02:13:40 AM

Awesome!

July 2009: "People think that the U.S. has troops in Pakistan, well, we don't."

February 2010: Taliban top military commander captured in Karachi by US and Pakistan forces.

Norad		2010-02-16 02:14:13 AM

RanDomino: okay srsly wtf is going on in Marjah. Some were saying days ago that it was over; some are saying there aren't enough attack helicopters to deal with all the firefights! Some are saying the Taliban has been driven out; some are saying they're getting close enough to shoot mine-removal vehicles!

And some are saying this is a very fluid situation at the moment, and to simply believe everything you read about it before the smoke clears is a pretty stupid thing to do.

NEDM		2010-02-16 02:15:11 AM

JQPublic: Awesome!

July 2009: "People think that the U.S. has troops in Pakistan, well, we don't."

February 2010: Taliban top military commander captured in Karachi by US and Pakistan intelligence forces.

Bit of a difference there, chief.

/not much, but there is a distinction.

PunchDrunkPanda		2010-02-16 02:18:12 AM

The officials said that Pakistan was leading the interrogation of Mullah Baradar, but that Americans were also involved. The conditions of the questioning are unclear. In its first week in office, the Obama administration banned harsh interrogations like waterboarding by Americans, but the Pakistanis have long been known to subject prisoners to brutal questioning.

Can they at least de-louse him before another KSM-esque mugshot?

shirtsbyeric		2010-02-16 02:18:18 AM

GAT_00: DarthBrooks: chemical_angel: They sure have a lot of those.

Well, first it was Klaatu, now it's Baradar.

We just have to capture Nikto and we're done.

I'm not sure how, but you were too slow to that.

That being said, I await the comments on how badly the Obama administration is handling this war.

Well at least they stopped counting the dead.

brainiac-dumdum		2010-02-16 02:18:23 AM

RsquaredW: // hey podunk towns, you're not terrorist targets

That's why they're the perfect target!

Norad		2010-02-16 02:18:40 AM

felixecho: And now there will be a new guy. And so on, and so on, and so on.

There are a lot of folks in here confusing the "#2' thing with Al-Qaeda.

Al-Qaeda is the one with the 'NEXT #2' thing. That's their bit. The Taliban is a totally different animal. Capturing this guy is a staggering blow to the Taliban.

And GARY PDX seems willfully ignorant about that difference. That was made clear with his 'underwear bomber' quote. The Taliban had nothing to do with that. That was an Al-Qaeda production.

Learn the difference.

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