Since it was an accident, would he still get the 72 virgins?

Fortunately, i keep my feathers numbered for just such an occasion

MaudlinMutantMollusk: Fortunately, i keep my feathers numbered for just such an occasion

Heh, nice.

/oblig

Best blow job you'll hear about today.

This is why the mess is Syria is so damn complicated for the west. On the one hand you have a brutal dictator who is busy slaughter his people and clearly we want to do something about that (We being the civilized world -Russia)

OTOH the folks we'd be arming and helping are the same folks we were recently fighting in Iraq. Rememeber "Al-Qaeda in Iraq"? Essentially they were salafist militants who got their money from radical Saudis, but their manpower from Syria.

Back in the early days of the Iraq war when it really did look like it was going to be a cakewalk, a lot of prominent Neo-cons in the Bush adminstration were basically publically pointing at Syria and saying "we got next". Assad's dady knew he stood less of a chance against the US than even Saddam, but figured if he could keep us busy pacifying Iraq then we wouldn't invade Syria. So he went into his jails (being a Ba'athist like Saddam, he ruthlessly supressed his islamic militants) and basically told all the militants he had locked up : "You want Jihad? As long as you take it over the border into Iraq you can Jihad to your heart's content and we wont stop you"

So they poured over the border, bought weapons with Saudi money and spent the next 7 years getting very good at what they did by fighting the US

Now that the war is effectively over in Iraq, and all hands there are turned against them, they started coming home and pointing their guns towards Damascus.

Which leaves the US in a tough spot as to whether to support the same people who took the lives of hundred of American soldiers, or let a ruthless dictactor commt atrocities on his own people,

so syrian trained bomb makers are now attacking syria.

//nice

I bet he feels like Shi'ite now...

Magorn: This is why the mess is Syria is so damn complicated for the west. On the one hand you have a brutal dictator who is busy slaughter his people and clearly we want to do something about that (We being the civilized world -Russia)

OTOH the folks we'd be arming and helping are the same folks we were recently fighting in Iraq. Rememeber "Al-Qaeda in Iraq"? Essentially they were salafist militants who got their money from radical Saudis, but their manpower from Syria.

Back in the early days of the Iraq war when it really did look like it was going to be a cakewalk, a lot of prominent Neo-cons in the Bush adminstration were basically publically pointing at Syria and saying "we got next". Assad's dady knew he stood less of a chance against the US than even Saddam, but figured if he could keep us busy pacifying Iraq then we wouldn't invade Syria. So he went into his jails (being a Ba'athist like Saddam, he ruthlessly supressed his islamic militants) and basically told all the militants he had locked up : "You want Jihad? As long as you take it over the border into Iraq you can Jihad to your heart's content and we wont stop you"

So they poured over the border, bought weapons with Saudi money and spent the next 7 years getting very good at what they did by fighting the US

Now that the war is effectively over in Iraq, and all hands there are turned against them, they started coming home and pointing their guns towards Damascus.

Which leaves the US in a tough spot as to whether to support the same people who took the lives of hundred of American soldiers, or let a ruthless dictactor commt atrocities on his own people,

keep spreading your propaganda. everyone else came in for the lulz.

iheartscotch: Taikoluigi: How did he make Chief Bomb-maker in the first place?

He had the bad luck to be head bomb maker that week. They pick numbers out of a hat to determine who's in charge. Then, we do them the favor of blowing up the winner. It's kind of like "the lottery" by Sheryl Jackson; except with more explosions.

/ which makes the storyline much cooler

Well, I know central Africa's "Chief Bomb Maker" had the bad luck to rapidly reach a few thousand degrees F after he happened to be riding in the same car as Anwar Awlaki the day the Predator drones found him. but keep in mind this was the explosives genius behind the underwear bomb so the term "bomb-maker" is being applied pretty loosely. I mean its not exactly like their is a C-4 Blackbelt program or say an IRA Certified Explosives Engineer exam you can take..

KrispyKritter: Magorn: This is why the mess is Syria is so damn complicated for the west. On the one hand you have a brutal dictator who is busy slaughter his people and clearly we want to do something about that (We being the civilized world -Russia)

OTOH the folks we'd be arming and helping are the same folks we were recently fighting in Iraq. Rememeber "Al-Qaeda in Iraq"? Essentially they were salafist militants who got their money from radical Saudis, but their manpower from Syria.

Back in the early days of the Iraq war when it really did look like it was going to be a cakewalk, a lot of prominent Neo-cons in the Bush adminstration were basically publically pointing at Syria and saying "we got next". Assad's dady knew he stood less of a chance against the US than even Saddam, but figured if he could keep us busy pacifying Iraq then we wouldn't invade Syria. So he went into his jails (being a Ba'athist like Saddam, he ruthlessly supressed his islamic militants) and basically told all the militants he had locked up : "You want Jihad? As long as you take it over the border into Iraq you can Jihad to your heart's content and we wont stop you"

So they poured over the border, bought weapons with Saudi money and spent the next 7 years getting very good at what they did by fighting the US

Now that the war is effectively over in Iraq, and all hands there are turned against them, they started coming home and pointing their guns towards Damascus.

Which leaves the US in a tough spot as to whether to support the same people who took the lives of hundred of American soldiers, or let a ruthless dictactor commt atrocities on his own people,

keep spreading your propaganda. everyone else came in for the lulz.

Out of curiosity what part of that do you think is propaganda. I can link you to some excellent Washington Post and Ny Times articles that detailed the involvement of the Syrian Militants in fightng in Iraq and the Saudi funding connection if you'd like.