Not long ago, a guy name William Krar was
arrested in Texas with "a fully functional sodium cyanide bomb capable of killing hundreds, as well as neo-Nazi and antigovernment literature, illegal weapons, half a million rounds of ammunition, and more than 100 explosives, including bombs disguised as suitcases." Well hey, now we know where the Weapons of Mass Destruction went! So where's Ashcroft, Bush, et al on this one? They don't seem to really care. As
Atrios puts it (well, actually it's his bud Thumb for this particular post), "Remember folks, sodium cyanide bombs, illegal weapons, half a million rounds of ammunition, and more than 100 explosives, including bombs disguised as suitcases don't threaten American security, terrorists do. And they're not terrorists if they're Americans with real American names like William, Judith or Edward. But it would be a very different story if their names were Mohammad. Or Jose." I fail to see another plausible explanation, although I'm waiting to hear it. It would be quite disturbing to think our that when Our Leaders say the "War on Terror" isn't a "War on Islam", what they really mean is it's a "War on Islamic Terrorism *wink wink nudge nudge say no more*"
posted by Mr. Ripzaw at 3:01 PM
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So, we got Saddam. My first response was "Holy #&%!" (direct quote). I really didn't think it was gonna happen. But it did, and it's a damn fine thing, too. That rat bastard had it coming. My greatest congratulations to the troops for reeling in this lousy excuse for a human, and I hope he enjoys all the hospitality of the Iraqi justice system. This is probably our first chance to really get the new Iraq moving. On top of that, if he does have NBC weapons stashed somewhere, now we're going to find out about it (if the CIA can't get it out of him, I have a feeling certain Iraqi, uh, "experts" will.) Unfortunately, I can't go as far as some pundits do in my expectations for how this will affect anything. I don't think capturing Saddam makes the US any safer, because I don't think Saddam posed a threat in the first place. I don't think it's really going to cut down on attacks on US troops in Iraq (and so far, it
hasn't), because I find it highly unlikely that Saddam was doing much orchestrating from his spider-hole. And I don't think this means "mission accomplished", because we're still $150 Billion in the hole and all we have to show for it is a brutal despotism overthrown into violent anarchy. Someone's going to have to explain to me how that works out to a positive cost-benefit ratio.
posted by Mr. Ripzaw at 9:25 PM
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The US Government has decided to build a new Pan-Arab satellite television network to compete with Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya, bringing the good world of US benevolence to the ignorant masses of the Muslim world. The slogan of the new network?
"Fair and Balanced". Holy crap, I couldn't make this stuff up. Now someone want to tell me that
FOX News isn't a frickin' tool of the government?
posted by Mr. Ripzaw at 9:09 PM
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