http://washingtonindependent.com/2150/irony-is-for-suckers National News in Context Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:30:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://washingtonindependent.com/2150/irony-is-for-suckers/comment-page-1#comment-1923 spencer_ackerman Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.washingtonindependent.com.php5-9.websitetestlink.com/?p=2150#comment-1923 Also, you can't lay Abu Ghraib on Gates, since it happened three years before he became SecDef. Also, you can’t lay Abu Ghraib on Gates, since it happened three years before he became SecDef.

]]> http://washingtonindependent.com/2150/irony-is-for-suckers/comment-page-1#comment-1924 spencer_ackerman Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.washingtonindependent.com.php5-9.websitetestlink.com/?p=2150#comment-1924 Skulz, don't you think "smart" is a value-neutral adjective? Couldn't a person agree with your critique of Gates -- not saying I do, but still -- and still think the guy is intelligent? Skulz, don’t you think "smart" is a value-neutral adjective? Couldn’t a person agree with your critique of Gates — not saying I do, but still — and still think the guy is intelligent?

]]> http://washingtonindependent.com/2150/irony-is-for-suckers/comment-page-1#comment-1925 skulzfontaine Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.washingtonindependent.com.php5-9.websitetestlink.com/?p=2150#comment-1925 Spencer? I must strongly disagree with your conjecture that, "Bob Gates is a smart man...". Bob might have been a smart man, once. Gates is no longer. Gates is a hack. Gates is a simpering poser. Gates would cast his sense of honor, duty, civic pride, and morality on the bon fires of Bush insanity. Gates is complicit in Amerika's war crimes and crimes against humanity. Golly, that list would be comprehensively lengthy. Let's just put that torture crap-o-la on the top and call it square. Nifty new photos rolling out about Abu Ghraib. Oh yeah, another fine day for the U.S. military and Bob Gates. Gates is at the top of the Pentagon food chain and he's responsible. Doesn't matter if the horror were begun under Donny 'Dr. Death' Rummy or not. Turkey gave Bob the diplomatic finger and Gates had it coming. Pompous, arrogant, and ignorant in that classic colossal sense. That's our Bob. Ain't he sort of cute? Yeah, in that mostly dangerously genocidal manner. Yeah, that sort of cute. War crimes tribunal baby, war crimes tribunals for the entire nasty Bush regime! Spencer? I must strongly disagree with your conjecture that, "Bob Gates is a smart man…". Bob might have been a smart man, once. Gates is no longer. Gates is a hack. Gates is a simpering poser. Gates would cast his sense of honor, duty, civic pride, and morality on the bon fires of Bush insanity. Gates is complicit in Amerika’s war crimes and crimes against humanity. Golly, that list would be comprehensively lengthy. Let’s just put that torture crap-o-la on the top and call it square. Nifty new photos rolling out about Abu Ghraib. Oh yeah, another fine day for the U.S. military and Bob Gates. Gates is at the top of the Pentagon food chain and he’s responsible. Doesn’t matter if the horror were begun under Donny ‘Dr. Death’ Rummy or not. Turkey gave Bob the diplomatic finger and Gates had it coming. Pompous, arrogant, and ignorant in that classic colossal sense. That’s our Bob. Ain’t he sort of cute? Yeah, in that mostly dangerously genocidal manner. Yeah, that sort of cute. War crimes tribunal baby, war crimes tribunals for the entire nasty Bush regime!

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