This Man Is Going to Kill You, Your Grandmother and Every American Flag

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Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at 1:55 pm

Speaking of Guantanamo, The New York Times profiles an Al Jazeera journalist, Sami al-Hajj, who was wrongly imprisoned there for seven years. We’ve had protests in this country for the past year in which overprivileged white conservatives bray about how the expansion of health care coverage to the most vulnerable Americans represents a despicable assault on freedom. I wonder whether a single one of them could tolerate imprisonment without charge for seven years and emerge not only as a functional human being but as a civil liberties correspondent for a major international news organization.

Freedom isn’t free; and some whiners are certainly treating it cheaply.

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monkey99
Comment posted December 23, 2009 @ 2:18 pm

Lillywhite conservatives couldn't handle 1 year imprisonment without charge. They'd be whining 24 hours a day.
Sami Al-Hajj makes them all look like petulant, spoiled children crying, without knowing why. Heck, they make THEMSELVES look that way!


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chrisjay
Comment posted December 23, 2009 @ 2:42 pm

Beck is the role-model:
pasty, doughy, braying ang crying.


strangely_enough
Comment posted December 23, 2009 @ 4:02 pm

But, it's only those other countries that imprison journalists…


ajm8127
Comment posted December 23, 2009 @ 6:15 pm

That's hilarious. It's true though, most people like their bullshit spoon fed.


monkey99
Comment posted December 23, 2009 @ 9:29 pm

chrisjay,

I'm ashamed to know Beck came from a town only 100 miles from me. Too close, if you ask me. He makes the whole state look bad.


chrisjay
Comment posted December 23, 2009 @ 9:38 pm

Monkey, I have a friend from Wasilla and I am constantly reassuring him that he needn't feel responsible for unleashing the Snowbilly Grifter upon an unsuspecting world—–I promise that you, as well, are forgiven!


monkey99
Comment posted December 23, 2009 @ 11:01 pm

chrisjay,

I have a niece there, as well. Maybe they know each other! Wasilla isn't that big, so it's a distinct possibility.
Even she is embarassed by having supported Palin during the last election cycle. She's one of those who do the “Asian thing” Palin's father spoke of, as the reason she couldn't handle collegiate life in Hawaii.

Beck? Well, we're stuck with that numbskull. Here's one for you-The town Beck came from threw him a big welcome home, that cost them thousands to pull off, that they couldn't really afford, and Beck stiffed them. So much for the teary, whiny “I (sniff) just (whimper) love (cough) my (sniff) country”.


GunnyRed
Comment posted December 24, 2009 @ 1:08 am

Obama is NOT an Article II Natural Born Citizen and therefore is NOT eligible to be President. This is the biggest political cover-up in U.S. History.
see Kerchner et al v. Obama & Congress et al
visit http://www.protectourliberty.org
phone 732.521-1900


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Comment posted December 26, 2009 @ 3:57 pm

HOW GOES THE WARS OF ECONOMIC STIMULUS ON THE ISLAMIC CRESCENT

[ARAMCO CENTRAL ASIAN PIPELINE]

The Islamic Crescent War of Economic Stimulus, Blood for Oil, Markets and Resources, is turning into an open-ended forever commitment of nation-building, in Afghanistan a government built upon corruption and inefficiency much like the Empire, to support the Aramco Central Asian Pipeline. With the Empire planning to create an Afghanistan National Corp Level size army of [240K] Two-Hundred-Forty Thousand, and Police force of [160K] One-Hundred-Sixty-Thousand to protect the [$2B/€1.3B] Two-Billion-Dollars/One-Point-Three Billion-Euros, pipeline that the Americans wanted to build from Soviet central Asia, Turkmenistan through Afghanistan, to Pakistan and India, the Central Asian Aramco pipeline, a consortium of oil companies, the same that control Saudi Oil, with an emir to be put in place with lots of Sharia law, which the Oil companies are more than willing to live with. The cost of maintaining the [400K] Four-Hundred Thousand combined force will be borne by both Empire and [EU] European Citizens to ensure the protection of the Central Asian Aramco pipeline.

[HOW’S THE WAR GOING]

How is the War going, we would suggest not smashingly, in fact the estimated number of [KIA] Killed in Action would have to be [2K+] Two-thousand plus, wounded are generally [5 TO 10X] Five to ten times that amount, placing the figure at about [10 to 20K] Ten to Twenty thousand plus, and of that number [40%] have life altering wounds, [loss of limbs, sight, organs], that number [4K to 8+] Four to Eight Thousand Plus. So where did these numbers come from, [Thin Air], well not really, the Empire put out the below number but they don’t show the entire picture as anyone who is not in the Armed Forces of the Empire, is counted but anyone else does not have to show up on the official tally, and the common logic with [47] Forty-Seven countries, mercenaries, the alphabet soup club; CIA, Mossad, MI-6, and civilian support, well the numbers have to be more. But, the Empire is very good at hiding numbers, and amounts, by putting them into little packets and bits and pieces, so the really large numbers don’t hit you in the face, and bit them in the backside.

(U.S. EMPIRE): TROOP LEVELS: (100K) [937KIA] [4,434 WOUNDED] (north, east and Kabul)

Combat forces come in the same two varieties;

[1. Active Duty Military]

EMPIRE: Troop levels are now at [100K], of [2] Two Field Armies. The Empire counts it (KIA) in Tens of Thousands and doesn’t blink an eye, and will commit whatever amount of troops for as long as it desires. The Empire will move a combat force of about (45k) Forty-Five-Thousand men from Iraq to Afghanistan — in part as replacements for troops rotated out and in part as reinforcements.

[2. Contract Mercenaries]

A. Afghanistan Estimated number [165K] One-hundred Sixty-five thousand quasi-military armed forces, that have been contracted for since [20 January 2009], in Afghanistan.

B. Pakistan Estimated number [75K] Seventy-Five thousand.

[PLUS COMBAT SUPPORT SERVICES]

The troops in combat support and services support come in two main varieties:

[1. Active Duty Military]: [13K] Thirteen Thousand

[2. Contractor]: Estimated [2K] Two-Thousand, The people cooking and washing dishes at Pizza Hut at Bagram Air Base, as well as the drivers who haul the pizza dough.

[ENDING BADLY]

As of Now, American commanders have far exceeded the number that the Soviets had there in (1987). And by (1988), when the Soviets finally woke up, cut their losses and quickly [retreated] leaving billions worth of armaments to rust along with, (14K) Fourteen-Thousand, Russian graves.

Despite the fact that some problems can not only not be solved with the use of force, and beyond that, such attempts inside someone else’s country end badly, and often end badly within your own country as the fight is carried to you. The American-Israeli Empire has been spending about [$101M/€70.1M] One-Hundred-One million dollars/ Seventy-Point-One Million Euros per day in its wars of Economic Stimulus of Resources and Markets, Blood for money wars. The financial cost of this war is nothing compared to the fact that [937] Nine-hundred-thirty-seven, American troops have been killed, and [4,434] Four-thousand-four-hundred-thirty-four have been wounded (and that’s not counting the thousands more that will carry the memories of this war for their entire lives).

[WAR LOSING SUPPORT]

The support for the (Af-Pak) war from the Main Street American population is below (50%) Fifty-Percent, with support decreasing monthly, The American public, which had broadly supported Media Messiah Imperial Presidents determination to focus on Afghanistan instead of Iraq, has begun to question the wisdom of the continued American-Israeli Empire commitment, the Afghan war was deemed [not worth fighting] by (51%), Fifty-One percent of respondents in a Washington Post-ABC News poll, at one time.

[EUROPEAN PRESENT TROOP LEVELS]

In addition to an Army Division size contingent of (40K) Forty Thousand Troops foreign troops in the theater of operation; [ NATO ] The North American Treaty Organization is now expected to increase its contribute by up to more than [10K] Ten-Thousand new troops – to the separate international force in Afghanistan, bring the number to [50K], Fifty-Thousand, a [Field Army].

AUSTRALIA: TROOP LEVEL: (1,070) (KIA/UNK) (Southern Afghanistan) are fighting along side of Denmark/Netherlands troops on their own in an increasingly violent battle.

BELGIUM: TROOP LEVEL: (535-565) (KIA/UNK) said it will add between (35 -65) Thirty-five to Sixth-five military trainers to a force of (500) Five-Hundred, and send (2) two more (F-16) jet fighters, bringing the total number it has sent to (6) six.

BULGARIAN: TROOP LEVEL: [120] (KIA/UNK)

CANADA: TROOP LEVEL: (KIA/128) Canadian forces stationed in Kandahar fighting against Taliban gains in the southern Helmand province having lost (128) of their soldiers with the support in Canada of the (Af-Pak) Blood for Oil War, at about (35%) Thirty-Five Percent, with support decreasing monthly, Canada is considering withdrawal The Canadian government figures in Ottawa have announced and insist that that they intend to withdraw (Canadian Combat Troops Contingents) by the year (July 2011?). Here’s the [BUT] Canada's contribution in (2012) [COULD OR WILL?] still include a sizable military mission in Kandahar [IF] General Stanley McChrystal has the strategy right, [MORE MONEY, MORE TIME, MORE TROOPS, MORE MISSION CREEP, MORE ESCALATION, MORE UNVEILING OF REPEATED NEW STRATEGIES, IF I GET MORE, THEN I CAN DO MORE.]

CZECHOSLOVAKIA: TROOP LEVEL: (KIA/UNK) (Wardak)

DENMARK/NETHERLANDS: DENMARK TROOP LEVEL: (460) / NETHERLANDS TROOP LEVEL: [1,650] (KIA/UNK) (Southern Afghanistan/Uruzgan) are fighting along side of Australian troops on their own in an increasingly violent battle, Denmark Considering Withdrawal. The Dutch government has announced that they intend to withdraw their contingents by the year (2011).

FRANCE: TROOP LEVEL: (4,300) (KIA/UNK) (Kabul) Declined the request for additional troops, President Sarkozy France would not be sending reinforcements to bolster its existing force northeast of Kabul, but was [ready to do more] in the field of police training and economic aid.

GERMANY: TROOP LEVEL: (4,300) (KIA 35+) (Northern Afghanistan/Kunduz) Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, “We have a great responsibility here. We want to carry our share of the responsibility, militarily, in the area of civil reconstruction and in police training.” (600) Six-hundred from Germany that was already in the pipeline, sources indicated that the Europeans would be expected to help by providing additional forces, more reconstruction assistance, and increased funding. The Obama administration wants to wait until after the general election in Germany on [Sept. 27] before officially announcing its wishes.

GEORGIA: TROOP LEVEL [800] (KIA/UNK)

HUNGARY: TROOP LEVEL: UNKNOWN (KIA/UNK) (Baghlan)

ITALY: (2,880) (KIA/UNK) (Western Afghanistan, Herat & Kabul) Italy Considering Withdrawal.

JAPAN: [Has Withdrawn]: Both men mentioned the stickiest issue in relations—the relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma on the southern island of Okinawa—but offered no details. Hatoyama has suggested moving the base off Okinawa altogether, while the American-Israeli Empire, and wants to move it to a more remote location on the island, as part of a [2006] agreement on relocating [47K] Forty-Seven Thousand American troops in Japan. Japan relations, with the Empire continue to go down hill on a daily bases. Hatoyama said he would end Japan's Indian Ocean refueling mission that supports Empire led forces in the War of Economic Stimulus on the Islamic Crescent, but economic aid for Afghan civilian needs such as schools, agriculture and police, would continue. Japan now demands to review an agreement on relocating American troops in Japan that the Empire thought was settled three years ago, but would continue its vow to cooperate with the International Community of Nations on combating climate change and nuclear proliferation.

KOREA [ROK] REPUBLIC OF KOREA: TROOP LEVEL: [2,300] (KIA/UNK)

LITHUANIA: TROOP LEVEL: [53] (KIA/UNK) (Ghor)

NEW ZEALAND: TROOP LEVEL: UNKNOWN (KIA/UNK) (Bamyam)

NORWAY: TROOP LEVEL: UNKNOWN (KIA/UNK) (Faryak)

POLAND: (1,100) (KIA/UNK) (Mobile) Poland Considering Withdrawal.

ROMANIA: TROOP LEVEL: [60] (KIA/UNK)

SOLOVINIA: TROOP LEVEL: [4] (KIA/UNK)

SPAIN: TROOP LEVEL: (12-600) (KIA/UNK) (Badghs) said ahead of the summit that it would add a small contingent of (12-600) twelve to six-hundred to help train Afghan army officers.

SWEDEN: TROOP LEVEL: UNKNOWN, (KIA/UNK) (Balkh)

TURKEY: TROOP LEVEL: UNKNOWN (KIA/UNK) (Wardak)

UNITED KINGDOM: TROOP LEVEL:(8,600-9K), (KIA 212), (Kabul, Kandahar, Helmand) British troops are stationed in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand, province, a Taliban stronghold and center of opium poppy production where the leaders of a provincial reconstruction team, a unit of about (160) One-Hundred Sixty, British, Empire, Afghan and other civilians and military officers where working to rebuild the economy, improve security and increase effective government. The British have identified what they call (“the golden 500″) — government and other officials beginning with Mangal whom they want to stay in their positions in Helmand so progress can continue. The (“TEMPORARY UPLIFT”) of between (500-700) five to seven hundred increasing Britain’s military strength there to about (9K) Nine-Thousand, for a four month period until British elections to be held on [August 20] , with a planned withdrawal of all British Forces upon completion of the elections, where support for the war is waning. The British have lost (212 KIA) Killed In Action of their contingent. The death toll appears to have brought about a significant change in the way the British view the military effort in Afghanistan. In an editorial published in July, in which it predicted the British public would soon decide the war is not worth the casualties, the Observer newspaper wrote: [Lives saved by bringing soldiers home will seem a surer benefit than the unproven hypothesis of preventing terrorism with a war thousands of miles away.]

COALITIION TOTAL: (150K) One-Hundred-Fifty-Thousand Counterinsurgency theory concerning the time and the ratio of forces required to protect the population indicates that, nationwide, the Islamic Crescent would need hundreds of thousands of coalition troops, and the Empire’s [SOS] Secretary of State has states well over [5] Five-Decades, [50] Fifty-Year of Occupation, That is not inconceivable, considering that the island nation of Cuba has been under Empire occupation for over [1] One-Century, [100] One-Hundred years, and Germany has [60K] Sixty-Thousand Empire troops of occupation, on its soil that have been there for [7] Seven Decades, [70] Seventy-Years.
[DISCLAIMER]
These numbers are catch as catch can numbers, It should also be understood that for each (KIA), (10) ten others are wounded with (40%) of that number having life altering injuries, and no total figures of (KIA) have been published in any articles, that contain all category’s combined to give a real picture of what’s going on.

HERCULE TRIATHLON SAVINIEN


smrstrauss
Comment posted December 27, 2009 @ 5:26 am

The original meaning of Natural Born was just “born in the country.” Since Obama was born in the country, in the state of Hawaii, he is Natural Born. That is why all 365 of the electors he won on Nov 4 2008 voted for him. Not one of them thought that he was not Natural Born.

And that is why such prominent conservative Senators who are also lawyers as Orren Hatch and Lindsay Graham say that a Natural Born Citizen is simply one who was born in the USA:

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), said:

“Every child born in the United States is a natural-born United States citizen except for the children of diplomats.” (December 11, 2008 letter to constituent)

Senator Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT), said:

“What is a natural born citizen? Clearly, someone born within the United States or one of its territories is a natural born citizen.” (Senate Judiciary Committee hearing hearing on OCTOBER 5, 2004)


Irish_Wake
Comment posted December 27, 2009 @ 10:58 am

My country kidnapped and held a foreign journalist (from an area where every journalist is of primary importance) and your response is yet another cut 'n' paste?

Thomas Jefferson must be so proud of what we have done with his gift.


republicanstupidity
Comment posted January 12, 2010 @ 12:28 pm

TAKES REAL EFFORT ON YOUR PART TO BE A PHUCKING DUMBASS


republicanstupidity
Comment posted January 12, 2010 @ 5:28 pm

TAKES REAL EFFORT ON YOUR PART TO BE A PHUCKING DUMBASS


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