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2003-11-12 Home Front

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Posted by CrazyFool 2003-11-12 9:37:56 AM|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Cause the Soddis are doing so well in their own country?

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2003-11-12 9:54:47 AM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2003-11-12 9:54:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Usual leftist confusion. Someone should ask Clark and others who whine about OBL whether the failure to find Hitler means WWII was a failure. Yes, it would be nice to catch them and fry them, but it's not necessary.

Heck, we let the Japanese emperor GO -- does that make the war in the Pacific a failure, to?

Posted by Robert Crawford 2003-11-12 9:59:32 AM|| [http://www.kloognome.com] 2003-11-12 9:59:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 "With his unilateral march into Iraq, President Bush has scorned many of our key allies, preventing the necessary cooperation to destroy al-Qaida," Clark said.

Who of our "allies", aside from the U.K., was going to help us out? France? Germany? Had UN approval been a requirement to proceed, who really believes that the UN would actually have given its blessing to an action that would have REMOVED Hussein from power?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-11-12 10:11:09 AM|| 2003-11-12 10:11:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Ah yes, those crack Saudi commandos would be perfect for winter mountain fighting in Afghanistan.

Posted by Parabellum 2003-11-12 10:27:29 AM|| 2003-11-12 10:27:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 We will paint a fake cave, and when he runs into it we will drop and anvil on his head!

I am sorry, but I doubt the CIA has plants in pakistani hospitals, where the leads are going to show up - what consumables are used for kidney dialysis? Those are the things you track.

Posted by flash91 2003-11-12 10:46:34 AM|| 2003-11-12 10:46:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Okay, we'll need a large net, some dates, and an accordion playing midget...

Posted by BH 2003-11-12 11:50:05 AM|| 2003-11-12 11:50:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 So let's get the good general's thoughts in order. We have the best trained special forces units in the world converged on Afganistan (US, Britain, Australia, Germany, Italy, even France), but this is not good enough. What will really put us over the top in finding OBL is a yet untrained unit from Saudi Arabia.

How did this dopey fool get an officer's commision let alone four stars?!?

Posted by Matt 2003-11-12 12:38:24 PM|| 2003-11-12 12:38:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 My brilliant cousin Wesley's plans will work perfectly, and he'll catch that nasty ~~roadrunner~~terrorist, as long as he buys all of his supplies from Acme.

Wile E. Coyote
Genius

Posted by snellenr 2003-11-12 1:14:27 PM|| 2003-11-12 1:14:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Saudi Special Forces: That's my cousin, he just looks like Bin Laden. He's not Al Queda. Let him go please.

US Special Forces: Sure looks like Bin Laden, but I'll trust you, Saudi Arabia is our friend after all. What about this one eyed guy, looks like Mullah Omar.

Saudi Special Forces: That is my sister, we rarely let her out of the burqa.

Posted by Yank 2003-11-12 1:30:43 PM|| 2003-11-12 1:30:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Weasley!? Please don't be dissing Ron and his family, alright? We'd rather not be turned into frogs here.

Posted by Atrus 2003-11-12 1:50:19 PM|| 2003-11-12 1:50:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Okay, we'll need a large net, some dates, and an accordion playing midget...

LOL
I miss Rube Goldberg.

Posted by Shipman 2003-11-12 4:01:40 PM|| 2003-11-12 4:01:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 This is so deep. I'm voting Clark. Wow. Pressure the Saudis, shuffle some folks around some offices, and perform a Lewinsky on Jacques and Gerhard.

And this guy was first in his class? Should I be laughing or crying?

Posted by Michael 2003-11-12 4:11:50 PM|| 2003-11-12 4:11:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Hey, Wesley is a smart guy! They don't admit dummies into Star Fleet Academy.

Posted by Steve 2003-11-12 4:18:04 PM|| 2003-11-12 4:18:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 It would be most helpful to have some Saudi troops along because our troops don't speak Pashtu ....

Posted by Super Hose 2003-11-12 7:39:24 PM|| 2003-11-12 7:39:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Why in the HELL would you want to give some ~~al Qaeda wahhabists~~ Saudi 'commandos' the chance to get intel on our special ops? Don't we have enough problems with the Pakistanis tipping off the taliban? THAT is a dead-end idea.

I served under Clark, 3rd bde 4th Inf. We didn't do much soldier-type training, but we sure did wash vehicles and march real pretty. Stood around in formation alot, too. 2 years and I didn't qualify with my M16 the entire time, in fact never fired it while stationed there. I trust this guy as a wartime commander as far as I can spit.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-11-12 9:25:22 PM|| 2003-11-12 9:25:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Every time I see Clark open his mouth and Hillary talk, I know why I won't vote for him. This man has a serious rectal/crainial-inversion problem.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-11-12 9:51:59 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-11-12 9:51:59 PM|| Front Page Top

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