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2004-12-06 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by growler 2004-12-06 12:19:02 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 for what little it may be worth, I at least will be watching to see whether, ...the Department of Homeland Security ... becomes a major new buyer of Taserâs non-lethal stun guns.

ooooh....so it was never about the oil afterall! The war in Iraq and this whole Homeland Security charade is all about the sales of Tasers. It's a vast a deep conspiracy!

Posted by 2b 2004-12-06 1:36:03 PM|| 2004-12-06 1:36:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Got to be bigger than that. Who manufactures the Zionist Death Ray?

Posted by Matt 2004-12-06 1:44:15 PM|| 2004-12-06 1:44:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Acme.
They do good work.

Posted by The Mossad 2004-12-06 1:50:23 PM|| 2004-12-06 1:50:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm still curious about why he left Iraq 3 months into what was supposed to be a 6 month minimum assignment just as the bad guys shifted into high gear - he left right at the time of the bombings of the UN HQ, Jordanian embassy, and the mosque blast that killed 100 people included the cleric in charge of SCIRI. Heck of a time to leave early. There could be a good reason for that, but it's odd no one has ever tried to make the case.

Posted by VAMark 2004-12-06 1:52:29 PM|| 2004-12-06 1:52:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 http://tinyurl.com/6snxl

Link to a pretty scathing Newsday editorial on Kerrick.

At first I wasn't so sure, but now I'm starting to think he was a bad pick.

Posted by growler 2004-12-06 3:05:23 PM|| 2004-12-06 3:05:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 im not sure if he screwed up in Iraq, but I could make a defense of his record in Iraq.

1. at the time, the insurgency was not large, and looked to be in decline. The real problems were looters, street crime, general disorder. Against those you needed experienced cops, who cared if they had some ties to the old regime or were in other ways politically questionable. The urgent need was to restore order from chaos, and QUICKLY, NOT to prepare for a guerilla war - and Kerik was a COP, not warrior. When it became clear that this was NOT a job for a cop, but was part of a counterinsurgency war, he left.

Again, not sure if thats true, but its possible.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-12-06 4:50:02 PM|| 2004-12-06 4:50:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Acme.
They do good work.

They should issue a disclaimer: "Not for use by Coyotes."

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-12-06 9:56:37 PM|| 2004-12-06 9:56:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Given that DHS is a sprawling collection of bureaucracies in which real authority lies elsewhere, wouldn't it make sense to have as DHS Director someone with superb managerial skills and a deep knowledge of how to get things done inside Washington? Kerik strikes me as a very odd choice.

It's telling that his nomination won high praise from Schumer and Hillary. Is Rove signalling that New York's in play for 2008?

Posted by lex 2004-12-06 11:57:43 PM|| 2004-12-06 11:57:43 PM|| Front Page Top

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