Deep Thought
In 2006, the Bush/Cheney Department of Justice indicted Adam Gadhan, the American al-Qaeda spokesman who was just captured in Pakistan, on charges of treason in a civilian court. Since charging terrorists in civilian courts is dangerous to America, at least according to Republicans, we must ask: why do George W. Bush and Dick Cheney hate America so much?
3/7/10 6:57 pm | | Permalink | Tags: Adam Gadhan, al-Qaeda, Dick Cheney, fearmongering, George W. Bush, GOP
Shh! Don’t Let the Terrorists Know About Our Other Tall Buildings!
Senate candidate Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL), responding to a White House-backed plan to transfer Gitmo inmates to a shuttered maximum security prison in Illinois:
As home to America’s tallest building, we should not invite Al Qaeda to make Illinois its nu, mber one target.
Great job, Obama! al-Qaeda had never even heard of the Sears Tower until literally just now, when you started talking about moving detainees to Illinois!
Seriously, I know that Republicans don’t actually care about what happens to Gitmo detainees and are just looking for a way to stick it to Obama, but don’t they realize that, by their own logic, 9/11 was an attack on New York, not the United States, and that we should blame New Yorkers for whatever they did to draw attention to the fact that the World Trade Center was really tall?
Update: The domain noterroristsinillinois.com has already been picked up by Kirk’s Senate campaign. It redirects to his campaign website and has been used in fundraising emails. Terrorism trials: just another political trick for the GOP.
11/16/09 10:52 am | | Permalink | Tags: al-Qaeda, Guantanamo Bay, Illinois, Mark Kirk, September 11
In Case You Wanted to Watch President Obama on TV Without a Parental Permission Slip
- The Senate will just shut down this afternoon and everyone will go to Pennsylvania to remind Pennsylvanians that Arlen Specter is a Democrat for now. (CQ Politics)
- In addition to being the first black president, the first Muslim president, the first president to really be born in Kenya, and the first president to be heckled during a speech to Congress by a member of the House of Representatives, President Obama will be the first president to do five back-to-back TV interviews this Sunday on every network imaginable except FOX. (NYT)
- American Special Forces traveled to sunny, government-less Somalia yesterday to destroy one of al-Qaeda’s top militants. (WSJ)
- Almost three-quarters of doctors believe that there should be some form of public healthcare option. But who cares what they think. We have more important things to worry about, like, say, socialism and Obama’s birth certificate. (NPR)
- Nobody wants to visit South Carolina anymore because they’re worried that mean Rep. Joe Wilson might interrupt their tourist activities with random shouting. (McClatchy)
9/15/09 10:17 am | | Permalink | Tags: al-Qaeda, Arlen Specter, Barack Obama, healthcare, Joe Wilson, PA-Sen, public option, Senate, South Carolina
Ensign to Do GOP Walk of Shame
- Disgraced lady-sexer John Ensign will explain his lady-sexing ways to his Republican colleagues at their “weekly luncheon” today, as David Vitter, Larry Craig, and Ted Stevens have done before him. Will he be embarassed, or maybe just get a bunch of high-fives? (Roll Call)
- Speaking of old Republican men and sex (ewww!), S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford fled to the hills for five days without telling anyone, not even his wife, staff, or security detail, possibly to observe Naked Hiking Day. Of course, he might have just been trying to escape from Barack Obama’s socalism stimulus money. (WCBD Charleston/Christian Science Monitor)
- A judge–probably one of them liberal “activist” judges I keep hearing about–has ordered the government to release a Guantanamo prisoner who was detained as a suspected terrorist despite having been previously tortured by al-Qaeda, on videotape. “Federal prosecutors had argued that even though Rassak was tortured by al-Qaida as a suspected Western spy and imprisoned by the Taliban for a year and a half, he still maintained some kind of allegiance to his tormentors.” This seems totally logical! (Associated Press)
- Clear, one of those programs that lets wealthy people cut the line at airport security because terrorists never have any money, is shutting down tonight. Now their stranded customers will have to suffer the indecency of taking off their shoes with the poors.
6/23/09 9:44 am | | Permalink | Tags: airport security, al-Qaeda, Clear, Guantanamo Bay, John Ensign, Mark Sanford
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- Oh, Sarah Palin. No matter how hard she tries, she just can’t stop the never-ending stream of ethics violations. Some Alaskan dude (not the First Dude, maybe Fourth Dude or Fifth Dude?) has filed an ethics complaint against Palin for conducting interviews about her vice presidentail run and future electoral prospects while in the governor’s office, where Alaskan taxpayers pay to keep the lights on. Alaska Republicans: very corrupt or extremely corrupt? (Anchorage Daily News)
- Well what do you know, turns out Barack isn’t a Muslim after all! A new al-Qaida tape says that Barack Obama’s plan to move troops out of Iraq to Afghanistan will fail. Ayman al-Zawahri, al-Qaida’s number two guy, then goes on to call Obama, Colin Powell, and Condoleezza Rice ”house Negroes,” a term which was first used by actual black Muslim Malcolm X. (Voice of America)
- Barack Obama has chosen Peter Orszag to head the Office of Management and Budget. Nobody would ever care about Orszag or the OMB except that Orszag OMGOMGOMG worked for Bill Clinton. Apparently, appointing Democrats who actually know what they’re doing isn’t change we can believe in, or some nonsense. People, listen: the morons have been running the country for the past eight years. Let’s get some people who actually know stuff in power. (CNN)
- Oopsie! An astronaut on a spacewalk accidentally dropped a toolbox. Except by “dropped” I mean “allowed to float off into the infinite reaches of space.” Fortunately, NASA sent them with an extra spacewrench, or whatever it was, so they can keep fixing the space station. (Slashdot)
11/19/08 9:59 am | | Permalink | Tags: al-Qaeda, around the blogosphere, astronaut, Barack Obama, Colin Powell, Condoleezzaa Rice, ethics, Malcolm X, NASA, OMB, Sarah Palin
al-Qaeda Endorses McCain
Tim reminds us how the right wing flipped out when Hamas “endorsed” Barack Obama–the McCain campaign even made a fundraising campaign out of it, although Hamas “unendorsed” Obama because of his support for Israel–and it looks like that has finally come back to bite them in the ass:
“Al-Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election,” said a commentary posted Monday on the extremist Web site al-Hesbah, which is closely linked to the terrorist group. It said the Arizona Republican would continue the “failing march of his predecessor,” President Bush.
The Web commentary was one of several posted by Taliban or al-Qaeda-allied groups in recent days that trumpeted the global financial crisis and predicted further decline for the United States and other Western powers. In language that was by turns mocking and ominous, the newest posting credited al-Qaeda with having lured Washington into a trap that had “exhausted its resources and bankrupted its economy.” It further suggested that a terrorist strike might swing the election to McCain and guarantee an expansion of U.S. military commitments in the Islamic world.
“It will push the Americans deliberately to vote for McCain so that he takes revenge for them against al-Qaeda,” said the posting, attributed to Muhammad Haafid, a longtime contributor to the password-protected site. “Al-Qaeda then will succeed in exhausting America.”
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“The idea in the jihadist forums is that McCain would be a faithful ’son of Bush’ — someone they see as a jingoist and a war hawk,” Raisman said. “They think that, to succeed in a war of attrition, they need a leader in Washington like McCain.“
Now, I don’t think anyone should really give a shit about who al-Qaeda or Hamas or any other terrorist groups wants to win the election because they obviously don’t have the best interest of the American people in mind. On the other hand, it is signicant that they claim credit for the Bush administration policies that have decimated our economy–policies which, in large part, John McCain wants to continue.
The GOP really has egg on its face today.
Update: The McCain campaign responds by attacking the Washington Post for doing the story in the first place. Nothing about their bestest friends foreverest in the Associated Press who first broke the story, though. Ackerman makes an interesting catch: at no point did anyone at the campaign try to refute any of al-Qaeda’s reasons for wanting McCain to read, including the assertion that McCain will continue Bush’s failed policies.
Update 2: John McCain tells us how to react to endorsements of presidential candidates by terrorists:
10/22/08 9:26 am | | Permalink | Tags: 2008, al-Qaeda, George W. Bush, John McCain
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