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Big_Bird
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 Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 7:20 pm Post subject: Col. Peters - Kill All Gitmo Prisoners |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QghDU7pjSc
The guy who introduces it and discusses it after is a bit geeky, but if you ignore him and watch the news interview (starting at 0.4 , it's bloody hilarious.
I laughed my arse off. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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Sounds a lot like a certain poster on this forum..  |
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mole
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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Is that some university journalism department project?
Lame in any case.
How do you find discussion of putting to death detainees most of whom many liberals feel should be entitled to human rights hilarious? Sick. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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| mole wrote: |
| How do you find discussion of putting to death detainees most of whom many liberals feel should be entitled to human rights hilarious? Sick. |
You sound like a right pompous git.
Perhaps the Colonel seems quite normal and sane to you, and rather reminds you of your father, but to me he is some kind of outlandish caricature, and I can hardly believe he is for real. But perhaps you are American, and this kind of talk and manner pass for quite normal in your neck of the woods and you listen to it with serious ears. As for me, I don't get to see a guy like that (even on the telly) where I live, so forgive me if I laughed my head off in astonishment. To someone unaccustomed to that kind of nonsense, it was ****ing hilarious, believe me. |
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Big_Bird
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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I couldn't resist watching it again. Some real gems.
"and just like in the movies, monsters deserve to die."
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mole
Joined: 06 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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Take note.
Six years I've been trying to offend the sensibilities, such as they are, of her Imperial Highness Big_Bird.
Indeed, I am American, Texian persuasion.
Pompous, I think not.
Git, I sure someone from Canadia will enlighten me as to the meaning.
Agreed, though, the news and infotainment channels have had a lot of surreal and wacky guests, topics and discussions in the last year or so.
Gitmo detainees, though. Cannot let them on US turf, lest they be granted certain constitutional rights.
Can't send them some places because they'll be wangta? Bullied? Killed?
Can't send the home because they'll just return to battle even more pissed off with a vengeance this time?
What a conundrum, quandry, defugalty. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Could give em all jobs at the UN. |
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Pluto
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| Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 6:06 am Post subject: |
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Col. Peters has been an analyst for Fox News for a number of years now. What he analyzes does change from time to time, strategic, military and even world-wide. It should also be noted that the guy is a complete douchbag. Ergo, no different than the other "analysts" you'll find on the other infotainment channels such as MSNBC or CNN.
As for the remaining 200 or so inmates, I'd agree they are entitled to due process. Speedy trials, well... Legal black hole, definitely |
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ManintheMiddle
Joined: 20 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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BB observed of mole:
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| But perhaps you are American, and this kind of talk and manner pass for quite normal in your neck of the woods and you listen to it with serious ears. |
Forgive us for our bumpkin ways, Your Majesty. "Neck of the woods" went out with Ma and Pa Kettle back in the '50s, by the way.
Laugh and sneer all you want but the fact remains that at least 75 of the 500 released prisoners are reengaged with terrorist activities. Two are well-known Taliban commanders. Oh but wait, I suppose in your world view the Taliban isn't much worse than, say, Hizbollah or your darling boys, Hamas, eh?
The commentator, aside from butchering the word "stategist," conflates the Colonel's views with those of Bush. This is disingenous and only goes to show his Leftist leanings.
Unlike you, I've heard many commentaries by Colonel Peters on FoxNews, which of course you wouldn't deign to watch, I realize, even if it was available in "your neck of the woods."
Peters is usually reasonable in his commentary though here he oversteps the line, which Cavuto, the interviewer, recognizes. (Most of the Gitmo talk on FoxNews has not been of this sort and even Obama has found, as Bush did, what a dilemma detention of these men poses). But the thrust of his point, which you missed during your guffaws, is that it is more expedient and brings about swift justice to dispose of these bastards in the field where they are found. That was precisely what all armies did on some level before the advent of mass media into the Vietnam conflict.
So you can go on in your ever disdainful way about the niceties of war but the realities are far from it and always will be. Personally I could give a shit about world opinion when it comes from those who never have to confront terrorists in arms themselves. This is a war on terror regardless of what euphemisms the Left wants to summon to describe it. How we choose to prosecute the war is still a matter of debate, even in the Pentagon, despite what you might conjure to the contrary.
But do carry on and be carried away, resident Kiwi. |
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DC in Suwon
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| Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Did you see the 60 Minutes episode on how Saudi Arabia treats released terrorists. It's unbelievable. They give them money, buy them a car, get them a job. They say it's to keep them from going back to terrorism. |
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cangel
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| Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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| The man giving the commentary is horrible. Very amateurish. Part of me agrees with Col. Peters. Kill all terrorists. The problem is distinguishing the terrorists from the non-terrorists. I have no sympathy for these bastards. You'll find my sympathy in the dictionary somewhere between sh*t and syphilis. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 1:06 am Post subject: |
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| cangel wrote: |
| You'll find my sympathy in the dictionary somewhere between sh*t and syphilis. |
I like it. |
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