WikiLeaks -- like farts in Church
Assange, the feared Dark Lord of Information, is now on Interpol's most wanted list. We are meant to keep a sharp lookout for this purveyor of semi-classified smut, lest he do irreparable damage to us all. Ok, well that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy....
And Sarah Palin demands that he be hunted down like Osama.... Hang on, but isn't Osama still out there ... drinking tea, making bombs and sending us the occasional Christmas message of hate and loathing? So, don't get me wrong, but wouldn't it be better to just kill Assange, instead of spending a whole lot of money invading a country of goat herders, buying off local Mafia chiefs and generally making life dangerous for Americans on the ground there? Ummmm.... Lemme see, so in this case wouldn't that mean invading Iceland or Sweden (or some such place)? So instead of Mohammed and Abdullah, it would be Bjorn and Olaf trying to pop a cap in our heads? On the other hand, we could, probably, buy them off with a couple of cases of Sam Adams -- that wouldn't be too bad, and I image our servicemen and women wouldn't mind a spot of fraternization with those locals.... Heck, we'd be lucky to EVER leave ... let alone "withdraw." Contrast that with Kabul!! Let's fire up the C130s!!
Seriously, undoubtedly one of my favourite elements in this whole mess is that Hillary has a whole lot of 'splaining to do with various two-bit, third world, bovine quadrupeds masquerading as "elected Presidents," etc. I mean, how delicious that Hills has to kiss-heine for the embarrassment of having sent her State Dept. minions to spy at cocktail parties. "I am so sooorrryy Ms. Kirchner that my minion was being so nosey...." LMAO!!! Frikkin Putin has wet his pants laughing again: a veritable tide of mirth-induced urine flow is threatening the Kremlin.
An even more tasty element is that all these Wikileaks concern the Obama administration -- does that sound too gloating, am I a "hater?" The context is this: the O-bots laughed their asses off as the previous WikiLeaks tended to harm U.S. troops and foreign persons that assisted our troops during the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Their contempt was easy to see, as only fascist militarists, Republicans and unwashed Afghans/Iraqis were going to get hurt -- and what was that in comparison to the need to exert First Amendment Rights. Remember the Pentagon Papers?!!!
By contrast, these Leaks are daggers to the Obama administration's heart, unmistakable signs of ineptitude and hubris. After the first load of documents, the competent President would have said "get this bastard before he gets us." Instead, Obama appears to have believed his own press: he seems to have thought that the previous Leaks were directed to the Hated One (George Bush) and now that he was in charge everyone would sing Kumbaya (isn't that Kenyan?) and forgive and forget. IDIOT. Or is that "idiots" with a stress on the plural ... I wouldn't have thought that Rahm E would have let that pass.
Real damage? The whole world has clear and convincing evidence that this Administration is amateur but not necessarily untrustworthy. It is not that anyone thought we kept secrets anyway -- everyone knows that a few shekels in Washington will buy you all the intelligence you want from any one of a number of Senators or Congressmen. It is just the pathetic cheapness of it all: sort of like Hugh Grant picking up a hooker off of Sunset. We look like a bunch of "wankers" in the British vernacular. It exposes us as being so unbelievably ineffectual, taking seriously what 3rd assistant undersecretaries "drop" at cocktail parties -- we look like hicks on the World Stage.
Say what you like about the Bush Administration -- and about Bush in particular -- but there is no way Lord Voldemort/Cheney would have let this sort of thing pass. Or imagine this on Ronnie's watch with Ollie North overseeing your manhunt? How long do you think Assange will make it if Putin' dirty laundry is aired for public viewing? Interpol would not scare me too much. The FSB would.
No doubt about it, Jimmy Carter is alive and well living channeling through hearts and minds of the West Wing.
And Sarah Palin demands that he be hunted down like Osama.... Hang on, but isn't Osama still out there ... drinking tea, making bombs and sending us the occasional Christmas message of hate and loathing? So, don't get me wrong, but wouldn't it be better to just kill Assange, instead of spending a whole lot of money invading a country of goat herders, buying off local Mafia chiefs and generally making life dangerous for Americans on the ground there? Ummmm.... Lemme see, so in this case wouldn't that mean invading Iceland or Sweden (or some such place)? So instead of Mohammed and Abdullah, it would be Bjorn and Olaf trying to pop a cap in our heads? On the other hand, we could, probably, buy them off with a couple of cases of Sam Adams -- that wouldn't be too bad, and I image our servicemen and women wouldn't mind a spot of fraternization with those locals.... Heck, we'd be lucky to EVER leave ... let alone "withdraw." Contrast that with Kabul!! Let's fire up the C130s!!
Seriously, undoubtedly one of my favourite elements in this whole mess is that Hillary has a whole lot of 'splaining to do with various two-bit, third world, bovine quadrupeds masquerading as "elected Presidents," etc. I mean, how delicious that Hills has to kiss-heine for the embarrassment of having sent her State Dept. minions to spy at cocktail parties. "I am so sooorrryy Ms. Kirchner that my minion was being so nosey...." LMAO!!! Frikkin Putin has wet his pants laughing again: a veritable tide of mirth-induced urine flow is threatening the Kremlin.
An even more tasty element is that all these Wikileaks concern the Obama administration -- does that sound too gloating, am I a "hater?" The context is this: the O-bots laughed their asses off as the previous WikiLeaks tended to harm U.S. troops and foreign persons that assisted our troops during the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Their contempt was easy to see, as only fascist militarists, Republicans and unwashed Afghans/Iraqis were going to get hurt -- and what was that in comparison to the need to exert First Amendment Rights. Remember the Pentagon Papers?!!!
By contrast, these Leaks are daggers to the Obama administration's heart, unmistakable signs of ineptitude and hubris. After the first load of documents, the competent President would have said "get this bastard before he gets us." Instead, Obama appears to have believed his own press: he seems to have thought that the previous Leaks were directed to the Hated One (George Bush) and now that he was in charge everyone would sing Kumbaya (isn't that Kenyan?) and forgive and forget. IDIOT. Or is that "idiots" with a stress on the plural ... I wouldn't have thought that Rahm E would have let that pass.
Real damage? The whole world has clear and convincing evidence that this Administration is amateur but not necessarily untrustworthy. It is not that anyone thought we kept secrets anyway -- everyone knows that a few shekels in Washington will buy you all the intelligence you want from any one of a number of Senators or Congressmen. It is just the pathetic cheapness of it all: sort of like Hugh Grant picking up a hooker off of Sunset. We look like a bunch of "wankers" in the British vernacular. It exposes us as being so unbelievably ineffectual, taking seriously what 3rd assistant undersecretaries "drop" at cocktail parties -- we look like hicks on the World Stage.
Say what you like about the Bush Administration -- and about Bush in particular -- but there is no way Lord Voldemort/Cheney would have let this sort of thing pass. Or imagine this on Ronnie's watch with Ollie North overseeing your manhunt? How long do you think Assange will make it if Putin' dirty laundry is aired for public viewing? Interpol would not scare me too much. The FSB would.
No doubt about it, Jimmy Carter is alive and well living channeling through hearts and minds of the West Wing.
posted by Zaphod at Wednesday, December 01, 2010
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