The Age of (un)Reason

"You came here to be a martyr and to die in a big bang of glory, but to paraphrase TS Eliot, you will die with a whimper," - Judge Leonie Brinkema to Zacarias Moussaoui.

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From Media Matters:

Chris Matthews suggested moving the United Nations into the new buildings being constructed at the site of the World Trade Center, so that if "if anything happens again, they [terrorists] decide to try it again, the whole world is captive to it." Matthews added that he "would love that" because "then you’d be blowing up the whole world, not just us. And you’d force these guys to choose sides, the U.N."

Wow.  How fucking dickish can one guy get?  Judging by that quote, he’s practically salvating at the mere idea of another 9/11.  Maybe he should move to the network that would support his kind of views - Fox News.

Courtesy of Crooks and Liars.

Ray McGovern, who was in the CIA for twenty seven years asked him why he lied about the run-up to the Iraq war. Rumsfeld then proceeded to lie to McGovern to cover up his earlier statements about WMD’s being in Iraq. He also tries to use the troops in his defense, a terrible strategy, but not uncommon unfortunately. Notice, at the end of the clip, Ray gets vilified for asking Rumsfeld some pointed questions. We can’t have that, no-no-no.

Watch him back peddle, folks!

Rumsfeld: …it appears that there were not weapons of mass destruction there.

McGovern: You said you knew where they were.

Rumsfeld: I did not. I said I knew where suspect sites were and…

McGovern: You said you knew where they were. Tikrit, Baghdad, northeast, south, west of there. Those are your words.

Rumsfeld: My words-my words were that-no-no, wait a minute–wait a minute. Let him stay one second. Just a second….

Maybe it’ll be submitted on America’s Funniest Home Videos.

The U.S. military command Thursday released previously unseen images of a video purportedly posted by al-Qaida in Iraq’s leader, showing him decked out in American tennis shoes and unable to operate his machine gun.

To be accurate, his M249 Squad Automatic Weapon jams while he’s firing it and he either doesn’t realise it or doesn’t know how to fix it.  After trying to continue firing, until one of his henchmen walks on camera and pulls the bolt back, clearing the jam.  Then he resumes firing.  He’s also apparently wearing a new pair of black New Balance tennis shoes.  The hell did he get those?  I just don’t see this guy walking into a shoe store in downtown Baghdad and trying on shoes all day.

No wait, now I do.  Add in some bored goons standing guard outside the store and its a hilarious mental image, haha!

*Ahem*, anyways, other bloopers include some of his men grabbing the recently fired M60 by the barrel.  Yeah, grabbing a hot piece of metal.  Real smart.  Anyways, the above link to the MSNBC article has a link to the video.  I’m waiting for Youtube to get it. ;) 

In my opinion, atleast.

Gunmen from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement on Wednesday announced the formation of a 2,000-strong militia designed to counter new police forces loyal to the Islamist Hamas government.

The creation of such forces has intensified fears among many Palestinians of violence between feuding factions that could further destabilize an already chaotic security set-up.

No wonder Sharon wanted to throw a wall up so much, it would be the only way to contain a civil war!  I’m not totally being sarcastic either.  This could lead to some sort of civil war between Palestinian factions.

Maybe that’ll wear em out and Hamas will actually want to make peace, then. 

If you listen closely, you can hear the weeping of all the disappointed druggies.

Poor college kids. :(

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