Quote of the day
posted at 10:30 pm on June 16, 2009 by Allahpundit
“‘I make up stories,’ Mohammed said, describing in broken English an interrogation probably administered by the CIA concerning the whereabouts of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. ‘Where is he? I don’t know. Then, he torture me,’ Mohammed said of his interrogator. ‘Then I said, ‘Yes, he is in this area.””
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OK, never mind… You sure you are part of the fan club?
Upstater85 on June 16, 2009 at 11:34 PM
How does one take this
blatantblue on June 16, 2009 at 11:34 PM
Go scuba!
blatantblue on June 16, 2009 at 11:30 PM
That just went over my head young gun.
bazil9 on June 16, 2009 at 11:34 PM
Yeah, that whole wanting to shoot the cuda from a copter probably got him booted. Or, maybe it was the fact that he could somehow link wolf and dancing WITH wolves with every HA topic.
That guy had wolf on the brain, you know.
HornetSting on June 16, 2009 at 11:34 PM
That’s OK… You aren’t missing much.
Upstater85 on June 16, 2009 at 11:35 PM
You’re mind really is in the gutter tonight… :)
Upstater85 on June 16, 2009 at 11:35 PM
Ohhhh, yes, I am a fan of AP.
Clues so far:
I’m not blonde.
I’m not a stepford wife from Maine.
I’m not a big fan of margaritas.
HornetSting on June 16, 2009 at 11:35 PM
Yeah, scary.
Upstater85 on June 16, 2009 at 11:36 PM
Yeah, this pretty much ruled out 1 person…
Upstater85 on June 16, 2009 at 11:36 PM
And you’re from Texas, according to Upstager
blatantblue on June 16, 2009 at 11:36 PM
Are you cheating on me, ponyboy?
HornetSting on June 16, 2009 at 11:36 PM
OK, gotta go. 2 presentations tomorrow…:/
Later, guys.
Upstater85 on June 16, 2009 at 11:37 PM
Leaving me with the wolves
but good luck man
are you taking summer courses?
blatantblue on June 16, 2009 at 11:37 PM
Yeah and no.
how many fans does AP have?
HornetSting on June 16, 2009 at 11:37 PM
blatantblue on June 16, 2009 at 11:33 PM
Awwwww.
bazil9 on June 16, 2009 at 11:37 PM
Bazil comes and chills over at BB’s place
She’s a kewl kat
blatantblue on June 16, 2009 at 11:38 PM
Prepping for quals… Practice presentations + prepare for the adviser.
K, later man.
Upstater85 on June 16, 2009 at 11:39 PM
ok cya good ruck
if all else fails
whip it out.
blatantblue on June 16, 2009 at 11:39 PM
Hornet- we have 1 out of 3 in common. I think your a riot though.
bazil9 on June 16, 2009 at 11:40 PM
Night upstate- gl
bazil9 on June 16, 2009 at 11:41 PM
I meant 2 out of 3
bazil9 on June 16, 2009 at 11:41 PM
Night stater. I’m out too. Hubby is almost home from work.
Night ponyboy,bazil,gray,Lox. See you tomorrow.
HornetSting on June 16, 2009 at 11:42 PM
Good night Hornet sting
bazil9 on June 16, 2009 at 11:43 PM
Ponyboy is always good for a ride
had to
you left it out there
blatantblue on June 16, 2009 at 11:44 PM
it was hanging like sweet fruit
ready to be picked for a summer’s stroll
a joke was made
blatantblue on June 16, 2009 at 11:44 PM
Cough cough… Is that so…. ;p
doriangrey on June 16, 2009 at 11:45 PM
I stand corrected!
blatantblue on June 16, 2009 at 11:47 PM
doriangrey on June 16, 2009 at 11:45 PM
Jealous? lol :)
bazil9 on June 16, 2009 at 11:47 PM
Me… Never, just a stickler for details… ;p
doriangrey on June 16, 2009 at 11:49 PM
I could go for a pony burger
blatantblue on June 16, 2009 at 11:50 PM
I’m pulling a ponyboy…..hee hee…
Dirty birds, all of yous! (Jersey style).
HornetSting on June 16, 2009 at 11:50 PM
whoa whoa whoa
what?
blatantblue on June 16, 2009 at 11:51 PM
Oh dear… I feel sooo ashamed… Ancient old rock star that I am I have no idea what the connotations of either of those statements is. ;O
doriangrey on June 16, 2009 at 11:53 PM
She called me ponyboy
i said im always good for a ride
then she said she’s pulling one!!!!
ahahahah!
blatantblue on June 16, 2009 at 11:54 PM
doriangrey on June 16, 2009 at 11:53 PM
I have a guess but would feel stupid to say. And I am a glam rock 80′s girl ;)
bazil9 on June 16, 2009 at 11:55 PM
Saying I’m leaving and then coming back to comment again….pulling a ‘ponyboy’. Not PULLING a ponyboy. Dirty Bird.
And all of yous….Isn’t that what people say in Jersey? Yous instead of Ya’ll or you all…….
See, dirty birds, the lot of you!
HornetSting on June 16, 2009 at 11:56 PM
man i gotta go to sleepz!
peace out concubines, and dorian.
blatantblue on June 16, 2009 at 11:58 PM
Dirty bird…. reminds me of an old movie but I can’t place it….
bazil9 on June 16, 2009 at 11:59 PM
blatantblue on June 16, 2009 at 11:58 PM
One day bb- straight to the moon!
gn
bazil9 on June 17, 2009 at 12:00 AM
Oh dear…….. Glam?? What is this 80′s glam you speak of??? That wasn’t me I swear……………. ;O
doriangrey on June 17, 2009 at 12:01 AM
A bottle of absinthe will do the trick
night chica
blatantblue on June 17, 2009 at 12:01 AM
doriangrey on June 17, 2009 at 12:01 AM
Triple dog swear? haha
I still love it now…I just keep it a secret.
bazil9 on June 17, 2009 at 12:03 AM
What?? Oh hey look…>>>> A puppy…… ;) Opp’s got to run off to bed… night all… ;p
doriangrey on June 17, 2009 at 12:08 AM
OT: Well this sucks
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/06/16/house-approves-108-billion-foreign-bailout/
elduende on June 17, 2009 at 12:18 AM
Forget waterboarding. I say we give the hairy bastard a bikini wax with superglue and 60 grit sandpaper.
And Louisiana Hot Sauce.
Repeatedly.
Of course, all of this should be financet with Universal Worldwide Intergalactic Obamacare™.
hillbillyjim on June 17, 2009 at 12:32 AM
d
duh
hillbillyjim on June 17, 2009 at 12:33 AM
One can never remember a lie that has been told……
Waterboard him again and again and do not stop until he tells the same exact story, point for point, twenty times in a row. I am no expert, but that should be enough to determine whether he is telling the truth.
rukiddingme on June 17, 2009 at 12:50 AM
Shave this beast from head to toe, dip him in bacon grease, and have him spend the rest of his days in a cell with Spikey, the rabid homosexual body builder who gets turned on when he smells bacon.
Whenever I see this guy’s picture I want him to be Mr. Beeks, the PI in Trading Places who ends up bound, gagged, stuffed in a female gorilla suit and placed in a cage with a love-starved, 900 pound male gorilla that is being shipped by slow boat to Africa from New York via the Panama Canal, LA, Vancouver BC, Japan, and Australia. And those are my nice thoughts.
Get all the information you can from him and his pals by any means you can think of then ship them off to some deserted island in off the coast of Antartica.
Bubba Redneck on June 17, 2009 at 12:55 AM
What will Obama do to the guy who confessed to 9/11?
Aruba? Trinidad and Tobago? St. Martin? The Bahamas?
So many terrorists, so few island paradises.
profitsbeard on June 17, 2009 at 1:00 AM
Interesting statement by KSM in his tribunal review:
The United States has been “torturing” people like KSM since te 1970s? It didn’t all start with Bush? Do tell.
Seixon on June 17, 2009 at 1:21 AM
And then we’re off on an unnecessary wild goose chase wasting time, resources, money and credibility.
Bill Blizzard on June 17, 2009 at 1:21 AM
Fun fact: I’m 5 foot 8 and about 155 lbs. I used to be pretty fat; about 220 lbs. And when I was, I was the spitting image of KSM in his infamous wife-beater photo.
Just thought I’d share.
BCrago66 on June 17, 2009 at 1:36 AM
Ahhh, I don’t care.
Waterboard the SOB again, this time just for kicks.
Kensington on June 17, 2009 at 5:08 AM
Next he’ll claim he was just Bin Laden’s driver or something, that he boasted of cutting Daniel Pearl’s head off because he wanted the street cred.
manofaiki on June 17, 2009 at 6:10 AM
So, is he lying now or was he lying then? That is the problem with liars. Of course, the notion that when someone is waterboarded he sticks to his lies rather than telling the truth is not supported by the evidence–in this case, information that saved thousands of American lives. The fact that an admitted liar now claims that he lied then is not exactly compelling.
DrMagnolias on June 17, 2009 at 6:10 AM
Well, if KSM says that torture doesn’t work, I guess that must put the matter to rest… right Nancy?
morganfrost on June 17, 2009 at 6:48 AM
+1
Lehosh on June 17, 2009 at 6:59 AM
That is all that needed to be printed…enough said.
right2bright on June 17, 2009 at 7:39 AM
On one page, the CIA declassified two paragraphs in which
Aah, poor widdle terrorist! If I had my way, I would nail his testicles to a stump, set the stump on fire and hand him a dull rusty knife!
conservnut on June 17, 2009 at 8:07 AM
LA Times: Propaganda Machine
/hanoijane
bluelightbrigade on June 17, 2009 at 8:13 AM
Actually…just drown him. I consider that being pro-choice.
bluelightbrigade on June 17, 2009 at 8:14 AM
Oh come on… Cant we just release him now? Take him up in an aircraft to 60,000 feet, half way across the Atlantic and let him walk home from there…
doriangrey on June 17, 2009 at 8:39 AM
What the heck are swollen nerves anyway?
BohicaTwentyTwo on June 17, 2009 at 8:43 AM
Who cares if he told the truth or not? At least he got tortured.
Akzed on June 17, 2009 at 8:44 AM
Not quite. You push his associate out and then ask KSM if he wants to talk now.
Akzed on June 17, 2009 at 8:46 AM
Just like the “prophet” whose name you bear.
Disturb the Universe on June 17, 2009 at 8:53 AM
That’s a condition I get every time I read an article in the LA Times about how some POS terrorist is getting abused.
conservnut on June 17, 2009 at 8:54 AM
Wow! The quality of comments on this blog has declined greatly. Why are we discussing drink menus? Also, why does KSM speak broken English? He attended two U.S. colleges.
fleiter on June 17, 2009 at 8:56 AM
Ahh, you lost control of your bladder. Wear a diaper.
(Meanwhile, Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl lost their heads, and there is no remedy for that.)
Disturb the Universe on June 17, 2009 at 9:02 AM
You answered your own question.
Disturb the Universe on June 17, 2009 at 9:03 AM
Now we hear they have satellite tv with soccer matches and al jasewa for these
dogs. They watch this while their Marine guards wear plastic visors to avoid being sprayed in the face with bodily fluids. Who the hell is paying for these
amenities?
The biggest mistake in this war was in not interrogating these animals in the field
and then finishing them there.
ontherocks on June 17, 2009 at 9:13 AM
One of the problems is that many higher-ups in the military and Pentagon are essentially politicians. They are so proud of the fact that they handle the Koran with gloves and allow these barbarians to congregate with each other, they fail to recognize that they convince these savages that the U.S. is weak and doesn’t have the stomach to do anything other than PC nonsense. They have no reason to draw any other conclusion.
DrMagnolias on June 17, 2009 at 9:30 AM
I think it is safe to assume that any soldier/terrorist/whatever is going to give bad information from time to time. A strong interrogation technique will know when they are being truthful and when they are lying. Sure he probably did lie during waterboarding, but I guarantee he told the truth at times as well. This doesn’t change the fact that we prevented other attacks from his and others’ interrogations.
jeffn21 on June 17, 2009 at 9:39 AM
I said a while back that when McCain Pelosi and the rest of the libs were complaining about waterboarding, Bush should have simply addressed the nation and congress and said, “If we are not allowed to gain info from these terrorists, then we have no use for them, and I will give the order that we no longer take prisoners.”
jeffn21 on June 17, 2009 at 9:41 AM
Heh! Give me a few toys and a locked room and I bet I can make you piss yourself too!
conservnut on June 17, 2009 at 9:42 AM
He’s lying now.
Reality Check on June 17, 2009 at 9:48 AM
Reason #1238017203 why this is stupid:
Information they get out of guys like this isn’t taken at face value. It’s researched and vetted against other sources.
I’m not sure how the Left can crow at this and not believe that our intelligence agencies are populated by utter morons. How they go on to square that with their unflinching faith in government is beyond me.
TheUnrepentantGeek on June 17, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Falafel House
Marauder on June 17, 2009 at 12:14 PM
Yep, but probably not just any lawyer…I suspect an ACLU lawyer may be involved! Makes me want to go watch the movie An American Carol again, in particular the scene where they’re shooting the ACLU zombie lawyers!
Liberty or Death on June 17, 2009 at 12:40 PM
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