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Is it really what it seems?

May 9, 2012 @ 9:04 am (Updated: 9:15 am - 5/9/12 )

All of us are obviously delighted that al Qaeda's latest plot was foiled. And what a story! The guy who volunteered to blow up his new improved underwear was actually a double agent! Planted by Saudi Arabia!

And the CIA wanted to keep him there, but this plot was apparently so far along that the only way to stop it was for the agent himself to volunteer as the suicide bomber. And he not only turns over the bomb, he pinpoints his senior commander, who is then promptly blown up by a drone.

I have to say, this is a very reassuring victory in the battle formerly known as the war on terrorism.

The only thing not reassuring about this reassuring victory -- is reading about it on a BAJILLION websites!

Of all the top secret secrets the US government has, wouldn't this be at the tippy tippy top? The only thing we should know about this guy is that: he got the bomb, and then, so sad, there's an accident, and a smudge in the desert somewhere.

At least that's the story you put out.

But instead there's this flood of details so that now, al Qaeda knows that everyone who volunteers to blow himself up is a double agent.

How could something like this get leaked. Unless that was the whole point.

The old double-pysch. Maybe the guy in fact wasn't a double agent, and they captured a real suicide bomber but they deliberately put it out that he was a double agent, and he's being paid a million bucks, and there are others like him, implying that the whole suicide corps is compromised, so that now al Qaeda has to purge all their suicide bombers, crippling their operation.

Could we be that good?

If we are, I guess I should probably not be saying anything.

So never mind.

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  • Roark wrote...
    You're right Dave.
    May 9, 2012 1:22 pm
    For once I agree with you. Where you may disagree with me is; this is just another example of Obama "spiking the football" on a terror incident in order to boost his re-election chances. This stuff is not election fodder. It SHOULD be kept secret even if it gives a political advantage to the president.
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  • Cbrew wrote...
    Conservatives just never fail to amaze me
    May 9, 2012 2:35 pm
    You all jump to the idea that this is an Obama leaked story... HE HAD TO BE BEHIND IT!!! ... it's amazing how much you guys link to him... it's the true sign that you guys are psychotic, everything in your mind is controlled or occurs because of Obama, as long as it is bad that is... There's a whole lot of people in between Obama and the CIA that had knowledge of this mission... It absolutely does not mean Obama or his administration had ANYTHING to do with releasing this information... You idiots just always pin it on him so you can try to blast him and call him a terrible president... you guys have no lives.. no character... you lost the election 4 years ago and you're still crying about it... you know he's going to win this one too right? So get your belly-aching over with now and move on with your lives, you'll have a shot again in 2016... start planning for that... maybe by then people might have truly forgotten how terrible a president your last Repub Pres was.
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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    We don't have to CALL him a terrible President.
    May 9, 2012 3:10 pm
    His actions do that for us.
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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    Oh yea, it really is what it seems
    May 9, 2012 2:41 pm
    and it seems we have a narcissist in chief who will glorify his image at every opportunity...no matter how many innocents he puts at risk.

    I know, I know... it seems that this couldn't have happened here, but it did.

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  • William Lawn wrote...
    Do you have a bad movie line memorized that relates?
    May 9, 2012 3:17 pm
    Put some meaning in your pathetic life.
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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    a movie line?...hmmm
    May 9, 2012 3:34 pm
    maybe as it relates to you...it would have to be a line from a character named Five Fingers who lives a fantasy life on a blog impersonating people with real lives.

    Can't think of a movie that bad right now, I'll have to get back to you Boron. How's the RV running?

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  • William Lawn wrote...
    RV? In my life it is a hotel. Never stayed in an RV in my life.
    May 9, 2012 6:10 pm
    Sorry Paul, don't know "Five Fingers" but I am sure it has a meaning............

    For you anyway.

    Another movie to help give relevance?

    Boron?

    Love you guys who think everyone is Seattle D or Boron or someone.

    An English as a second language immigrant could tell the difference in style.

    Style, that would escape you, wouldn't it?

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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    And why do we ALL know about it?
    May 9, 2012 3:01 pm
    Because your vaunted President Owebama wants it known, that's why. He wants to be seen as "tough" and "in charge". It's all about an image to gain votes w/ no subtance behind it. Like an old western town in the movies; just a facade.
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  • William Lawn wrote...
    The that steely eyed guy who hides behing his union?
    May 9, 2012 3:19 pm
    Out on the streets making them safer, or on your fat butt eating donuts.

    The union member public employee, who hates the government and unions.

    Just a facade.

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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    sacrifices must be made for the greater good of the party
    May 9, 2012 3:05 pm
    The Fuhrer has said....

    "Everybody’s going to have to give. Everybody’s going to have to have some skin in the game"

    of course this must especially include the “soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf.”-B.O.

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  • Cbrew wrote...
    Just continue to prove my point Conservatives
    May 9, 2012 3:19 pm
    Seriously you guys are whackjobs, you make up whatever reality best suits you, you put everything bad on the Dems and the President and find a way to pin anything you don't like on them... then somehow skirt the blame of your own party for it's part in destroying the economy, destroying our reputation throughout the world, gridlocking congress so nothing can get done, failing to provide leadership or making proposals to help fix problems in our country over the last decade or so... It's just all the President's fault and all the other party's fault... ... you're absolute hypocrites of the highest calibur, you're trying to revise history to make it seem like your party was great for our country, you're more loyal to your party than you are to the United States of America, seriously you guys are basically traitors to this country... you can get the heck out honestly, you're not wanted in this country, you are not helping, you're just spreading hate and lies... recognize that the problems we face are American problems caused by both party's who have each had power over the last few years and recognize that it's going to take cooperation by both partys to fix the problems or you're just basically the same thing you claim to hate... Communist that want 1 party rule... that's what you psychopaths want, your own party to rule everything and Govern by YOUR style, whether it's good or not... you point to Nazis in your post, that's essentially what you idiots are calling for.
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    Seriously you guys are whackjobs,
    May 9, 2012 4:01 pm
    Cbrew What about this hate filled left wing rant that you just posted here?

    Please tell me again who the "whackjob"(s) are here?

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  • NWGUY wrote...
    pot, meet kettle
    May 9, 2012 4:13 pm
    talk about pyscho, you know not of what you write about. Just one example, some of the proposed legislation put forth has been so bad, any semi literate person would oppose it. however, its purpose was to generate the press, "repubs oppose" and you fell for it hook line and sinker.
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  • Rainier Gally wrote...
    Cbrew
    May 9, 2012 4:29 pm
    Loves to lecture the whole room about how great Owebama is. Whackjobs ? How hateful. Do you know that there are people dealing with mental issues that find that offensive?
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  • William Lawn wrote...
    I'm sure you do find that offensive Gally
    May 9, 2012 6:13 pm
    Dealing with your mental issues. Sorry.
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  • fartforce1 wrote...
    One thing make me smile, I still think Obama is better than any of the below -we could still have them and we dont. We are so lucky!
    May 9, 2012 6:22 pm
    Dick, chainey jeorge, Bush. Condom, Liza, Rice! ~u~.2! Economy is coming back. Motor companies producing American made cars. Not sold off to highest bidder,that would have been Mit (Wrongeney s) plan: ) All I can say about that is ~u~.2!
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  • fartforce1 wrote...
    I mean I still have mine,
    May 9, 2012 6:23 pm
    : ) U dont.
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  • CH wrote...
    giving whackjobs at the fire house? . . . .
    May 9, 2012 6:27 pm
    fireboy?
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  • fartforce1 wrote...
    ~u~.2! to whack-jobs, giving, at the firehouse!
    May 9, 2012 6:33 pm
    zoid
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  • fartforce1 wrote...
    or shorten and simply " ~u~.2! firehouse whack-jobs giving!
    May 9, 2012 6:36 pm
    But that requires !ginkniht tiarts ,
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  • fartforce1 wrote...
    another question comes to mind,
    May 9, 2012 6:39 pm
    How can there be a people who use the word simplify? instead just say simply!
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  • Snout wrote...
    Of course the details should be kept secret.
    May 9, 2012 6:29 pm
    Who benefits from the release of details in these matters? Am I safer because I know them? Who benefits? It's the administration tooting it's horn at the expense of national security.
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