Osama has always struck me as a spoiled rich kid, but I never had any confirmation for this. Today, reading Wikipedia I found this quote:
I was filming a group of mujaheddin in Afghanistan as they fired mortars at the nearby town of Jalalabad. An impressive-looking Arab in beard and white robes [bin Laden], one of the many fundamentalist volunteers fighting alongside the mujaheddin, suddenly appeared. Jumping up on a wall, he screamed that we were infidels and that the mujaheddin should kill us at once. They grinned and shrugged their shoulders, so he ran over to a truck driver and offered him $500 (£312) to run us down. The truck driver grinned, too. Then the tall Arab ran off to the mujaheddin's sleeping-quarters and threw himself onto one of the beds, beating his fists on the pillow in frustration. My colleagues and I stood and watched him with a mixture of embarrassment and relief.
Sounds like a 3 year old personally.
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Kinda sounds like GW Bush. A decadent spoiled rich kid from TX trained at Yale and Skull and Bones Frat to be a misanthropic turd who has no qualms about killing people for his kookoo right wing capitalist god of anger. Who woulda guessed that the Bush family, Jim Bath and the Bin Ladens have so much in common trading guns and oil to expand and maintain neo-monarchist tyranny. Of course we can just dismiss all this and character assassinate people like Mike Moore who bring these uncomfortable truths to public light, destabilizing the hegemonic totalitarian sensibility that pervades the american mind.
ernie
Posted by ernie | July 10, 2005 1:15 PM
Posted on July 10, 2005 13:15
We should remember where the whole Joe Wilson/Valerie Plame story started:
“Valerie Plame should be ‘frog-marched’ out of Washington”
“… Joe Wilson’s wife is not a foreign spy - she’s a desk jockey at Langley (with a cushy place in Georgetown) who’s responsible for … wait for it … tracking down WMD for our country!”
“Why on earth did someone with that very important responsbility pre-judge the Niger-Iraq-yellowcake story as “this crazy story”? I mean, its only our national security and stuff - no biggie.”
“Someone let Val Plame know: the Niger-Iraq-yellowcake “crazy story” turned out to be true.”
“How many other WMD leads has Ms. Plame given short shrift? Do you know about any more “crazy” WMD leads, Val? Maybe you should go look at those files again. Does her high security clearance prevent her from getting fired for not giving a whit about national security risks for which she’s the responsbile agent?”
“Not only did Ms. Plame dismiss one of the key pieces of intelligence regarding Iraq potentially creating the Arab bomb - she successfuly recommended her gadfly husband to be the sole investigator to go check out the lead! How many millions of dollars go to the CIA for intelligence gathering each year? And yet the only person we have to send to Niger to see if Saddam is building a nuke is … the house husband of an agent at Langley?”
“What’s next? Will Valerie Plame send the family golden retriever to look for missle silos in North Korea?”
“This is the real story that the mainstream press won’t touch with a ten foot pole. What heads should roll at Langley for entrusting our national security to the whims of the Wilson-Plame family travelogue?”
Unbelievable. Shameful. Putting nepotism above national security.
Fire Valerie Plame now. She’s a very real risk to our national security.
-nikita demosthenes
Posted by nikita demosthenes | July 10, 2005 10:31 PM
Posted on July 10, 2005 22:31