Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Remember yellowcake?
The story was that intelligence agencies had learned Saddam Hussein was trying to buy yellowcake uranium to build nuclear weapons to use against the United States, which would have posed a threat to our national security, so we had to go to war against him to prevent him from using weapons of mass destruction on us.
The entire international coalition shared the intelligence evidence as did select members of Congress including John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, both of whom supported the war based on that intelligence assessment.
Except – no yellowcake. Turns out the intelligence was faulty. Nobody should have relied on it, much less gone to war over it. Bush lied, people died.
Fast forward a decade. Portions of the intelligence community believe Russia hacked into the DNC computers but portions of it do not, the evidence is unclear, the motive is unknown, the result on the election is impossible to prove. But some idiots in Congress are ready to start a war over this? And not just war with some two-bit tin pot dictator, war with a nuclear nation whose conventional military forces dwarf ours?
Insane. Literally, not sane. Should be locked up as a danger to themselves and all the rest of us.
Joe Doakes
Knowing some of this might come from reading military history.
But you can count liberals who read military history on one hand.
Liberals: Reading military history with one hand and lighting a doobie with the other. The distortion of history is often chemical in nature.
One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to make only on-topic comments on SiTD (Note that I usually fail at my resolutions by Jan 2)
Re-post because it’s kind of interesting
Nov. 13, 1986: “In spite of the wildly speculative and false stories of arms for hostages and alleged ransom payments, we did not, repeat, did not, trade weapons or anything else for hostages. Nor will we.”
March 4, 1987: “A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that’s true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.”
Ronald Reagan
It sounds like an Onion headline but it’s not.
And libidiot snowflakes are worried about Trump starting a nuclear war?! It looks like the moron in chief wants to start one on his way out! For once, I wish he would go golfing.
Hopefully, nations like Israel and Russia will simply look at the calendar and shrug whenever this Administration opens its yap about anything.
I thought the reality was that: in fact, Saddam had attempted to purchase the yellowcake but been rebuffed.
“It looks like the moron in chief wants to start one on his way out! For once, I wish he would go golfing.”
I can only assume you’re referring to the latest dust up with Israel. We recently promised to give Israel $4 billion every year for the next 10 years. And folks claim Obama hates Israel?
Unfortunately Netanyahu nor Trump seem to understand that Israel’s future depends on a fair and lasting settlement with its Arab neighbors. These men understand the strength of arms, but not the quieter strengths of principle and good will.
When Donald Trump assumes office, America’s friends enemies will soon come to see that the new president, is in way over his head in complex affairs of state.
Unfortunately, EI, the only lasting settlement in the minds of the Arab neighbors is the elimination of Israel.
No, Emery. I am referring to the sanctions against Russia for their ALLEGED involvement in the election that the dear leader is encouraging. You don’t poke a bear, especially when your sole reason for doing so, is based on myths, lies and memes. DemonRAT idealogues can’t seem to get that!
Unfortunately Netanyahu nor Trump seem to understand that Israel’s future depends on a fair and lasting settlement with its Arab neighbors
Bollocks.
I say that not out of any desire to be uncivil, but rather because yelling “Bollocks!” to kick off a vigorous disagreement may be one thing the Brits got right.
But I digress.
Bollocks!
Netanyahu absolutely understands the need for a fair and lasting settlement.
He also realizes a few things that may elude Trump, but absolutely elude the American left:
I forget if it was Netanyahu or Dennis Prager who said it, but either way it applies: “If the Israelis laid down their arms, there’d be genocide. If the Palestinians laid down their arms, there’d be peace”.
In order for a conflict to end–whether an international dispute or a personal quarrel–both sides have to want a resolution. It might be time for the US to stop trying so hard to orchestrate a solution and simply leave our calling card with a note saying “when you’re ready, give us a call.”
Linking to Jim Hoft should result in two minutes in the penalty box.
Assange says that Russia was not the source of the Podesta emails. Or is congress talking about something else? They want to start an investigation over unidentified “news reports” that accuse Russia of what, exactly?
Trump may not “understand” the Middle East, but he thoroughly understands negotiation. You don’t come to the table with your best offer and beg the other side to take it, which is what has been the U.S.’s position with the current administration. With his choice of Ambassador to Israel, Trump has taken the carrot off the table and replaced it with a bear trap. If (and I do mean, “IF”) the Palestinians and their handlers really want peace they have just been told, “This is the new offer. It might get a little better, but you have to negotiate.”
From The Hill
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/312049-obama-under-pressure-to-prove-russian-interference-in-election
The definition of “Weapon of Mass Destruction” shifted as a result of that blunder.
One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to make only on-topic comments on SiTD
Wait, what? You mean you’re going to put the effort into googling cut and paste plagiarization that is pertinent to the topic? You’re not going to snap up the first thing with a vocabulary simple enough for you to understand?
That’s just crazy talk, SSOLSEmery. Talk about setting yourself up to fail.
Mitch….I briefly put on WCCO radio in the car yesterday afternoon. They had a Palestinian-Arab on. My god……..I had to turn it off to keep me from road rage. It was everything from the lie that there were no Jews in Israel pre-1945, to saying that “Palestine” is a real nation. Of course he didn’t mention that Abbas and other Palestinian-Arab leaders have pledged to cleanse all of their lands of Jews.
There, see how easy it is to get this peckerwood to reply to me over and over and over again? Can’t… stop… laughing
Say Swiftee, it’s time to feed your sparkle unicorn.
https://memegenerator.net/instance/11580288
Say…..so Obama is kicking out Russian diplomats in DC and San Fran. Since San Francisco is a sanctuary city, they actually don’t have to leave. (stole that from Iowahawk)
I want to hop in a time machine, head back to 1983, and tell Ronald Reagan that a Republican president-elect responded to a Russian attack on the United States by saying “I think we ought to get on with our lives.”
I suppose we’ll soon enough see whether Trump is a puppet, or just a useful idiot.
Trump is no more of a useful idiot than you are for your DemonRAT plantation owners, Emery.
Time for an epistemology check, Emery. Why do you believe that there was a Russian attack on the United States? Write down the reasons you believe this on a sheet of paper, you will likely find the evidence is thin or contradictory. Ask yourself some counter factuals. If the Russian government hacked the DNC (and this is far from certain), how do you know what motivated them? The Left is using unsourced rumors of Russian hacking as part of their effort to delegitimize Trump’s election.
As a Sapper friend of ours says (more or less), “Don’t tell me there weren’t WMDs in Iraq. It was my job to blow them up when we found them.”
This is typical of the “reporting” done on Trump by the establishment media: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/david-fahrenthold-tells-the-behind-the-scenes-story-of-his-year-covering-trump/2016/12/27/299047c4-b510-11e6-b8df-600bd9d38a02_story.html?utm_term=.1c4a1f750103&wpisrc=nl_most-draw14&wpmm=1
It is, unashamedly, a hit piece by a reporter for a newspaper that has long held the position that Trump is uniquely unqualified to become president. Fahrenholt seems to think he’s paid to hate Trump. He actually treats the story as a joke.
“When I came home from my last TV hit, the kids, ages 4 and 5 months, were asleep. The house was quiet. I was still full of caffeine and do-gooder energy and decided to tidy up.
Among the clutter on the coffee table, I found my 4-year-old’s Party Popper, a bright yellow gun that fired confetti. For some reason, I held the gun up to my eye and looked down the barrel, the way Yosemite Sam always does.
It looked unloaded.
Then, for some reason, I pulled the trigger.
When I got to the ER, I had a swollen face, metal-foil confetti in my hair and a faint odor of gun smoke. Finally, the doctor could see me.”
Yes, Fahrenholt wrote that in a story about Trump’s charitable donations and still expects to be taken seriously.
This is how bad the WaPo has become. Headline: “FBI in agreement with CIA that Russia aimed to help Trump win White House”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-blames-putins-personal-grudge-against-her-for-election-interference/2016/12/16/12f36250-c3be-11e6-8422-eac61c0ef74d_story.html
It’s in the “Politics” section, not the opinion section. This is how the headline is justified:
The positions of Comey and Clapper were revealed in a message that CIA Director John Brennan sent to the agency’s workforce Friday.
“Earlier this week, I met separately with FBI [Director] James Comey and DNI Jim Clapper, and there is strong consensus among us on the scope, nature, and intent of Russian interference in our presidential election,” Brennan said, according to U.S. officials who have seen the message.
The CIA and the FBI declined to comment on Brennan’s message or on the classified intelligence assessment that CIA officials shared with members of the Senate Intelligence Committee earlier this month, setting off a political firestorm.
In the closed-door Senate briefing, CIA officials said it was now “quite clear” that electing Trump was one of Russia’s goals, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.
Unsourced rumors are reported as fact in toady’s Washington Post. The sources who anonymously supplied the information about the classified info given to the Senate Intelligence Committee are probably staffers for one of the senators present, but who knows? The reporter could have made up the story, or he could have been mislead by a source, or he could have put his own spin on what the source told him.