Once again, I love my job. I love being on the front lines in the War on Terror.

Notice how no one has said "where" the intel for the attack was coming from? There has been more than a little scuttlebutt that it came from the Pakistani Intel Corp.

it's maybe proof of what you wanna deny. we all wanna see a real war on terror. while productive intel would be greatly preferred, faulty intel is gonna happen. its sources should be investigated and efforts made to prevent it. what we can't and won't support is a cynical sidetracking of the real war on terror to advance a political or personal agenda and deliberate use of questionable intel to that end.

Did you take note that NO ONE used the word proof? At least not until you did. Aren't you one of the people who said we shouldn't get side-tracked from the "real" war on terror? Just what would you call the number 2 man of Al Queda? And just an fyi...you don't always have the required time to check throughly as we'd like. Intel was given with a very small window to act on it.

NO ONE used the word proof? At least not until you did

if you'll lemme know which language is your native tongue, i'll try to provide a translation from english just for you.

Where is the outrage? Botched air-raids are only reserved for the like of Clinton or Carter.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - At least four foreign terrorists died in the U.S. airstrike purportedly aimed at al-Qaida's No. 2 leader, the provincial government said Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT A statement by the administration of Bajur, the Pakistan's tribal region bordering Afghanistan, also said that 10 to 12 foreign extremists had been invited to dinner at the village hit in Friday's attack.

no one used the word "proof" until "YOU" did.

i guess i gotta splain this to you really slowly...

if you'll actually read what i said instead of what you THINK i *said*--perhaps about 20 times--you may eventually catch on. i was responding to singrdave's observation regarding the overall lack of anger over this particular attack in pakistan and suggesting that lack of anger proved the error of those claiming we who are opposed to the war in iraq are also opposed to fighting a war on terror.

al-zawahiri--and his cohorts who are still operating freely--are exactly who we shoulda been fighting alla time.

in response to his sarcasm about this being a case of bad intel, i was explaining that wasn't a problem either--as long as the bad intel isn't knowingly used to mislead the country so as to generate support for a different agenda as this administration did in 2002/2003.

i have no idea what you thought i was trying to say. whatever it is, you were totally outta the park.

as long as the bad intel isn't knowingly used to mislead the country so as to generate support for a different agenda as this administration did in 2002/2003.

Are you guys still on this? There is absolutely no evidence anyone "knowingly" misled anyone.

Is that bad intel going to be used to win the hearts and minds of the Pakistani people? Are we going to have to try and spin this for support of American presence in Pakistan?

i doubt there's much we could do to win the hearts & minds of northwest pakistan. spin for support of american presence in peshawar? what the hell have you been smoking?

you asked:

Where is the outrage? Where is the umbrage? Where is the taking to task of the persons involved with the faulty information and/or the botched airstrike? Where is the breast-beating from Dems over America's callous disregard for Pakistani innocents in the War on Terror?

it's not as if i wasn't aware of your sarcasm or the point you were hoping to make whe i decided to treat those questions as if they deserved answers.

what can i say? on its way to setting us free, the truth generally undermines and erodes flawed assumptions. in this case, what's true is what we've been saying all along. we're as strongly supportive of a real war on terror and willing to accept honest mistakes to that end as we are totally and fiercely opposed to a buncha irresponsible, incompetent ideologues squandering precious lives and resources as the clock slowly ticks us closer to the next shoe dropping.

I was NOT talking about your observation OR your opinion or even "how" you used the word, but your "use" of a specific word! well i guess you told me.

I guess I did.

Kingbee:

what the hell have you been smoking?

I was being facetious, considering how much antipathy the Pakistanis have for an American presence. But since we're propping up the Musharraf government ("a powerful ally in the War on Terror"), I figured the next logical step would be either the US or Paki gov't coming out and saying that everything was fine, status quo.

in this case, what's true is what we've been saying all along. we're as strongly supportive of a real war on terror and willing to accept honest mistakes to that end

Which is where I think this falls. File this under "Well-Intentioned Miss".

a buncha irresponsible, incompetent ideologues squandering precious lives and resources as the clock slowly ticks us closer to the next shoe dropping.

Oh, and the anticipation is driving us all mad! Mad, I say!