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Home Front: Politix
Bill Clinton just before 9/11 attacks: 'I could have killed' Osama bin Laden
[Iran Press TV] Former US President Bill Clinton
...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is...
said in a speech in Australia hours before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that he missed the opportunity to assassinate Al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now beyond all cares and woe...
with a military strike, according to an audio tape newly released.
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Posted by: Fred || 08/02/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "I nearly got him. And I could have killed him, but I would have to destroy a little town called Kandahar in Afghanistan and kill 300 innocent women and kiddies,

Sea stories from an insufferable, clueless wanker.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/02/2014 0:35 Comments || Top||

#2  I believe the quote is from Felix Dzerzinski, head of the NKVD under Stalin: "There is no regret greater than about the man you could have killed but didn't."
Iron Felix didn't make that mistake very often. (KGB [now FSB] headquarters at the Lubyanka has a statue in front of it. This guy.)
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/02/2014 8:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Someone is preparing the political battlefield against the Clinton machine. Come right here for a front row seat for the Trotsky-Stalin fight.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/02/2014 9:03 Comments || Top||

#4  You are most likely right PK2. The Clintons have made a lot of enemies in the Party over the years. Hildebeast is mean-spirited and vindictive. Perhaps Party members are looking to Elizabeth, "the fake Indian" Warren as their Prez. candidate in 2016. She seems appropriately unhinged enough to satisfy their needs.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/02/2014 9:37 Comments || Top||

#5  I am leaning toward P2k's assessment. In addition to their numerous enemies, the Clintons represent a control problem for the democratic party.

The dems may also be looking into the future at the potential of the Clintons spawning an unwanted follow-on Chelsea Clinton - Marc Mezinsky dynasty.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/02/2014 9:53 Comments || Top||

#6  There are some similarities between Clinton and Obama--both are Democrats, both are narcissists, and both are black according to the MSM.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/02/2014 9:53 Comments || Top||

#7  Big-Chief Warren?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/02/2014 11:44 Comments || Top||

#8  [Ed] Mezvinsky was indicted in 2001 and later pleaded guilty to 31 of 69 felony charges of bank fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud. Nearly $10 million was involved in the crimes. Ed would be the father of Marc, Chelsea's husband. Ed fell prey to nearly all the 419 Nigerian scams, got in debt and became a scam artist himself.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/02/2014 12:44 Comments || Top||

#9  Hillary responds.
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 08/02/2014 14:13 Comments || Top||

#10  I suspect he would prefer folks forget that Bin Laden was offered up and he declined for legal reasons.

Better to decline to save lives.

And i know the second event came after embassy bombings.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 08/02/2014 18:03 Comments || Top||

#11  coulda shoulda woulda..
Posted by: 3dc || 08/02/2014 23:16 Comments || Top||


Obama Insists America Isn't Losing Influence Abroad
He must be reading intel reports from 1981-1989.
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 08/02/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He can insist all he wants, the narcissistic fool. Facts are such stubborn things -- and they say otherwise.
Posted by: OldSpook || 08/02/2014 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  I obviously wants no part of the credit taking, modest bastid that he is.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/02/2014 0:26 Comments || Top||

#3  SEVEN OWG GLOBAL FED UNIONS ON SEVEN KNWON CONTINENTS ... ...

At least for Starters.

Obama-the-Globalist is SSSSSHHHH ...PCCCCorrectly
Deniably helping Iran + Putinist Russia + China, etc. become the principal or main Power [Powers?] = US-style OWG "Co-Superpower(s?)in desired OWG GFU on their continents, AND while simultan setting up lines of differentiation which will allow Any Each + All GFUS both to compete + rival one another.

ITSA VERY DANGEROUS GEOPOL "TRIPWIRE" THAT CAN EASY COLLAPSE + TURN CATASTROPHIC AGZ THE US-WEST + GLOBIES AT ANY TIME, as to become a US-style "Co-Superpower" widin the Globalist context requires that the US unilaterally give up across-the board Power-N-Influence, etc. to the Newbies.

INSTEAD OF REAGAN-BUSH41 ERA "PEACE THRU STRENGTH", "NEGOTIATE/DIPLOMACY FROM STRENTH", + "TRUST-BUT-VERIFY", THE GLOBIES WANT "PEACE" FROM UNILATERAL AMERICAN WEAKNESS + STRATEGIC RETREAT".

DemoLefty + Clinton-era "America-n-Only-Amerika" is the One-n-Only-One that must make Concessions + whom "Must be Restrained + Controlled".

The DemoLefties + Globies want the US to support or pay for the World's way/quality-of-life, BUT THEY HAVE NEVER ANSWERED WHOM WILL PAY FOR AMERS WAY/QUALITY-OF-LIFE ONCE THE US UNILATER GIVES UP A LOT OF ITS ECON + NATSEC, ETC. TO FOREIGN POWERS.

To once again use as example, many in Soon-to-be-Nuclear Radical Islam's top leadership may be University-educated whom can understand or comprehend the intellectual premises of OWG-NWO + Globalism, but most of the lower tiers are NOT - MANY WERE RAISED FROM PERENNIAL POVERTY + ON MADRASSA-CONTROLLED, HARDLINE ISLAMIC RADICALISM SINCE THEY WERE PRE-TEENS OR YOUNGER. ALL THEY KNOW OR UNDERSTAND IS POVERTY + RADICALISM WHERE ONLY THE STRONG WILL SURVIVE, KILL-OR-BE-KILLED.

ALL THE ABOVE LOWER TIERS UNDERSTAND IS IFF YOUR ARMY CAN STOP THEIR ARMY, YOUR NUKES CAN STOP THEIR NUKES, ETC. FROM FORCIBLY TAKING ANYTHING + EVERYTHING YOU HAVE JUST BECAUSE THEY CAN, + BECAUSE YOU + YOUR MILPOL LEADERS ARE NOT ABLE OR WILLING STOP THEM.

It is no joke that POTUS Obama's actions in the name of OWG Globalism W-I-L-L, NOT MIGHT, be interpreted as de facto weakness on the part of Obama + Superpower USA by Enemies, TO INCLUDE THE NUCLEAR JIHADIS WHOM HAD GONE NUCLEAR IN NO SMALL PART TO THE GLOBIES' OWN AGENDA.

Lest we fergit, ISIS' AL-BAGHDADI = MUSLIMS + ISLAM WILL NO LONGER BE INFERIOR TO THE NON-MUSLIM WORLD - TO THE CONTRARY, MUSLIMS + ISLAM WILL BECOME THE "MASTERS OF THE WORLD" AS PER THE WILL OF ALLAH.

THE ISIS AT THIS TIME WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE OWG GLOBALISTS, THE JUDEOCHRISTIAN WEST, POTUS OBAMA, + BAMMER-IAN AMERIKA FOR ITS NUKES-WMDS.

DITTO CHINA FOR GUAM-WESTPAC + 1/2 OF THE PACIFIC, BUT HAWAII + 1/2 OF CONUS-NORAM WOULD ALSO BE NICE - Beijing + China Boggers are just throwing ideas + suggestions out there.

* "THE SIMPSONS" > D *** NG IT, HOMER, IFF YOU CAN KILL A FEW GUYS ON YOUR WAY OUT MASTER CRIMINAL SCORPIO WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE IT.

Posted by: JosephMendiola || 08/02/2014 1:58 Comments || Top||

#4  America is not losing influence; only the men representing America (Kerry, Biden, Obama, Clinton...) have no influence or credibility.
Posted by: Airandee || 08/02/2014 7:20 Comments || Top||

#5  "We're not losing influence, we're gaining CONTEMPT."
Posted by: ed in texas || 08/02/2014 8:04 Comments || Top||

#6  ..and those elsewhere also realize who voted them into office. You get the leadership you deserve when you decided that the 'poor and the children' would become the excuse for government.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/02/2014 9:01 Comments || Top||

#7  "We're not losing influence, ...as fast as I planned but we're ramping up our efforts to turn the US into the biggest laughing stock in the world.

Posted by: AlanC || 08/02/2014 9:13 Comments || Top||

#8  "Our influence is becoming more selective."
Posted by: charger || 08/02/2014 10:02 Comments || Top||

#9  When you have zero influence, it's impossible to lose any.
Posted by: Bobby || 08/02/2014 11:59 Comments || Top||

#10  Someone else said, "No influence is better than bad influence."
Posted by: SR-71 || 08/02/2014 12:08 Comments || Top||

#11  What this article does not show is how inept he was at answering this question from the reporter. He was obviously off teleprompter and stumbled so badly over himself with more um's, uh's etc. He looked and sounded like a fool or someone with something to hide.
Posted by: warthogswife || 08/02/2014 13:36 Comments || Top||

#12  He looked and sounded like a fool or someone with something to hide. Posted by warthogswife

No reason it couldn't be both.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/02/2014 13:38 Comments || Top||

#13  Good point previously...

We are losing influence, and at the same time, gaining contempt.
Posted by: OldSpook || 08/02/2014 18:42 Comments || Top||


Obama: 'We tortured some folks'
Dullard Moron Idiot Naif

I cannot think of a word that adequately describes this trainwreck of a President. Too much "choom" before his synapses were formed?
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 08/02/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Knowing he walks around with the football is still 'torturing' me. God save us from this sociopathic Shaka clone.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/02/2014 0:42 Comments || Top||

#2  But...but...HE's the Messiah, the smartest man in the room. He's marble columns and rainbows and such a THRILL up your leg.
He's all about HOPE and CHANGE and no more war and rainbows. Did i mention rainbows?

And the American people ELECTED him ( twice ). Could something possibly be wrong with the American people? Can you spell S.T.U.P.I. D. ? As stupid as millions and millions of ass cracks at Walmart.
The American people DESERVE Obama.
Posted by: Big Thromoth3646 || 08/02/2014 7:10 Comments || Top||

#3  And the Dems pick such WINNERS...like John Kerry and Hillary and John Edwards and his $400 haircuts and his ditching his cancer dying wife for some pu88y on the side.

It has something to do with Values. Got any?
The Dems seem to know how to pick 'em. Values. Yeah.
Posted by: Big Thromoth3646 || 08/02/2014 7:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Everytime you hear President Choom using the word "folks" you are hearing a focus group chosen 'good' word showing his empathy towards the little guy. In this case, I will expect this statement is proof he intends to give amnesty to the "folks" at Gitmo and "send them home". How compassionate can you get? It's pen and phone time again.
Posted by: Mugsy Glink || 08/02/2014 8:56 Comments || Top||

#5  ...as they say in Massachusetts, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

Hey, you haven't had your 9/11, yet. Given how your thugs are employed already on the American people who don't fit in the Inner Party, just imagine what you're going to do when it does.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/02/2014 8:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Everytime you hear President Choom using the word "folks" you are hearing a focus group chosen 'good' word showing his empathy towards the little guy

Yep, it's a signal. You don't have to ask who's driving it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/02/2014 10:27 Comments || Top||

#7  So we tortured some people???

SO????

What do you suppose Hamas does to someone they think is a spy? Serve him tea??

The US needs to grow up and understand that gathering intelligence on someone that wants to kill every last breathing citizen REQUIRES the use of extreme measures. So we torture people, I would do it in a heart beat if I knew I could save the life of just one US citizen...

What a bunch of naïve silly children we have in charge.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 08/02/2014 11:50 Comments || Top||

#8  My 12 year old 'American citizen' son and I would have been cool with some water torture and sleep deprivation, but NOOOO !
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/02/2014 12:57 Comments || Top||

#9  This is for President Choom ... he is showing his incompetence... how many more days of this dolt can we take...



Posted by: Ulererong Sneth9980 || 08/02/2014 14:31 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Obama refuses to condemn Israel's atrocities in Gaza
[Iran Press TV] US President Barack Obama
My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it...
has refused to condemn Israel's ongoing atrocities in the Gazoo Strip despite widespread global anti-Israeli protests.

Obama instead condemned the Paleostinian groups for killing Israeli soldiers.

"I think it's important to note that we have, and I have, unequivocally condemned Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and the Paleostinian factions responsible for killing two Israeli soldiers and abducting a third almost minutes after a ceasefire has been announced," Obama said in the briefing room of the White House in Washington on Friday.

The US president also urged Hamas to commit to the ceasefire.

"I think it's going to be very hard to put a ceasefire back together again if Israelis and the international community can't feel confident that Hamas can follow through on a ceasefire commitment," he said.
Posted by: Fred || 08/02/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Note the source: Iran Press. This is like getting your news on the death camps from Goebbels - its all the Jews fault.
Posted by: OldSpook || 08/02/2014 0:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, I guess that even a blind squirrel manages to actually find a nut ovccasionally.....
Posted by: Lone Ranger || 08/02/2014 11:35 Comments || Top||


Government
Pelosi blows a gasket on House floor over Pub immigration bill
[Weasel Zippers] A heated debate over the southern border crisis late Friday led to a rancorous confrontation on the floor of the House between House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Rep. Tom Marino, R-Pa.

The dustup began when Marino accused Democrats of neglecting the immigration issue during their control of the White House and Congress in 2009 and 2010, saying that the party is now exploiting the issue for political gains.

"Under the leadership of their former leader, when in 2009 and 2010, they had the House, the Senate and the White House, and they knew this problem existed," Marino said. "They didn't have the strength to go after it back then. But now are trying to make a political issue out of it."

Soon after he made the remarks, Pelosi, in full view of House cameras, walked across the chamber to the GOP side of the aisle -- a rarity in the House -- to challenge Marino.

It was not clear what Pelosi said, but Marino responded immediately.

"It's true, madam leader, I did the research on it," Marino said. "You might want to try it. You might want to try it, madam leader. Do the research on it. Do the research. I did it. That's one thing that you don't do."

Reps. Ted Poe, R-Texas, Joe Barton, R-Texas, and Kay Granger, R-Texas, seated behind Marino, looked stunned at Pelosi's actions. The presiding officer, Rep. Randy Hultgren, R-Ill., told Marino to direct his comments through the chair and not at a fellow member.

"Well, it works both ways," says Marino.

After things seemed to calm down, Marino said, "apparently I hit the right nerve."

Pelosi then walked briskly across the chamber, making a beeline for Marino and shaking her finger at the congressman.

Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., could be heard saying off-camera, "what is she doing?"

After he was done speaking, Pelosi then pursued Marino through the chamber, and House chamber security were seen walking through the chamber.
Imagine if you will, the result had Marino acted in this manner toward Pelosi.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/02/2014 09:34 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  My lament: So many graves...so little piss.
Posted by: tu3031 || 08/02/2014 12:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Her head gasket was blown a long time ago.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/02/2014 12:37 Comments || Top||

#3  That bondo around the headlights appears to be cracking and flaking as well. Time to trade her in.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/02/2014 12:52 Comments || Top||

#4  I would absolutely treasure the opportunity to have that hag wave her finger at me on live TV.
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 08/02/2014 14:10 Comments || Top||

#5  He should've told her to put that finger where it could do her some good...
Posted by: tu3031 || 08/02/2014 14:12 Comments || Top||

#6  "looks like you blew a seal. Oh...I forgot. You're from San Francisco"
Posted by: Frank G || 08/02/2014 14:14 Comments || Top||

#7  Elitist rage when called out by someone - and presented with FACTS, not emotion. Everything thats wrong with the Dem party, in a nutshell ("nut" pun intended)
Posted by: OldSpook || 08/02/2014 14:54 Comments || Top||

#8  The left must suppress the truth with great indignation or by any means necessary. It is vital to their success. The lie must prevail.
Posted by: Thineng Angailet7166 || 08/02/2014 16:21 Comments || Top||

#9  II dunno about that - I think its more a part of their psychosis.
Posted by: OldSpook || 08/02/2014 18:41 Comments || Top||

#10  "looks like you blew a seal.

Nah. It's just a little ice cream.
Posted by: SteveS || 08/02/2014 18:49 Comments || Top||

#11  Pelosi's office has since put out a press release taking credit for the DREAM act (with the usual boilerplate wording) and saying Rep. Marino "apologized."

Rep Marino's office sez they did no such thing.
Posted by: Pappy || 08/02/2014 19:32 Comments || Top||

#12  Ah man... I was hoping for an aneurism.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/02/2014 20:28 Comments || Top||



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