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2005-07-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2005-07-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 [T]he state prosecutor-general, said that the country is threatened by a tidal wave of drugs that is even more dangerous than the tsunami that hit Southeast Asia six months earlier ....

Heh. Guess the CIA still knows how to run a war after all.

Posted by AzCat 2005-07-19 00:11|| 2005-07-19 00:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Thats alot of dope and dopers for such a "religious" country. What folks are looking for an escape from the mad Mullah's BS? WHo would have thunk it! This is serious dope to as it seems tro mostly be opiates.

They can buy night vision good enough for police work from their Russian neighbors or the Ukraine. What they want is advanced military technology under the color of the of "war on drugs". They shouldn't get it from the west that's for damn sure.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-07-19 03:06|| 2005-07-19 03:06|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm impressed with the new propaganda Mike is coming out with these days. Hat's off to you Mikey.

It's of much better quality than previous you BS. For example - Yesterday we all had a good laugh over Teddy and the Teddies - but really it was just to present - as fact - that " an investigation" established that these "horrific underwear attacks" indeed did occur at Gitmo, even though there were no specifics to establish that it was little more than one prisoner's bogus complaint. And even though it's highly unlikely after what happened to the participants at Abu Gharib. And of course, there's that pesky little problem than no one really cares if they were putting underwear on their heads, but I digress...

Now, we have a title, 3 MILLION DRUG ADDICTS in Iran. One's first thought is really? But we happily lapp it up because we don't doubt that it sucks to be you if you live in Iran.

Of course, it's all just sugar to help the medicine go down. Here is the medicine:
He added that during a recent trip he told his European counterparts that Iran needs night-vision equipment for helicopters, electronic eavesdropping devices, X-ray equipment, and similar tools, but it has not gotten them yet.

Thanks Mike. Good to know how they are trying to spin it.

Posted by 2b 2005-07-19 05:20|| 2005-07-19 05:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Re #3 (2b)
Yesterday we all had a good laugh over Teddy and the Teddies ... no one really cares if they were putting underwear on their heads, but I digress...

Read #51 and add another point to my score.

Posted by Mike Sylwester 2005-07-19 05:40|| 2005-07-19 05:40|| Front Page Top

#5 You haven't got squat, Mikey - though I must admit it might get you points from your team leader to apply towards your new Vespa. At the very least it should get you enough points for your new brown shirt with a Moveon logo.

Not a single named official. When you can quote an official and quote a source other than the NYT or Time Magazine - already discredited beyond repair - then I grant you your point. In the mean time, you just keep busing yourself as for most Americans, torture being described as "panties on the head" is just another symbol of how silly and out of touch the Dems have become, especially when our adversaries consider torture to be more along the lines raping ones children and torturing them before cutting them to pieces and delivering their body parts in a bag to your doorstep.

Maybe I've misjudged you, Mikey. Maybe you are a Karl Rove plant - sent to make the dems look like the silly idiot padnering fools they have become.

Posted by 2b 2005-07-19 05:52|| 2005-07-19 05:52|| Front Page Top

#6 You just don't understand Mike 2b. He's deep and nuanced, a professional with steel trap mind, finding and keeping the linkage of things sorted out for us.

Posted by Kojo 2005-07-19 07:02|| 2005-07-19 07:02|| Front Page Top

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