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2004-01-11 Syria-Lebanon

Lebanon refutes Rumsfeld on existence of terrorists in the Bekaa

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2004-01-11 00:11|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "the US secretary of state, Donald Rumsfeld,"

Pal, I'm surprised you didn't notice THIS egregious error ...

Posted by Lu Baihu 2004-1-11 1:12:12 AM|| 2004-1-11 1:12:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Hell, Fred must be having us on with this one - the whole article is in the "I can shout, don't hear you!" vein of mangled Engrish. Pretty funny shit, actually. Can you see the puppet's strings quivering? I think someone's more than a little nervous!

Posted by .com 2004-1-11 2:02:57 AM|| 2004-1-11 2:02:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 i love seeing these fuckers squirm,more more

Posted by Jon Shep 2004-1-11 4:35:46 AM|| 2004-1-11 4:35:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 ...described the hypothesis of the existence of terrorists in the Bekaa plain as just "illusions," and considered that the objective is to damage any positive and serious dialogue with the USA. I'm sure that there is an engagement/appeasement US Congressperson on a plane right now that will soon swear that Beka is clear of all terrorists.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-1-11 11:06:48 AM|| 2004-1-11 11:06:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 "the US secretary of state, Donald Rumsfeld,"

Pal, I'm surprised you didn't notice THIS egregious error ...

Can you imagine Rumsfeld as the Secretary of State? The first thing he would do is purge (i.e. retire) the entire upper echelon of the State Department, starting with Richard Boucher. With Rumsfeld at State and Wolfowitz (or Bolton or Feith) at Defense, instead of a good cop-bad cop approach, we'd have a bad cop-worse cop approach.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-1-11 12:02:32 PM|| 2004-1-11 12:02:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Expanding on the previous statement, Rumsfeld would show up with a set of brass knuckles, whereas Wolfowitz (or Bolton or Feith) would show up with a box of fresh proctologist gloves.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-1-11 12:06:19 PM|| 2004-1-11 12:06:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 ZF. LOL.
The first thing he would do is purge (i.e.liquidate) the entire upper echelon of the State Department, starting with Richard Boucher

Posted by Shipman 2004-1-11 12:09:54 PM|| 2004-1-11 12:09:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 The first thing he would do is purge (i.e.liquidate) the entire upper echelon of the State Department, starting with Richard Boucher

The truth is State retirees are self-refuting. All they have to do is publish their (inevitable) America-hating tracts, and readers will start wondering whether the State Department really works for benefit of the American people, or for the foreign lobbyist jobs they generally take up after retiring.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2004-1-11 12:46:23 PM|| 2004-1-11 12:46:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Heh heh. "The Bekaa who?! Oh, no no no no no, that's not in LEBANON! No, that's part of ... SYRIA! Yeah, that's the ticket. We can't be responsible for the place. It's been taken over by carnies."

Heh. Think they were a little flustered by "Secretary of State RUMSFELD'S" (we should be so lucky) words about the place?

Posted by 4thInfVet 2004-1-11 2:11:58 PM|| 2004-1-11 2:11:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Unfortunately, the State Dept guys who are the most difficult are Civil Service and can't be purged. However, nothing says we can't transfer them to our brand-new very, very large embassy on Diego Garcia...

Posted by snellenr 2004-1-11 3:12:51 PM|| 2004-1-11 3:12:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Where they can hold lengthy, wide-ranging diplomatic discussions with the crabs and penguins that make up the bulk of the population...

Posted by mojo 2004-1-11 3:41:18 PM|| 2004-1-11 3:41:18 PM|| Front Page Top

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