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2011-10-14 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Besoeker 2011-10-14 01:22|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 The state department meanwhile said it had been in "direct contact" with Iran about the alleged plot.

I wonder why Hilarity didn't say that.

Posted by Skidmark 2011-10-14 09:11|| 2011-10-14 09:11|| Front Page Top

#2 This still doesn't pass the smell test.

Seemed that information gleaned from Mr. Arbabsiar was WAY too easy to get and suspiciously implicates Iran rather in-depth (not they're not deserving of some, just not likely for this).

Also, the explosive news releases and rapid finger-pointing by this administration is so out of character for them that it stinks.

As I wrote the other day, I believe this whole little escapade is a diversion by our Dear Leader®.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2011-10-14 09:48|| 2011-10-14 09:48|| Front Page Top

#3 In his usual, constipated teaching assistant, fashion?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-10-14 12:30|| 2011-10-14 12:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Alexrod and Jarrett, who are the Presidents brain, see this as a best case scenario to play Wag the Dog and take the heat off Holder while "rallying the people around a President in times of national crisis and looming war".
These people have no sense of the import of this kind of behavior outside of their political lenses, and will inch us ever closed to a catastrophy that lives and treasure, about which they care nothing, will be lost needlessly.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2011-10-14 14:01|| 2011-10-14 14:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Mullah Richard Ditto that. Then the " This still doesn't pass the smell test". I believed O would dither the daylights out of this. Still I believe they have to do something to show that they have some leadership ability. They are looking really sad right now. They may bypass O since he is involved in more important matters of state. Day by day he looks weaker. He was up to the challenge but was found wanting.

Posted by Dale 2011-10-14 20:47|| 2011-10-14 20:47|| Front Page Top

#6 His lips say censure but his hips say bow.

Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-10-14 20:56|| 2011-10-14 20:56|| Front Page Top

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