Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Hillary looking good on the board of Wal-Mart in the late 80's

[ice grillin you]

if you bomb parts of Pakistan, you're bombing Pakistan and better have full support of their government du jour.

or not


U.S. missile strike in Pakistan hit al Qaeda nest
2 hours, 18 minutes ago

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suspected U.S. missile strike that killed up to 13 foreign militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan region this week had targeted second or third tier al Qaeda leaders, according to residents in the tribal area.

Initial reports said 10 people were killed in the attack on Monday on a house in Torkhali village near the town of Mir Ali.

An intelligence official, however, told Reuters on Thursday that based on information gleaned from tribal contacts there were seven Arabs and six Central Asians killed.

He said the attack was believed to have been carried out by a pilotless U.S. Predator aircraft flown across the nearby border with Afghanistan.

"The missile appeared to have been fired by a drone," the intelligence official said.

The Pakistani authorities have not confirmed the attack, and the Pentagon has denied taking any action, but the Defense Department does not speak for the Central Intelligence Agency, which operates Predators that the tribesmen say carried out the attack late on Monday.

Villagers saw two drones flying over the area before the attack. They didn't see the missile being fired but one heard a plane's engine before the explosion.

Intelligence officials said the area is controlled by Islamist militants and too dangerous for security forces to go. After the attack, militants surrounded the area and barred anyone from going near the house.

Ahmed Aziz, a 70-year-old resident, told Reuters that the militants also stopped villagers from attending the funerals, which was a sign that those killed were all foreigners.

"When local people die, they don't stop anyone from attending their funerals," Aziz said.

Tribesmen in the area said a deputy of Abu Laith al Libi, a senior al Qaeda leader, had been staying there and was among the dead, according to the intelligence official.

"The latest information we have from the area is that a second-in-command to al Libi was among those killed," he said.

A leading Pakistani daily, The News, reported that the strike had targeted Libi and another senior figure, Obaidah al Masri, though neither was present at the time of the attack according to a senior Taliban commander quoted by the newspaper.

Libi and Masri were promoted up the al Qaeda ranks due to successful U.S. and Pakistani operations in the past to catch or kill the guerrilla network's second tier leaders.

U.S. forces in Afghanistan have launched similar attacks on al Qaeda targets on the Pakistani side of the border several times in recent years.

If it was a U.S. drone attack, the lack of confirmation is not unusual. Pakistan says it will not tolerate violations of its territorial sovereignty and reports of such attacks are embarrassing for the U.S.-Pakistani alliance.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

You proved my point.  Assuming the U.S. did indeed initiate this bombing, it was a covert plan and a small target... and the Pakistan government is hopping mad about it, and the U.S. is denying it.

[Seabiscuit36]

They did, Musharref knew about it, but the pakistani gov't has to play the game this way

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Republican political leaders are split over whether they would rather run against Clinton or Obama, but the big majority of them see Clinton as a more beatable foe. There is no difference of opinion among Democratic political leaders. They see McCain as the most difficult Republican to defeat.

This is from right-wing columnist Bob Novak.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

[phattymatty]

mccain's daughter



yes.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Something to watch:  Rush Limbaugh hates McCain.  Says he's not Conservative, says he's full of shtein, etc.

Will he continue to bash McCain when he gets the nomination, or will he step in line as usual?

[Rome]

One of the hungry hungry hippos in my office listens to Limbaugh and I was passing through his office just a while ago and heard him ranting about McCain.

If Rush is pissing and moaning about him, he must be scaring the shtein out of the cabal of freaks who run the GOP.

[phattymatty]

so my new theory is for hillary to make bill her VP.  someone shoots her a day after she is elected, then bill gets to serve the rest of the 4 years.  perfect. 

never mind, he can only serve 10 years so she'd have to be shot two years after being elected.  i'll take two years of hillary for another two with bill.

[Sgt PSN]

so my new theory is for hillary to make bill her VP.  someone shoots her a day after she is elected, then bill gets to serve the rest of the 4 years.  perfect. 

If she did that, I'd rather her stay alive and let Bill run the country from the back seat and then reelect her again.  This way he can spend 8 more years in office instead of 4. 

[Rome]

Your theory should read the 22nd Amendment.

And then have a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich.

[phattymatty]

Your theory should read the 22nd Amendment.

And then have a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich.

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.

Doesn't say anything about taking it over.  he wouldn't be elected.  at least that's how i read it.

[Sgt PSN]

Bill should run for mayor of Mooseport.  

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

so my new theory is for hillary to make bill her VP.  someone shoots her a day after she is elected, then bill gets to serve the rest of the 4 years.  perfect. 

If she did that, I'd rather her stay alive and let Bill run the country from the back seat and then reelect her again.  This way he can spend 8 more years in office instead of 4. 

Some say she did the same thing during his 8 years, so turnabout's fair play.  Hell, she has used her time as first lady as a primary source of "experience".