"Italy is an ally. They're supposed to have an agreement with the US about things like this."

Wouldn't that be extradition? Blitzer is approaching Russert tool status.

-- Strangely Enough

W. Blitzer is already there.

And may have passed Timmeh.

The most assinine Greenwaldo to date

Let me see if I have this right. Glenny boy is highlighting two defense department boondoggles from 2001 and 2004 (election year fanatics from Kerry on down) emphasizing global communication while the leftist dim party and it cohorts intentionally try to bring down a president and the military mission for all the world to see on TV and the internet after the Cumbayah moment following one of the most heinous, uncalled for attacks in American history on 9/11.

And we still won in Iraq even after dr. demento and fatman moore and "Oh the imcompetency" Hi-liar-y and "Reporting for duty" nimrod Kerry. Oh and lest we forget quagmire/Abu Graib under new management Chappaquiddick Teddy.

Oh brother, now I've heard it all.

-- indyconantidim

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Even the pro-Israeli trolls are better than this (they can, speaking generally, actually spell).

When do we invade Britain?

We can get some payback from when they burned down the White House. should we use bunker blasters on Parliament or Buckingham Palace? What the hell, let's do BOTH.

Make US look bad?

Look what we did to Saddam?

Won't the Prime Minister look jolly dangling from a hemp rope!

We should nuke Stonehenge as it is obviously some WMD or portal into another dimension where torturers are held accountable.

As for the gentleman's testicles, in America you have to pay good money to have someone treat your balls that way. We should send him a bill for services rendered.

If the rest of the world turns against us, we will do to them what we did to Iraq. Go ahead world, make our day! Our money is worthless so we have nothing to lose but our nukes and we got enough of them to take care of you commie, al qaeda, socialist, Isalmaofascists a hundred times over.

Go ahead world, I dares you!

GGGRRRRRRR!

/takes Peace Prize Medal swings it over his head and casts it into the skull of Prime Minister Brown!

-- something really stinks

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Had to bring that over from the closed thread.

On the point of this one: I'm glad that some members of Rummy's staff actually knew how to do their jobs, and actually did them.

Now, will someone besides Feingold, Sheldon Whitehouse, Grayson, Sanders or Kucinich actually RUN with this?

Glenn, great post.

Glenn, great post. This dissection of right wing (lack of) thinking is the high dose of truth I needed to read today after all the placebo of the Washington Post and other MSM news outlets. Though I suspect Krathammer is the one who needs to up the dosage of whatever meds he is using.

Off topic, I truly hope the BarackStar did not say the torture pix would never be released.

I mistakenly attributed your post to D. Powe.

Preview is my friend.

It reminds me of the successful Simi Valley Rodney King Beating Trial defense -- all those cops were scared of this one black guy who they had already beaten to the ground -- as they put it, he wouldn't stop fighting back and that was what was so scary ... even though they had guns and tasers and nightclubs and mace and ....

Is it racist? IMHO, absolutely.

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That trial and it's outcome bothered me then and still does now. I remember the day of that verdict.

Though I enjoyed your comment, I disagree on just one point. I feel the minute that trial was relocated from Los Angeles proper to Simi Valley, the cops were going to skate.

When the breathless CNN/Court TV/A Current Affair folks ran to the jurors, one of the twelve said King was "orchestrating the beating". Personally, I am amazed they actually deliberated for a week before that verdict. At this point in time, I am surprised it took them that long to acquit. The defense wanted the change of venue, knowing how that would affect their chances of acquittal. Sad to say, this tactic worked as well as any of them could have hoped.

End rant. I didn't type this to hijack the thread; D. Powe, thanks for your comment. Glenn, great post.

What empathy means in rightwing-speak

I think the reason discussions of empathy when emanating from Alito are brushed aside as hollow, irrelevant statements is because it’s understood to be a wink-and-a-nod to the same "values" that rightwingers always espouse and never practice (ie. “family values”, “Christian ethics”, “sanctity of life”, “civil liberties”, ”the constitution”, etc., etc., etc.).

A lack of empathy and understanding is as much a hallmark of the right wing ideology as being a white male.

-- JKP1000

Amen to that. These are the same Oedipus emulators who voted against extending unemployment benefits (every damn time) over the last 15 years.

@bernbart

asked many attorneys if they had ever heard of Glenn, Not one had, old or young.

Can you explain what your point is in continually bringing up anecdotes of this nature?

-- Paul Daniel Ash

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I normally would not jump in on this kind of thing, PDA, but I find trolls' posts like the one you quoted rather annoying. Not only does BBart have no point, she insists on making that rather clear... REPEATEDLY.

Mr. Ash, you have far more patience than I do.

...and I long ago stopped trying. Harold Meyerson or Eugene Robinson will occasionally give old Chuck a rhetorical wedgie, but that happens seldom.

Nixon, Ford, Reagan Lincoln Chaffee, Jim Jeffords and Olympia Snowe are too liberal for this town's Serious Folk. Scary. And sad.