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Thursday, December 20, 2007 12:00 AM

Waterboarding and false intelligence

Alex Koppelman on the case of Abu Zubaydah.

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  • Thursday, December 20, 2007 02:56 AM

    This disaster is "success"?

    I look at the rolling disasters in Iraq and Afghanistan and the Al-Quaeda strikes in Spain, England and other areas since 9/11 and then I listen to these immoral idiots telling me about the success of waterboarding! Jeus H. Christ! How stupid do they think we are? How stupid are they if they believe their own crap?

    I assume they are aware that Osama knew that his #1 man had been captured and would talk about future operations and therefore changed those operations. He must have been doing something like that because the years since 9/11 have been great for him and have nearly destroyed us.

    P.S. As I type this, an ad for "Charlie Wilson's War" is playing at the top of the screen. It starts tomorrow. I wonder if the movie will point out that Wilson (who dragooned the CIA into supplying ground to air missles to the Afgans to use on the Russians) also taught the Afghans and every other Muslim fanatic in the world that they could defeat a major nation's army AND trained thousands of them, including Osama, on how to do it? Here's some simple math: If no "Charlie Wilson's War" then No 9/11 + no disaster in Iraq and Afghanistan. Nice going Charlie. Nice going Tom Hanks.

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