One last thing before the Packers-Bears game. On the way home from work I was listening to NPR’s discussion of why Petraeus would point out that Iran’s senior diplomat to Iraq is a member of Quds. It seems that increasingly Shia militia in Southern Iraq are turning on their Iranian collaborators. Obviously, Iranian agents have had success in infiltrating Iraqi security forces. What’s perhaps less well appreciated is that those connections provide reciprocal opportunities for infiltration into Iranian forces. It is a by-product of this “quagmire” that we’re presented with the opportunity of reconstructing our intelligence assets in the Middle East.
Maggie Katzen points to documentary evidence that al-Qaeda planned to create a massacre at Haditha. They must be just about as disappointed as the NYT. Great conspectus here.
Comment by maggie katzen on 10/7 @ 6:05 pm #
speaking of infiltration. But, we’re all crazy for thinking AQ tries to manipulate the media.
Comment by Patrick Carroll on 10/7 @ 7:07 pm #
Well, it’s *a* “defining atrocity.” Just not *the* “defining atrocity.”
Comment by lee on 10/7 @ 7:20 pm #
“documentary evidence that al-Qaeda planned to create a massacre at Haditha”
Color me unsuprised.
Comment by JD on 10/7 @ 8:07 pm #
Packers are a nice story, and should easily dispatch of the now toothless Bears tonight. Does not really matter, the NFC is just fighting for the role of the Washington Capitals in the Super Bowl.
Comment by Moron Pundit on 10/7 @ 8:18 pm #
I hate to be a correcting Calvin but its the “Bears-Packers” game. And you have the audacity to complain about the editing in the MSM!
Heh… enjoy the game!
Comment by maggie katzen on 10/7 @ 8:53 pm #
uh, JD, it’s not looking so easy right now.
Comment by JD on 10/7 @ 9:04 pm #
Yeah. The Bears have been spiraling out of control since the ass whooping they took at the Super Bowl. Good to see them right the ship, but sorry to see it happen against the Pack.
Comment by Moron Pundit on 10/7 @ 9:13 pm #
Woooooooooooooohooooooooooooo!!!!!
Comment by JimmyG17 on 10/7 @ 9:41 pm #
2nd half. 3rd down and 2, twice. Give the ball to Rookie No-Name Running Back D, 2nd-Year-No-Name Running Back D-, or All-Universe Quarterback A+? McCarthy’s answer…”I are football coach. Me run ball.” Chickenshit bullshit.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 10/7 @ 9:56 pm #
And I want to make sure that Iran believes that the Quds Force has been infiltrated. Internal purges and a tightening of security plays such havoc with the loyal members.
Comment by thor on 10/7 @ 11:29 pm #
Who the hell was on the take? Effen Packers looked like they fixed themselves to lose. The fuck sort’a play calling was that in the second half? It was obvious enough that a stadium full of Packers fans were booing their own team because of the shit play calling. Three-yard dump passes into the middle and then a run up the middle on third and long? Dallas made Chicago look like a bunch of frozen midgets and so did Green Bay in the first half, then no slant patterns, nothing over the top? The Packers so openly gave the game away I hope the NFL is investigating the coaching staff for mob/gamblng connections.
Comment by madmatt on 10/8 @ 7:17 am #
Why shouldn’t they work together, they both rightly hate america and we here in the states give them new reasons to hate us each and every day.
Comment by Squid on 10/8 @ 7:31 am #
They don’t hate us nearly as much as you do, Matt. And that stings, y’know?
Comment by maggie katzen on 10/8 @ 9:07 am #
what did I do?
Comment by McGehee on 10/8 @ 1:50 pm #
Speak for yourself.
Comment by buzz on 10/8 @ 3:14 pm #
“they both rightly hate america and we here in the states give them new reasons to hate us each and every day.”
The people who live in Iran and are not part of the government don’t. Most of them are too young to even remember ‘79. They seem to love America. Guess they are not as smart as you are.
Unless your talking about the Bears/Packers. If so, never mind.
Comment by Carl Gordon on 10/8 @ 5:33 pm #
Ah yes, spin us more yarns of daring do, diabolical intrigues, and implausible reasoning, Captain Sticky. You speaketh with grave and glib intonations and slippery illogical erudition of evil events and actions as yet to be realized except on Saturday morning cartoons created for compassionate National Socialists and self-important imbreds from the moral majority. The diabolical schemes and Satanic knotted String Theory you so desperately cling to has much to add to the potty discourse of your dubious dialogue for dummies. But then, here lies the rub…. and you are the rubee. With a desire to slash away at further useless blather, as with Occam’s Razor, I strive to bring an atoll of tropical (topical?) clarity to this rigged hand of Canasta you have so crookedly dealt. Barring significant joint dislocation, road rash, spinal stenosis, stubbed toes or testicle twists….I expect to see your bucktoothed Smiling Jack joviality at the next booze ladened Campus for Christ Crystal Nacht and other such pitiful pathetic pleasures that are the want of so many of your fellow water-carriers as they eagerly await a stall to open for business, you toe-tapping yanker.
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/8 @ 5:37 pm #
You can go pound pud, too, dipshit poetaster.
Comment by Carl Gordon on 10/8 @ 6:08 pm #
Hey pal, the cold reality of our, your, existence is that no body gives a shit.We are alone in the universe and nobody cares, least of all the people that regularly log into your blog. Well, fuck it, I care.But that is cold oatmeal to a guy with the kind of pain you and all the beneficiaries of this compasionate conservatism are suffering. I have no answers, I have friendship. Someone told me to debate youse and yours, ala, win their hearts and their ass will follow, but I said it wouldn’t help. We all feel pain. Yours is special, and therapy won’t make it go away. It helps sometimes to distract us, help us to ‘adjust’ to it, may reframe the meaning of pain. But for you the pain is there no matter who says it ain’t. It may help to share life’s pain with a friend. Hey, Ruby down at the Crow’s Nest is looking for a friend. But then Ruby has great tits and only charges $100 bucks to enjoy them (her?) So much for therapy. I ain’t got the tits, but I’m a friend.
Comment by Dan Collins on 10/8 @ 6:14 pm #
All right. Well, I prefer plain speaking, friend. Or at least a bit less linguistic frippery.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 10/9 @ 4:29 am #
Someone woke up on the high side of their self-opinion, that’s for sure.
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