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CHATTING WITH THE TERRORISTS

Talking With The Enemy Will Only Increase Violence!

Here’s a curious pairing of headlines from the Washington Post website. John McCain, as he has been and will continue doing for the next eight years, called Obama a softie who ignorantly treats our enemies like actual human beings. Obama thinks *talking* to dangerous regimes, in some form, will achieve anything? Like a truce or something? Go back to Harvard, Columbia elitist! Talking with the enemy will only result in twenty more 9/11s and universal cancer. [Washington Post]


1:55 PM on Tue June 17 2008
By Jim Newell
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  1. shortsshortsshorts says at 1:57 pm, June 17th, 2008

    Umm, didn’t WALNUTS say the same things about communicating with our enemies? Hmmm….

  2. 4tehlulz says at 1:59 pm, June 17th, 2008

    Israel has a September 10th mindset.

  3. confusionanddelay< says at 1:59 pm, June 17th, 2008

    I don’t think WALNUTS has eight years left in him.

  4. MARCdMan says at 2:01 pm, June 17th, 2008

    You forgot the mandatory gay marriage and cats and dogs living together.

  5. AngryBlakGuy says at 2:01 pm, June 17th, 2008

    …GEEEEEEZ! Will ONE of WALNUTS! talking points be proven right? Just one c’mon!

  6. AngryBlakGuy says at 2:02 pm, June 17th, 2008

    confusionanddelay<: …I use to say that about Dick Cheney!

  7. shortsshortsshorts says at 2:03 pm, June 17th, 2008

    AngryBlakGuy:
    WALNUTS also went from criticizing Gitmo to saying that reinstating Habeas Corpus was
    “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.”

    Ohhhh WALNUTS!

  8. Cicada says at 2:03 pm, June 17th, 2008

    More “arguments” from the McCain camp:

    War is Peace!
    No is Yes! (for Clayton Williams)
    Negotiation is Appeasement!
    Healthcare is Socialism!
    Iran is Al Queda!

  9. bonghitsforjesus says at 2:03 pm, June 17th, 2008

    Howabout we blast McCain as ‘naive’ and ‘delusional’ if he thinks getting the Republican nomination is anything more than a gold watch and ass-pat for letting Dubya cut his balls off for the last four years? I think it’s time for someone to ‘ride the silver bullet’ back to the assisted living center…

  10. DirkLeisure says at 2:06 pm, June 17th, 2008

    NOOOOOOOO, Israel! It’s a trick! Don’t do it! Listen to the folks who got Iraq 100% right! Only WALNUTS!(TM) can save you now!

  11. grundle burrito says at 2:08 pm, June 17th, 2008

    No more using words like “slam” or “blast” when there is not actual slamming or blasting. “Obama slams basketball” and “McCain blasts audiences with fecal matter (because that’s what old people do)” would be acceptable here.

  12. tsunami says at 2:09 pm, June 17th, 2008

    when mccain hears about this, those damned egyptians are fucked.
    no more mr nice guy.

  13. I want to email that image to McCain over and over again, but then I remember that McCain is computer illiterate.

  14. FreshCliches says at 2:14 pm, June 17th, 2008

    “McCain Advisers Slam *CANDIDATE ENDORSED BY HAMAS*”

    “Israel, *ENDORSERS OF OBAMA* Agree To Truce”

    There, fixed.

  15. Manofsteel says at 2:14 pm, June 17th, 2008

    Personally, I prefer Julia Roberts’ approach to dealing with “the enemy”: Secretly taking swimming lessons at the YWCA, faking your death in a boating accident, getting a new, crappy haircut and relocating to Iowa. America needs to take secret swimming lessons, collectively fake our own deaths in the Persian Gulf and swim to Sioux City wearing new hooker wigs.

  16. AngryBlakGuy says at 2:16 pm, June 17th, 2008

    …in the immortal word of Dr. Peter Venkman:

    …human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… MASS HYSTERIA!!!

    See what you have started Israel!?

  17. edgydrifter says at 2:17 pm, June 17th, 2008

    grundle burrito: I don’t think you can use “blast” in that context. Folks of McThusela’s, um, vintage don’t blast fecal matter. They ooze it involuntarily.

  18. Godless Liberal * says at 2:19 pm, June 17th, 2008

    This only proves that Israel does not understand terrorism or the complexities of Middle Eastern politics.

  19. norbizness says at 2:23 pm, June 17th, 2008

    If McCain contends that an extrajudicial system of imprisonment and torture carried out by military leaders is superior to international, cooperative efforts, that can only mean that he admires his VC captors more than the Constitution.

  20. grundle burrito says at 2:25 pm, June 17th, 2008

    edgydrifter: Ah yes, the McCain slug trail. I’ve seen it around town.

  21. Gopherit v2.0 says at 2:28 pm, June 17th, 2008

    Listen to McCain. He know from experience, there’s just no “reasoning” with the goo….err enemy.

  22. Uncle Al says at 2:28 pm, June 17th, 2008

    It says “McCain ADVISERS Slam Obama.”
    McCain has slammed anything in years.

  23. DirkLeisure says at 2:31 pm, June 17th, 2008

    Israel is only 50, so it is young, naive and delusional.

  24. shortsshortsshorts says at 2:31 pm, June 17th, 2008

    Uncle Al: I don’t know, he’s probably slammed Cindy against a couple of walls recently, that trollop.

  25. ManchuCandidate says at 2:31 pm, June 17th, 2008

    We’ve all seen what talking does. Instead of the glorious nuclear Armageddon we all deserved to die in called World War Three, US America and the Bear actually the unthinkable and talked thus awfully prevented the cleansing beautiful fire from happening. Fucking peaceniks and their non missile shooting ways.

  26. shortsshortsshorts says at 2:31 pm, June 17th, 2008

    *WALL
    /fixed

  27. Happy Fun Ball says at 2:34 pm, June 17th, 2008

    If McSame hates talking and also hates war (he told me himself in that recent ad), what are our other options? Are we going to shame our enemies into laying down their arms by deliberately picking them last for kickball during recess? Boycotting their advertisers?

  28. ManchuCandidate says at 2:36 pm, June 17th, 2008

    Note:
    Dandy Randy’s major gubbiment Serbice:
    Government Service
    Office of the Secretary of Defense: Consultant on Iraq policy, 2001

  29. 4tehlulz says at 2:40 pm, June 17th, 2008

    DirkLeisure: It’s sixty, so it may be a little….slow now.

  30. superfecta says at 2:42 pm, June 17th, 2008

    Don’t we usually make our client states do the actual negotiation anyway? I mean, we ignored Libya for years to let the British deal with them and now Bush is BFF with Qadaffi (or something like that).

  31. shortsshortsshorts says at 2:42 pm, June 17th, 2008

    I met a guy who was vehemently on the track of nuking the entire middle-east. Heh????

  32. Walter Sobchak says at 2:43 pm, June 17th, 2008

    Happy Fun Ball: He just figures those of us that don’t die from no healthcare will get our homes foreclosed on and move to some country where brown folks live, then he can secretly bomb us. It’s a win-win!

  33. Botswana Meat Commission FC says at 2:43 pm, June 17th, 2008

    Ugh. Fucking Egypt has a higher international diplomatic profile these days than the U.S. How about a few less hours in the gym and maybe put in some actual work there, Condi?

  34. edgydrifter says at 3:08 pm, June 17th, 2008

    Botswana Meat Commission FC: Easy there. Those Ferragamos aren’t going to walk themselves into Condi’s closet. The lady has a grueling shopping schedule to maintain.

  35. SayItWithWookies says at 3:08 pm, June 17th, 2008

    DirkLeisure: Really — haven’t they seen Battlestar Galactica?

  36. nhunter says at 3:08 pm, June 17th, 2008

    So did we all see that the NYT is reporting that Condie is in Lebanon meeting with “leaders from both the government majority and the Hezbollah-led opposition?”

    Condie <3 Hezbollah!

    Did Faux News cover this story at all? I can just imagine that “terrorist fist jab” bimbo trying to spin Condie shaking hands with representatives of a terrorist group.

  37. DirkLeisure: Israel is 60, yo.

  38. Cicada:

    Forwards, not backwards!
    Upwards, not forwards!
    And always twirling…TWIRLING TOWARDS FREEDOM!

  39. S.Luggo says at 4:09 pm, June 17th, 2008

    The Israelis: naive, delusional, white wine-sipping, falafel-munching appeasers. Next, they will stab us in the back by joining the UN.

  40. Ah..Trick or Treaty? For UNICEF?

  41. You see McCain learned in the Hanoi Hilton if you talk you don’t get your salad tossed and whipped by the guards

  42. Botswana Meat Commission FC: Fucking Egypt sounds nice. Does she look more like Cindy or John. Or is she a tanned Meghan on the job?

  43. Canuckledragger says at 6:16 pm, June 17th, 2008

    You know whose fault this is? Jimmy Fuckin’ Carter, ‘coz he was over there not long ago and brokered this lack of carnage.

    And you know what WALNUTS! has been saying recently? “Barack Obama’s gonna be Jimmy Carter’s second term!”

    Next thing ya know, peace will break out all over, the heavens will open up, celestial choirs will sing…..

    Obama must be stopped I tells ya. If not, how can the military-industrial complex survive? Who will put 20 billion into the coffers of Haliburton and KBR? How will Dick Cheney pay for shit in his dotage? If this keeps up, nobody will get 72 virgins!

    Fuckin’ hippies. Kill ‘em all and let Allah figger it out.

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