In what appears to be the first diplomatic casualty from the latest WikiLeaks revelations, the U.S. ambassador to Libya has returned to Washington and is likely to leave his post, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
Libya doesn’t like American ambassadors speculating on what Gaddafi does with his “nurses,” it turns out. Perhaps this diplomat will sue Julian Assange now? “The court orders the defendant to give all his wealth, which is like ten chickens and a Santa costume, to the plaintiff.”
Current and former American officials have bemoaned the WikiLeaks disclosures’ potential impact on Washington’s foreign policy. Sources are less likely to approach American diplomats with sensitive information if there is a risk it will end up in the public domain, they say.
Already, there are anecdotal reports that foreign leaders have circumscribed meetings with U.S. envoys, insisting in some cases that note-takers or other American staff be excluded.
Meh, American diplomacy was fun while it lasted. Time to close up shop if we can’t gossip anymore. [McClatchy]
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Please call the editor of the Wonkette Times crossword and tell him that ‘Khaddafi’ is spelled with an h, and two d’s, and isn’t a seven letter word for anything.
It's spelled Qadhafi by the State Department. Perhaps that's the real reason he took offense.
Ahem.
Yep.
Leo McGarry in West Wing, right? i didnt expand the replies yet, just wanted to take a guess
HAHA!
http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0018973/quotes
Sources are less likely to approach American diplomats with sensitive information if there is a risk it will end up in the public domain, they say.
Well acting like the town gossip doesn't help matters does it?
It was probably the speculation that Gadhafi enjoys flamenco dancing that was the real outrage.
You Tripoli(e)!
That would be in in the Teabagging states?
Geez, this nation used to do things like kill Ghadaffi's children with bombs, now it just spreads rumors about how likes to hang out with hotties?
Weak.
I don't think Q. and the hotties is any secret at all.
But really, do we need informants when we can just torture people?
Yeah, and creating all of those 'testicular electrocutioner' positions HELPS THE JOB MARKET.
Oh great — what are our diplomats gonna talk about now if they can't mention Vladimir Putin's moobs* or Silvio Berlusconi's liaisons with underage Algerian prostitutes? It would be like if the Huffington Post just covered politics and news.
*(O/T, but Putin's Moobs was a rejected name for Gerry Rafferty's band Stealer's Wheel.)
I would have guessed the title of the next Sarah Palin tome.
Can we pleeez have some pics of this voluptuous nurse? C'mon, media — this is your job!
http://www1.pictures.zimbio.com/mp/mErhY6ecsL-m.j…
does. not. compute.
It's good to be a dictator, or very rich, or both.
Don't forget his all-female bodyguards.
Holy shitballs — that must be more cash than I can really imagine. Gotta be…
Looks like Bob Dylan. & pulls trim like Bob Dylan.
How do we know Bob Dylan is not معمر القذافي ?
That image takes first place for differential juxtaposition.
The Town Gossip in Camden, Missouri in the 40's and 50's (pop. 385) was Orrie Sellars. The Orrie Sellars for the World in the 21st Century is obviously the U.S. State Department.
Wait until Libya finds out that all State Department computers have the pix of Momer Godiva having lunch ay the Ivy with Phoebe Price ("they were all over each other and they didn't care who saw them") as wallpaper.
So sad that Gregory Issacs is not here to see this…
Gregory Isaacs – Night Nurse http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6oYyG0KcvQ
Interview for Ghaddafi "voluptuous nurse" job:
The only things American diplomacy has accomplished in recent memory are propping up banana republics, finding new places to set up extrajudicial torture chambers, and finding new reasons to kill brown people, i.e. "warfare by other means." So I'm not going to be weeping for its death any time soon.
Unless you're that smarmy, botoxed, man-boobed, British twit Simon Cowell, honesty will get you fired every fucking time.
TEN chickens?
Looks like the fox has gotten into the Assange hen house again.
You realize that US ambassadors are all dip-shit businessmen to whom the president owes a favor? That they generally don't speak the language of the country they go to? Right now, the US ambassador to Great Britain is some real estate man who gave Obama a butt-load of money early in the campaign. Some years ago, at the time of the spy plane stupidity, the US ambassador to China was some guy who'd been head of the US Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong and who sorta spoke pidgin Cantonese.
Not that the "real" diplomats are any better. Paul Wolfowitz springs to mind.
Diplomacy is hard.
anyone who wins court case against poor julian assange can get two hot swedish girls for his payment.
I actually think Assange is an idiot for doing a mass release of the documents. Not because of potential damage to our diplomatic relations, but because our media will never get beyond Ukrainian "nurses" and Berlusconi's drinking.
Pfizer interferes with due process in Nigeria because of botched drug tests—BORing!
UK training Bangladeshi death squads—YAWN
Saudi Arabia says bomb Iran, please–WHERE ARE THE BOOBZ?
Probably the revelations about McChrystal and the bashibachi orgies are still being circulated and laughed at in the various newspapers.
That includes the USA. I sometimes wonder what I'm missing, being circumcized in infancy.
Surprise! Infinity money is very handsome.
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