» And no, the U.S. isn’t happy: Previously, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she hoped to see Shakil Afridi freed, as his work helped capture a pretty bad dude. Instead, Afridi is heading to jail, a move which will likely strain relations between the U.S. and Pakistan, who are currently locked in a diplomatic battle over Afghan War supply routes. (EDIT: We apologize for the inital error in the title. Total accident. Sorry guys.)
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The oldest bottle in his friend’s restaurant? an 1870 Chateau Lafite Rothschild. Years ago, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta made a bet with a restaurateur around his CIA-led mission to find Osama Bin Laden: If Panetta’s team caught Bin Laden, Ted Balestreri would open up a bottle of wine that predates the first automobile. Now that time’s come. With Bin Laden dead, Balestreri will uncork that 141-year-old bottle around New Year’s Eve. Did we mention the bottle costs between $10,000 and $15,000? Careful to walk a line, though, one of Panetta’s spokespeople notes that this gesture isn’t meant to celebrate Bin Laden’s death. “Secretary Panetta has had New Year’s Eve gatherings with toasts with friends for years and this year there will be a special toast,” noted Douglas Wilson, the assistant secretary of defense for public affairs. source
An American celebrates the death of Bin Laden.
With a John Deere, a big flag, and a handgun.
For the YouTube description of this video, he wrote: “Why? Because I can. That’s why.”
We could spend like an hour coming up with a joke to make this video better, but what’s the point? It’s clearly perfect as-is.
Today in The Guardian asking the right question with their front page.
That’s the spin on this story: Not that Obama’s intelligence staffers managed to warm up a lead that had completely gone cold (despite the fact that the storyline points to this), but that it was Bush policies that did it eventually. Here’s what Rumsfeld said:
“All of this was made possible by the relentless, sustained pressure on al Qaeda that the Bush administration initiated after 9/11 and that the Obama administration has wisely chosen to continue.”
Look, this whole thing cost a lot of money on all sides. Perhaps instead of crediting the national security monster that Bush constructed and Obama continued, we should look back and consider how lucky we were that we found that fresh lead last August. Sure, Rummy and Cheney helped construct the apparatus, but it was an apparatus that took a decade to crack the main nut. (inspired by a link from Soup)
It’s funny, cause Osama was killed by a bomb, as stated approx. 2,387 times by every news source reporting on it.
Actually, if you read the news stories: “Osama bin Laden was killed by a bullet fired by a United States Navy SEAL during a 40-minute helicopter assault on a fortified compound believed to have been purpose-built to hide the al-Qaeda leader.”
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