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You don't understand why they would prefer that their national heroes weren't compared to a mass murderer?

+1, noodz.

Good news. I'm over the conspiracy stuff, so it won't be making any appearances anytime soon. It's amazing how some stuff is like a daily habit that gets dropped immediately when you don't get the mental reward for doing it. I'd rather do something productive.

See, people with severe ADHD that aren't on meds are something of Dopamine junkies. Meaning we go from one stupid menial task to the next for a thrill that will trigger some dopamine. No Dopamine means severe depression and you don't feel any sense of reward or accomplishment for anything.

It was a codename not a comparison. Seriously, the story sounds like something off of The Onion, or some other satire news site. They could have made the code name George Washington, and nobody would have given a shit.

I wish they had used my name for the codename. That would have been cool.

Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections "has become a black hole" because paperwork reportedly has become lost in the office.
Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud "Excuse me!" He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become a "white hole."
That prompted Judge Thomas Jones, who is black, to demand an apology from Mayfield for his racially insensitive analogy

"That was very demeaning to African American women. When it made reference to African American women as whores and at the end, it says 'watch your back,'" said Leon Jenkins of the Los Angeles NAACP.

It’s increasingly clear that the operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law. There appears to have been no attempt to apprehend the unarmed victim, as presumably could have been done by 80 commandos facing virtually no opposition—except, they claim, from his wife, who lunged towards them. In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress “suspects.” In April 2002, the head of the FBI, Robert Mueller, informed the press that after the most intensive investigation in history, the FBI could say no more than that it “believed” that the plot was hatched in Afghanistan, though implemented in the UAE and Germany. What they only believed in April 2002, they obviously didn’t know 8 months earlier, when Washington dismissed tentative offers by the Taliban (how serious, we do not know, because they were instantly dismissed) to extradite bin Laden if they were presented with evidence—which, as we soon learned, Washington didn’t have. Thus Obama was simply lying when he said, in his White House statement, that “we quickly learned that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by al Qaeda.”

Nothing serious has been provided since. There is much talk of bin Laden’s “confession,” but that is rather like my confession that I won the Boston Marathon. He boasted of what he regarded as a great achievement.

There is also much media discussion of Washington’s anger that Pakistan didn’t turn over bin Laden, though surely elements of the military and security forces were aware of his presence in Abbottabad. Less is said about Pakistani anger that the U.S. invaded their territory to carry out a political assassination. Anti-American fervor is already very high in Pakistan, and these events are likely to exacerbate it. The decision to dump the body at sea is already, predictably, provoking both anger and skepticism in much of the Muslim world.

We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. Uncontroversially, his crimes vastly exceed bin Laden’s, and he is not a “suspect” but uncontroversially the “decider” who gave the orders to commit the “supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole” (quoting the Nuremberg Tribunal) for which Nazi criminals were hanged: the hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees, destruction of much of the country, the bitter sectarian conflict that has now spread to the rest of the region.

There’s more to say about [Cuban airline bomber Orlando] Bosch, who just died peacefully in Florida, including reference to the “Bush doctrine” that societies that harbor terrorists are as guilty as the terrorists themselves and should be treated accordingly. No one seemed to notice that Bush was calling for invasion and destruction of the U.S. and murder of its criminal president.

Same with the name, Operation Geronimo. The imperial mentality is so profound, throughout western society, that no one can perceive that they are glorifying bin Laden by identifying him with courageous resistance against genocidal invaders. It’s like naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk… It’s as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes “Jew” and “Gypsy.”
There is much more to say, but even the most obvious and elementary facts should provide us with a good deal to think about.

http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/2652/no ... ion_to_os/

hehe

We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. Uncontroversially, his crimes vastly exceed bin Laden’s, and he is not a “suspect” but uncontroversially the “decider” who gave the orders to commit the “supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole” (quoting the Nuremberg Tribunal) for which Nazi criminals were hanged: the hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees, destruction of much of the country, the bitter sectarian conflict that has now spread to the rest of the region.

Idiotic.

Proof that intellect =/= intelligence.

I don't like Chomsky in the slightest but can you explain how that is so explicitly idiotic because I'm part of the intellectually brainwashed.

Nope, not this time. I'm not going get into another circle jerk with you. Better things to do than engage in endless bullshit.
If you can't glom onto what is idiotic about what I quoted, than I'd only be wasting my time.

Seriously comparing Bush to OBL / and evoking Hitler is so fucking stupid, that only the most vacuous imbecile would find themselves nodding their head in agreement.
It's pretty self evident, if you ask me.

Geriatric Profanity Disorder (GPD) > any and all disorders.

That analogy is a sketch and sounds like dude trying to be provocative but I think it raises an interesting point: that America would be pissed if another country's special forces came into the US and took someone prisoner or killed them. But that's the first complaint I've heard about America doing it to Pakistan.

Bush is a criminal and I state this unequivocally, yet in no way is he comparable to Hitler.

Does that make him a criminal? I don't know. Maybe it does.

Actually, that is not at all what makes him a criminal. What makes him a criminal is that we consented to certain international laws and he violated those. Numerous, numerous times. What did Osama bin Laden do violate international laws. One may be malicious, the other a puppet for the corporate interests he solidified through cabinet appoitnments yet that malice has not resulted in nearly a comparable amount of destruction to the bumbling wars of Bush. If we write Bush off as simply being manipulated by his cohorts, then why can't we write bin Laden off as a misguided zealot. Misguided zealots are almost more forgivable than the person who is the leader of the free world who let's his inner circle manipulate him. I don't know if Bush should be compared to bin Laden but I don't think Chomsky's claim was as inane as you claimed it to be.