the freestyle comedy shennanigans of the Long War

"We embolden the enemy by sending mixed messages." ---President Bush

be afraid, be very afraid

"It's almost too easy to be a terrorist these days. You stick a box on a corner and you can shut down a city."Jennifer Mason, 26

Where do they get their material, it is pure gold.

Officials found 38 blinking electronic signs promoting the Cartoon Network TV show "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" on bridges and other high-profile spots across the city Wednesday, prompting the closing of a highway and the deployment of bomb squads. The surreal series is about a talking milkshake, a box of fries and a meatball. The network is a division of Turner Broadcasting Systems Inc.
The 1-foot tall signs, which were lit up, resembled a circuit board, with protruding wires and batteries. Most depicted a boxy, cartoon character giving passersby the finger — a more obvious sight when darkness fell.
"It's clear the intent was to get attention by causing fear and unrest that there was a bomb in that location," Assistant Attorney General John Grossman said at their arraignment.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/01/national/main2420426.shtml

http://www.xoverboard.com/blogarchive/week_2007_01_28.html#002026

for an indepth look at the mirthful wonder that is the "war on terror" and how the comedic geniuses got the whole ball rolling see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares

Its being repeated on SBS wednesday night (sorry u missed the first, but never mind just download and laugh)

makes the punchline "now we can all get some sleep, after we bomb Iran" all that much more hilarious. Honestly, I wet myself, oh lord wont you buy me a new prostrate and some diapers.

Will this foiled terrorist incident be included in Bushes next state of the union? If so how many dead will he claim are not dead because of the heroic actions of the forces that be. Answer to be between 1 and 100 x 9/11.

Although the best joke of the week came from the glowing king of belly laughs, Dik "quickdraw" Cheny on the Denmark of the Middle East, Iraq:

"Bottom line is that we've had enormous successes, and we will continue to have enormous successes." He denied that Iraq was a "terrible situation.

http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20070212&s=editorial021207

http://www.iraqslogger.com/index.php/post/1135/Jon_Stewart_Everything_Emboldens_the_Terrorists

although Bush makes a play for the title with this little gem:

BUSH: Some are trying to take my words and say, "Well, what he's really trying to do is go invade Iran." Nobody's talking about that. I am, however --

STARK: You have ruled out military action in Iran?

BUSH: No. All options are on the table, of course, in anything. But to say that defending ourselves in Iraq means that, you know, has some greater goal is just simply not the case.

Do I contradict myself, very well contradict this muthafucker.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/02/01/the-edge-of-the-abyss/

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki finally makes some sense when he stated

"We have told the Iranian and the Americans, 'We know that you have a problem with each other, but we are asking you please solve your problems outside Iraq.' We don't want the American forces to take Iraq as a field to attack Iran or Syria,"

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/01/31/iraq.almaliki/

iraq, from an iraqi perspective:

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?code=enopinionen

(A recent poll conducted by researchers at Baghdad University found that readers in southern Iraq regard Azzaman as "neutral and independent" as well as "highly objective", and that it is the most popular news source in the area)