OK, this is not what I signed up for. Andrew Sullivan accurately diagnoses President Obama’s stance on torture as “hate the torture, love the torturer,” linking to this story by Jonathan S. Landay, Ali Watkins and Marisa Taylor in the newsobserver, which tells me far more than I would like to know about the Obama…
Tag: Leon Douchebag Panetta
Leon Panetta, backstabbing asshole
If the U.S. spends the next 30 years wallowing aimlessly, and profitlessly, in an endless succession of Middle Eastern wars, one of the people you can blame is former CIA Director former SecDef Leon “The Sky is falling and it’s all Obama’s fault” Panetta. I bitched about Leon in the past for a long time…
Who’s worse, Leon Panetta or the New York Times?
Okay, not the whole New York Times. I mean, their food criticism is pretty bitchin’, and their coverage of the fashion scene is consistently awesome, but when it comes to world events, they’re not so hot. A case in point is a recent “article” attributed to Thom Shanker and David E. Sanger bearing the head…
Leon Panetta, he who cannot be offended, the cuddly cherub of death.
Last week, I wrote about the willingness of the New York Times to retroactively edit a story that went so far as to point out the gross and blood-stained apparent hypocrisies in Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s handling of our unhappy ally Pakistan, which occasionally frets over our policy of murdering its residents and citizens whenever…
Leon Panetta, laughing at life, and death (but the New York Times doesn’t think it’s funny)
Obviously, I should keep better records. Yesterday, the New York Times ran an article by Alissa J. Rubin on Defense Secretary’s current trip to Afghanistan, commenting, among other things, on the difficulties the U.S. encounters in both that country and neighboring Pakistan, due in large part to our persistent habit of murdering large numbers of…
Danger! Danger! Truth Overload! Israeli General calls Iran “very rational”! AP reveals dreaded North Korean missiles are fakes!
It’s true! Leon “the North Koreans are coming!” Panetta and the entire AIPAC nation must be having heart attacks at this news. I’ll let Jodi Rudoren at the NYT handle the first one: “The Israeli military chief [the chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Force, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz*] described the Iranian government as…
Leon Panetta: Less than inch from being a douchebag
U.S. troops film themselves urinating on corpses in Afghanistan. U.S. and allied troops burn copies of the Koran. A U.S. soldier goes berserk and murders 16 innocent Afghans. U.S. troops pose for photographs holding severed hands and legs. U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, we learn, has been flying home every weekend, to visit his…