Obama Wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

[fed1943]

Jon Miller is right.
And "some of the rest of world" you spoke about are your friends, not your enemies.
Besides, if you act right, your enemies will be so few that you'll defeat them easily and cheaply.
Just defeat them the good way, like you defeated the Soviet Union.

[SlowwHand]

The Soviet Union imploded, pretty much on their own.

[SlowwHand]

John was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called pullets, and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs. He kept records, and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced. This took a lot of time, so he bought some tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell had a different tone, so he could tell from a distance which rooster was performing. Now, he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report by just listening to the bells.

John's favorite rooster, Ol’ Nick, was a very fine specimen, but this morning he noticed Ol’ Nick's bell hadn't rung at all! When he went to investigate, he saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover. To John's amazement, Ol’ Nick had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring. Ol’ Nick would sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.

John was so proud of Ol’ Nick, he entered him in the Renfrew County Fair and he became an overnight sensation among the judges. The result was the judges not only awarded Ol’ Nick the No Bell Piece Prize but they also awarded him the Pullet-surprise as well.

Clearly Ol’ Nick was a politician in the making. Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them when they weren't paying attention.

[Straybow]

[Q=fed1943;5692839]Jon Miller is right.
And "some of the rest of world" you spoke about are your friends, not your enemies.
Besides, if you act right, your enemies will be so few that you'll defeat them easily and cheaply.
Just defeat them the good way, like you defeated the Soviet Union.[/Q] You forget. All those terrorist attacks up to and including 9/11 were planned and trained for with Clinton in the White House. Can't blame the Bushes. Unless "act right" means "roll over and become Dhimmis in their own countries as the Islamists take over." Nope, we'd rather fight them over in Asia than here on our own soil.

[Grandpa Troll]

John was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called pullets, and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs. He kept records, and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced. This took a lot of time, so he bought some tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell had a different tone, so he could tell from a distance which rooster was performing. Now, he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report by just listening to the bells.

John's favorite rooster, Ol’ Nick, was a very fine specimen, but this morning he noticed Ol’ Nick's bell hadn't rung at all! When he went to investigate, he saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover. To John's amazement, Ol’ Nick had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring. Ol’ Nick would sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.

John was so proud of Ol’ Nick, he entered him in the Renfrew County Fair and he became an overnight sensation among the judges. The result was the judges not only awarded Ol’ Nick the No Bell Piece Prize but they also awarded him the Pullet-surprise as well.

Clearly Ol’ Nick was a politician in the making. Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them when they weren't paying attention.

Great reflection on our current simulated governtment, amazing, YoBama is pullin the wool over so many sheeple..not all of us citizens are fooled, just many

[Cort Haus]

Congrats to Fabio Capello.

When David Beckham was absurdly awarded the man-of-the-match in a game where he came on as a substitute and delivered an effective but unremarkable performance, the England Boss described the decision as "like the award of a Nobel Prize to Obama".

wd Fabio

[Zkribbler]

All those terrorist attacks up to and including 9/11 were planned and trained for with Clinton in the White House. Can't blame the Bushes

Wow, there's some revisionist history for ya. When Clinton left office, his administration warned Bush that Osama bin Ladin was one of the biggest threats to U.S. security. But, because the warning came from the Clinton administration, Bush ignored it and focused instead on resurrecting the Star Wars project.

[Straybow]

Sorry, Zk, no dice. Just because Bush couldn't use Cheney's bald head as a crystal ball to foresee the simultaneous hijacking of airplanes in an attack on US soil doesn't mean he ignored OBL. Nobody was in a position to do anything about OBL when he was sheltered in Afghanistan.

Nobody, that is, until Bush and Cheney decided to intervene in Afghanistan. So, I suppose that means you're all in favor of that decision?

[DaShi]

Then why didn't Bush intervene in Afghanistan before 9/11?

[SlowwHand]

Wow, there's some revisionist history for ya. When Clinton left office, his administration warned Bush that Osama bin Ladin was one of the biggest threats to U.S. security. But, because the warning came from the Clinton administration, Bush ignored it and focused instead on resurrecting the Star Wars project.

Clinton didn't do anything against terrorists. Well, he did the failed Somalia rescue with the U.N. looking on. Worthless pieces of crap that they are.

[Zkribbler]

From Clinton's interview on Fox News, 25 Sept. 2006:

Clinton: No, no. I authorized the CIA to get groups together to try to kill him.

The CIA, which was run by George Tenet, that President Bush gave the Medal of Freedom to, he said, He did a good job setting up all these counterterrorism things.

The country never had a comprehensive anti-terror operation until I came there.

Now, if you want to criticize me for one thing, you can criticize me for this: After the Cole, I had battle plans drawn to go into Afghanistan, overthrow the Taliban, and launch a full-scale attack search for bin Laden.

But we needed basing rights in Uzbekistan, which we got after 9/11.

The CIA and the FBI refused to certify that bin Laden was responsible while I was there. They refused to certify. So that meant I would've had to send a few hundred Special Forces in in helicopters and refuel at night.

Even the 9/11 Commission didn't do that. Now, the 9/11 Commission was a political document, too. All I'm asking is, anybody who wants to say I didn't do enough, you read Richard Clarke's book.

Wallace: Do you think you did enough, sir?

Clinton: No, because I didn't get him.

Wallace: Right.

Clinton: But at least I tried. That's the difference in me and some, including all the right-wingers who are attacking me now. They ridiculed me for trying. They had eight months to try. They did not try. I tried.

So I tried and failed. When I failed, I left a comprehensive anti-terror strategy and the best guy in the country, Dick Clarke, who got demoted.

[DinoDoc]

No one did all that much on terrorism issues if you read the 9/11 report.

[Zkribbler]

Not really, no.

Clinton fired cruise missiles at al Qaeda sites in Sudan.

And in 1998, fired cruise missiles at bin Ladin in Afghanistan. Unfortunately, to avoid any misunderstanding by Pakistan, which could believe it was an attack on it by India, Clinton warned Pakistan. Then extremist moles in Pakistani Intelligence passed the warning onto bin Ladin.

[Straybow]

[Q=DaShi;5693666]Then why didn't Bush intervene in Afghanistan before 9/11?[/Q] Because he didn't have a pair of ruby warmonger slippers that he could click his heels and say, "I want to conquer Afghanistan, I want to conquer Afghanistan, I want to conquer Afghanistan."

[SpencerH]

I dont blame President Clinton for failing to attack Afghanistan. I do blame him, however, for reducing the effectiveness of the CIA and other Intel agencies during his tenure. It seems to be a classic error of a Democrat President and unfortunately, we're seeing the same attitude towards Intel with Obama.