Comments on: Bonanza with Suits

By: Juan Moment

Juan Moment — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:29:35 +0000

the display of a real live hairy-backed example of the genre would rekindle enthusiasm for the Howard government

By: Link

Link — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:03:04 +0000

Sure he says he masterminded 9/11 and why wouldn’t he? But Bush got it wrong right from the start, because he’s a n unevolved human being, in every possible way ~~terified, cocky, little upstart, who now had more than one reason to go to war–’on terror’ and secretly thought it was a great adventure.~~ We’ll Shock and Awe ‘em! a bit of Hollywood razzle dazzle. Except they weren’t shocked and awed they were fucking furious and have been ever since, and will be for a long time to come. Thanks alot. Mate. A wiser person would have gone underground and covert and got his man. Then gone onto examine real issues. Not provoke a vehement beast. It was only one or two men they needed to be after not thousands of innocent beings across two countries.

By: Link

Link — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 05:44:26 +0000

Khalid

By: Amused

Amused — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:25:59 +0000

Indeed Anthony, my thoughts exactly. Now we have the actual perp of every known terorist outrage in the world for over ten years, it appears that the GWOT might tquieten down a bit perhaps? Or perhaps not.

The old Australian BS detectors are right on this one. I am very happy to say this, but the whole GWOT/threat to western civilisation meme has sunk, collapsed under the wieght of its own rhetorical bombast, and a failed war of choice in Iraq.

By: Francis X Holden

Francis X Holden — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:55:49 +0000

Look if you torture a middle to upper level manager to keep applying for positions, especuially their own position, then their CV or resume will end up claiming credit for every project that crossed their desk at some time. Since most projects are a team effort the resume will neither be a truth or an untruth. The questions to answers will also end up being what the interviewer wants to hear. Team player, passionate about selling mobile phone plans to centrelink customers, ” I think outside the square”, etc etc.

Clearly Khalid eventually learnt the interviewers language and shaped his CV. Clearly he had some role in the sales, service, technical and backroom teams but just how much he achieved we’ll never know.

By: perry

perry — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:48:40 +0000

I say tyhey keep torturing Khalid until he confesses to causing the train stoppages in Sydney this week.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:30:04 +0000

I could never understand how TV series like 24 could purport to show the value of torture because, rather than extract valuable information about ‘ticking bombs’ etc, I always took it as axiomatic that if you torture someone long enough they would confess to anything. Khalid’s case suggests that if you torture someone long enough they’ll confess to everything.

And if you do take seriously the revelation of Khalid not just as a ‘real proven baddie’ but as the person responsible for just about every actual and threatened terrorist attack in the past 6 years, it doesn’t so much support Howard by showing that the War on Terror is real as suggest that the War on Terror is over. Would the last one to leave turn out the lights.

(Or should that be would the last one to leave turn on the lights?)