Meanwhile over at Jim Robinson's FreeRepublic....

[Aviation Pro]

...they are actually glorifying Cheney as Darth Vader. Obviously deranged, no doubt psychotic, the average member of Jim Robinson's FreeRepublic lives in a sick, twisted world of his/her own. Halliburton and KBR better line the cells of the prisons they are building with the softest of foam to hold these nutcases once their beloved Bush and Cheney are removed from office.

Full link is here and I've included the pic from post 5: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794274/posts


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When Dick Cheney Talks, Pakistan Listens
ABC News ^ | March 2, 2007 | Brian Ross


Posted on 03/02/2007 3:40:13 PM PST by Saberwielder


When Dick Cheney Talks, Pakistan Listens

March 02, 2007 12:43 PM

Brian Ross and Habibullah Khan Report:

Pakistan intelligence sources say a second high-ranking Taliban leader has been taken into custody, as the country appeared to be responding to Vice President Dick Cheney's showdown meeting with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.

Pakistani officials told ABC News the new arrest also took place in Quetta, where on Monday, the former Taliban defense minister was arrested just hours after Cheney had left the country.

Pakistani officials identified him as Amir Khan Haqqani, a Taliban commander for Zabul province.

"Isn't it amazing how quickly they were able to find these men?" scoffed one intelligence source familiar with the Cheney meeting.

Pakistani officials say both men were arrested at the same Quetta hotel, Gul Pak Hotel, based on information provided by the United States.

CIA Deputy Director Stephen R. Kappes accompanied Vice President Cheney to the meeting with Musharraf and reportedly presented "compelling evidence" of the resurgence of Taliban and al Qaeda training camps inside Pakistan.

U.S. officials say Cheney and Kappes also focused on the presence of known Taliban leaders operating in Pakistani cities.

Pakistani intelligence officials say Kappes provided the whereabouts of three Taliban figures in and around Quetta, but the third person "slipped out" before authorities could arrest him.

The failure of Musharraf to go after Taliban leaders has been a sore point with the United States for several years.

One arm of the Pakistani intelligence service, the ISI, is known to have been close to Taliban leaders before the U.S. invasion in 2001, and U.S. officials say that close relationship has continued.

Defectors taken into custody in Afghanistan have claimed the ISI was protecting top Taliban figures as well as Osama bin Laden.

Pakistan has denied those allegations as "absurd."

ABC News consultant Alexis Debat contributed to this report.



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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: CHENEY; MUSHARRAF; PAKISTAN; TALIBAN
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Amazing how the Pakistanis can find these guys all of a sudden. Amazing!

1 posted on 03/02/2007 3:40:15 PM PST by Saberwielder
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Ping!



2 posted on 03/02/2007 3:40:52 PM PST by Saberwielder
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Pakistani intelligence officials say Kappes provided the whereabouts of three Taliban figures in and around Quetta, but the third person "slipped out" before authorities could arrest him.
And yet the shifty SOB's let one slip away..

Want to bet it was Mullah Omar.


3 posted on 03/02/2007 3:49:48 PM PST by Dog
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Do not trust the Pakistanis....they are not our friends.



4 posted on 03/02/2007 3:50:22 PM PST by Dog
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Whose next?


5 posted on 03/02/2007 3:53:18 PM PST by Dog
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[MADem]

1. What do you expect? They're stupid idiots who think that this shit is a team sport

They think destruction is the goal. They're .... ASSES.

[Aviation Pro]

2. I am bothered that they breathe the same oxygen as me....

...they are sick twists and air theives.

[StClone]

3. If only 18% Americans Approve of DIck Cheney

It says a lot about what realm of reality these so-called Freepers inhabit.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. In that photo he looks just like the evil Sith Lord

[Donnachaidh]

5. I know I shouldn't know this, but that isn't a DARTH costume

It's a jedi cloak.

Yes, I have been watching Star Wars lately. :bounce:

[TheBaldyMan]

6. that's not Darth Cheney - that's the evil Emperor Palpitations

call yourself a Star Wars geek? sheesh.

[Bicoastal]

7. Conservatives are notoriously tone-deaf...

...when it comes to popular culture.

Remember when Santorum made a Lord of the Rings analogy that, as Jon Stewart pointed out, made it sound like he was comparing the US to Mordor?

But my favorite was when someone posted a sound clip of Jack Nicholson's angrily patriotic courtroom monologue from "A Few Good Men" on there ("You want me on that wall! You NEED me on that wall!"), with words to the effect of "You tell 'em, Jack!" printed underneath.

Many FReepers responded in the affirmative. What NO ONE mentioned is that

a) Nicholson is the villain of the movie, and in fact seconds later admits to abusing his command to order the mistreatment (and eventual death) of an incompetent marine, wherupon he is promptly arrested.

See for Yourself

b) Jack Nicholson the actor in real life is far, far from being an embodiment of patriotic conservative values, and neither is
c) Rob Reiner, the film's director.

Notice how they can never tell the good guys from the bad guys? :D