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Incoming House intelligence chief not intelligent
Rep. Silvestre Reyes of Texas, who incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tapped to head the Intelligence Committee when the Democrats take over in January, failed a quiz of basic questions about al Qaeda and Hezbollah, two of the key terrorist organizations the intelligence community has focused on since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
When asked by CQ National Security Editor Jeff Stein whether al Qaeda is one or the other of the two major branches of Islam -- Sunni or Shiite -- Reyes answered "they are probably both," then ventured "Predominantly -- probably Shiite." That is wrong. Al Qaeda was founded by Osama bin Laden as a Sunni organization and views Shiites as heretics. Reyes could also not answer questions put by Stein about Hezbollah, a Shiite group on the U.S. list of terrorist organizations that is based in Southern Lebanon. Stein's column about Reyes' answers was published on CQ's Web site Friday evening. In an interview with CNN, Stein said he was "amazed" by Reyes' lack of what he considers basic information about two of the major terrorists organizations. "If you're the baseball commissioner and you don't know the difference between the Yankees and the Red Sox, you don't know baseball," Stein said. "You're not going to have the respect of the people you work with." http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2006/12/incoming-house-intelligence-chief.html |
Kinda reminds me of the horse farmer who was put in charge of FEMA
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Of course he's an idiot, sez the problem along the Border is due to not enough "Diversity", heard him say so myself.
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And I thought CNN was a supposed to be a liberal mouthpiece. Commie News Network??
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Anyone catch the qualifications of Pelosi's third choice? ...and Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida, who had been impeached as a federal judge after being accused of taking a bribe. Ya gotta love these folks.
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http://www.bradley.edu/turnercenter/images/unclesam.jpg GIVE ME IT ALL YOU HOLD OUT! |
It's not too late for Pelosi to choose Jane Harman, who actually does know about Intelligence. But Pelosi's caught up in her little b!tch fight with Harman.
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That's no real suprise, 'Government Intelligence' is a contradiction in terms.
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"Stan, you came back. Does that mean... you learned the importance of voting?"
Stan: "I learned that I'd better get used to having to pick between a giant douche and a turd sandwich because it's usually the choice I'll have. " |
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I feel so much safer now with the Democrats in charge of everything. They are going to make everything right and the bad boys will leave us alone and we can come home and play here again.
Course that is until they regroup, rearm and come to America to kick our worthless a$$'es for being weak. Then Pelosi will be asking where all the "John Wayne" types are only to be told that you budget cuts mustered them out of the military... |
The Dem's will be promoting anti-war policies and an anti-war president in 2008 during war time.
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Grow up, please. |
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