Comments on: With Spear And Magic Helmet? http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/31/with-spear-and-magic-helmet/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:56:53 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: erik28com http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/31/with-spear-and-magic-helmet/#comment-730645 erik28com Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:48:30 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/31/with-spear-and-magic-helmet/#comment-730645 <p>By the way you just derailed my late night blog reading and I am now watching all the looney toons I can find on youtube. Guess politics will have to wait.</p> By the way you just derailed my late night blog reading and I am now watching all the looney toons I can find on youtube. Guess politics will have to wait.

]]> By: erik28com http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/31/with-spear-and-magic-helmet/#comment-730639 erik28com Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:46:33 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/31/with-spear-and-magic-helmet/#comment-730639 <p>If we don’t fight them over there the wabbits will follow us home!</p> If we don’t fight them over there the wabbits will follow us home!

]]> By: Chasm http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/31/with-spear-and-magic-helmet/#comment-730102 Chasm Thu, 31 May 2007 23:19:18 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/31/with-spear-and-magic-helmet/#comment-730102 <p>That picture is a FAKE! Call Michelle Malkin!</p> <p>It was clearly staged, there are metal stalls that sell jewlery EXACTLY like that on the boardwalk in Venice Beach. It could have been taken anywhere. I want proof.</p> That picture is a FAKE! Call Michelle Malkin!

It was clearly staged, there are metal stalls that sell jewlery EXACTLY like that on the boardwalk in Venice Beach. It could have been taken anywhere. I want proof.

]]> By: John D. http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/31/with-spear-and-magic-helmet/#comment-729673 John D. Thu, 31 May 2007 19:40:59 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/31/with-spear-and-magic-helmet/#comment-729673 <blockquote><p>Calling it a Dukakis moment implies that it was just silly. This thing, sadly, was far worse than silly. It’s going to get people killed, and you can bet that the AP won’t be covering it when that happens.</p></blockquote> <p>I couldn’t agree more. By all rights, watching HoJo parade around in an outfit that makes Mike Dukakis’ tank getup look positively <em>butch</em> by comparison should be hilarious. He looks like a cross between Sargent Shultz and Droopy Dog.</p> <p>But in a couple of the pics I’ve seen from this little stunt, Lieberman looks honestly terrified, even surrounded as he is by heavily armed escorts. You can practically smell the fear radiating off him. For him to go through that and then revert to Business As Usual once he’s safely back home, parroting the usual happy talk bullshit, is just too fucking much.</p>

Calling it a Dukakis moment implies that it was just silly. This thing, sadly, was far worse than silly. It’s going to get people killed, and you can bet that the AP won’t be covering it when that happens.

I couldn’t agree more. By all rights, watching HoJo parade around in an outfit that makes Mike Dukakis’ tank getup look positively butch by comparison should be hilarious. He looks like a cross between Sargent Shultz and Droopy Dog.

But in a couple of the pics I’ve seen from this little stunt, Lieberman looks honestly terrified, even surrounded as he is by heavily armed escorts. You can practically smell the fear radiating off him. For him to go through that and then revert to Business As Usual once he’s safely back home, parroting the usual happy talk bullshit, is just too fucking much.

]]> By: alank http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/31/with-spear-and-magic-helmet/#comment-729614 alank Thu, 31 May 2007 19:16:53 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/31/with-spear-and-magic-helmet/#comment-729614 <p>The future’s so bright, he’s gotta wear shades!</p> The future’s so bright, he’s gotta wear shades!

]]> By: Jacqrat http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/31/with-spear-and-magic-helmet/#comment-729543 Jacqrat Thu, 31 May 2007 18:31:33 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/31/with-spear-and-magic-helmet/#comment-729543 <p>Coming to the thread late, again… but did anyone mention the cameo that LIEberman made at about 3:40 into the cartoon?</p> <p>(The Horse’s ASS turns around and sits down)</p> <p>(rimshot!)</p> Coming to the thread late, again… but did anyone mention the cameo that LIEberman made at about 3:40 into the cartoon?

(The Horse’s ASS turns around and sits down)

(rimshot!)

]]> By: big brother http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/31/with-spear-and-magic-helmet/#comment-729541 big brother Thu, 31 May 2007 18:31:22 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/31/with-spear-and-magic-helmet/#comment-729541 <p>In your face zionism in the heart of the ARAB WORLD. Like the “bring it on comment” by dubya. Swagger arrogance is this. What happened to “walk softly and carry a big stick”? What would Molly Ivins have said? The eternal war and the Dems rolled on us. I want no part of collusion but the parade of western asshole is fodder for al Jezzera and great terrorist recruiting I am sad to say. Our teoops pay the price for the neocon madness. How can it be allowed? Stupifying! All the leaders are lawyers not patriots with principals.</p> In your face zionism in the heart of the ARAB WORLD. Like the “bring it on comment” by dubya. Swagger arrogance is this. What happened to “walk softly and carry a big stick”? What would Molly Ivins have said? The eternal war and the Dems rolled on us. I want no part of collusion but the parade of western asshole is fodder for al Jezzera and great terrorist recruiting I am sad to say. Our teoops pay the price for the neocon madness. How can it be allowed? Stupifying! All the leaders are lawyers not patriots with principals.

]]> By: spurious http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/31/with-spear-and-magic-helmet/#comment-729537 spurious Thu, 31 May 2007 18:27:14 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/31/with-spear-and-magic-helmet/#comment-729537 <p><a href="#comment-729527"><em>Pete Bogs @ 221</em></a></p> <blockquote><p><em>Williams missed six months of his girlfriend’s pregnancy when he was given six days’ notice to return to Iraq for his second tour. He also missed his baby boy’s birth.</em></p> <p>punishment from God for pre-marital relations…</p></blockquote> <p>From a practical point of view, I hope they got married–so that she and the baby will be eligible for his life insurance.</p> Pete Bogs @ 221

Williams missed six months of his girlfriend’s pregnancy when he was given six days’ notice to return to Iraq for his second tour. He also missed his baby boy’s birth.

punishment from God for pre-marital relations…

From a practical point of view, I hope they got married–so that she and the baby will be eligible for his life insurance.

]]> By: Pete Bogs http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/31/with-spear-and-magic-helmet/#comment-729527 Pete Bogs Thu, 31 May 2007 18:19:16 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/31/with-spear-and-magic-helmet/#comment-729527 <p><em>Williams missed six months of his girlfriend’s pregnancy when he was given six days’ notice to return to Iraq for his second tour. He also missed his baby boy’s birth.</em></p> <p>punishment from God for pre-marital relations…</p> Williams missed six months of his girlfriend’s pregnancy when he was given six days’ notice to return to Iraq for his second tour. He also missed his baby boy’s birth.

punishment from God for pre-marital relations…

]]> By: Pete Bogs http://firedoglake.com/2007/05/31/with-spear-and-magic-helmet/#comment-729525 Pete Bogs Thu, 31 May 2007 18:17:45 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/05/31/with-spear-and-magic-helmet/#comment-729525 <p>Lieberman is using any influence he has on Israel… any military action in a Muslim country is a good one because it (ostensibly) makes Israel more secure… HA!</p> Lieberman is using any influence he has on Israel… any military action in a Muslim country is a good one because it (ostensibly) makes Israel more secure… HA!

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