WashTimes> "senior Pentagon official": an Obama win "will give the Arab street the final victory"

[sabra]

http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080226/NATION/476716884/1001&template=nextpage

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A senior Pentagon official said an Obama swearing-in "will give the Arab street the final victory, the best optics, and the ultimate in bragging rights. They win. We lose."

:wtf:

[elizfeelinggreat]

1. WHO would that pentagon official be?

and what kind of reporter prints this sh*t?

EDITED to add from Wikipedia:

Rowan Scarborough was a Washington Times reporter who wrote a weekly column with fellow reporter Bill Gertz called "Inside the Ring." He has written a book about Donald Rumsfeld called Rumsfeld's War: The Untold Story of America's Anti-Terrorist Commander. In February 2007, he joined the Washington Examiner as its national security correspondent. On July 16, 2007, Regnery Publishing released his second book "Sabotage: America's Enemies Within the CIA."



:crazy:

[Turbineguy]

2. You mean there actually is

a General Buck Turgeson?

[geardaddy]

13. Sounds more like

Jack D. Ripper.

[melody]

15. Hey! You stole my line!

Although I was going to add "I'm wondering how goeth the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids".

[geardaddy]

21. LOL.

With your line and the photo I posted, let's call it a collaborative effort. ;)

[marmar]

3. WTF is the "Arab Street"? ..... If this is the state of "Senior Pentagon officials"....

.... This country is f**ked beyond all comprehension.

[tyne]

4. Bring it on!

Not this time....fools. Not this time.

[Virginia Dare]

17. Rummy, Feith and Wolfowitz were running the place at one time...

so yeah it's been cesspit for some time now.

[bluestateguy]

5. Whether it's President Hillary or Obama there will be a massive neo-con purge from the Pentagon

All of them will be expunged from the building and escorted out by MP's.

[Winterblues]

10. A nice dream but dream it is IMO

If the inaction of our Democratic Majority in Congress is any guage there will be no purges..

[Virginia Dare]

18. Goddamn straight, that would be a beautiful start to...

taking the country back.

[TahitiNut]

Well, you just keep digging into that pile of horse shit looking for the new pony.

"Expectation" is just another word for premeditated resentment. :shrug:

[DJ13]

6. Once more the GOP abuses our military for political points

Whatever happened to the old fashioned notion that politics is a taboo subject for military personel?

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. We have people on this board that want

senior Pentagon has beens as a VP nominee.

[ourbluenation]

8. what a crackhead. n/t

[angstlessk]

9. Wasn't paul wolfowitz a 'senior pentagon official'...some are just political

appointees hiding behind the military at the pentagon!

[caligirl]

11. was it the guard or the secretary?

[Virginia Dare]

20. Those people are ten times smarter than the "senior officials"...n/t

[bemildred]

12. Idiot Wind.

Can this guy even feed himself?

[C_U_L8R]

14. Isn't Rummy still keeping a secret office there?

what a bunch of totally expected bullcrap.

[Virginia Dare]

16. doochus bagius....n/t

[spanone]

19. as the Carpenters sang 'it's only just begun'......

the washington times is a joke......

[Akoto]

22. Too much of a cowardly bigot to put his name on record, I guess. n/t

[coalition_unwilling]

27. Probably General "Fighting Satan in Iraq" Boykin or one of his flunkies -n/t

[Jack Rabbit]

23. This senior official (read: loyal Bushie) sounds like a moran

General McInerney sounds like one of those sectarian bigots posting at Free Republic who think we're at war with every Muslim on earth.

He also sounds like a partisan Republican in the Karl Rove mode.

[kevinbgoode]

24. And a Republican victory would turn the country over to

the Reverend Moonie Tune. . .

It's about time we started fighting back with reminders that the GOP is beholden to a cult leader who claims he is the "monarch of America."

[zbdent]

25. anonymous sources, anybody?

Gee, isn't that what the Repukenicons accuse the New York Times of, and say it totally trashes the NYT's credibility?

(Actually, the NYTimes' credibility was trashed when it was revealed that they sat on the wiretapping story until well after the 2004 election ...)

[kenny blankenship]

26. Racists like that Senior Pentagon Murderer should be encouraged to emigrate

(to Antarctica - Global Warming notwithstanding, it should stay white enough for them there for at least a couple thousand more years.)

[suffragette]

28. "the best optics" ???

Umm, snazzier eyeglasses?

Yet another hit piece citing the ever popular and always elusive "official."