Monday, July 20, 2009

Important Tip...

Don't watch stories like this one while listing to "Riot on Broad Street" by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones:

U.S. soldier captured by Taliban: 'I'm afraid'
(CNN) -- A United States soldier captured by the Taliban says in a video posted on the Internet he is "scared I won't be able to go home."

The soldier was identified Sunday by the Pentagon as Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl, 23, of Ketchum, Idaho. He was captured June 30 from Paktika province in southeastern Afghanistan.

The Taliban has threatened to kill Bergdahl if foreign troops continue targeting civilians in the name of search operations in Ghazni and Paktika province, Taliban commander Mulvi Sangeen said by telephone Friday after being contacted by CNN at an undisclosed location.

...because it does interesting things for your blood pressure.

I am curious about one thing, though. Why do all of these terrorist assholes have contacts at CNN? And, in that same vein, is there any link between all of the terrorist connections at CNN and the vehement opposition to torture emanating from said media orifices? Like, they're scared that they might find themselves whisked away to Gitmo for some old-fashioned bamboo-shoots-under-the-fingernails-type treatments to find out where the tangoes are holding our soldiers?

Not that I condone torture against fellow Americans, mind you. Oh, wait, these are folks who have more or less thrown in with our enemies, haven't they?

That is all.

4 comments:

smijer said...

I think we should decriminalize torture, and criminalize journalism. And then torture journalists.

That's pretty much the American Way as I understand it. Live Free or Die, baby!

wolfwalker said...

A couple of blogs are reporting a very strange rumor: that this soldier was in the act of desertion when he was captured by the Taliban.

There is NO, repeat NO firm evidence that this is true. None of the blogs I've seen it at are ones that I would call reliable. Only a couple of anonymous hearsay reports at a couple of blogs, and some peculiar lines in the original wire reports of Bergdahl's disappearance.

Borepatch said...

CNN isn't anti-war. They're on the other side.

Anonymous said...

Define "fellow American" please.

I don't claim them, do you?