{"id":185387,"date":"2011-07-13T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T22:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/13\/the-stupidest-fing-guy-on-the-planet\/"},"modified":"2011-07-13T17:52:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T22:52:00","slug":"the-stupidest-fing-guy-on-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/13\/the-stupidest-fing-guy-on-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stupidest F%$#ing Guy on the Planet*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lostrepublic.us\/Graphics\/DoubleFacePalm.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"380\" \/>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/national-security\/panetta-echoes-bush-comments-linking-iraq-invasion-to-war-on-al-qaeda\/2011\/07\/11\/gIQA3m3h8H_story.html?hpid=z2\">Leon Panetta<\/a>, who has decided to repeat the lies of Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>The joke got a round of appreciative laughs, but his comments Monday about al-Qaeda and the Iraq war raised eyebrows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<b><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">The reason you guys are here is because on 9\/11 the United States got attacked<\/span><\/b>,\u201d he told troops at Camp Victory, the largest U.S. military outpost in Baghdad. \u201cAnd 3,000 Americans \u2014 3,000 not just Americans, 3,000 human beings, innocent human beings \u2014 got killed because of al-Qaeda. And we\u2019ve been fighting as a result of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His statement echoed comments made by Bush and his administration, which tried to tie then-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to al-Qaeda. But it put Panetta at odds with Obama, the 9\/11 Commission and other independent experts, who have said that al-Qaeda lacked a presence in Iraq before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Pressed by reporters to elaborate, Panetta said: \u201cI wasn\u2019t saying, you know, the invasion \u2014 or going into the issues or the justification of that. It was more the fact that we really had to deal with al-Qaeda here; they developed a presence here and that tied in.\u201d His aides then intervened and shooed the press corps away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This mother f%$#er is secretary of Defense?  He was head of the CIA?  And he <b>still<\/b> thinks that Saddam Hussein was behind 911?<\/p>\n<p>Un-dirtyword-believable! <\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Yes, he takes the title from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Douglas_Feith#Bush_administration\">this guy<\/a>, the reigning champion.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Leon Panetta, who has decided to repeat the lies of Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122: The joke got a round of appreciative laughs, but his comments Monday about al-Qaeda and the Iraq war raised eyebrows. \u201cThe reason you guys are here is because on 9\/11 the United States got attacked,\u201d he told troops at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1211,1006,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense","category-military","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}