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Robert Eckert's avatar

" And the responsible party, Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, was not holed up there. Instead he was playing Super Mario Brothers and watching porn in Pakistan, the country next door." Uh, no. Osama bin Laden was in fact in Afghanistan at the time, and the Taliban utterly refused to extradite this "honored guest".

But when W sent in troops to get Osama, they had him surrounded at Tora Bora, but then W inexplicably pulled our troops out to send them to Iraq (which did not have anything to do with it) and left the Tora Bora siege to the Afghans, who did not consider it their fight and let Osama escape to Pakistan. This made the news and everything; I am really surprised you don't remember.

Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Marcie. Jadey not only needs a new barber and a personality transplant, he needs a civics lesson. We'll give him one in November when we VOTE. Harris-Walz 2024 for the WIN.

Robin L'Etoile's avatar

Does it seem concerning that he doesn’t know the Vice President’s job? Given that that’s what he’s running for?

Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Can you imagine the clusterfuck it would have been if Chump had won reelection and continued being in charge of that deal? He would have held us to that May deadline so he wouldn't look weak.

Thirteen wouldn't even have been in the rearview mirror.

magistra's avatar

Well, this IS what the old POS does, isn't it? At the hospital in El Paso, after the horrible mass shooting, in the photo op with the infant whose parents have both been killed, Donald and Melania were both grinning like idiots. She held the baby, while he gave [thumbs up, as if he were shilling one of his crappy steaks.

Dissemblink Blink's avatar

Twin Sprinkles? Maybe like a proper demonic force he can be better understood when reversed.

Anzu's avatar

Dropping this in this particular topic because it's about Vance. It occurred to me that the Couch Fucking Incident was the first true example of 100% "fake news" that the PAB's campaign ever REALLY experienced, but because the hairless fuhrer had cried wolf about it nonstop for the last eight years, nobody would believe the campaign for calling it that.

Cat Cafe's avatar

Yes! Very well put! In trying to make all news potentially false, they're now being hoist on their own petard!

Uncle Milburn's avatar

Oblig: https://youtu.be/mDLS12_a-fk?t=86

Side Note: that beach is actually near Malibu, CA, by one of the homes that Oblivias lived in.

ZorPern's avatar

That really was quite a cinematic moment.

Biff52 vrag naroda's avatar

Once upon a time, I lived on Birdview Drive, on the cliff there on Point Dume. The house I lived in got sold to Neil Young. Not his only house in the area, but I like to think he might've written parts of his album "Zuma" there.

Whale Chowder's avatar

Probably already been pointed out but Bin Laden was indeed in Afghanistan at the time of the attack and definitely was running Al Qaeda from there. The Taliban had given him sanctuary for years.

Many of you may disagree with me but I still believe that we *had* to go into Afghanistan to root out Al Qaeda. We fucked up when we dropped that mission to attack Iraq because the Afghans weren't enough of an adversary to satisfy the Neocons.

Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Here's a joke a Neocon actually referenced to explain Iraq.

A guy's bent over, combing through the grass. Another guy comes along and asks what he's doing.

The guy replies, "Looking for my keys."

The second guy starts helping to look. "Where do you think you lost them?" he asked.

"Maple Street," the guy answers.

"That's two blocks away. Why look for them here?"

"The light's better."

Politically speaking, the light was better in Iraq than Afghanistan.

Skunk Formerly Known As Stoner's avatar

Yes, came here to say the same thing. Going into Afghanistan was absolutely the right thing to do. What bugged me at the time was how slow they were about it. Why wasn’t 10th Mountain all over Tora Bora by November 2021? Because Bush was chickenshit about taking casualties, so he let Bin Laden slip away, then got distracted by Iraq. What a disappointment he must have been to his father, who actually understood geopolitics.

Hooker P Tape skipping dipshit's avatar

Cheney let him go at Tora Bora. They really wanted to do Iraq.

Whale Chowder's avatar

They pulled out half the troops to prepare for Iraq, to as one jackhole put it, "shove them up against the wall" to prove who's boss.

mr_snarky's avatar

Vancey gave her a strong lecturing-to. That'll teach her to comply to agreements made by pab.

Bitter Scribe's avatar

J.D.: "I'm proud to have a president who stands with our veterans..."

From my perspective, pal, he was standing 𝘰𝘯 our veterans.

Vic's avatar

That president, strictly speaking, who stands with our veterans (and with all Americans who actually work for a living) is Joseph R. Biden.

Rags's avatar

Send him back to Chez Divan.

DJ Teetop's avatar

I hope that JD realizes that Trump's entire chessboard consists of pawns with only one king

Khavrinen's avatar

A piece that thinks it's the most important on the board, but can only move one square at a time? Yeah, sounds like Trump.

Bagels of Doom's avatar

so, the Afghanistan story is what they'll run with? okey dokey smokey.

Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

It's been three years. No one's going to remember how fucking sick everyone was after twenty years mired there.

funnyhaha's avatar

May I just point out that the day the felon takes his dirt nap, the celebrations will make the celebrations of bin Laden's death look like a 5-girl sleepover?

Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

There will be dancing on the rooftops.

Hippo Heaven's avatar

I am thinking the funeral will have to be on private property, as well as the burial.

Robert Eckert's avatar

The family will bury him on a golf course for the tax break

DJ Teetop's avatar

If he's buried at Arlington, I'm taking a selfie with the grave