dam
Not long, but the rescue team will be US SEALS, the bad guys
will be Arabs, and the Betancourt chyk will look a whole lot
better........
I think it might get some plot revisions before it does.
http://www.forbes.com/afxnewslimited/feeds/afx/2008/07/04/afx5184293.html
cb
Wow. An unnamed source, who "Swiss radio" claims is "close to the events,
reliable and tested many times in recent years".
Why does crap reporting like this even get released?
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James Schrumpf http://www.hilltopper.net
Let there be no doubt tonight -- no doubt!
That they shouldn't have played the Old Gold and Blue.
Not tonight!
I'll bet you a dollar it ends up being proven right.
How often do presidential nominees decide to spend the
4th of July out of the country? Interesting timing, don't
you think?
The whole thing smelled from the beginning, dude. It was
too perfect.
Well, they quoted a "reliable source", so that oughta be good enough
for any of us.
I wonder if the FARC leader they captured along with the hostages and
is now in jail knew about this?
John Rogers
AU Class of 1985
The Al Del Greco of Atlanta
"You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very
well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive,
we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build
your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a
gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will
follow ours." (General Sir Charles Napier)
>James Schrumpf wrote, On 7/5/08 4:43 PM:
Dood... take your medications... QUICK.
That sounded like the ol' Czar returning.
It makes no sense. Chavez would have paid way more than $20 million to FARC
for the opportunity to look the hero. The Columbian govt might have paid off
the informant, but these were FARC's most important hostages. It is really
hard to imagine that they would give them up for a mere $20M.
You know, not everything is a conspiracy.
T
That would be funny.....the guy pissed off his buddies
and didn't want to sell the hosta^H^H^H^H^Hprisoners.....so they throw
him in, too.
Why would he? You think they asked his opinion before
selling him out?
cb
Can John Kerry pilot the insertion boat?
The bagman?
Rsfckin' earmarks.
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Daniel Edwards
Memphis, TN
Won't happen with Northrop Grummans permission.
So, there will have to several B-2 bombers in it and many nukular ships.
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MoParMaN--
I'm not saying I believe the conspiracy theory or not. I'm not
dismissing or accepting that explanation out of hand but...
I did wonder why the FARC guerillas, a group of people who seem to
live in the jungle short of food and just about everything else,
thought their leaders could suddenly come up with a bunch of
helicopters and if they could, would use them to transport hostages
around.
Also, remember what turned out to be behind Reagan's diplomatic
triumph regarding Lebanon hostages.
It is way too early for a definitive conclusion either way.
btw, alternative conspiracy theory: FARC fellow travellers in Europe
planting ransom rumors to discredit the rescue:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4270908.ece
(more info in that story, plus read the comments)
> Dood... take your medications... QUICK.
Heh.
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E.F. Hokie
<insert witty or profound quote here>
> Until the Columbian Hostage Rescue hits the silver screen?
Next year, but:
FARC will become a Swedish, right-wing terrorist organization
The soldiers involved will be a multi-ethnic, transgendered-freindly,
eco-friendly, left-wing 'peace group.'
It happened on President Obamas watch!
Dick Cheney tried to derail the mission.
-Tom Enright
"The handiwork that results is not a reflection of our evolved values;
it is five lawyers dragging the benighted masseskicking and screaming
toward its Utopia -- where brutalized eight-year-old girls, like
murdered innocents and terrorized cities, are not flesh-and-blood but
the props by which we measure how "maturely" we indulge their
tormentors."
-Andrew McCarthy on the SCOTUS "evolving standards"
> dam
It sounds more like someone on the Swiss negotiating team that failed
for so many years trying to cover their ass.
Doug
Yeah. That must be it. It can't be that someone in Washington is
up to something dishonest, because THAT NEVER HAPPENS.
> Emperor Wonko the Sane wrote, On 7/8/08 2:23 PM:
>> On Jul 5, 4:53 pm, Chris Bellomy <ten.wohsdoog@sirhc> wrote:
>>> James Schrumpf wrote, On 7/5/08 4:43 PM:
>>>
>>>> Quiet, Chris Bellomy <ten.wohsdoog@sirhc> -- I'm transmitting rage.
>>>>> dam wrote, On 7/5/08 3:57 PM:
>>>>>> Until the Columbian Hostage Rescue hits the silver screen?
>>>>> I think it might get some plot revisions before it does.
>>>>> http://www.forbes.com/afxnewslimited/feeds/afx/2008/07/04/afx518429
>>>>> 3....
>>>> Wow. An unnamed source, who "Swiss radio" claims is "close to the
>>>> events, reliable and tested many times in recent years".
>>>> Why does crap reporting like this even get released?
>>> I'll bet you a dollar it ends up being proven right.
>>>
>>> How often do presidential nominees decide to spend the
>>> 4th of July out of the country? Interesting timing, don't
>>> you think?
>>>
>>> The whole thing smelled from the beginning, dude. It was
>>> too perfect.
>>
>> It sounds more like someone on the Swiss negotiating team that failed
>> for so many years trying to cover their ass.
>
> Yeah. That must be it. It can't be that someone in Washington is
> up to something dishonest, because THAT NEVER HAPPENS.
>
Well, let's see: on one side we have official US sources and official
Colombian sources; one the other we have an unnamed source from Swiss
radio.
Of course all the official sources must be lying because, hey, it's what
official sources do.
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James Schrumpf http://www.hilltopper.net
Play like your couch is on fire!
EXACTLY.
Given the choice between official US and Colombian sources on one hand;
and Joe Isuzu on the other; I'm betting on Joe Isuzu being the one
telling the truth.
cb
and not only that, but i'm winning most of the time
> James Schrumpf wrote, On 7/8/08 7:30 PM:
>> Quiet, Chris Bellomy <ten.wohsdoog@sirhc> -- I'm transmitting rage.
>>
>>> Emperor Wonko the Sane wrote, On 7/8/08 2:23 PM:
>>>> On Jul 5, 4:53 pm, Chris Bellomy <ten.wohsdoog@sirhc> wrote:
>>>>> James Schrumpf wrote, On 7/5/08 4:43 PM:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Quiet, Chris Bellomy <ten.wohsdoog@sirhc> -- I'm transmitting
>>>>>> rage.
>>>>>>> dam wrote, On 7/5/08 3:57 PM:
>>>>>>>> Until the Columbian Hostage Rescue hits the silver screen?
>>>>>>> I think it might get some plot revisions before it does.
>>>>>>> http://www.forbes.com/afxnewslimited/feeds/afx/2008/07/04/afx5184
>>>>>>> 29 3....
>>>>>> Wow. An unnamed source, who "Swiss radio" claims is "close to
>>>>>> the events, reliable and tested many times in recent years".
>>>>>> Why does crap reporting like this even get released?
>>>>> I'll bet you a dollar it ends up being proven right.
>>>>>
>>>>> How often do presidential nominees decide to spend the
>>>>> 4th of July out of the country? Interesting timing, don't
>>>>> you think?
>>>>>
>>>>> The whole thing smelled from the beginning, dude. It was
>>>>> too perfect.
>>>> It sounds more like someone on the Swiss negotiating team that
>>>> failed for so many years trying to cover their ass.
>>> Yeah. That must be it. It can't be that someone in Washington is
>>> up to something dishonest, because THAT NEVER HAPPENS.
>>>
>>
>> Well, let's see: on one side we have official US sources and
>> official Colombian sources; one the other we have an unnamed source
>> from Swiss radio.
>
> EXACTLY.
>
> Given the choice between official US and Colombian sources on one
> hand; and Joe Isuzu on the other; I'm betting on Joe Isuzu being the
> one telling the truth.
>
> cb
> and not only that, but i'm winning most of the time
>
What do you have against Colombia?
The world's largest exporter of cocaine? What's not to like!
Was FARC against cocaine exports? Was that their raison d'etre?
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James Schrumpf http://www.hilltopper.net
Let there be no doubt tonight -- no doubt!
I doubt it. They're probably just as corrupt and dishonest
as the government they mean to replace.
But you figure Swiss radio is a bastion of pureness? Even though Swiss
bank accounts have been notoriously non-judgemental over the centuries?
It's more like I'd trust Joe Isuzu before I'd trust a combination
of American and Colombian official sources. *Especially* when there's
a Colombian Free Trade Agreement in front of Congress during an
election year.
Well, it's what they do in the U.S. and Colombia.
Still no mention of Chavez's role in the hostage release...fascinating.
Trev
Yeah, especially since he is so garrulous. Hard to imagine he hasn't tried
to take credit yet and merely credited the Columbian government.
T