Bad Boys Bad Boys, a Detainee By any Other Name...

Evan Thomas
Rajiv Chandrasekaran

"They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom." - Confucius


I want to give a shout out to my man Confucius, who turned 2,560 this month. There are officially over 2 million people who are recognized as his descendants, and even more who just like to make up funny quotes.






mojo men...
At the UN General Conference, Barack Obama was going to sit in charge of the Security Council meeting. He had plans to reveal information that western intelligence had known for several years, that Iran was building a second nuclear enrichment facility.

Iran wanted to take some of the wind out of his sail, so they informed the nuclear regulatory agency beforehand that they had the facility, but really had no intention of hiding it, it just slipped their mind, they had so much else going on, what with the fake election and all... But, while their sly leader was sitting down for an interview with Time magazine, Barack went before the cameras and, with two other leaders of the free world, announced that Iran was in violation of its agreement, and what sneaky sons o' bitches they are, how are we ever going to trust anything they tell us? He got some of his mojo back.

Today Iran, needing to prove its virility, launched a short range test missile that can go about 100 miles. Tomorrow they will test a longer range missile, one that might make it to Israel or American ships. We are  such bad boys... what are you going to do with such an in your face affront? How can anyone stand such adolescent, sullen behavior? Gonna say we weren't elected?

It takes jailing a village...
Speaking of bad boys, US authorities has closed the largest internment camp in the Iraqi desert. It held 22,000 detainees and there are two more that are operational. I guess the guys were just sent to other facilities, because none of them have been charged with anything, or will be taken before a court. And unlike messy ol' Guantanamo, where we have to eventually take responsibility of the prisoners, we can just hand them over to the Iraqis when we leave...

Now, if Texas secedes from the Union like Rick Perry threatens, we can just occupy them like any other terrorist state, and then we will have a place to transfer the prisoners from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and any other place we happen to pick up detainees in our War on Terror. Maybe we could rename it Bushistan or Aftexastan...