Left by shield on April 4th, 2007

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Ah…..don’t you just LOVE shuttle diplomacy? Bravo Zulu Nimitz!!!

Oh come on…he’s being led by others…this is not from him…

And who the hell cares anyway…the clock is ticking away…hide and watch…

A great coup by Ahmadinejad, he certainly seems a lot more cunning that I had previously thought.

Jeez do these people EVER get tired of being TOOLS!! Wise up Drudge! You should know better than to reprint this fantasy!

Bull-crud indeed!

I justed emailed Mario Loyola at the corner. Mario does not know what occurred. He was just speculating and by his post, doing the same type of reporting Kos does.

Here is my email:
Do you know this occurred for sure or are you just speculating? Unless you know for sure this occurred -

“Getting the British to agree to back down from the nuclear standoff‚Äîand getting them to promise not to allow the U.S. to use the airbase at Diego Garcia‚Äîwould be an enormous victory for the Mullahs. And it shouldn’t be long before they start bragging about it. ”

You should not be posing it. If it did not occur, I would be willing to bet it did not, you are no better at posting propaganda than Kos.

Here is his response -

I’m speculating — but I’m fairly certain that the hostage taking was motivated by a desire to get the British to back off on the nuclear issue somehow — US and UK naval assets have been leaning forward pretty aggressively in the Gulf, so the connection makes eminent sense.

My use of the conditional “would be” should have left no doubts that I’m speculating, and indeed my post was meant precisely to get folks to ask what the quid pro quo might have been. I cannot believe there was none.

And as to propaganda, I’m not sure I understand your point, if indeed you have one.

Thanks for your note,
Mario

I have the email as proof. This type of unnecessary speculating hurts more than helps. Of course, Mario should have made it dam nclear he did not know what had occurred, of course which he did not. One mre reason I do not trust much from the corner.

[Harry] Reid is a sleazy little piece of political garbage unfit to lead the majority he now represents. Thank goodness the way he is taking them, they won’t be in the majority very long.

via Riehl World View

Ouch!