From the utterly whacked Rep. Allen West, informing us of what he would have said in Obama’s place if he’d spoken at the UN:
My statement to the United Nations would have been, “The future does not belong to those who attack our Embassies and Consulates and kill our Ambassadors. The Angel of Death in the form of an American Bald Eagle will visit you and wreak havoc and destruction upon your existence.”
Uh. Okay.
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Deacon Duncan
September 29, 2012 at 9:13 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
So if the IRA attacked an American embassy, we’d nuke Great Britain? Nice to see he’s got a consistent, well-planned foreign policy in mind.
Modusoperandi
September 29, 2012 at 9:39 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Oh, come on! He’s just advocating the same thing that a True Leader would do. Just like Reagan in ’83 after the Beruit bombing.
criticaldragon1177
September 29, 2012 at 10:40 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Deacon Duncan
You Wrote,
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So if the IRA attacked an American embassy, we’d nuke Great Britain? Nice to see he’s got a consistent, well-planned foreign policy in mind.
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I agree, is he even aware of the pro freedom, pro Chris Stevens, pro America, protests in Libya?
It was covered on this very blog along with a huge number of mainstream media outlets.
Libyans Fighting Back Against Reactionary Militias
http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/09/27/libyans-fighting-back-against-reactionary-militias/
Not to mention the Libyan people holding signs like these?
Libyans Protest and Condemn Attack on US Consulate in Benghazi
http://www.loonwatch.com/2012/09/libyans-protest-and-condemn-attack-on-us-consulate-in-benghazi/
Or how bigoted far right anti Muslim commentators wrongly made the people trying to help Ambassador Stevens out to be his murders.
Wingnut Bloggers Claimed Photos Showed ‘Muslims Dragging Stevens’ – Actually Showed Libyan Rescuers
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/40927_Wingnut_Bloggers_Claimed_Photos_Showed_Muslims_Dragging_Stevens_-_Actually_Showed_Libyan_Rescuers
TGAP Dad
September 29, 2012 at 10:41 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I’m surprised he wasn’t recruited for Gee Dubya’s diplomatic corps. He’d have fit right in with John Bolton.
Marcus Ranum
September 29, 2012 at 10:48 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The Angel of Death in the form of an American Bald Eagle will visit you and wreak havoc and destruction upon your existence.”
He followed that with “Delenda Carthago.”
Modusoperandi
September 29, 2012 at 10:53 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Marcus Ranum “He followed that with ‘Delenda Carthago.’”
He doesn’t speak foreignese.
timgueguen
September 29, 2012 at 12:11 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
West sounds like he has the same speech writers as a certain Iranian politician.
tacitus
September 29, 2012 at 1:13 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
It really chafes wingers like Allen West that America doesn’t indulge in the violent rhetoric and oppressive behavior as the more extreme elements of Islamic society, doesn’t it?
Michael Heath
September 29, 2012 at 1:16 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Rep. West seems to be angling for a column at the Washington Post.
Ichthyic
September 29, 2012 at 3:36 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Hell, I would have thought he would have followed up with a famous quote from one Inigo Montoya.
Modusoperandi
September 29, 2012 at 4:57 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Ichthyic, inconceivable!
dannyonthelam
September 29, 2012 at 5:45 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“The Angel of Death in the form of an American Bald Eagle will visit you and wreak havoc and destruction upon your existence.”
Holy shit. We just hate those radical Muslims. Apparently way the only way to beat them is be even more extreme.
Sastra
September 29, 2012 at 8:04 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Wtf? West thinks the President of the United States should talk like the villain in a bad science fiction film?
I would hope he’d end a statement like that with a wild cackle as he flees to his super secret underground president lair to fire up his dreaded Death Ray of Instant Doom with its American Bald Eagle laser light show. Geez Louise…
dan4
September 29, 2012 at 10:25 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The quote (well, the second sentence of the quote, anyway) is strange but harmless. I’m used to West’s rantings (“we need to make my opponent afraid to come out of his house,” the “there are 75 to 80 communists in Congress” line) being strange and not harmless at all.
Taz
September 30, 2012 at 12:24 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The poor guy just wants bald eagles with fricken’ laser beams attached to their heads.
criticaldragon1177
September 30, 2012 at 12:38 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Taz,
Know where I can get some of those bald eagles with lasers beams attached to their heads? Lasers are just cool! :)
slc1
September 30, 2012 at 4:53 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Re Michael Heath @ #9
I think there is a significant difference between being a whackjob like West and being evil like Thiessen, Rubin, and Krauthammer.