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Taliban Targets Cheney

“At 10 a.m., I heard a loud boom.” 

Soon after the blast, Cheney — who officials say was never in danger from the blast at the sprawling base — went ahead with talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in the capital.

Asked if he had ever considered changing his plans to go to Kabul, Cheney said that was “never an option”.

Taliban tries for Cheney. Bomb at Bagram kills 19, wounds 11, including an undetermined number of Americans. Misses Cheney.  Others closer to home take a stab at him, assassi-snarking … because it’s funny when terrorists try to kill the vice-president and other Americans:  

“As you can see, Afghanistan is clearly fake.” 

“Am I a bad person for being disappointed he didn’t get shot in the face?

” ‘Cheney’s spokeswoman said he was fine’ … Fuck.”

The Moderate Voice seems to have taken this immoderate posting down:

Shaun Mullen / The Moderate Voice :         

When Bad Things Happen to Bad Policies —  Karzai and Cheney: Having a blast in Afghanistan  —  As symbols go, the detonation of a Taliban suicide bomb practically under the nose of the vice president …

Meanwhile, Barnett notes a New Low for the Angry Left

Malkin notes that an attack on Americans is an attack on Americans.

BlueCrab questions the Taliban’s claim of targeting Cheney on an unannounced but not very surprising visit, given that he was in the neighborhood.  

Speaking of which, Pakistan, stung by Cheney’s “Come to Jesus” chat yesterday, fires back. NYT: 

“Pakistan does not accept dictation from any side or any source.”

The unusual outburst, later toned down, revealed the depth of tensions between General Musharraf and Washington over what administration officials say have been inadequate efforts by Pakistan in combating Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

I’d say it reveals more about the depth of tensions between Musharraf and the rest of his government.  Anyway, it isn’t what he says now.  It’s what he does this spring and summer. 

Topics: Afghanistan, Pakistan

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:15 am on Tuesday, February 27, 2007

7 Responses to “Taliban Targets Cheney”

1. Bandit Says:
   February 27th, 2007 at 11:05 am

   You can tell the typically astute lefty comments attributing the deaths of the innocent victims not to the mass murderer but to Cheney - but don’t question their patriotism!

2. Robert Says:
   February 27th, 2007 at 1:02 pm

   How much you wanna bet that somebody in Pakistan tipped the Taliban off on where and when.

3. The_Real_JeffS Says:
   February 27th, 2007 at 2:46 pm

   I’d say it reveals more about the depth of tensions between Musharraf and the rest of his government.

   Yep. Musharraf has to be walking a very thin wire here.

4. RebeccaH Says:
   February 27th, 2007 at 4:14 pm

   Is anyone surprised at the left’s reaction? I’ve stopped expecting decency and reason from them.

5. ast Says:
   February 27th, 2007 at 4:39 pm

   They didn’t have any decency during Vietnam and have even less today. They’re not for peace. They’re for America losing. Anything else would threaten their view of themselves as the intellectual elite, and patriotism is sooo passé.

   Most of these yahoos left the realm of intellect long ago. Now it’s just hatred for anyone who has power and doesn’t take orders from them.

6. The Moderate Voice » Blog Archive » Bagram blast fallout: The politics of a smear campaign Says:
   February 28th, 2007 at 12:59 pm

   [...] There was a good deal of coverage of the attack all over the blogosphere, but see in particular Dustin’s excellent live-blogging of the story over at Blue Collar Heresy. He’s got some useful links and some solid analysis. But the story is now not so much the attack itself, nor even whether or not Cheney was the target, but the reaction to the attack in the blogosphere. Some leading conservative blogs — Michelle Malkin, Little Green Footballs, Jules Crittenden, The Strata-Sphere, Wizbang, and Riehl World View, for example, as well as Pajamas Media — have been falling all over themselves trying to make the case that liberals (or Democrats, or progressives, or whatever) wish that Cheney had been killed in the attack. What they point to are some of the 400+ comments that were later deleted from The Huffington Post’s item on the attack, comments that did indeed express regret that Cheney was not killed. (For examples of those comments, see the posts linked above.) There is no excuse for such comments. However much I may dislike Cheney, I do not wish him harm. And I certainly find him preferable to the Taliban. (Obviously.) And yet the right is trying to make an issue out of this — the comments of a few loose screws — in order to reinforce its larger smear of liberals (or Democrats, or progressives, or whatever) as pro-terror and anti-American. Here’s Glenn Greenwald, who, as is often the case, gets it right (in a must-read post): [...]

7. saltydog Says:
   February 28th, 2007 at 7:46 pm

   A FEW comments? Greenwald gets it right? As is often the case? In a must-read post? Has anyone called a doctor to see to this person’s failing perceptual faculties.

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