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‘Colbert Report’: What It All Means for Pakistan and the U.S.

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Posted on May 3, 2011
Colbert Nation

So, as it’s been widely noted, Osama bin Laden was hiding in plain sight, close to the Pakistani capital of Islamabad—and to make it more relatable for Americans, Stephen Colbert notes in this “Colbert Report” clip, that it’s as though he was camped out in Baltimore, vis-à-vis Washington, D.C. Except Baltimore is more dangerous.

Colbert also checks in with the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, Richard Haass, to consider what this ginormous development in international politics will mean for the complex relationship between the U.S. and Pakistan. Here’s a keyword to keep in mind: difficult.  —KA

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By Pragmatic, July 14, 2011 at 8:20 am Link to this comment
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If only the US Govt could be as direct and honest as the late night and stand-up comedians regarding Pak nay, Terroristan and stop deceiving itself regarding its ‘partner in the war against terror’ the whole region and world would be more stable!

Wake up USA. Take action against Terroristan!

It is strange that US went to war against Iraq (without any credible evidence of threat to the world) and keeps donating money to the failed state - Pakistan - which harbored OBL and still pursues an agenda of hate and destruction (ISI).

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By Pudge1671, May 4, 2011 at 3:21 am Link to this comment
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Well if you can arrest bush cheney and the rest and
give them a fair trial please allow me to be on the
firing squad.

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By drbhelthi, May 4, 2011 at 12:52 am Link to this comment

Mideastern types are slowly learning that accepting bribe monies from
CIA agents, operatives and mercenaries, is the first step to destruction
and ruination of their homelands. 

After years of sucking up to CIA bribery, the follow-on murder of
millions of their folk, the radioactive pollution of their country-sides
by Israeli/USGOV, depleted uranium munitions, some have wised up.  A few
of their leaders are learning that what was done to Sadaam Hussein, his
family, and the whole of Iraq, after Hussein “took the bait” from
GHWBushSr, is the general rule – NOT THE EXCEPTION.  They are also
slowly gaining insight into another basic fact.  Once a mini-D.C. has
been set up on their soil, managed by types- and their imps- who
destroyed their countrysides, some of whom continue to secretively
murder the indigenous who resist, the restoration of self-rule is a far-
fetched dream.

More recently, they, and the world, observe how the myth of a man who
died ten years ago from renal failure, is continuously misused in a pre-
planned, staged, Hollywood-style, propaganda production.  The horrific
murder of a family, deliberately misrepresented to be Osama bin Laden
clan, by USGOV mercenaries, carrying out a planned propaganda series, in
an attempt to support the re-election of a non-American, who uses a
falsified name and identity, who fraudulently occupies the Presidency of
the U.S.A., is standard operating procedure.  Simple, standard operating
procedure for super-rich, string-pullers of a nation that engages in any
degree of genocide. 

In the 1980s, Mrs. Mae Brussel, Mr. Sherman Skolnick, and various
others, explained what was happening to the United States of America,
the evil beings that transferred their headquarters from Berlin to D.C.,
Huntsville and Ft. Bliss, and how and why the C.I.A. was formed.  The
more recent video speeches by John Stockwell, and the Chronicles of Chip
Tatum provide valuable insight into the evil activities of the C.I.A.

If a page were turned by the propagandistic, Hollywood-style murder of
a Pakistani family, deliberately misidentified as Osama bin Laden clan,
the page was turned in the wrong direction.

A second term for a “being” who can only deceive?  NOT.

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By cherilyn, May 3, 2011 at 10:19 pm Link to this comment

Hilarious. thanks for posting this.

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By Yusuf Timol, May 3, 2011 at 3:38 pm Link to this comment
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Also, if UBL’s apparent killing comprises ‘justice’ for
the thousands of victims of 9/11, then what is
‘justice’ for the estimated one million Iraqis killed
since the US and British-led invasion of Iraq?

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By Pudge1671, May 3, 2011 at 1:59 pm Link to this comment
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Comedians do a better job on the news than and what’s
going on so-called journalist

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