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It's the incompetence, stupid
NY Post ^ | December 29, 2009 | Rich Lowry

Posted on 12/29/2009 3:46:18 AM PST by Scanian

Janet Napolitano is impressed with Janet Napolitano's work. In an instantly notorious statement on CNN over the weekend, the Homeland Security secretary said "the system worked" when a man boarded a Christmas Day flight from Amsterdam to Detroit with explosives in his underwear that he couldn't quite manage to ignite.

Does "the system" count on all explosive devices smuggled onto international flights not detonating? When Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab set himself on fire while trying to blow up the plane and kill its 278 passengers, a Dutch filmmaker leapt on him, ripped a smoldering object from near his crotch and put it out with his bare hands. Or as Napolitano put it, "Everybody played an important role here."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abdulmutallab; dhs; napolitano; terrorism
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1 posted on 12/29/2009 3:46:20 AM PST by Scanian
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To: Scanian

Nuff said...

2 posted on 12/29/2009 3:56:46 AM PST by maddog55 (Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.)
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To: Scanian
What kills me is the freedom of travel and immigration we allow Islamic people while THEY have declared war on us anyway. What reason did this kid have to travel to the U.S. in the first place? As far as I'm concerned a legitimate congress would restrict their commercial travel and immigration until THEY deal with this problem within THEIR faith and culture.
3 posted on 12/29/2009 3:59:29 AM PST by 1776 Reborn
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To: maddog55

The system did not work it failed. and it failed in a huge manner.


4 posted on 12/29/2009 4:00:51 AM PST by oldenuff2no (I'm a VET and damn proud of it!!! I did not fight for a socialist America!!!!!!!)
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To: Scanian

Like R. Emmett Tyrrell put it:

“Obama’s Revolving Carousel of Idiots”

... last Week it was Kevin Jennings .... this week Napolitano .... next week, who knows? Some other Admin clown.

For the Republicans, this should be like shooting fish in a barrel. How can they not exploit this?!!


5 posted on 12/29/2009 4:01:20 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: Scanian

It’s easy.
1. Do not allow any muslims into our country.
2. All boarding ramps, jetways, gangways, etc must be carpeted with the koran.
3. All passengers must eat a piece of bacon prior to walking on the koran carpet to board.
4. All passengers must spit, urinate or throw darts at a picture of Mohammed prior to boarding.


6 posted on 12/29/2009 4:04:54 AM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: Scanian

7 posted on 12/29/2009 4:09:48 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality.)
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To: Scanian

Mark Steyn was referring to her as “Janet INCOMPETANO” yesterday. Every time he said it, I laughed.


8 posted on 12/29/2009 4:10:37 AM PST by La Lydia
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To: 1776 Reborn
"...a legitimate congress would restrict their commercial travel and immigration until THEY deal with this problem within THEIR faith and culture..."

With the Muzzi-In-Chief currently squatting in the WH, this ain't going to happen. Not in America anyway.

9 posted on 12/29/2009 4:19:00 AM PST by skimbell
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To: Scanian
I love this comment below the article: Perhaps we can induce the administration to fight the terrorists by telling them that the bombs that they are setting off are causing global warming. That seems to be a much bigger threat in the minds of these nitwits than Islamic extremists who are trying to kill us all.
10 posted on 12/29/2009 4:21:24 AM PST by REPANDPROUDOFIT
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To: Scanian

One of the radio hosts yesterday kept calling her Janet “Incompetano”! LOL!


11 posted on 12/29/2009 4:23:42 AM PST by REPANDPROUDOFIT
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To: skimbell

True, perhaps a new congress will live up to their responsibility.


12 posted on 12/29/2009 4:43:42 AM PST by 1776 Reborn
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To: Scanian

She gave herself a B+? ;)


13 posted on 12/29/2009 4:48:54 AM PST by Schnucki
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To: REPANDPROUDOFIT
One of the radio hosts yesterday kept calling her Janet “Incompetano”! LOL!

Heard that from Mark Steyn subbing for Rush.

14 posted on 12/29/2009 5:10:42 AM PST by jimfree (In 2012 Sarah Palin will continue to have more relevant quality executive experience than B. Obama.)
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To: Scanian

Drudge has a picture posted of the briefs with the unexploded but partially burned PETN. Based on the placement of the explosive, I would guess that this terrorist will be singing soprano for the rest of his life. And forget about the 72 virgins.


15 posted on 12/29/2009 5:13:14 AM PST by thethirddegree
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To: Scanian
Welcome to the circus. Here's the Clown-in-chief:

obama,Obama,Clown,Nope,politics,satire

16 posted on 12/29/2009 5:43:44 AM PST by Flag_This (ACORN delenda est)
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To: canuck_conservative

Because we have smooth-talking propagandists like Valerie Jarrett in the WH who, when speaking to squishy-thinkers like Bill O’Reilly, for instance, will say things like, “What’s wrong with Glenn Beck? Why is he persecuting us? We are nice people and we love America too!”

And the Obamanoids will come out smelling like a rose.


17 posted on 12/29/2009 5:45:06 AM PST by Scanian
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To: La Lydia

Somehow I am reminded of some Italian slag from the old neighborhood - “va fa Napola,” i.e., “go back to Naples” - better translated as “go to hell.”


18 posted on 12/29/2009 5:50:21 AM PST by Scanian
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To: 1776 Reborn
BARF ALERT!!

(New York Times, 6 June 2009)

(Post Obama Cairo Speech)

"“Barack Obama is not just trying to reach out to Muslims for the sake of it,” says Mr. Gerges, a professor of Middle Eastern studies at Sarah Lawrence College and an authority on modern jihad. “He’s trying to hammer a deadly nail in Osama bin Laden’s message.” What President Obama understood more than his predecessors, Mr. Gerges says, is that it is not a war that can be won militarily, but only ideologically. Jarret Brachman, a former West Point terrorism expert and author of a recent book, “Global Jihadism,” said the speech “was the most important strategic step we’ve taken in this war.” “That’s why Al Qaeda is so nervous,” he said. If the medium were the message, the contrasts could not have been more stark. The American president was polished and poised, his speech broadcast from the elegant surroundings of an ancient Arab university, and watched worldwide. Mr. bin Laden’s was on an audiotape, crackling and hard to hear, broadcast on Al Jazeera. “Osama bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri have been reduced to a static voice on the radio, a static voice on TV and a static image and message,” Mr. Gerges says. “The message no longer resonates with Muslims the way it did in the late 90s and after 2001.” Has the message from Al Qaeda just become fossilized, a missive from a coelacanth that no longer dares venture out of its deep sea cave, where it slakes its predatory appetites in the dark? “We have to put this in a little bit of perspective,” says Shibley Telhami, a University of Maryland professor who runs an annual poll of Arab public opinion. “Bin Laden still has some support, his intense admirers, but the real difference is that the rest of the Muslim world were embracing him out of anger toward America, and now they’re not.”The anger toward America remains, but most people have rejected Al Qaeda as well, Mr. Telhami says."


19 posted on 12/29/2009 7:24:16 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Each contemptuous Senate Democrat is thinking: "Oh, it will all blow over by spring--they'll forget")
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Bin Laden may not have overwhelming support but does that make anyone feel safer from terrorist attacks? I’m sure we could find hate being taught in the vast majority of Mosques anywhere in the world including right here in the U.S. So who ever thought this issue was just dependent on Bin Laden?


20 posted on 12/29/2009 8:06:56 AM PST by 1776 Reborn
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