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Title: BREAKING NEWS: BRITISH PM CAUGHT BREAKING THE LAW?!?!
Post by: Jari on 2006-12-29 00:00:24
OBSERVE (http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/politics/prime-minister-tony-blairs-ps3-scandal-224812.php).


Questions! All these questions are making my head spin! Oh, the humanity!



(http://koti.mbnet.fi/jarihux/cheeky-smiley-004.gif)
Title: Re: BREAKING NEWS: BRITISH PM CAUGHT BREAKING THE LAW?!?!
Post by: Vehek on 2006-12-29 01:12:12
Taking a stab at blowing things out of proportion? :roll:
Title: Re: BREAKING NEWS: BRITISH PM CAUGHT BREAKING THE LAW?!?!
Post by: Jari on 2006-12-29 01:27:59
Vehek, meet smiley. *points to his post* Smiley, meet Vehek. :-P
Title: Re: BREAKING NEWS: BRITISH PM CAUGHT BREAKING THE LAW?!?!
Post by: James Pond on 2006-12-29 08:16:10
"Is that really the sweet ass of Cheri Blair?"

Jari, that comment is wrong on *SO* many levels.
Also, I think our version of SWAT are the SEAL's. Don't qoute me on that though.


OH SWEET JESUS I DIDNT SEE THE SECOND PICTURE.
 ;_; Damn you Jariiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii


Title: Re: BREAKING NEWS: BRITISH PM CAUGHT BREAKING THE LAW?!?!
Post by: Jedimark on 2006-12-29 09:20:44
what the hell is UK's equivalent to SWAT anyway?
It is the UKSF which combines the special forces from the Army, Navy and Air Corps / Air Force. Though it's mainly refered to as the SAS as the bulk of the formation comes from the Army's Special Air Service force.

That picture is really not what I wanted to see having just woken up and trying to eat my breakfast!

*EDIT*
TWO THOUSAND POSTS!!!!
Title: Re: BREAKING NEWS: BRITISH PM CAUGHT BREAKING THE LAW?!?!
Post by: ChaosControl on 2006-12-29 10:10:44
Omfg, that women is so ugly =/
Wonder how they got a PS3 though, they're hard to get. Not if you're a PM so to see.
Title: Re: BREAKING NEWS: BRITISH PM CAUGHT BREAKING THE LAW?!?!
Post by: Jari on 2006-12-29 11:57:11
Awww, you guys sure are picky about ass. (http://koti.mbnet.fi/jarihux/grinning-smiley-001.gif)

Maybe this (http://koti.mbnet.fi/jarihux/Alizee5.jpg) will make you feel better (it really ought to be animated, but I couldn't find one right now).
Title: Re: BREAKING NEWS: BRITISH PM CAUGHT BREAKING THE LAW?!?!
Post by: Qhimm on 2006-12-29 12:55:54
Awww, you guys sure are picky about ass. (http://koti.mbnet.fi/jarihux/grinning-smiley-001.gif)

Maybe this (http://koti.mbnet.fi/jarihux/Alizee5.jpg) will make you feel better (it really ought to be animated, but I couldn't find one right now).

That ass could wake the dead.
Title: Re: BREAKING NEWS: BRITISH PM CAUGHT BREAKING THE LAW?!?!
Post by: James Pond on 2006-12-29 13:16:52
Awww, you guys sure are picky about ass. (http://koti.mbnet.fi/jarihux/grinning-smiley-001.gif)

Maybe this (http://koti.mbnet.fi/jarihux/Alizee5.jpg) will make you feel better (it really ought to be animated, but I couldn't find one right now).

That ass could wake the dead.
QFT
Title: Re: BREAKING NEWS: BRITISH PM CAUGHT BREAKING THE LAW?!?!
Post by: ChaosControl on 2006-12-29 15:20:50
Awww, you guys sure are picky about ass. (http://koti.mbnet.fi/jarihux/grinning-smiley-001.gif)

Maybe this (http://koti.mbnet.fi/jarihux/Alizee5.jpg) will make you feel better (it really ought to be animated, but I couldn't find one right now).

That ass could wake the dead.
Even better, that ass could wake me! :mrgreen:
Title: Re: BREAKING NEWS: BRITISH PM CAUGHT BREAKING THE LAW?!?!
Post by: Darkness on 2006-12-30 06:59:00
Sony probably had to pay her to take one.
Title: Re: BREAKING NEWS: BRITISH PM CAUGHT BREAKING THE LAW?!?!
Post by: James Pond on 2006-12-30 08:12:54
In other news, Saddam just got shot.  Or hanged.   Or shot while hanged, I dont know really.
Title: Re: BREAKING NEWS: BRITISH PM CAUGHT BREAKING THE LAW?!?!
Post by: ChaosControl on 2006-12-30 10:30:04
He got hanged, first images of it are already online:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHNFvLu-pK0
Title: Re: BREAKING NEWS: BRITISH PM CAUGHT BREAKING THE LAW?!?!
Post by: Jedimark on 2006-12-30 11:54:30
That shouldn't have been filmed at all IMO.
Title: Re: BREAKING NEWS: BRITISH PM CAUGHT BREAKING THE LAW?!?!
Post by: Jari on 2006-12-30 13:01:15
Rope: $10
Black ski masks: $5 a piece
Looking like common thugs while hanging someone: priceless.


Normally I would agree with Jedimark, but considering how appropriate the imagery with the masks and all is, I'm all for distributing this video to each and every citizen of Earth.
Title: Re: BREAKING NEWS: BRITISH PM CAUGHT BREAKING THE LAW?!?!
Post by: James Pond on 2006-12-30 15:43:36
Loving the change of Avatar Jari >_>
Title: Re: BREAKING NEWS: BRITISH PM CAUGHT BREAKING THE LAW?!?!
Post by: Jari on 2006-12-31 00:43:21
:-D

I figured that today - well, actually yesterday - could be named as international Hug Saddam-day. :lol:
Title: Re: BREAKING NEWS: BRITISH PM CAUGHT BREAKING THE LAW?!?!
Post by: Otokoshi on 2006-12-31 02:45:50
Quote from: Jari
Normally I would agree with Jedimark, but considering how appropriate the imagery with the masks and all is, I'm all for distributing this video to each and every citizen of Earth.

They already "distributed" the entire execution... over the internet that is.  :-D  They check people for camera phones when entering a music concert, but apparently not for an execution...
Title: Re: BREAKING NEWS: BRITISH PM CAUGHT BREAKING THE LAW?!?!
Post by: Jari on 2007-01-01 12:59:02
Some interesting details regarding the execution have surfaced; it would seem that certain Shia politicians managed to force US to hand Saddam over, even though Americans had doubts about the wisdom of the timing.

New York Times article (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/01/world/middleeast/01iraq.html?_r=1&oref=slogin):

Quote
“The Americans said that we have no issue in handing him over, but we need everything to be in accordance with the law,” the Iraqi official said. “We do not want to break the law.”

The American pressure sent Mr. Maliki and his aides into a frantic quest for legal workarounds, the Iraqi official said. The Americans told them they needed a decree from President Jalal Talabani, signed jointly by his two vice presidents, upholding the death sentence, and a letter from the chief judge of the Iraqi High Tribunal, the court that tried Mr. Hussein, certifying the verdict. But Mr. Talabani, a Kurd, made it known that he objected to the death penalty on principle.

The Maliki government spent much of Friday working on legal mechanisms to meet the American demands. From Mr. Talabani, they obtained a letter saying that while he would not sign a decree approving the hanging, he had no objections. The Iraqi official said Mr. Talabani first asked the tribunal’s judges for an opinion on whether the constitutional requirement for presidential approval applied to a death sentence handed down by the tribunal, a special court operating outside Iraq’s main judicial system. The judges said the requirement was void.

Mr. Maliki had one major obstacle: the Hussein-era law proscribing executions during the Id holiday. This remained unresolved until late Friday, the Iraqi official said. He said he attended a late-night dinner at the prime minister’s office at which American officers and Mr. Maliki’s officials debated the issue.

One participant described the meeting this way: “The Iraqis seemed quite frustrated, saying, ‘Who is going to execute him, anyway, you or us?’ The Americans replied by saying that obviously, it was the Iraqis who would carry out the hanging. So the Iraqis said, ‘This is our problem and we will handle the consequences. If there is any damage done, it is we who will be damaged, not you.’ ”

To this, the Iraqis added what has often been their trump card in tricky political situations: they telephoned officials of the marjaiya, the supreme religious body in Iraqi Shiism, composed of ayatollahs in the holy city of Najaf. The ayatollahs approved. Mr. Maliki, at a few minutes before midnight on Friday, then signed a letter to the justice minister, “to carry out the hanging until death.”

And some further reading; a diary (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/1/1/11229/63751) from DailyKos about how and why both the death sentence, and its execution - pun indented - was a bad idea.

Just a small disclaimer here, in case some of you are not familiar with DailyKos: it's a Democratic webroots community, so their comments are bound to be biased to some degree. That being said, it's a whole lot more sane and considerably less biased than the right wing counterpart, Free Republic (not even going to link to them, as I don't want this forum to show up as a referrer on their logs).

Anyway, what do I think of this?

I'm most amused. :-D

It seems that to some degree the puppet has cut its strings, and is calling the shots. And why do I find this amusing? Because US has had strange bedfellows in the past, like the Taliban - under a different name, but it was the same people - when it was fighting against Soviets in Afghanistan and Hussein, when he was fighting the religious Iran. And US still hasn't learned that in the end this thing doesn't work out.

It's very much a case of "You reap what you sow". :)