# Hey, stupid-fuck, we can't sneak up on Pakistan **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 8, 2008, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-stupid-fuck-we-cant-sneak-up-on-pakistan/466971 "2008-10-08T10:15:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-stupid-fuck-we-cant-sneak-up-on-pakistan/466971/21 "2008-10-09T00:35:03Z")
All we’d need to do is get a Pakistani cricket player to admit fixing a match against India (preferably in the World Cup). Then, while the country falls into a squabbling, effigy-burning heap, we send in the fast bowlers, er, troops. ---
**Author:** ![Mumio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@Mumio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mumio)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-stupid-fuck-we-cant-sneak-up-on-pakistan/466971/22 "2008-10-09T00:48:59Z")
> [@warmgun](#): > > Jesus. Obama must feel like he’s debating a 3 year old. That stupid, doddering old fuck is making me sick. I am shocked and saddened that 1/2 of the American population can’t see past his ‘nana nana’ childish rebuttal and accusations. > > Most infuriating was McCain’s insistence on repeating things that Obama did not say. Even when Obama repeated that he didn’t say them and clearly restated what he did say. The worst of them being McCain’s ‘invading Pakistan’ remark: > > _“Senator Obama likes to talk loudly. He’s said that he’s going to invade Pakistan. You know, if you announce you’re going to attack another country…it turns public opinion against us.”_ > > Oh, really? So doing the planning in private would stave off that opinion when we actually did attack? > > And what’s with this concept of a surprise attack anyway. They wouldn’t notice us staging our troops at their door? And if we were going to do some sort of long range bombing, what difference would it make? It’s not like they could prepare or stop it. > McCain is so used to trying to sucker punch Obama in this campaign, I can see why this tactic is such a big deal to him. > > \*\*I am sick that Americans would nominate and continue to stand behind someone who is this fucking infantile for the most important (and potentially the most dangerous) job in this country. > \*\* > Fuck. Well, that would be the same Americans who put the current POTUS in office—where have you been the last eight years? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![warmgun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@warmgun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/warmgun)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-stupid-fuck-we-cant-sneak-up-on-pakistan/466971/23 "2008-10-09T01:05:43Z")
> [@Mumio](#): > > Well, that would be the same Americans who put the current POTUS in office—where have you been the last eight years? 😉 Bitching about that, too. But seriously, I have no love for Bush supporters and voters of the second election. The first election OK I can see some people getting fooled. But fool me once shame on… shame on you… if you fooled me, we don’t get fooled again… what the right hand is doing. I’m more angry with McCain but am astonished that so many Americans can be in this bad of a circumstance most of it due to the current administration and still can’t see past John’s rhetoric. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-stupid-fuck-we-cant-sneak-up-on-pakistan/466971/24 "2008-10-09T01:33:28Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > He’s going to send in an elite team composed of Chuck Norris, John Rambo and Jean Claude Van Damme. The motion picture rights will pay for the secret special ops teams and then they’re bringing us all back a pony, puppies and our favorite pie. > > America, fuck yeah! Thank god, another war that’s going to pay for itself. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-stupid-fuck-we-cant-sneak-up-on-pakistan/466971/25 "2008-10-09T02:17:02Z")
Sure he can.[He’ll just tiptoe past Iran.](http://www.flickr.com/photos/21234489@N08/2926026718/) The key is to be wewy, wewy quiet. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-stupid-fuck-we-cant-sneak-up-on-pakistan/466971/26 "2008-10-09T03:03:57Z")
> [@](#): > > I’ll get Osama bin Laden, my friends. I’ll get him. I know how to get him. > > I’ll get him no matter what and I know how to do it. But I’m not going to telegraph my punches, which is what Sen. Obama did. So if he can get him, then why hasn’t he offered the U.S. any insight into getting him these past 7 years? ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-stupid-fuck-we-cant-sneak-up-on-pakistan/466971/27 "2008-10-09T03:11:30Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Seems easy enough to me. > > “Hey, Pakistan, how’s it going? Good? Good. Democracy working out okay for you? Good, good. Say, I was just thinking about…hey, isn’t that India over there trying to steal Kashmir again?”\* > > \ > \*I’m hearing this in kind of a Peter Griffith voice Funny, but I was hearing Eddie Izzard ---
**Author:** ![AdmiralCrunch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@AdmiralCrunch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AdmiralCrunch)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-stupid-fuck-we-cant-sneak-up-on-pakistan/466971/28 "2008-10-09T03:25:14Z")
“Hey Pakistan, don’t bug out if you notice some American military activity inside your borders. It’s just that we found that guy we’ve been giving you billions of dollars to find. And that’s if you’re unwilling to do it yourself. Only fair, really.” vs “Sneak attack a country with nukes! They won’t know what the fuck is going on. And some guy whose political party has the same name as mine is admirable, so I’m gonna repeat something he said that has no bearing on this situation. May I mention Energy Independence? I know how to win wars. I know how to find Bin Laden.” And foreign policy is supposed to be McCain’s strong suit. Stupid fuck is spot on. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-stupid-fuck-we-cant-sneak-up-on-pakistan/466971/29 "2008-10-09T03:35:19Z")
“I’ll get Osama bin Laden, my friends. I’ll get him. I know how to get him. I’ll get him no matter what and I know how to do it. But I’m not going to telegraph my punches, which is what Sen. Obama did.” > [@Wile\_E](#): > > So if he can get him, then why hasn’t he offered the U.S. any insight into getting him these past 7 years? Presumably McCain puts winning the election for himself above capturing Bin Laden. What a patriot. :rolleyes::smack: ---
**Author:** ![Rucksinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-stupid-fuck-we-cant-sneak-up-on-pakistan/466971/30 "2008-10-09T03:48:21Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > So if he can get him, then why hasn’t he offered the U.S. any insight into getting him these past 7 years? He has a [“Secret Plan”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_promise) ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-stupid-fuck-we-cant-sneak-up-on-pakistan/466971/31 "2008-10-09T04:21:46Z")
> [@glee](#): > > “I’ll get Osama bin Laden, my friends. I’ll get him. I know how to get him. > I’ll get him no matter what and I know how to do it. But I’m not going to telegraph my punches, which is what Sen. Obama did.” > > Presumably McCain puts winning the election for himself above capturing Bin Laden. > What a patriot. :rolleyes::smack: Yep, COUNTRY FIRST. Right after the election. If I win, or else I’ll take my ball and go home. Mr. Integrity. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-stupid-fuck-we-cant-sneak-up-on-pakistan/466971/32 "2008-10-09T04:55:27Z")
[QUOTE=John McCain] I’ll get Osama bin Laden, my friends. I’ll get him. I know how to get him. [/QUOTE] Like my 72 year old (formerly very Republican) father said at lunch today: If he knows how to get Osama Bin Laden, then how come he hasn’t shared this information with President Bush sometime in the last seven years? The thing I pointed out about this exchange was how he busted on Obama for “telegraphing” moves and (falsely) for announcing that he would attack countries. But as Obama pointed out, McCain has advocated attacking Iraq (in the past), Iran and North Korea. This is something called Hypocricy on John McCain’s part. He also blasted Obama for saying he’d go into Pakistan, but if you actually listened to what McCain was saying, he was saying the same damned thing, that he himself would go into Pakistan without permission, to get Bin Laden. He was just being coy about it and implying it without saying it directly. John McCain, you sir have earned yourself a solid :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-stupid-fuck-we-cant-sneak-up-on-pakistan/466971/33 "2008-10-09T05:07:56Z")
It’s been 7 years since 9-11 and we still can’t find a scrawny seven foot tall motherfucker attached to a dialysis machine in a place where they disapprove of the wheel? ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-stupid-fuck-we-cant-sneak-up-on-pakistan/466971/34 "2008-10-09T10:15:45Z")
Well, we’ve made a lot of people in the area sympathetic to his cause in the last 7 years:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-stupid-fuck-we-cant-sneak-up-on-pakistan/466971/35 "2008-10-10T10:27:27Z")
> [@Rack-a-Bones](#): > > Yeah, but can Bond slam a revolving door? I heard somewhere that Chuck can. Bond doesn’t need to, hes got this device that looks exactly like a bootlace that does it for him. Personally I think that" Q" should be running the Secret Intelligence Service not just the gadget department,because not only is he a technological genius but he also seems to have some sort of precognition. Bond has quite happily operated for years without say , an implement disguised as a shopping trolley that sends out an electrical field that can kill an angry swarm of killer bees, and then on his very next mission! the evil mastermind (Henceforth known as Gordon Brown Primeminister of Great Britain) tries to kill our hero with a swarm of(probably radioactive)killer bees. Did I say genius? Genius aint in it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-stupid-fuck-we-cant-sneak-up-on-pakistan/466971.md?page=1)