Saturday, December 09, 2006

Not encouraging

Jane Harman wasn’t good enough for Nancy Pelosi, so we’re stuck with Texas Democrat Silvestre Reyes heading up the House Intelligence Committee. Judging by this interview with Congressional Quarterly, Reyes thinks we’re fighting a global war on terror against some guys, maybe Muslim, from sandy places:

The dialogue went like this:

Al Qaeda is what, I asked, Sunni or Shia?

“Al Qaeda, they have both,” Reyes said. “You’re talking about predominately?”

“Sure,” I said, not knowing what else to say.

“Predominantly — probably Shiite,” he ventured.

He couldn’t have been more wrong.

Al Qaeda is profoundly Sunni. If a Shiite showed up at an al Qaeda club house, they’d slice off his head and use it for a soccer ball.
Just great.

Extra - Captain Ed: "Wasn't he on the Intel committee already?"

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