Scary Tenent thought...may require tin foil

[Atman]

I was struck today that out of all the heavy shit going down, he broke down crying about getting to spend time with his son. Like, cool, dude. But what's with the tears, Mr. Tough Guy CIA Man? You've attached electodes to guys' balls for fun, and THIS causes tears to well up?

Unless...unless...he knows something about the "Summer Of Terror."

Just a wild random thought, I have nothing invested in it. While I thought the crying was odd, I didn't know why I thought that until I re-read some of this thread...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=1701699&mesg_id=1701699

[indigobusiness]

1. hate ain't cool

period.

[Straight Shooter]

2. I think it's a spoof of "I was country when country wasn't cool"

As for Tenet crying, he's always been a good soldier, hasn't he? None of the others have cried.

[indigobusiness]

4. I missed the crying scene

dammit.

[Atman]

3. It's only a sticker

It's a joke...remember, we're called "Bush haters" not by ourselves, but by the Bushistas.

Take a chill pill!

[indigobusiness]

5. Get in the gutter with the Bushistas if you want.

Hate ain't funny, or cool.

[displacedtexan]

8. I love that sticker!

People just hate you for your freedoms!

[Kinkistyle]

21. Bush-Disliking

How about Bush-Disliking? I dislike Bush with the fire of a thousands suns. He lied to the American public for his the benefit of himself and his cronies which costed the lives of tens of thousands of people and this makes me dislike him OH SO MUCH!

OOO! I could give him such a pinch!

[LosinIt]

6. Or maybe he knows something is coming down on Europe trip

and didn't want to be in office when it did. Now THAT needs an entire tinfoil body wrap! Just letting my imagination run wild.

[displacedtexan]

7. Or maybe he knows BushCo is planning its own US attack...

Tin foiling my house now.

[stickdog]

9. Be sure to use duct tape to attach that tinfoil.

[donhakman]

10. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Solomon]

11. He's crying because he knows that

****** ******* ****** **** is the only "ex"-CIA chief who was not executed.

He's gonna miss his son.

[Atman]

12. Youch...

That doesn't even require much tin foil.

[Joanne98]

13. Your kidding right.

[LifeDuringWartime]

15. i dont get it

:shrug:

[nomatrix]

14. If he was a democrat, you could say he was

crying about his son being a senior, he will be eligible when they resurrect the draft next year.

Really, his con job, sent over 800 Americans to their death in Iraq, who knows how many innocents from Iraq, let alone his responsibility to 9/11 etc.

His tears meant shame. He's leaving in disgrace. Reminded me of Nixon. Facts will follow.

[RebelOne]

22. I heard that he is a Democrat.

[Eloriel]

16. You may have a point -- BUT

are you a parent?

I saw the tape and didn't think it particularly unusual. Even tho I am not at all unfamiliar with all things tin foil, I didn't see anything behind his welling up over a son he's very proud of, who has no doubt grown up too fast while his dad was really, really busy and hardly ever home, and who'll be flying the next soon.

Again, your point may be apt -- just don't pin too much on the tears re his son. They're normal, IMO, even for a tough guy soon-to-be-ex-spook.

[Atman]

19. I have 19 yo and a 16 yo sons

I am a very, very, very worried parent.

[keithyboy]

17. He could be seriously ill.

He's at the age where prostate cancer shows up.

[camero]

18. Maybe he just got tired of being kicked around

getting the blame for all these intelligence "failures". He might be the next to have a book against Bush.

[chookie]

20. His son told him to tell them to fuck off

Tenet probably felt terrible to have his beloved son see him get set up as the Fall Guy for everything this administration got wrong. His son was probably extremely cool about it all, and told him that he knew that he didn't do the things they are accusing him of. He told him he didn't care -- that the most important thing to him was for his Dad to get the hell out of that lunatic asylum.

To get that kind of reaction from your son is enough to make any Dad cry with gratitude.

Don't make too much of the "family" thing. We ALL knew that civil war was being waged within the WH. The NeoCons won this round.

Tenet is not blameless in this. He played around with the "Yes, Boss!" game and gave in to Cheney's demands to provide "evidence" to justify an attack with Iraq -- as early as Jan 2001. But I think there is a LOT of stuff that he absolutely refused to buy into, which "gave the game away" about how the evidence was fabricated.

When the Plame investigation started knocking on the Oval Office -- no doubt after "assurances" from Bush that the WH was not involved in any way -- in the same week that Chalabi, found out to be a spy for Iran, was accusing him of discrediting him -- that was too much to take.

[jeff30997]

23. "The Summer Of Terror."

In a few months we will certainly see headlines like this i'm afraid.

[gandalf]

24. I missed that. Did he really cry?

Cannot believe that.

[Atman]

25. Yes, at the end...when he said he needed to spend time with son

The news channels show it some of the time, but they've mostly focused on the "well-being of my family" quote.

[Eurobabe]

26. he didn't bawl, he just choked up

paused for a moment, and launched into humor to diffuse the tension.