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Al Qaeda better positioned to strike the West
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19730468/
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wow, two wars lost in just 6 years.
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Well if you'd give Bush a little bit more time, you cowardly wimps, you'd see!!
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Anyone remember how there was a BinLaden tape released right before the 2004 election. It seems like whenever the CIA analyzes them, they are always good. Does anyone expect BinLaden to hold a press conference and say, "Hey, that's a fake, its not me."? |
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Who didn't see this coming?
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If you won the election in 2008, what would you do differently? How would you protect your nation from terrorism (as much as it is possible to do so)?
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Well, those are two completely different questions, AEON, because Iraq and protecting us from terrorism have nothing to do with each other.
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How about this. If I had won the election in 2000, I would not have invaded Iraq and would have continued to concentrate my resources on capturing Bin Laden and eliminating safe havens for Al Qaeda.
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That's fair. But what would you do if you won in 2008? |
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[q]Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Ron Paul, said the country is in "great danger" of the U.S. government staging a terrorist attack or a Gulf of Tonkin style provocation, as the war in Iraq continues to deteriorate.
The Texas congressman offered no specifics nor mentioned President Bush by name, but he clearly insinuated that the administration would not be above staging an incident to revive flagging support.[/q] ![]() the fact that this is not beyond the realm of possibility is a complete and total tragedy. yay. a summer of sweating on the Metro, and not because it's in the mid-90s and humid. |
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I would pressure US allies like Saudi Arabia and Egypt to stop funding extremist teachings that only lead to Al Qaeda type groups. I would try to ensure that desperate people don't become martys for some vague cause by helping economically depressed people. I would stop supporting Israel and pressure it to deal with Palestinians humanely, instead the hypocritical historical approach of supporting occupation and brutality of Israel no matter what it does while talking down to Palestinians. Palestinians have engaged in cease-fires repeatedly, but Israel is allowed to continue settlements and oppression and violence to arrest or kill targets. If Israel won't stop, why should Palestinians? Bush is not the first to play this hypocritical game, and until this trend is broken away from, Muslims the world over will be galvanized by this injustice of Israeli colonialism and oppression, and Al Qaeda-type group membership will grow. Terrorism in this case grows out of injustice, not Islamic fundamentalist colonial dreams. There's a difference between Al Qaeda and reasonable groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, which may occasionally do the wrong thing, but are not evil or unacceptable by using the only means they have to prevent Israel from rolling over their peoples even more than they have in the past. Israel had a chance for peace, but used aggression from its inception, and now balks at Arab/Muslim 'barbarism' for self-defense. Israel's actions are similar to what European settlers did to native Americans, yet no US politician is willing to accept the moral imperative this acknowlegement would bring about. |
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![]() That's what I thought of when I read the Ron Paul bit. Also, certain 24 plots. |
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