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to: Mark
from: Robert Comer
date: 2005-10-07 12:11:56
subject: Re: WSJ on Iraqi Quagmire

From: "Robert Comer" 

It was awfully nice of Bush to give them Iraq for a base of operations...

- Bob Comer


"Mark"  wrote in message
news:434699c9{at}w3.nls.net...
> Why would that article get the WSJ on the "list"? It sounds
to me like an
> analysis of what the terrorists have been telling us they want from the
> get go. When they're forced out of Iraq and Afghanistan they're not just
> going to become farmers somewhere, of course they'll take their jihad
> elsewhere. The elsewhere's were always on the long-term playlist anyway,
> They want to take over the world. As Bush said yesterday:
> ====
>
> http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/10/20051006-3.html
>
> Like the ideology of communism, our new enemy pursues totalitarian aims.
> Its leaders pretend to be an aggrieved party, representing the powerless
> against imperial enemies. In truth they have endless ambitions of imperial
> domination, and they wish to make everyone powerless except themselves.
> Under their rule, they have banned books, and desecrated historical
> monuments, and brutalized women. They seek to end dissent in every form,
> and to control every aspect of life, and to rule the soul, itself. While
> promising a future of justice and holiness, the terrorists are preparing
> for a future of oppression and misery.
>
> Like the ideology of communism, our new enemy is dismissive of free
> peoples, claiming that men and women who live in liberty are weak and
> decadent. Zarqawi has said that Americans are, quote, "the most cowardly
> of God's creatures." But let's be clear: It is cowardice that seeks to
> kill children and the elderly with car bombs, and cuts the throat of a
> bound captive, and targets worshipers leaving a mosque. It is courage that
> liberated more than 50 million people. It is courage that keeps an
> untiring vigil against the enemies of a rising democracy. And it is
> courage in the cause of freedom that once again will destroy the enemies
> of freedom.
>
> ====
> So, we can fight them now, or sit back until it's time to submit to them,
> cover our women and get out our prayer mats. That, or present our bare
> throats for the machete.
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:43469059{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>> "John Cuccia"  wrote in message
>> news:8u2dk1hs7kfag9k18g2b4vando2j5rjqi0{at}4ax.com...
>>> Iraq has replaced Afghanistan as a breeding ground,  a training area,
>>> and a base for exporting Islamic terrorists, according to the Wall
>>> Street Journal.  I wonder if that'll ever become part of Bush's litany
>>> of rationales-du-jour for the invasion?  The ignorant fuck threw a
>>> match on the petroleum-soaked Middle East, having no idea how to
>>> control the fire that he didn't even know he was going to start.
>>>
>>> http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/002793.html
>>> ...Al Qaeda's efforts in Iraq resemble the way Osama bin Laden and
>>> other Islamic leaders used Afghanistan in the 1980s to promote global
>>> jihad. In both cases, Islamists prosecuted the wars as part of a
>>> broader propaganda operation to rally the world's Muslims. Both
>>> theaters of war, meanwhile, have given extremists new training in
>>> military technologies and tactics.
>>>
>>> and....
>>>
>>> In addition, violence in Iraq between the Sunni and Shiite branches of
>>> Islam risks spilling over to other Arab lands, worries Adnan Abu Odeh,
>>> a former adviser to Jordan's late King Hussein. "I think the
>>> significance of what's been set off in Iraq will play out for
>>> decades," he says.
>>>
>>
>> Looks like the WSJ is heading to the GaryB&Mark banned MSM
news list 
>>
>
>

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