Yes, I know, you already knew that, but I have to complain about the Presiden’t speech Monday night.
There was a bunch of Roosevelt-invoking garbage in there, obviously, but there’s one particular lie that Bush will not stop telling the people of this country, which, due to its total absurdity, is beginning to chap my Texas hide.
So let’s get this straight once and for all: If America leaves Iraq, the chances that al Qaeda will take over and use the oil money to build a giant al Qaeda Caliphate to take over the world are LESS THAN NOTHING.
The Sunni foreign fighter "al Qaeda types" in Iraq have NEVER made up more than a few percentage points worth of the insurgency. If the U.S. government leaves now, with the current government in place, the dominant force in that country will be Iran, not al Qaeda.
Even if the country splits into three, the new Sunni state will be dominated by people from there: Either the former Baathists or the local religious leaders will rise to the top. The idea that some Saudis and Egyptians - in exile on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border - could come and dominate the locals (who have held their own against the U.S. Army for over three years) is, in the words of incomparable investigative reporter, Robert Dreyfuss, "utterly stupid." And there are no oil wells under the Sunni triangle anyway - it’s all near Kirkuk in the north and Basra in the south.
Besides, everyone knows that the invasion and occupation are radicalizing people who had nothing to do with al Qaeda before 9/11. Well, at least, that’s according to the former CIA director, the CIA’s National Intelligence Council, former CIA agents, the FBI, the RIIA, the Saudis and the Israelis. So any strengthening of the Terrorists
Another 9-11 has come and gone. Here is what I noticed particularly this year in speaking with people:
People are getting sick of it all. Yes, lets memorialize the dead and the heroes but stop replaying the videos all day long.
I personally am appalled at the term, Patriot Day. Whats so patriotic about it? Pearl Harbor was far bigger in significance and no one sees that as a patriotic day…its referred to as a Day of Infamy!! There is very little news coverage on that date.
The 9-11 coverage is intended to continue to spread Fear, somehow justify the Iraq quagmire and nothing else. The problem I see is that is that as each year goes by, it is less and less effective. Masking this fear-mongering is a lot of phoney-baloney flag waving, news coverage, ect, ect. In the sense of thousands of years of history, 9-11 is nothing but a small blip on the screen of life. Putting thing is perspective, we should take a whole month to memorialize WW2 when you consider how many millions died there!
Lets stay focused on capturing Bin-Laden and the guilty parties for this crime, which the govt seems to have forgotten about.
Its time to move!!
Christian Science Monitor has already decided that Al-Qaeda has taken over Anbar. CSM also sponsored Jill Carroll in a false flag kidnapping designed to serve as propaganda. But it didn’t work. CSM are blatant war criminals.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0911/dailyUpdate.html
Tom
Patriots Day is April 19th, in commemoration of the Brits defeat at Lexington and Concord in 1775.
Carrol’s abduction a “false flag”? Says who and based on what evidence?
From “war criminal” Tom Reagan’s piece:
If this is indeed a long war, as the Bush administration says, then the United States has almost certainly lost the first phase. Guerrillas are learning faster than Western armies, and the West makes appalling strategic mistakes while the extremists make brilliant tactical moves.
As Al Qaeda and its allies prepare to spread their global jihad to Central Asia, the Caucasus and other parts of the Middle East, they will carry with them the accumulated experience and lessons of the past five years. The West and its regional allies are not prepared to match them.
In an interview with Tim Russert on NBC’s Meet the Press, US Vice President Dick Cheney painted a more optimistic picture of what was happening in Iraq and Afghanistan. Vice President Cheney said that adversaries of the US cannot beat it in a “stand-up fight,” but were trying to see if they could “break the will” of the American people. Cheney also hinted that people who questioned the Bush administration’s strategy on the war on terror actually “validate the strategy of the terrorists.”
In the Meet the Press interview, Cheney did admit that he had been wrong when he said the insurgency was in its “final throes” last year, but defended the decision to invade Iraq. Cheney repeated his often expressed point that there was a “decade long” connection between former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.
However, Bloomberg News reports that on Friday the Senate Intelligence Committee released a report that said there was no evidence of any kind of a connection between Mr. Hussein and Al Qaeda, and that Hussein “didn’t trust Al Qaeda and refused to support it.”
“Saddam Hussein was distrustful of al-Qaeda and viewed Islamic extremists as a threat to his regime,” one of the reports said. Hussein refused all requests from al-Qaeda to provide material or operational support, said the report issued in Washington today by the Senate Intelligence Committee.
A second committee report said that Iraq Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress told US officials that Iraq possessed nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, information that later proved inaccurate.
Vice President Cheney said Sunday he has not yet read the Senate report.
I agree with what you are saying. My problem these days is that the person about whom you speak (Bush) is so repulsive that I can’t listen to him say anything. I can pretty much assure myself that whatever he says is going to be a lie…the only question is a lie about what. He may even believe what he says…which is just more proof that he is not only incompetent but perhaps insane as well.
Any proficient liar mixes in truth with the lies because (1) its easier to remember and (2) it makes the lie more plausible.
hey yall. here’s something to think about. you are equally as likely to be shot by a cop as you are to be killed by al queda.
but really. watch out for hernias. they are even deadlier:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71743-0.html?tw=wn_index_18
For starters scott the British would have owned the Americans, if it were not for a few generous British generals who released the American generals shortly after their capture. Oh and your forgetting the fact that at the same time we were fighting the French the only difference is we beat the French, proving only one thing that the Americans are better tyhan the French and I am not sure that anybody doubted that not even the French.