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10-18-2007, 02:14 PM
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Funny you mention that. We went to a Middle Eastern restaurant tonight. My date asked the owner if they were connected to another Middle Eastern restaurant across town with a very similar name.
He looked like you had slapped him. He replied to her " Why NO. They are Muslims, and we are Christians." I thought it was interesting that he didn't say we are from different countries, or even from different parts of the same country. It was RELIGION that seperated them.
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Yes indeed. Being an infidel is not a uniquely American trait. Making the hatred political is easier than admitting the importance of religion. And like it or not, people are more committed to their particular religion than to any political ideal.
I also think it's interesting that the implication seems to be that Al-Qaida recruitment and hatred was somehow caused by Bush and this war. Al-Qaida has been doing their thing for years...in and out of Iraq. They don't need Bush,the U.S., or any war to drive their hatred...they've got it in spades. Nor do I think Al-Qaida is stupid. They are exacting a severe financial toll...which seems to be their main strategy.
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10-18-2007, 02:18 PM
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Funny you mention that. We went to a Middle Eastern restaurant tonight. My date asked the owner if they were connected to another Middle Eastern restaurant across town with a very similar name.
He looked like you had slapped him. He replied to her " Why NO. They are Muslims, and we are Christians." I thought it was interesting that he didn't say we are from different countries, or even from different parts of the same country. It was RELIGION that seperated them.
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Great story. It illusrates my contention that religion is the underlying cause of most of the worlds conflicts.
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10-18-2007, 02:19 PM
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Nor do I think Al-Qaida is stupid. They are exacting a severe financial toll...which seems to be their main strategy.
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Bingo we have a winner......this is a war of attrition, but Iraq is the wrong battlefield.
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10-18-2007, 02:38 PM
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Great story. It illusrates my contention that religion is the underlying cause of most of the worlds conflicts.
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RELIGION HATING is part of THE NEW WORLD ORDER.......islamist butt clown.
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10-18-2007, 03:11 PM
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Cat when I read this in the news last night I SO KNEW you were going to post it.
So i figured I'd wait until you did.
Nice.
hehe.
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10-18-2007, 03:14 PM
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The NIE also said that if Iraq was stable we would be safer . . . so it all depended upon Iraq.
Seems al-Qaeda didn't have too much trouble recruiting before 9/11, before Iraq, or at any other time.
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Ya true. The problem is, which crumbling piece of the artificially created country called Iraq is going to be the 'stabilizer'? Especially if our good friends Turkey continue forward with their intentions to invade Northern Iraq.
Could get fun....
In that hot poker in the eye kinda' fun...If you're into that kinda' thing. 
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10-18-2007, 03:22 PM
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What fueled the recruiting drive of the 80's and 90's? They have appeared to hate us for quite a while.
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Um not really.....In Iraq anyway. They were too busy being traumatized by Saddam.
If you mean 'the base' They were not a reality in Iraq back then.
They were a piss ant group of disgruntled fanatics left over from the war with Russia in Afghanistan, the Chechens & Bosnia that got support from the disgruntled contractor who didn't get paid for rebuilding Mecca. Since the US held sway over the people who were suppose to pay him the Saud family, he decided to whip up his 'base' to send a message that he get paid & their handlers get out of the land of Mecca. Now if they really were to fulfill his dreams the handlers would invade his nemesis in the region Saddam & get rid of him.
Turns out everything went quite well for the disgruntled contractor & he got new recruits along the way. The handlers seem to have played exactly on spot to his script.
Funny isn't it. 
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I can't imagine this not being a problem of any occupied country regardless of faith.
If most of the terrorists are foreign to Iraq, what percentage of Iraqis, who hate Al Qaeda yet suicide bomb to restore their country, are being recruited?
We've also seen a influx of fighters switch sides to join the US. Does the number joining the fight against Al Qaeda out number the Iraqis recruited to fight for Al Qaeda?
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10-18-2007, 08:40 PM
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Um not really.....In Iraq anyway. They were too busy being traumatized by Saddam.
If you mean 'the base' They were not a reality in Iraq back then.
They were a piss ant group of disgruntled fanatics left over from the war with Russia in Afghanistan, the Chechens & Bosnia that got support from the disgruntled contractor who didn't get paid for rebuilding Mecca. Since the US held sway over the people who were suppose to pay him the Saud family, he decided to whip up his 'base' to send a message that he get paid & their handlers get out of the land of Mecca. Now if they really were to fulfill his dreams the handlers would invade his nemesis in the region Saddam & get rid of him.
Turns out everything went quite well for the disgruntled contractor & he got new recruits along the way. The handlers seem to have played exactly on spot to his script.
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Um...yea. They probably plotted 9/11 in a loving manner and Bush came along and was mean to them. 
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10-18-2007, 09:59 PM
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Um...yea. They probably plotted 9/11 in a loving manner and Bush came along and was mean to them. |
That makes no sence at all.
This is just another example of self delusion versus logical thought. All your lame ass petty name caling and bbaling about typos doesnt validate this dipshit thinking at all.
People dont liek Americans in there copuntry when there freinds are and family are killed by American weapons they will take arms against.
This breeds more militants.
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