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Al-Qaida-linked Web site backs McCain as president

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by gifford1967, Oct 22, 2008.

  1. gifford1967

    gifford1967 Member
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    Not that this should come as any surprise. Bin Laden succeeded beyond his wildest dreams when the Bush Administration decided to pour blood and treasure down a hole in Iraq.


     
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    Rocketman95 Hangout Boy

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    [rove republican]WHY DID THEY NOT IMMEDIATELY DENOUNCE THIS? WHY ARE THEY WELCOMING THE SUPPORT OF AL-QAEDA?[/rove republican]
     
  3. SamFisher

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    I shudder to think of the reaction if they had endorsed BO. The attack ads and Palin would be off an running, calling him a turban-wearing baby killer.
     
  4. durvasa

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    Totally irrelevant, in my view. What Al-Qaida wants from this election, whether it's a Republican or Democratic presidency, isn't even a factor for me.
     
  5. glynch

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    So true. It goes to show that you have to be smart as well as blindly patriotic when fighting terrorists.

    It is too bad that we wasted $ a trillion on Iraq when we could have rebuilt our infrastructure and economy.

    After all this the Iraqi people hate us more than before we made the effort.

    What a waste.
     
  6. El_Conquistador

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    Hamas has openly endorsed Obama, as have a large collection of similar-minded terrorist organizations. Ask Joe Biden himself -- our enemies see weakness in a community organizing, latte sipping newbie with no military experience or even leadership experience.
     
  7. gifford1967

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    What's up with the "whitey" tape?
     
  8. El_Conquistador

    El_Conquistador King of the D&D, The Legend, #1 Ranking

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    Beats the heck out of me -- my guess is that McCain has too much honor to win by those means. If he can't win on the merits of his candidacy, he is too respectable to win by highlighting the fact that Michelle Obama is a racist and really isn't proud of her country.

    For the record, no one has ever said that it definitely exists. There have been rumors, but that's it. Obviously I hope it does exist, because it's clear that it's well within the bounds of her character to say something to that effect. It's also clear that the Obama camp has contingency planned for the release -- by trying to spin the 'why'd he' angle.
     
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    Military experience and thirst for $, are the reasons that north america has many enemies. And what good is military experience, when said leader cannot distinguish warfare from unconventional warfare? Of course the Surge worked, especially when 2 of the main principles of unconventional warfare are......

    1. When a massive offensive is launched, retreat.
    2. never fight a battle you can't win.
     
  10. El_Conquistador

    El_Conquistador King of the D&D, The Legend, #1 Ranking

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    It's far better to be strong and have enemies, than to be weak and have everyone like you.

    You can't run the most powerful country on earth like you would run a weakling country like El Salvador or some other 3rd world place.
     
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    **Bullsh!t Filter 2000**

    Processing BS...

    Working...

    Working.....

    Working.......


    Complete!

     
  12. pgabriel

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    beep beep beep beep
     
  13. SamFisher

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    sorry jorge - even if your lie about Hamas were true, unless you're an Israeli - Al Qaeda is worse than Hamas.

    Unless your loyalties lie somewhere else? Jorge do you ally yourself with the national interest of the state of Israel or the United States?

    Declare, friend. Declare.
     
  14. rimrocker

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    So, getting back to the topic, it looks like you welcome the Al-Q endorsement.
     
  15. durvasa

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    Darth Vader couldn't have said it better himself.
     
  16. joliver325

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    Dont say that about Palin
     
  17. El_Conquistador

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    You may be new to politics, so it's important to point out that she's not running for President.
     
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    McCain Campaign FREAKS OUT over Al Qaeda endorsement --



    Preference for McCain

    By Spencer Ackerman 10/22/08 12:35 PM

    I just got off a conference call held by the McCain campaign to deny that Al Qaeda, contrary to reports in the AP and the Washington Post, is rooting for their man. To describe the call as panicked would be an understatement.

    Jim Woolsey, the former CIA director who publicly connected Iraq to the 9/11 attacks without any evidence in 2001, and senior foreign-policy adviser Randy Scheunemann spent more time whining about the Washington Post’s standards of fairness than on the logic of why Al Qaeda might prefer Sen. John McCain. “An amazing piece of journalism, and I use journalism in quotation marks,” Scheunemann said, going on to list barely approving quotes of Sen. Barack Obama from Hamas, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad and Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, which he said he wasn’t going “to characterize.” Woolsey, for his part, peered into the mind of what he called “one individual Islamist blogger from one terrorist Islamist blog” and determined that he was “clearly trying to damage John McCain” and “not speaking from his heart.”

    What was absent from the call, oddly enough, was any discussion about why Al Qaeda might want McCain to win. And there the case is simple enough. Al Qaeda prefers an indefinite U.S. occupation of Iraq and a bellicose U.S. all across the Muslim world to radicalize Muslims to its terrorist cause and drain the U.S. of its financial wealth — what Osama bin Laden calls his “bleed to bankruptcy” strategy. Hence, the reason why, as the CIA eventually concluded, Bin Laden tried to help George W. Bush’s reelection in 2004 by releasing a late-October tape. McCain pledges basic continuity with Bush on the Iraq war. As Scheunemann put it, “John McCain will spend what it takes to win.”

    Yet the idea of Al Qaeda preferring a U.S. strategy that strengthens it confounded the McCain camp. “It is ridiculous to believe that in its heart of hearts, Al Qaeda wants John McCain to be the president,” Woolsey said. “It’s ludicrous.” But the only thing that’s ludicrous is Woolsey’s expectation that the American public will keep falling for this sort of misdirection by the same blinkered analysts who blundered the U.S. into Iraq in the first place.

    http://washingtonindependent.com/14218/mccain-advisers-freaked-out-by-al-qaeda-preference-for-mccain
     
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    In case you were unaware, Woolsey also believed Iraq was involved in the OK-City bombing and the 1993 WTC bombing as late as 2002. Not surprisingly, Woolsey is a member of PNAC.

    Freeking nutjob.
     
  20. rimrocker

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    For the record, it's been 2 1/2 hours since TJ first posted in this thread and he has yet to voice his displeasure with the Al-Q endorsement of McCain. Sure, he's attacked Obama, but from here, it looks like he's OK with McCain being the candidate of the people who masterminded 9-11. One can only assume TJ also wants to exhaust our country economically and militarily.

    My friends, that's not patriotism we can believe in. That's a traitor selling out America to the terrorists.
     

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