Dead Terrorists

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CAUSAL

Friday, June 9, 2006 12:59 AM

With all due respect to your feelings about the current administration, I still feel glad that he's dead. What the current administration did/does doesn't in any way subract from my satisfaction.

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I wish I had a magical wish-granting plank.

RUE

Friday, June 9, 2006 12:59 AM

Causal,

Moqtada al-Sadr

Nearly everything I know I learned by the grace of others.

HKCAVALIER

Friday, June 9, 2006 1:00 AM

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Originally posted by Hero:
World under Bush, you can call Bush a terrorist and go on about your business. World under Bin Ladden, you can live life by his rules and still end up murdered.

This is the heart, the absolute center of your logical fallacy. Bin Ladden has no chance in hell of EVER ruling the world. He hasn't the infrastructure, he hasn't the support, he's got nothing but the scraps and leavings from our oil-rich feeding frenzy with the Saudis. If the big eaters at the table weren't so wasteful and careless, he'd have nothing. It's worth repeating: Bin Ladden has no chance in hell of EVER ruling the world.

Ya know what? Bin Ladden got lucky. He made a big splash. He might get lucky again. But probably not. It's as simple as that.

Just as COMINTERN and "the domino effect" were BS pretexts for our East Asian Adventurism, so now the "terrorist threat" is used by our ruling class to justify their conquest.

And as far as Bush actually ruling the world, a prospect you seem to contemplate with relish, that ain't gonna happen either.

HKCavalier

Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

CAUSAL

Friday, June 9, 2006 1:10 AM

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Originally posted by Rue:
Moqtada al Sadr

The Mehdi army isn't a terrorist group per se. Their a Shiite militia owned by the non-accredited son of the late great Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr, a popular Saddam-era Shiite cleric. The Mehdi army (which takes its name from the "hidden imam" of the Shiite sect) is a militia--a group of armed (usually untrained) citizens providing military service. They haven't engaged in the typical terrorist tactics (oil pipeline sabotage, suicide bombings, bombings of markets, and the like) but have on at least two ocassions engaged U.S. and Iraqi forces in stand-up, toe-to-toe fighting (both times for the Shiite holy city of Najaf). In addition, Sadr doesn't consider himself a terrorist/insurgent leader (like Zarqawi did). Moqtada believes he is the legitimate heir to his father's spiritual authority and influence in the Shia community, and styles himself as a popular leader--not as a terrorist.

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GEEZER

Friday, June 9, 2006 1:12 AM

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is now a good terrorist. May many others join him.

"If Darwin ain't Happy,
Ain't Nobody Happy"

RUE

Friday, June 9, 2006 1:18 AM

Causal,

Moqtada al Sadr has done more to destabilize Iraq than anyone else (besides the US, which is by far the largest cause of Iraq's instability).

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was just one more mobster in a country of mobsters where kidnapping and sectarian killing are commonplace.

Nearly everything I know I learned by the grace of others.

CAUSAL

Friday, June 9, 2006 1:21 AM

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Originally posted by rue:
Causal,

Moqtada al Sadr has done more to destabilize Iraq than anyone else (besides the US, which is by far the largest cause of Iraq's instability).

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was just one more mobster in a country of mobsters where kidnapping and sectarian killing are commonplace.

Nearly everything I know I learned by the grace of others.

With all due respect to your opinion--which you're more than entitled to--you're wrong. And that's my opinion, and I'm entitled to it.

I'd be interested to know what wealth on knowledge and experience you base that analysis on. I believe I've given my credentials.

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I wish I had a magical wish-granting plank.

RUE

Friday, June 9, 2006 1:30 AM

I read original reports from many countries. I like to think it keeps me from tunnel vision.

Nearly everything I know I learned by the grace of others.

MAMASAID

Friday, June 9, 2006 2:44 AM

Hero seems to think that every person who hates Bush must LOVE bin Ladin. That is another logical fallacy he seems to possess, not unlike a mr. PN. Bush good, bin Ladin bad is a gross, gross simplification, even for a message board. I hate GW, but of course I hate bin Ladin more. If one valued human life person/ for person, the civilian casualties in Iraq are great. Just because they are in a war zone does not keep them from being civilians.

RUE

Friday, June 9, 2006 2:48 AM

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Originally posted by SignyM:
Wow. I expected a blistering riposte but I apparently rendered Hero temprorarily speechless. Perhaps he choked on his coffee! Yes, my audacity is breathtaking and my plan is working!

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No, you just have to bore them to death.

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