False hype of al Qaeda in Iraq »
Posted by: populist 1 year agoThe size and impact of al Qaeda in Iraq is hugely overblown by the media, elected figures, and military officials. Further, and perhaps even more importantly, its purported strength is essentially the only security-related reason claimed by the administration for maintaining our occupation. Political manipulation by government and military leaders
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mdvaldosta1 year ago
I think we're (the US) calling pretty much any act of terror by a Muslim "al Qaeda", I suppose we need to place our anger somewhere. Nobody wants to fight an enemy we don't know.
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djn3nunez31 year ago
Oh but we have confirmed reports that the latest assault was carried out by a group that may have had some ties to to a group that was thought to be working with an al Queda operative.
al Queda is everyway.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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blowback1 year ago
Do you feel better now that you got all that off your chest
or is there more personal diatribe you wish to further
humiliate yourself in public with?
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quackpot1 year ago
Do you have a reference for an approximate number of member of Al-Qaida IRAQ (not Al Qauida in total)?
This is a serious question.
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Lazloe1 year ago
DARTH-ROVE:
Do you have any proof of anything you claim or what you buddy George is telling you? After all, it was a string of lies by this same guy who got this country into another Vietnam. He now is using anything in his power to cover his sorry a**. Every little incident that is happening in Iraq is either through Al-Quiada or Syrian backed.
Maybe you should look at your own comments before condemning others for facing the cold truth of why our county is in the mess it has been put in. Your problem is, you can't see beyond your political blinders.
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HistoricallyCorrect1 year ago
Populism is not communism. You need to know what you're talking about before you make false statements about it.
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shyanbelle1 year ago
I think Populist goes around the internet finding what ever crap he can to make people think Iraq isn't having a single thing EVER good happening.
NOT TRUE! I got friends and family serving. He don't! He's already admitted that in past posts. Matter of fact, he's posted numerous things bashing the crap out of the troops, saying they can't do their job, their failures, they won't win.
Truth is, Populist, American Blog, ect, would rather the USA be blown up by a nuclear blast so they can blame Bush, then the USA finding hard, real evidence on ANY country. Because these morons will just come in here saying how he's not credible.
How much credit do you need when security is at hand? I mean these people openly say to people they will "wipe us off the planet soon". SOON! Populist needs to put Irans checks back in the mail.
He's been helping them more then any one for so long its no longer a question of IF he takes money. Its HOW MUCH money do they take from terrorist?
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djn3nunez31 year ago
--Truth is, Populist, American Blog, ect, would rather the USA be blown up by a nuclear blast so they can blame Bush...
What a crock of hyperbole, denigation that smacks of the ultimate maroonie, the bloviating Rush (givemesome_Vicoden) Limbaugh.
The only group of Americans that I know of to ever publish some thing like that is the PNAC when they proclaimed that America needed a new 'Pearl Harbor'. Thus hoping we would lose thousand of lives in some kind of suprise attact. These are the people who are holding the strings to this Administration's blunderous policies.
Remember they knew the attacks were coming but they were expecting car or truck bombs.
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Blackacereturn1 year ago
Again this is nothing new, one would have to be a total fool to have not figured this out by now.
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SpareChange1 year ago
Bush is the best recruitment for al qaeda
Bush has played into the terrorists hands by going to war in a muslim country that didn't attack us, he's proven to them that the US kills muslims, doesn't care about the culture (looting of museums) that the US wants oil and that the US doesn't bring freedom - Thanks Bush for making bin ladin right.
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djn3nunez31 year ago
I think we need to bering back the body count on the new.
You know:
Iraq Soldiers
American Soldiers
Insurgents
Iraqi Civilians
My guess is that the Iraqi Civilians have the lead.
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HistoricallyCorrect1 year ago
It's not the US perpetrating the genocide. It's Sunni vs. Shia and they are perpetuating genocide against each other. The number of people dead isn't from people that the US military has killed, it's PEOPLE THAT HAVE DIED, period. When there is a civil war going on, and every day you hear about a car bomb killing 60 people, it seems pretty hard to think that there haven't been a lot of people killed.
Nobody said that the US is carrying out genocide, they're simply saying that all these people are dying. What number of people have died so far, if you seem to know that 600,000 is a made up number?
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djn3nunez31 year ago
- Thanks Bush for making bin ladin right.
Richard Clarke touched on that. He said it was like bin Laden was using mind control on poor old George. He could be seen chanting to Georgie in his cave:
"Invade an oil rich Arab country that never attack the US"
"Invade an oil rich Arab country that never attack the US"
"Invade an oil rich Arab country that never attack the US"
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joeblowe1 year ago
Everyone knows by now that we are supposed to hate/fear al-Quida. GWB probably thinks that if he can keep on convincing everyone that al-Quida is in Iraq in force, that he can keep troops there indefinitely. I mean really - who in Congress would vote to remove the troops if the news is full of stories about how al-Quida in Iraq is so deadly? Except maybe Ron Paul and a couple of others.
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chipsphil231 year ago
Bush is not the best recruitment for al qaeda its you and your friends running there big mouths that gets al qaeda going. Its a proven fact that they love to here when the people in this country run their mouths bashing the goverment and everyone who is apart of it. This used to be a wonderful country with everyone loving it now everyone has no suppot for the troops or the president its insane.
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djn3nunez31 year ago
Invading and occuping a oil Rich Arab nation that did not attack us on 9-11 was a strategic blunder of monumental proportions. Yes, we won the war with ease, and we can occupy that nation as long as the political will hold out in DC to do so. What SC says is true. Al Queda has been using the Iraq example to recruit more and more once moderate Arabs into his extremist group. GW has enabled a new generation of terrorist for us to fight for the next few decades or so.
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bumbaklotartattack1 year ago
al-CIAda is real. Bush is funding them.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/25/hersh-qaeda/
CIA created al-CIAda.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/yemen/Story/0,2763,20...
USA trained al-CIAda.
http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.h...
The American people are so stupid. No wonder their politicians laugh at the stupid public. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE RE-ELECT THE SAME PEOPLE WHO ARE WAGING WAR AGAINST THEM!
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NelsonR1 year ago
Has everyone forgot or am I missing something. This is September and the Democrats with Pelosi and Reid were going to start fighting to get out of Iraq. The surge is the expected failure, unless you want to be a believer the number crunchers are lying about in the corrupt White House.
Where are the Democratic leaders? I will tell you, these abysmal Democratic leaders such as Pelosi and Reid would rather see American soldiers die and millions squandered so they can advance, they think, to the White House and power.
What despicable, callous and abominable leaders we have, hang every one of them with their obnoxious perks, salaries, bribes, pensions, health care while you get squat.
My, we Americans are quite out of touch with what should be.
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djrevelky1 year ago
They will get elected by the same people here on netscape that post that it is all Bush's fault and hold the Democrats responsible for nothing.
I am glad to see there are at least 2 leftist (Quackpot and NelsonR) who blame the Democrats for nothing nothing and can at least see the situation for what it is.
The Democrats need Iraq to be a failure, money to be wasted, and American soldiers to die for them to get to the White House.
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NoWayMan1 year ago
according to task force 134, the group in charge of detainee operations in Iraq...
the chance that an inmate in any of the US-run prisons in Iraq has been identified as a "foreign fighter":
1 in 195
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johninkorea1 year ago
The terrorists are running the white house, but when will the world wake up and realize it?
all clinton did was get a BJ
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Obaku1 year ago
Yeah, one middle aged Saudi man, hiding in a cave somewhere, is responsible for 'terrorism' that has cowed the entire United States, costing hundreds of billions of dollars and necessitating secret 'national security' iniatives.
Sounds like the worst kind of "tinfoil hat" conspiracy theory to me.
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djrevelky1 year ago
May AQ kidnap all of you deniers and behead you in the middle of the night. May they strap a bomb to themselves and blow up your home, destroy your property, and kill your family members.
May you experience what those with friends and loved ones on the USS Cole, in the US embassies that were bombed, and in the Towers on 9/11.
After that...THEN tell me that AQ does not exist and is not a threat.
This AQ that isn't a threat killed my uncle in Tanzania.
This AQ that doesn't exist killed my best friend's brother on the USS Cole.
And I know you conspiracy theorists are going to start something about Bush planning 9/11 blah blah...but Bush was just a governor in Texas when the USS Cole and the Embassies were blown up...who planned that? Clinton?
You hate Bush so much that you even ignore your precious Bill Clinton on this subject. Clinton says that AQ was a threat, is a threat, and has been a threat but he couldn't do anything about it because the R's wouldn't let him.
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djrevelky1 year ago
OH come on, I'm just wishing that the boogeyman comes and gets you. AQ isn't real afterall you say...they aren't a threat you say. What does it matter?
Come on, tell an American who has lost a family member and a close friend to AQ terrorism before Bush was ever even a presidential candidate that they don't exist. Blame the USS Cole and Tanzania on Bush.
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jordan111 year ago
Well of course it's hype! How else could some possibly justify staying there, not to mention divert attention from the fact that al qaeda wasn't there before we attacked Iraq. It's a joke. All of this is a sad joke.
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Lazloe1 year ago
I am going to take this topic over to the forum I post on and let them have a good laugh.
http://www.freepowerboards.com/horseshoes/?hors...
It will be in the thread "In The News Today"
Some of the responses in here should be on "Last Comic Standing".
I wonder who interviews these suicide bombers to find out who they were working for when they blew themselves up?
The word PROPOGANDA sure does fit in with all this.
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Mutainia1 year ago
You mean, all these car bombs HAVEN'T been done by Al-Qaeda, but, by guys who want to get to a slothful brothel in "Paradise"?
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djn3nunez31 year ago
Most all Democrats as well as a majority of the world was behind GW on 9-12-2001 in the effort to get bin Laden. When this administration decided to use 9-11 and the emotions we all felt that day to invade Iraq, a decision made before the ouster of the Taliban, their efforts became treasonous to the Consitution they swore to uphold. They should be impeached, removed from office and tried for their crimes.
Instead of denigrating Democrats, why not concentrate on the vast number of successes the Republicans have had?
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djrevelky1 year ago
I agree that Bush used the emotions of 9-11 as a tool to get us to support war in Iraq. However, there is nothing treasonous or UnConstitutional about that. Congress voted to go, end of story.
And instead of looking at Republican failures, why not concentrate of the vast number of successes the Democrats have had since Pelosi took the helm? Successes such as....err...um...eh? Well damn, she has to have given you guys something you wanted? No?
Hmm..well at least she is the hottest looking grandma in a headscarf.
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