Do No Evil – Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri criticised Muslims for failing to support Islamist insurgencies in Iraq and elsewhere in a new audiotape posted Tuesday on the Internet.
This is funny. One Muslim getting mad at another for doing Al Takeyya to Carter. That means lying to the outsider.
They are having recruitment problems and part of the problem is a picture that was taken after a car bombing in Iraq. It shows a major holding a little child with his face in her face carrying her to help. That was circulated in Muslim countries by the news media there and there was a big drop in recruitment of terrorists. That picture showed dramatically how our troops feel and act there. It brought tears to my eyes.
This clown is pretty much proof that it makes no difference whether the US is in Iraq or not... the only real difference would be that no more Americans would die, and my tax dollars would quit being p!ssed away, but the killing would go on, just as it has for the past thousand or so years without us. The "but we can't just abandon them" excuse is pure bullsh!t, they want to kill each other and live in fear of their lives; they want tribal warlords, religious zealots, and dictators to tell them what to do--and to paraphrase Ben Franklin, the government you get is the one you deserve.
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So, the poor bastard isn't happy we are winning the war on terror? Too friggin' bad.
For all those who say another one will take over whenever an top Al Qaeda SOB is caught or killed, what makes them think it will be any different if Bin Laden is captured or killed - if he's still alive?
Funny how Democrats say we aren't doing enough to defeat al Qaeda, yet here is a top terrorist pretty much saying we are winning.
LIBS:
"Funny how Democrats say we aren't doing enough to defeat al Qaeda."
It is NOT coming just from Democrats.
Here is a report from the Pentagon's National Institute for Strategic Studies at National Defense University-- a Defense Department research center and the Pentagon's premier military educational institute.
http://www.ndu.edu/inss/Occasional_Papers/OP5.pdf
"Measured in blood and treasure, the war in Iraq has achieved the status of a major war and a major debacle. Compounding all of these problems, our efforts in Iraq were designed to enhance U.S. national security, but they have become an incubator for terrorism and have emboldened Iran to expand its influence.
Much of the blame for what went wrong in Iraq after the initial U.S. victory is due to Donald H. Rumsfeld. In November 2001, before the war in Afghanistan was over, President Bush asked Rumsfeld 'to begin planning in secret for potential military operations against Iraq.'"
From the bipartisan Armed Services Committee:
http://armedservices.house.gov/pdfs/Reports/PRT...
A key component of the U.S. strategy to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan �;; dispatching military and diplomatic workers to direct aid at the local level remains beset by troubles over funding, staffing and administrative support.
These provincial reconstruction teams often operate under unclear chains of command that can result in uncoordinated, and even counterproductive, outcomes.
Finding qualified individuals also remains a challenge, with civilian agencies unable to fill the increased number of teams in Iraq and keep them staffed.
Another issue is the lack of money dedicated to the effort. The teams rely heavily on a military fund intended mostly for emergency payments, such as money given to locals to repair property damaged by U.S. forces or address urgent humanitarian needs.
bipartisan?
From the GAO:
http://www.hcfa.house.gov/110/GAO041708.pdf
"Al Qaeda has regenerated its ability to attack the U.S. and had succeeded in establishing a safe haven in Pakistan's Federally Administrated Tribal Areas. No plan for meeting national security goals in FATA has been developed, as stipulated by the National Security Strategy for Combating Terrorism [in 2003], an independent commission [in 2004], and mandated by congressional legislation [in 2007].
The NIE, The Terrorist Threat to the U.S. Homeland, also found that al Qaeda had effectively found replacements for many of its senior operational planners over the years. The NIE stated that, in the past 2 years, al Qaeda's central leadership regenerated the core operational capabilities needed to conduct attacks against the United States. It also found that al Qaeda's central leadership, based in the border area of Pakistan, is and will remain the most serious terrorist threat to the United States."
And once again, the dog comes in and has to say,oh it is not just Democrats.
Well, dog it is mostly dems, how about that. Yeah there are some on the right. But face it, the second in command of the al Qaeda group, is not happy that more muslims is not joining their cause.
Face it, this shows we are hurting them... and you hate it. I for one do not care who on what side said what. All I want is both sides of the House and Senate, to show support to my son and his friends. Period, no excuses, nothing of this product cost money. Well, our boys and girls fighting over there are worth the money. No matter what you are others think. And oh by the way, if they(al Qaeda is having recruitment problems) do not join. Then our boys and girls get to come home that much sooner. Win, win situation and there are a lot of you that just hate that.
You'll have to forgive him, Mac. He went to Yale. He can't help it.
Ohhhh someone just went over the deep end. Obviously dog-brain missed it when the Iraqi gov't pleaded with Democrats to keep U.S. troops funded and in Iraq not even a year ago. In time, we will draw down troop levels.
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"Obviously dog-brain missed it when the Iraqi gov't pleaded with Democrats to keep U.S. troops funded and in Iraq not even a year ago."
Are you talking about this vote?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/12/world/middlee...
"A majority of Iraq's Parliament members have signed a petition for a timetable governing a withdrawal of American troops. Officials with Mr. Sadr's bloc said 144 of Parliament's 275 members â;; including Sunnis, Shiites and at least one Kurd â;; had signed. The petition formalizes a widely held sentiment among many legislators â;; and among Iraqis in general â;; that American troops should withdraw as soon as possible."
I see you once again have zero sources to support your unsubstantiated arguments. Didn't your safety-school teach you how to craft a cogent argument before awarding you that worthless journalism degree?
I guess not.
LOL. Pathetic.
MACR:
"Well, dog it is mostly dems, how about that."
I cited 3 sources: the Pentagon, the GAO, and the Armed Services Committee. Are you saying that the Pentagon is composed mostly of partisan Democrats? Are you saying the GAO is composed mostly of partisan Democrats? Are you saying the Armed Services Committee is composed mostly of partisan Democrats?
How about some PROOF to support ANY of your unsubstantiated arguments? As I said before, the sentiment that the Iraq invasion and occupation is misguided runs wide and deep.
PROOF THAT MAJORITY OF IRAQIS FAVOR TIMELINE FOR U.S. WITHDRAWAL
http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/pdf/jan0...
According to a January 2006 poll by the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy (PIPA): 70% of Iraqis favor a timeline forcing the U.S. to pull out completely within 6 months to 2 years no matter what the security situation in Iraqi is and only 29% favor waiting to reduce US-led forces "as the security situation improves in Iraq." If the U.S. pulls out of Iraq, 67% of Iraqis believe "day-to-day security of ordinary citizens" will increase, 64% believe "violent attacks" will decrease, 61% believe "inter-ethnic violence" will decrease, and 56% believe "presence of foreign fighters" will decrease.
More Proof:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-04...
"Only a third of the Iraqi people now believe that the American-led occupation of their country is doing more good than harm, and a solid majority support an immediate military pullout even though they fear that could put them in greater danger, according to a new USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll...Asked whether they view the U.S.-led coalition as 'liberators' or 'occupiers,' 71% of all respondents say 'occupiers'....53% say they would feel less secure without the coalition in Iraq, but 57% say the foreign troops should leave anyway."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ar...
"In Baghdad, for example, nearly three-quarters of residents polled said they would feel safer if U.S. and other foreign forces left Iraq, with 65 percent of those asked favoring an immediate pullout, according to State Department polling"
PROOF THAT MOST AMERICAN VOTERS FAVOR A TIMELINE FOR WITHDRAWAL:
http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?Re...
59% favor a withdrawal timeline according to a March 26, 2007 Pew Research Poll.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/16/iraq.poll/
A CNN poll measured 53%--still a clear majority.
PROOF THAT AMERICAN TROOPS FAVOR A TIMELINE FOR WITHDRAWAL:
http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1075
"72% of American troops serving in Iraq think the U.S. should exit the country within the next year--[of which] 29% said the U.S. should leave Iraq "immediately"...[compare that with] only 23% saying they should stay 'as long as they are needed.'"
http://www.militarycity.com/polls/2006_main.php
"Only 35 percent of the military members polled this year said they approve of the way President Bush is handling the war, while 42% said they disapproved...only 41% of the military said the U.S. should have gone to war in Iraq in the first place."
To summarize, a solid majority of Iraqis, American voters, AND American troops favor a timeline for withdrawal. It is certainly not "mostly dems," as you so over-simplistically put it. "How about that?"
MACR:
"Face it, this shows we are hurting them"
Wrong. It doesn't show anything. Reports from the Pentagon, GAO, NIE, CIA and Armed Services are the metrics for this operation.
MACR:
"Show support to my son and his friends. Well, our boys and girls fighting over there are worth the money. No matter what you are others think."
There are almost 150k troops in Iraq; DO YOU HONESTLY THINK YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE WITH RELATIVES AND CLOSE FRIENDS IN IRAQ? Did it ever occur to you that I am so passionately against the Iraq war (but in favor of the Afghanistan war) because it puts MY RELATIVES in harm's way, when we should be focusing on Afghanistan?
Spare me your self-righteous outrage.
Pathetic.
Maybe they are tired of attending suicide bomber school. Perhaps they feel it is time the leader of Al Qaeda and the Mullah's need to enroll and die for the cause. It always seems the poor dumb b's do all the dying huh?