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2006-09-12 Home Front: WoT

Bush rallies nation to struggle for civilization

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Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-09-12 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The war is not over and it will not be over until either we or the extremists emerge victorious.

Okay, he's got that part right. Why then, did he make Israel call off their dogs in the fight against Nasrallah?

Hamilton spoke of failures to put first responders on the same radio spectrum so they can talk to each other during an emergency as firefighters and police officers who died in the World Trade Center could not in 2001.

WTF?!? Yoo hoo! Is anyone in Washington DC and the FCC firing on more than one neuron? These brave people risk their lives for us on a daily basis and yet they cannot coordinate properly due to a fragmented communications spectrum? Heads should roll until this incredibly easy to solve problem is fixed.

He said Islamic radicals are trying to build an empire where women are prisoners in their homes, men are beaten for missing prayer meetings and terrorists have a safe haven to plan and launch attacks on America and other civilized nations.

Sorry pal. Wrong effing message. This is already the case in numerous Muslim majority countries. Why not name them? Why not begin getting the American people used to the fact that we are at war with Islam, not Islamofascism.

I know, I know. That is asking too much, but to pretend that places where women are prisoners in their homes, men are beaten for missing prayer meetings and terrorists have a safe haven to plan and launch attacks on America and other civilized nations. don't already exist is soft pedaling terrorism and that does no one any favors except our enemies.

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-12 01:42|| 2006-09-12 01:42|| Front Page Top

#2 soft pedaling terrorism and that does no one any favors except our enemies.

It may even make 'em despise you - they are the triumphalist black and white sort and cannot dig any form of nuances.

Posted by Duh! 2006-09-12 03:18|| 2006-09-12 03:18|| Front Page Top

#3 At the risk of attracting your considerable ire, Zenster, I believe W was not suggesting such places did not exist, but that the bad guys want to bring it to a 'theatre near you'. They already have several countries; that's not an "empire".

I don't care about bad things happening in third-world toilets; I do worry about those that want to bring their third-world toilet act to my country.

Posted by Bobby 2006-09-12 09:24|| 2006-09-12 09:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Bobby, Muslims constitute nearly one quarter of this world's population. Here is a list from Wikipedia showing Muslim majority countries.

This is a list of countries which have a majority of Muslim people using data from the CIA World Factbook. Please note that sources differ on the state of Ethiopia. Arguably Ethiopia has about 50% Muslim citizens. At 45% Muslim, Guinea-Bissau nearly makes the list.
These nations total 11,883,889 square miles (20.6% of the world's land area), 1.4 billion people (22% of the world's population), and US$ 4.3 trillion of GDP on a purchasing power parity basis (8.7% of the world's GDP). Total world trade with these nations adds to over US$ 800 billion. Military spending totals over US$ 60 billion. Nations that are around half Muslim have an asterisk (*)

· Afghanistan
· Albania
· Algeria
· Azerbaijan
· Bahrain
· Bangladesh
· Bosnia and Herzegovina *
· Burkina Faso *
· Brunei
· Chad *
· Comoros
· Côte d'Ivoire *
· Djibouti
· Eritrea *
· Egypt
· Gambia
· Guinea
· Indonesia
· Iran
· Iraq
· Jordan
· Kuwait
· Kazakhstan *
· Kyrgyzstan
· Lebanon
· Libya
· Maldives
· Malaysia
· Mali
· Mauritania
· Morocco
· Niger
· Nigeria
· Oman
· Pakistan
· Palestine
· Qatar
· Saudi Arabia
· Senegal
· Sierra Leone
· Somalia
· Sudan
· Syria
· Tajikistan
· Turkey
· Tunisia
· Turkmenistan
· Uzbekistan
· United Arab Emirates
· Yemen

Do you care to speculate as to just how many countries on that list are places, "where women are prisoners in their homes, men are beaten for missing prayer meetings and terrorists have a safe haven to plan and launch attacks on America and other civilized nations."

Muslims already have an empire. Thank goodness it happens to consist of nearly all shitholes and societal cesspits. What they do have is sufficient land mass to conceal just about as many terrorist camps, training centers and hide-outs as they damn well please. Add in all of the petro-dollars we throw at these maggots and it assumes the proportions of a substantial threat. Especially when you consider how we continue to allow nearly free migration from the majority of these Islamic pissholes.

I'm not trying to lambaste you personally, Bobby. To the contrary, I enjoy your contributions here at Rantburg. All the same, Bush has been soft-pedaling Islam and terrorism for far too long. His adoption of "Islamofascism" is a good thing, however late in the game it may be. His restraint of Israel's thumping of Hezbollah was simply intolerable and utter hypocrisy to boot.

Bush has allowed his policy on terrorism to wander a bit much for my tastes. No, I am no sort of expert or adviser and, therefore, have zero say. I do not expect the man to be perfect, but I would like him to be consistent. While he may be, in comparison to his worthless democratic alternatives, his inconsistencies can still result in getting a lot of Americans killed. That is what I want to avoid.

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-12 19:21|| 2006-09-12 19:21|| Front Page Top

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