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Southeast Asia
Mega sez it's all our fault...
2003-09-25
INDONESIAN President Megawati Sukarnoputri has blamed the West for the global "climate of violence" that fosters terrorism.
I confess. I did it. That's my climate of violence.
Addressing the UN General Assembly in New York yesterday, the leader of the world's most populous Muslim nation urged world powers to review their Middle East policies, seen by many Muslims as "not only unjust, but also one-sided" in favour of Israel. She said the "absence of a just attitude, exacerbated by being sidelined and ignored, has cultivated a climate of violence".
"It has nothing to do with religion, unless it's your religion. We dint do nuffin'!"
Ms Megawati has been criticised for not explicitly condemning the terrorist network Jemaah Islamiah, blamed for the Bali bombings last year that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians. However, in her UN address she roundly condemned all forms of terrorism, as well as indirectly criticising the US's policy in the Middle East, widely seen as extremely pro-Israel. "Indeed, so many eminent Muslims in Indonesia believe that once the major powers behave in a more just manner and make clear their impartiality in the Middle East, then most of the root causes of terrorism, perpetrated in the name of Islam - which in any circumstances cannot be justified - would have been resolved," she said.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#7  .com

OBL on Oprah would never happen. Katie Couric would never let that happen. Spheres of Influence shall not be violated.
Posted by: Super Hose   2003-9-25 6:58:59 PM  

#6  SH - Think OBL, if breathing, would pass up an invite to appear on Oprah?
Posted by: .com   2003-9-25 12:45:19 PM  

#5  We are headed in the wrong direction with a our tactics in teh UN. We need to appoint Dr Phil as our UN ambassador to cousel these clowns on accepting responsibility for their own condition in life. After we convert some of the fence sitters we can gather up regional groups to perform responsibility interventions on the holdouts. Maybe put the really hardcore losers in 12 step programs.
Posted by: Super Hose   2003-9-25 11:31:16 AM  

#4  Megawati's lights are on, but nobody appears to be home.
Posted by: Mike   2003-9-25 10:17:43 AM  

#3  What is even sadder is American liberals' complicity in terrorism by their defeatist rantings in the press. I was listening to ex Sec. of State Albright (accidentally, I dont like listening to NPR) used the word quagmire in describing events in Iraq.

She and her sycophants have to be on crack.

Listeners as well as the host, Diane Reams(sp?), came to the conclusion that it was American arrogance that it was American arrogance that caused terrorism.

Goofy me! What in the world was I thinking? The mere act of American Arrogance(TM) caused the twin towers to collapse and all along I was convinced it was radical Muslims flying hijacked airplanes and their leftist enablers here in the US and abroad which brought the towers down and snuffed 3000 lives 11 September 2001.

What is sadder yet is the unlike Viet Nam, which is a leftist high water mark in their politics in the US, they cannot claim any of the justifications for being against war now that they did in 1968., The fighters in Iraq are all volunteer and all patriots (except for the Muslim traitors in our ranks) Have they forgotten it was the US that was attacked?

The left has a goal of disarming the United States and the recent increase in the volume and absolute intensity of the anti-war crowd, you have to conclude, they really are traitors. They can't keep quiet until the wear in Iraq is over and our patriot-warriors are back home.
Posted by: badanov   2003-9-25 5:17:22 AM  

#2  No, what's really sad is they're blaming us even though they know that the terrorists won't stop until Isreal has been destroyed.
Posted by: Charles   2003-9-25 2:43:22 AM  

#1  INDONESIAN President Megawati Sukarnoputri has blamed the West for the global "climate of violence" that fosters terrorism.

Oh, so "the West" was responsible for the rise of Saddam Hussein? "The West" was responsible for Yasser Arafat's lifelong terror spree? "The West" was responsible for the rise of the Tallyban? Please.

"Indeed, so many eminent Muslims in Indonesia believe that once the major powers behave in a more just manner and make clear their impartiality in the Middle East, then most of the root causes of terrorism, perpetrated in the name of Islam - which in any circumstances cannot be justified - would have been resolved," she said.

There it is - a veiled reference to the Jews. Too bad a lot of Muslims can't get over this seemingly ingrained hatred.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2003-9-25 12:15:48 AM  

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