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Afghanistan
Obama to withdraw from Afghanistan in second term
The United States would start withdrawing its thousands-strong troops from Afghanistan before 2013, well beyond what US President Barack Obama had promised.

Briefing a group of US lawmakers on his battlefield assessment, General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, said that the drawdown would be attempted at "sometime before 2013," Reuters reported on Saturday.

The military official was being questioned on his suggestion of boosting the roughly 68,000-strong US contingent by 40,000 auxiliary servicemen. The US forces are aided by nearly 42,000 international forces.

Meanwhile, Obama is expected to present a new strategic outline, during a nationwide address on Tuesday, which he says would "finish the job" in Afghanistan. The new strategy could involve committing as much as 35,000 more troops to the Afghanistan-based contingents. Washington has also been pushing its Western allies to make generous troop contributions in an apparent attempt to satisfy the 40,000 benchmark.

This is while, during his campaign trail, Obama had repeatedly promised to end the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and "bring home our soldiers" within 16 months of taking office.
Incorrect, Presstv.ir: Obama never promised to end the intervention in Afghanistan since he and his party saw that war (at the time) as a 'good war'. Of course with Bambi, every promise -- every promise -- has an expiration date.
General McChrystal's revelations, however, suggest that a troop withdrawal would not even begin until Obama has completed his first term as president.

Now the prospect of a more troop deployments has prompted notable domestic and international opposition. A CNN-commissioned poll recently showed that 49 percent of Americans objected to further troop deployments.

Over eight years of US-led counterinsurgency operations have left many thousands of Afghan civilians as well as Nearly 800 American troops dead.

Violence, meanwhile, has reached its high water mark despite the presence of some 110,000 forces, who invaded the country with the motto of "fighting terrorism" and bringing "peace and stability."
Posted by: Fred || 11/30/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mighty damn arrogant to even think he's going to fool enough folks for another try.

2012 and OUT
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 11/30/2009 0:04 Comments || Top||

#2  with Bambi, every promise -- every promise -- has an expiration date.

Don't think of them as promises. They are really more like negotiating positions.
Posted by: SteveS || 11/30/2009 1:07 Comments || Top||

#3  .ir

Isn't that Iran? Lotsa credibility here, fellas.
Posted by: logi_cal || 11/30/2009 1:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Compare iwd TOPIX > OBAMA'S AMBITIOUS ASIA STARETGY MAY BE THE START OF A NEW ["Obama"]DOCTRINE.

ARTIC > "Obama Doctrine" = the US is a "PACIFIC NATION" + US must be able to project military and geopol force into PACIFIC [includ ASIA]. OBAMA DOCTRINE = NIXON-GUAM DOCTRINE = US ALLIES MUST INTENSIVELY "SHARE THE BURDEN"???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/30/2009 2:08 Comments || Top||

#5  A NEW POTUS BAMMER STIMULUS + BAILOUT can't start soon enuff for the Net.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/30/2009 2:09 Comments || Top||

#6  Obama's giving a speech on his big plans for Afghanistan tomorrow night. Oil your TV remote and be sure to load it with fresh batteries.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/30/2009 6:41 Comments || Top||

#7  He's got a secret plan
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 11/30/2009 7:27 Comments || Top||

#8  General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, said that the drawdown would be attempted at "sometime before 2013,"

But, but, but POTUS told cleared me to say this. Why won't anyone believe me?
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/30/2009 7:59 Comments || Top||

#9  The REAL trick: getting elected to a second term.
Posted by: mojo || 11/30/2009 11:56 Comments || Top||

#10  Received this in my mail from a trusted source,RJ

This venerable and much honored WW II vet is well known in Hawaii

for his seventy-plus years of service to patriotic organizations and causes

all over the country. A humble man without a political bone in his body,

he has never spoken out before about a government official, until now.

He dictated this letter to a friend, signed it and mailed it to the president.



Dear President Obama,



My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year. People meeting me for the first time don't believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert.



I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during and after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Bos'n Mate. Now I live in a "rest home" located on the western end of Pearl Harbor, allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of service to my country.



One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the head man.



So here goes.



I am amazed, angry and determined not to see my country die before I do, but you seem hell bent not to grant me that wish.



I can't figure out what country you are the president of.

You fly around the world telling our friends and enemies despicable lies like:

" We're no longer a Christian nation"

" America is arrogant" - (Your wife even

announced to the world,"America is mean-

spirited. " Please tell her to try preaching

that nonsense to 23 generations of our

war dead buried all over the globe who

died for no other reason than to free a

whole lot of strangers from tyranny and

hopelessness.)

I'd say shame on the both of you, but I don't think you like America, nor do I see an ounce of gratefulness in anything you do, for the obvious gifts this country has given you. To be without shame or gratefulness is a dangerous thing for a man sitting in the White House.



After 9/11 you said," America hasn't lived up to her ideals."



Which ones did you mean? Was it the notion of personal liberty that 11,000 farmers and shopkeepers died for to win independence from the British? Or maybe the ideal that no man should be a slave to another man, that 500,000 men died for in the Civil War? I hope you didn't mean the ideal 470,000 fathers, brothers, husbands, and a lot of fellas I knew personally died for in WWII, because we felt real strongly about not letting any nation push us around, because we stand for freedom.



I don't think you mean the ideal that says equality is better than discrimination. You know the one that a whole lot of white people understood when they helped to get you elected.



Take a little advice from a very old geezer, young man.



Shape up and start acting like an American.. If you don't, I'll do what I can to see you get shipped out of that fancy rental on Pennsylvania Avenue. You were elected to lead not to bow, apologize and kiss the hands of murderers and corrupt leaders who still treat their people like slaves.



And just who do you think you are telling the American people not to jump to conclusions and condemn that Muslim major who killed 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounded dozens more. You mean you don't want us to do what you did when that white cop used force to subdue that black college professor in Massachusetts, who was putting up a fight? You don't mind offending the police calling them stupid but you don't want us to offend Muslim fanatics by calling them what they are, terrorists.



One more thing. I realize you never served in the military and never had to defend your country with your life, but you're the Commander-in-Chief now, son. Do your job. When your battle-hardened field General asks you for 40,000 more troops to complete the mission, give them to him. But if you're not in this fight to win, then get out. The life of one American soldier is not worth the best political strategy you're thinking of.



You could be our greatest president because you face the greatest challenge ever presented to any president.

You're not going to restore American greatness by bringing back our bloated economy. That's not our greatest threat. Losing the heart and soul of who we are as Americans is our big fight now.

And I sure as hell don't want to think my president is the enemy in this final battle.



Sincerely,

Harold B. Estes



When a 95 year old hero of the "the Greatest Generation"

stands up and speaks out like this, I think we owe it

to him to send his words to as many Americans as

we can. Please pass it on.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 11/30/2009 14:43 Comments || Top||

#11  Wow, Nobama just got bitch-slapped by a worthy man!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/30/2009 14:58 Comments || Top||

#12  In case this seems too good to be true, I checked it on Snopes.

Yup. It's real. Mr. Estes is real. The only fake here is Obama.
Posted by: Mercutio || 11/30/2009 16:42 Comments || Top||

#13  Great letter by a man who understands this country.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/30/2009 17:07 Comments || Top||

#14  What second term?

I doubt he'll even finish his first term. More likely after 2010 he'll stamp his widdle feet in frustwation and quit just to show us who's in charge.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 11/30/2009 21:05 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Prospect of U.S.-N.Korea Talks 'Looking Dark'
Prospects for bilateral talks between North Korea and the U.S. aimed at persuading Pyongyang back to the nuclear negotiating table are "dark," a senior South Korean government official on Sunday said.

"Rumors that North Korea will return to the six-party talks have not been confirmed yet. We can say for now that the prospects are dark," the official said. "Recent foreign news reports say that the North has hinted at returning to the six-party talks, but they haven't been confirmed yet either."

The U.S. representative for North Korea policy Stephen Bosworth visits Pyongyang on Dec. 8. But the official claimed the prospects are dim because the North still insists it can return to the multilateral talks only when the U.S. ends its "hostile" policy.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, pointed to his meeting with Jack Pritchard, the president of the Korea Economic Institute in Washington, who has been to Pyongyang recently. "He told me that the North has not changed its position and showed no signs of taking any positive action or offering any expectations."

Meanwhile, Bosworth will arrive in Seoul on Dec. 6 to meet South Korean government officials first and fly to Pyongyang by military aircraft from the U.S. Air Base in Osan on Dec. 8.

Quoting a source in Washington, Radio Free Asia in the U.S. reported that a small delegation consisting of Bosworth, U.S. special envoy to the six-party talks Sung Kim, and officials from the State and Defense departments and the National Security Council will fly to Pyongyang. The delegation will return to Seoul to debrief the South Korean government and then visit Japan, China and Russia, RFA added.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/30/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The only "Talk" Kimmie understands is force, send bombers every day for a month, then Kimmie will be begging to "Talk".
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 11/30/2009 20:13 Comments || Top||


Japan Launches Satellite to Spy on Norks
Japan on Saturday morning launched an intelligence-gathering satellite to spy on North Korea's military facilities. The optical satellite carries devices that can distinguish objects on the ground with a resolution of 60 cm and will supply the highest-definition photographs of all Japanese reconnaissance satellites, which have a resolution of up to 1 m.

Japan improved the definition when regulations were eased in August last year and is hoping to enhance it further to the level of American commercial satellites, which have a resolution of up to 40 cm.

Tokyo decided to develop the new satellites right after the North test-fired a long-range missile in 1998. Since then, it has launched five satellites. The latest will replace the first, launched in 2003, which has reached the end of its life cycle. Two more optical and radar satellites are to be launched by 2011.
The same rockets that launch the satellites can launch other payloads as far as Pyongyang -- or Beijing. Just saying ...
Transport Minister Seiji Maehara, who is in charge of Japan's space development, said the new optical satellite is the "core of the satellite system for Japan's security. It's important for Japan to gather intelligence on its own."

The satellite was carried by an H2A rocket developed by Japan with its own technology.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/30/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "the new optical satellite is the 'core of the satellite system for Japan's security. It's important for Japan to gather intelligence on its own.'"
What?!
Don't they trust us?
Posted by: Glineck and Tenille1725 || 11/30/2009 1:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Don't they trust us?

Trust... but verify.
Posted by: Free Radical || 11/30/2009 10:24 Comments || Top||

#3  Japan has rather quietly built one of the two neatest little space programs you never hear about. (India has the other one.) In terms of technical capabilities, they're about as good as anyone.
Posted by: Mike || 11/30/2009 10:29 Comments || Top||

#4  ION WMF > GENERAL LIANG'S VISIT TO NORTH KOREA SHOWS BEIJING STILL VIEWS NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR CRISIS AS "CONTROLLLALE". US-NATO MUST UNDERSTAND THAT, TO PROTECT IST SECURITY, CHINA IS NOT AFRAID TO UNILATERALLY SEIZE THE INITIATIVE AND TAKE OVER NORTH KOREA + IRAN DESPITE US, WESTERN POWER.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/30/2009 20:39 Comments || Top||

#5  AL-JAZEERA > HAJ PILGRIMAGE >[Video]ISLAM IN THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN.

Also, WMF > JAPANESE DEFENSE MINISTER: CHINA IS NO THREAT TO JAPAN; + JAPANESE SCHOLARS: CHINA SHOULD NOT KEEP THE USA OUT OF THE PROPOSED "EAST ASIAN COMMUNITY" OF NATIONS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/30/2009 20:58 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
How Anwar Awlaki Got Away
Posted by: tipper || 11/30/2009 16:13 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:


Some of "Lackawanna Six" now free and/or protected
Some of the six men convicted in one of the nation's first major terror related cases following the Sept. 11 attacks have sought special government witness protection for their testimony against other terror suspects in prosecutions that followed.

Two members of the "Lackawanna Six," charged for attending an al-Qaida training camp in 2001, asked to enter the government's witness protection program as a reward for testifying at a Guantanamo Bay trial last fall. They and a third who testified at the same trial have since vanished from the federal Bureau of Prisons public database, one indication they got their wish.

In prison, protected inmates serve their time under aliases and in specialty units. After prison, the witness protection program gives participants a new identity, living expenses and medical care.

In the years since their arrests, within days of the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, federal authorities have said members of the group have been valuable witnesses -- not for their direct knowledge of terror plots but for their ability to describe al-Qaida training from personal experience.

The most active government witness among the group, 32-year-old Yahya Goba, has been absent from the Bureau of Prisons site for more than two years as he's testified in several trials, including that of Jose Padilla in Miami in 2007.

Two co-defendants, Sahim Alwan, 36, and Yasein Taher, 31, have not appeared on the bureau's inmate locator since they and Goba testified against an Osama bin Laden associate at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base a year ago.

Taher had been scheduled for a Sept. 1, 2009 release before his name disappeared from the site. His attorney, Rodney Personius, acknowledged that Taher was in protective status as he finished out his prison term but declined to say whether he'd opted to continue in the U.S. Marshal-run Witness Protection Program.
Posted by: Fred || 11/30/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  It's just a matter of time before some of these guys turn up in the news again. You read it here first.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/30/2009 6:18 Comments || Top||

#2  We'll meet again,
Don't know where,
Don't know when,
But I know
We'll meet again

I don't think the sun will be shining on that day, though.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/30/2009 6:27 Comments || Top||

#3  ION VARIOUS NET POSTERS > SENATE criticism on OBL's seeming escape from TORA BORA > opine how could OSAMA, etal. overtly escape from TORA BORA despite latter being a US-CONTROLLED = US PROXY-CONTROLLED RECCE AREA, ee access to US AIR + SATWAR,SPAWAR RECCE CAPABILS which the USDOD should've been SOP-conducting PRE-,POST-ATTACK AGZ OSAMA???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/30/2009 17:42 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Chinese objections stop road in Indian Kashmir: official
Work on a mountainous road in Indian-controlled Kashmir near the border with China has been stopped after objections from the Chinese army, an official and a report said Monday.

"The road was being built for the locals following their persistent demands," a government official from Leh, the capital of the area of Ladakh where the road was being built, told AFP.

The official, who asked not to be named, said the work had stopped about three months ago.

"We had already constructed four kilometres (2.5 miles) of road when the Chinese came and asked to stop the work," the state chief minister, Omar Abdullah, was quoted by Indian Express newspaper as saying on Monday.

"We have already informed the government of India about it," he said.

Kashmir is divided mainly between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan. China holds a small area of the scenic Himalayan region.

The eight-kilometre road was being built under a government rural employment scheme in the Demchok area of the Buddhist-dominated Ladakah area near the Line of Control (LOC) -- a demarcation that divides Indian Kashmir and the part held by China.

The road adds to a list of issues that have soured Sino-Indian relations in recent months, including a Chinese embassy policy of issuing different visas to Indians and residents of Indian Kashmir.

A visit by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to another disputed area in northeastern India caused angry objections from Beijing.

Last month, China also offered financial help to Pakistan to build a multi-billion-dollar dam in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, which led to complaints from New Delhi.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/30/2009 20:58 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


Bugti’s killers must be punished: Nawaz
LAHORE: Murderers of Akbar Bugti should be brought to justice for peace in Balochistan, a private TV channel quoted Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif as saying on Friday.

Talking to reporters after the inaugural ceremony of a cricket pavilion at the Bagh-e-Jinnah, the PML-N chief said those who got their loans written off should be held accountable along with beneficiaries of the National Reconciliation Ordinance, as they had plundered the national exchequer. Nawaz said there would be no threat to democracy if the government worked for supremacy of law and the constitution. Restoring law and order in the country should be the government’s first priority, he added.

According to APP, Nawaz also stressed the use of all resources to address the challenges facing the nation, including maintenance of law and order, poverty, unemployment and revival of economy.

“Apart from political issues, there are a number of other problems confronting the country, which need our attention,” Nawaz said.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/30/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Probably be easier to just shoot this guy too.
Posted by: mojo || 11/30/2009 16:03 Comments || Top||


Musharraf seeks (re)-entry into politics
ISLAMABAD: Former president Gen (r) Pervez Musharraf has asked his aides to pave the way for his return to Pakistan and formal entry into politics.
As civilian president or as dictator glorious savior of the country?
Sources told Daily Times on Friday that Musharraf had been consulting his friends to assess his prospects in politics, as the constitutional bar on his entry into politics lapses on November 28 (today).

The sources said Musharraf had been pursuing a wait-and-see policy and is keen to bring together his former supporters. Musharraf has asked his key supporters to contact politicians for a unified Muslim League, minus the PML-N.

Many leaders of Chaudhry Shujaat-led PML-Q, and the party’s dissident group, including Hamid Nasir Chatta, Saleem Saifullah Khan and Humayun Akhtar, have met Musharraf in the past few months, while many current and former parliamentarians are in regular contact with him, the sources added.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/30/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Britain to support Pakistan unconditionally: Miliband
[Dawn] Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband held a meeting to discuss issues of mutual interests in order to strengthen bilateral ties.

They met at the sidelines of the European Union Conference on Saturday.

Issues relating to strategic dialogues and promotion of bilateral ties came up during the discussion.

UK Foreign Secretary Miliband lauded Pakistan's role in the war against terror and its efforts to bring peace and stability to the region.

He added Britain will continue providing unconditional support to Pakistan.
"Please don't send us any more terrorists!"
Posted by: Fred || 11/30/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  I guess they haven't had a 9-11 type event, Yet.

I look for a mind changing event in Britian soon, they're asleep.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 11/30/2009 14:38 Comments || Top||

#2  TELEGRAPH.UK > HIDDEN THREAT FROM AL-QAEDA SLEEPER CELLS [AQ's wilful abuse + exploitation of UK Visa + Immigration laws to enter the country in order to set up networks for future domestic Terror Opers]???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/30/2009 20:42 Comments || Top||

#3  BHRAT RAKSHAK. OTHER > OBAMA WARNS PAKISTAN. POTUS BAMMER tells PAK to stop using LeT + other Islmaist groups [AQ, Afghan Taliban, Haqqani network, TTP]as a "strategic tool", OR ELSE i.e. USA will use "any means necessary" at its disposal to stop the Militants!

IMO read UNILATERAL US MILACTION = DIRECT ACTION INDEPENDENT OF ISLAMABAD [widout consultation]???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/30/2009 20:49 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Mysterious 'Saddam Channel' hits Iraq TV
Turning on their TVs during the long holiday weekend, Iraqis were greeted by a familiar if unexpected face from their brutal past: Saddam Hussein.

The late Iraqi dictator is lauded on a mysterious satellite channel that began broadcasting on the Islamic calendar's anniversary of his 2006 execution.

No one seems to know who is bankrolling the so-called Saddam Channel, although the Iraqi government suspects it's Baathists whose political party Saddam once led. The Associated Press tracked down a man in Damascus, Syria named Mohammed Jarboua, who claimed to be its chairman.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 11/30/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Iraqi Baath Party

#1  Gee, I wonder if it could be a prominent sunni country that is bombing a shi'ite rebellion in a neighboring country at this very news cycle.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 11/30/2009 0:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Good thing they executed him. Otherwise he would have been sprung by now.
Posted by: gromky || 11/30/2009 1:31 Comments || Top||

#3  The Saddam channel otherwise known as the "Dead Zone."
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/30/2009 16:45 Comments || Top||

#4  "Late Iraqi Dictator" > NEVER SAY NEVER, as the saying goes, + per many Radic islamist ZOMBIES formerly declared "dead" now either ALIVE OR NOT ABSOLUT CONFIRMED AS "DEAD".

E.G. ABU MUSAB "ZARK/ZARKEY" ZHARQAWI > the Pic of the Personage identified as him "Zharqawi" in numerous MSM-NET artics suppos or repor founded the UIGHUR = "EAST TURKESTAN" ISLAMIST-INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT TWO YEARS AFTER HIS "VERIFIED" DEATH BY US AIR STRIKE???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/30/2009 17:59 Comments || Top||

#5  ION ZOMBIES, BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Sri Lanka]PRABHARAN [ + POTTU AMMAN] IS ALIVE - by TAMILWORLD!? Many Tamils believe twas Prabh's "Body Double" that kicked the bucket - claim that their bodies were never found + no official death certificate exist for either Leader despite Govt. verification of deaths.

D *** NG IT, TO PROTECT AGZ ZOMBIES + ROSWELLIAN ALIEN "BOSYSNATCHERS", ETC. CLEARLY THE FUTURE OWG-NWO THAT NO ONE FORMALLY VOTED FOR MUST INSTALL $$$-EXPENSIVE MONITORING CAMERAS AT ANY EACH AND ALL HOSPITAL SICKBEDS + CEMETERY FUNERALS, ETC.!
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/30/2009 20:34 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Jordan shares Palestinian despondency on peace
[Al Arabiya Latest] Outside the West Bank and Gaza Strip, despair at the failure of years of U.S.-led Middle East peacemaking is perhaps felt nowhere more keenly than in Jordan.

"The Palestinians are cornered," said Taher al-Masri, a former Jordanian prime minister of Palestinian origin who is now deputy speaker of the kingdom's upper house of parliament.

"They have to look for alternatives other than just calling for negotiations. It doesn't mean they have to go to war, but depending on the good faith of the Americans or Europeans or on a positive Israeli response has ended now," he added.
Good -- reality is setting in. So they have three choices: starting a war they'd lose, terrorism, which doesn't seem to work anymore, or surrendering to the ebil juices and accepting the status quo. I imagine they'll choose dithering for another decade or several, instead.
Jordan, a small aid-dependent country with many Palestinians among its 6 million people, has for years hitched itself to Washington in the hope that its U.S. ally would one day cajole Israel into accepting Arab demands for an end to occupation and the emergence of a Palestinian state in exchange for peace.
The poor, disappointed darlings.
The heart [urp] bleeds ...
The peace treaty the late King Hussein signed with Israel in 1994 was never popular with his subjects and, 15 years on, even those who once backed the "peace process" now view it as futile.
Well gosh, how many wars have they lost since they signed it, none? I'd say it paid out in spades.
Not to worry, the Jordanian army has used the time well and is fully prepared to lose the next war they fight with the Israelis ...
President Barack Obama's failure to secure his own demand that Israel stop building settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is seen here as a humiliating sign that U.S. diplomacy can never achieve the far harder goal of a two-state solution.
Yup. It's up to the Palestinians, now, to actually make their own peace, instead of having another surrender handed to them.
Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Joudeh last week dismissed as "insufficient" a 10-month Israeli halt to some construction in West Bank settlements, excluding those in East Jerusalem.

Obama's Cairo speech in June briefly raised hopes among some Arabs that the new president grasped their grievances and might adopt a less Israel-indulgent policy than his predecessor.
A great many people are disappointed that President Obama did not turn out as their imaginations had painted him.
Posted by: Fred || 11/30/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So "some Arabs" thought Obama sympathised with their "plight".? MMBWWwahahahahaha.
Obama will take any sucker he can get.
NOBODY gives a piss for the Palestinians.
EVERYBODY Uses them. They havent GOT any friends.

Allow me to repeat it: Everybody USES Palestinians for their own agendas. Nobody actually give spit for Palestinians. Nobody in the world CARES about Palestinians anymore than you "love" a whore. Palestinians are just anuses on Legs.

And there is only going to be one outcome for the Palestinians. The tanks eventually will roll into Gaza ( again) and squash them, the lucky ones will make it out to Brazil and look for jobs and vanish into the trees or learn to milk a duck.

And the West Bank will be acid leached by the Settlements and ten years from now there wont be a Palestinian who doesnt have sixty Israelis building a concrete closet for the Palestinian to sleep in standing up.

And if the Palestinian doesnt like it he can suck air through a straw, peer out the keyhole ....and whistle.

And if he fights, we will crush his brains out. There isnt going to be "peace". The Palestinians are either going to move to Brazil or they are going to go to hell. They havent GOT a future.

Amalek is out of luck.

You know WHY you corner a rat? So its easier to kill it. You DO know who Amalek was dont you? Saul castrated Agag and then Samuel chopped him up. Nobody even knows if he was buried or fed to the dog.

You know what you get when you live on pansy "hope"? You wind up with a war because you didnt have the balls to stop it from the gitgo. You get black rain and glowing holes and your flesh hanging off while you stagger through the burning ditch holding your dead baby. Wise up, you are going to have to fight or you are going to have to eat some serious sausage. Piss be upon him.
Posted by: Angleton9 || 11/30/2009 5:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Please, go to war. Let's see what ya got besides mouth.
Posted by: mojo || 11/30/2009 16:02 Comments || Top||


Olde Tyme Religion
"Your Turn Has Come At Last, You Offspring of Apes and Pigs, You Most Accursed Creatures Created by Allah"
Following are excerpts from an address by Egyptian cleric Hazem Shuman, which aired on Al-Rahma TV on October 31, 2009.
Hazem Shuman: "Tonight's lecture is one of the most important lectures of this series. Tonight, we will talk about the Battle of Khaybar, about the Prophet Muhammad's greatest battle [with the Jews], in which the Prophet eradicated the Jewish presence in Al-Madina.

"On June 5, 1967, when the Jews occupied Palestine and Jerusalem and were celebrating their victory, Moshe Dayan cried: 'This is our revenge for Khaybar.'
And y'all have him saying that on tape, do you? Because I think you're lying again.
How come Khaybar remained seared in their hearts for 1,400 years? After 1,400 years, their hearts are still burning because of Khaybar. The first thing that the Prophet Muhammad did after his victory in the Hudaybiyya Treaty, after he stabilized the Muslim state, and neutralized the Quraysh front, the first mission of the Prophet Muhammad, his first campaign, was against the Jews of Khaybar.
The ones with whom he had a peace treaty, as I recall, until he broke it.
"Your turn has come at last, you offspring of apes and pigs, you most accursed creatures created by Allah, you people who have harmed the Prophet again and again.

"Only 20 days after the Hudaybiyya Treaty, the Prophet Muhammad decided to take the army of Islam to Khaybar. Why the Jews of all people? It has been proven that the Jews are like a cancer -- if they are not removed from the body of the nation, they will kill the entire nation. Unless the Jews were dealt with, they would have brought the Persians and the Byzantines to the Arabian Peninsula. the Jews are dangerous to the whole world. They threatened the stability of the Arabian Peninsula." [
Posted by: Fred || 11/30/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Global Jihad

#1  So you are saying that Moslems (piss be upon him )
have been murdering Jewzzzz for the past 1,400 years. I thought it was all supposed to be because of the establishment of Israel in 1948.

It isnt about that? Its 1,400 years older? And the Moslems were doing Genocide back that far? Well, well, well...

Something tells me that the Moslems have a genocide thingy built right in. Not something you "negotiate" over, apparently.

Kill the Jewwzzzz, is just well, so "Islamic".

Sort of like NAZIs in kaffiyehs but the noses are bigger, eh ...meine Herr Ali bin Futzstaffel.?
Posted by: Angleton9 || 11/30/2009 4:24 Comments || Top||

#2  'Inside the Revolution' by Joel C. Rosenbeerg. Read it, the scales will fall off.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/30/2009 8:00 Comments || Top||

#3  I recall when assigned to Egypt that the state sponsored newspaper reported that Jews were kidnapping Arab children in the Sinai and extracting blood from them to make holiday cookies…nice, huh? Remember in the mind of progressives, all cultures and religions are the same. Oh crap! I just puked on the key board.
Posted by: Hammerhead || 11/30/2009 9:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Hammerhead, check those juicy bits at the links, whatever you might think of that cleric, you've got to admit, he's got a very vivid (lurid) imagination... How nice from the people (egyptians do or at least, did it, syrians do it, the fatah does or did it,...) who get their kicks by having military parades/shows in which the "commandos" demonstrate their manliness by literally ripping live puppies to pieces with their bare hands or cutting snakes in two with their teeth...

"Jews Are Always the Same... [In] Sabra and Shatila... Sharon Chopped Off the Limbs of Children and Used Them to Make a Necklace"

"Jews are always the same. We are still tormented by the sights of their massacres of the Muslims, when they went into Sabra and Shatila. Sharon chopped off the limbs of children, and used them to make a necklace, so that he could boast that he dismembered the bodies of Muslim children. When the Jews entered Sabra and Shatila, a Jewish soldier took a pregnant woman and emptied a submachine gun into her neck. When she was dead, he cut open her belly, took out her nine-month-old fetus, and slaughtered it in front of the Muslims.

"They took 30 Muslim men and women, including a newlywed couple, and shot them all in Sabra and Shatila. They chased a six-year-old boy, whose mother was hugging him and calling for help. They stabbed him with knives and killed him in his mother's lap. In the end, she went mad, because of what had happened. They shot dead an entire family, except for a baby, who screamed at the sight of the bloodbath. The moment they saw he was crying, they shot him with a machine-gun as well. At Sabra and Shatila, they raped a Muslim woman, and then killed her children in front of her. They tore off women's ears, by pulling their earrings." [...]


Posted by: anonymous5089 || 11/30/2009 12:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Hum, recall a comment in a french blog by an older franco-israeli who had fought three wars I think, against arab armies (independence, suez and 6 days IIRC?), and who noted that arab regular armies tended to readily mutilate prisoners and that the jewish soldiers were very determined not to let themselves be taken alive; most of it was pyschosexual, in that sense that according to him, arab men tend to feminize the "other" and mutilations gravited toward emasculation, shoving objects,... don't know how true that was/is, but it certainly jibes with my and others feelings (the feminization process is VERY obvious in France by the Youths and even by "regular", non-thugish muslim, once you notice it, you can't miss it; also, the trademark of the algerian fighters, both against soldiers and arab civilians, was either actual emasculation - so frequent it has became a non-PC cliché about the algerian war, "arms skinned to the bones & genitals shoved in the mouth", that kind of stuff -, or symbolic emasculation, cutting the nose of men, gouging their eyes out).

Here is a short online booklet (NSFW I guess), translated into english, that was published by a veteran association, to try and counter the "official truth" about this war as propaged by the communist, the frenhc national education, the MSM, thre entertainement complex (hell, even wikipedia, whose page on thre algerain war is pure whitewash of the fln and even has some franz fanon fan blame a supposed rape epidemic by the frenhc soldiers on an inferiority complex from th epuny european white regarding th emanly, "bigger", "manlier", "hairier" algerian stud)

There is also a semi-famous case of hafez el assad basically giving a medal to a syrian soldier (even after syria was defeated) for having... slaughtered a bunch of captured isrealis with an axe.

So, yeah, this guy definitively is projecting, in addition to stroking the rubes up.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 11/30/2009 13:16 Comments || Top||

#6  A comment from "Pirates of the Carribean" springs to mind as very appropiate.

Captain Jack Sparrow, to other inmates in port royal jail.
NO SURVIVORS? then who tells the tale?
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 11/30/2009 14:53 Comments || Top||

#7  All praise the pagan piggy moon goddess allah and her pedophile for profit the porKoranic moohamhead. Piece of pork be upon him.
Posted by: Icerigger || 11/30/2009 15:01 Comments || Top||

#8  Joseph Goebbels was no piker at propaganda. Many of the same principles he used are used in this piece of tripe. Goebbels link at:

http://www.psywarrior.com/Goebbels.html

Posted by: JohnQC || 11/30/2009 16:36 Comments || Top||

#9  Interesting ad for Muslim Matrimonial site to the right of this article.
Our Motto: "Take four, they're small".
Posted by: Blinky Ulavish5813 || 11/30/2009 19:33 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Brazil opposes new Iran sanctions
Brazil's envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency says that a new round of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program would be pointless.

Imposing more sanctions on Tehran "will only lead to a hardening of the Iranian position," Ambassador Antonio Guerreiro said on Saturday.
Iran's position started out at intransigent. How much harder can it get? A more important question, though, is why Brazil is chooses to speak for the Mad Mullahs.
On Friday, Brazil abstained from the IAEA Board of Governors' vote to censure Iran over the construction of the Fordo enrichment plant.

Brazil abstained from voting because "dialogue is better than confrontation," Guerreiro, told the Brazilian daily O Globo.
Sometimes confrontation is the dialogue, Senhor Guirreiro.
The resolution by the 35-member IAEA Board of Governors, which was sponsored by Germany, calls on Iran to halt uranium enrichment and immediately freeze the construction of its Fordo nuclear facility, located near Qom.

"The resolution clears the way for sanctions ... and sanctions don't lead to anything," Guerreiro said.
Actually, sanctions lead either to war or to surrender. Each is a very definite thing.
The Fordo site will be Iran's second uranium enrichment plant, after the Natanz facility in central Iran, for the production of nuclear fuel enriched to a level of 5 percent.

Iran says its nuclear program is solely meant for civilian applications of the technology and has called for the total eradication of all weapons of mass destruction.
Johnny von Neumann looked into that idea when he went in for game theory, and concluded that maintaining weapons superiority was the only way to prevent people who called for such things from acting very, very stupidly.

Commenting on the fact that his country took up a non-permanent seat on the 15-member UN Security Council in January for a two-year term, the Brazilian diplomat said, "We will take advantage of that to help in the negotiations" with Iran.

"No countries make concessions under pressure," he noted.
Actually, that should be, "Countries and people make concessions only under pressure, either real or perceived."
Guerreiro said that "no evidence" has been found proving that Iran is building a nuclear weapon and added that the standoff over Iran's nuclear program is the result of "a mutual lack of confidence that has already lasted for quite some time."
As you say, Senhor.
Posted by: Fred || 11/30/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  So, will Brazil arrange to sell some weapons, atomic tech? With a low profile of course.
Posted by: tipover || 11/30/2009 0:48 Comments || Top||

#2  I Brazil restarting its atomic bomb program?
Posted by: 3dc || 11/30/2009 13:17 Comments || Top||

#3  I seem to remember seeing some news items suggesting it, 3dc. Last year, IIRC. At the time, I wasn't sure why, but I guess if they're feeling that it's the only way to get respect...
Posted by: Mitch H. || 11/30/2009 19:23 Comments || Top||



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