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2006-01-21 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Cheney does not see close ties between Iran, al-Qaeda

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-01-21 01:41|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "they're just welcome guests and useful tools, but we haven't actually swapped spit with AQ, I mean, have you seen their oral hygiene?"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-01-21 01:52|| 2006-01-21 01:52|| Front Page Top

#2 The "grand deferrer" forgot one of the basic tennants of Islam: "An infidel enemy of your enemy is also your enemy."

Posted by Besoeker 2006-01-21 11:03|| 2006-01-21 11:03|| Front Page Top

#3 "That doesn't mean that there haven't been relationships over the years..."

The al-Khobar Towers bombing comes to mind.

Posted by DepotGuy 2006-01-21 12:50|| 2006-01-21 12:50|| Front Page Top

#4 re: Cheney, 'Deferrer' he most certainly is not.

The threat from Iran comes via their support of
Hamas and Hizboallah, ratcheted up x10 by the open threats to Israel from the new guy/old radical. Cheney is absolutely right to distinguish that from al Qaeda - for one thing, it implicitly points out that alQ aren't the only nuts claiming to have Allah's mandate to conquer the world.

At some point, if we are lucky, the internal contradictions and power struggles in the Middle East will cause both the MMs and the Salafists/Wahabis to implode - quite likely, by slitting each others' throats.

But only if we get out of their way and don't stop that by treating them as one monolithic enemy.

And if by 'deferrer' you mean Bush, all I can say is that it's easy to talk a tough game when the lives of millions of people aren't at stake in what you say and do.

Posted by lotp 2006-01-21 15:43|| 2006-01-21 15:43|| Front Page Top

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