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2005-10-26 Iraq

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Posted by Steve 2005-10-26 09:45|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Losing support? Yep, kind of tends to happen when you blow up women, children, shoppers, shop-keepers, hospitals, and shot down teachers, construction workers, etc.

Posted by Uleating Wheagum6743 2005-10-26 10:50|| http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]">[http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com] 2005-10-26 10:50|| Front Page Top

#2 What? What is this... truth?!!!!! Obviously this article didnt come from the associated press.

Posted by bgrebel9 2005-10-26 11:18|| 2005-10-26 11:18|| Front Page Top

#3 a bunch of camel jockey bumpkins

Truer words were never spoken.

EP

Posted by ElvisHasLeftTheBuilding 2005-10-26 11:34|| 2005-10-26 11:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Al Qaeda is losing support because they are losing. If they were able to achieve any of their objectives, 1/2 the muslim kids would be named Osama, like in late 2001. BTW, Sunni Arab support for Al Qaeda went from 80% to what, 70, 60%?

Posted by ed 2005-10-26 11:54|| 2005-10-26 11:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Another StrategyPage.com report. The popular media never even see such things, nor would their training-proud journalists be able to write such reporterly prose without surrounding it with "It was a dark and stormy night," pseudo-creativity.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-10-26 12:20|| 2005-10-26 12:20|| Front Page Top

#6 so true, tw.

enter and take foreign journalists hostage, and thus create a major publicity event.

Oh the irony. The press is reaping what they have sowed. A while back I said that sooner or later the terrorists would realize that the biggest bang for their buck would be to target journalists, especially the lefty ones. Nothing gets them more publicity, handwringing or front page news. I said it only once and regretted saying it because I decided that it was too true to put into cyberspace. No, I'm not saying they got the idea from me, it was inevitable that they would finally figure it out. And now it's clear that they have.

The press has been AQ's biggest allies in this war on terror. AQ requires their cooperation to create the terror they need to win. Now the press is discovering what everyone else who has slept with AQ to elevate their own political cause has discovered - that like Stalin and every other despot, AQ is a small "elite" bunch willing to kill anyone and everyone to get the reins of power. They have no cause other than that. Everyone but their small circle of friends is disposable and even they are disposable if the mood is right.

You sleep with the devil - expect to get burned.

Posted by 2b 2005-10-26 14:32|| 2005-10-26 14:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Hey! I got blown off my bar stool at the Palestine the other day! Don't tell me I'm not doing the job!

Posted by Grizzled War Correspondent 2005-10-26 14:37|| 2005-10-26 14:37|| Front Page Top

#8 Come on home Grizzled War Correspondent and write your book. The ferrite is at a relatively high temperature compared to the future.

Posted by Shipman 2005-10-26 17:02|| 2005-10-26 17:02|| Front Page Top

Posted by .com 2005-10-26 18:26|| 2005-10-26 18:26|| Front Page Top

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