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2007-06-30 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Thrinens Ulairt3305 2007-06-30 03:50|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 The pundits never ask why democratic intervention worked in Panama, Grenada, and Nicaragua, while liberation troops face suicide killers in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's Islam, stupid.

Maybe we should want of Afghanis and Iraqis exactly what President Reagan wanted from the peoples of Latin America: friendly relations, mutually beneficial trade, mutual disdain for totalitarian ideologies. Two days ago, al-Qaeda in Iraq held a huge rally in Mosul, without a single counter from the nearby US base. Aren't those the same people who perpetrated the 9-11 atrocities and imposed hundreds of millions of dollars in military spending by American taxpayers?

Posted by McZoid 2007-06-30 09:02|| 2007-06-30 09:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Our problems will continue as long as the two-faced Mordors of radicalized, Jihadi-driven Islam remain unscathed: Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

Wanna bet the failed London carbombers are British-born of Pakistani origins? Wanna bet they received radical literature, audio-and-video tapes, CDs, pamphlets, books, and the Wahabbist version of the Qu'ran (yes Virginia, there actually a Wahabbi version)from Deobandist, Takfiri sponsors whose materials in turn are produced, paid for, and shipped by the Saudis?

How do wage a war against a radicalideological movement whose promoters receive a free hand and operate out in the open, including right here in the USA?

Posted by Sigmund Freud 2007-06-30 10:45|| 2007-06-30 10:45|| Front Page Top

#3 "How do wage a war against a radicalideological movement whose promoters receive a free hand and operate out in the open, including right here in the USA?"

-imho, it will take us in the voting electorate hammering on our congresscritters that the no.1 issue along w/illegal immigration is snuffing out radical or fundamentalist islam (actually that's fairly p.c. on my part - it's really just islam itself that needs to go). Start w/denying visas to all muslim countries - I know - S.Arabia is not going to like it & I'm sure our cowards in office will be sweating about that.

Posted by Broadhead6 2007-06-30 11:04|| 2007-06-30 11:04|| Front Page Top

#4 Wow, the the video of this veteran verbally working over Mathew is far more impacting than the transcript.

This vet is angry and is not afraid of let this big time MSM tv dude know it...

Posted by Helmuth, Speaking for Chusoling1715 2007-06-30 11:44|| 2007-06-30 11:44|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm seriously thinking of fashioning a pitchfork as a piece of jewelry and selling it to the pitchfork brigade - this guy is one of them, Hissy looks shell-shocked.

Posted by anonymous2u 2007-06-30 11:51|| 2007-06-30 11:51|| Front Page Top

#6 Sounds like Chris got a little "hardball" coming back at him.

Posted by Mike 2007-06-30 12:36|| 2007-06-30 12:36|| Front Page Top

#7 By the way Chris, where's John Kerry's military record he promised to release on your program? You could at least run that video regularly at about the same rate the NYT keeps bring up Abu Ghrab.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-06-30 13:26|| 2007-06-30 13:26|| Front Page Top

#8 MATHEWS: Wait, who has been attacking the soldiers?

What a slimy bastard. I think my hatred for MSM tools is even deeper than for those politicians - the politicians were at least elected by those who thus share the blame.

Posted by xbalanke 2007-06-30 14:37|| 2007-06-30 14:37|| Front Page Top

#9 An additional point after watching again: notice how Mathews doesn't address the main point raised by the vet (politicians attacking our troops) and changes the subject to how he balieves Abu Ghraib was authorized at the top. Sleaze worthy of the slimiest politician.

Posted by xbalanke 2007-06-30 14:47|| 2007-06-30 14:47|| Front Page Top

#10 Matthews changed the subject because he really doesn't think about the troops in any of this. Everything's a hammer to nail Bush; the troops are inconsequential to him.

The strategypage article about the troops comparing our press to Tokyo Rose is a revealing thing. I'd say "I wonder if the press will ever reflect on the comparison", but I know they won't.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-06-30 15:30|| 2007-06-30 15:30|| Front Page Top

#11 I frequently find myself wondering if today's troopies have spent any time introducing MSM pukes they encounter to great old military traditions like the "blanket party".

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2007-06-30 18:41|| 2007-06-30 18:41|| Front Page Top

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