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2004-05-01 Iraq-Jordan

What the President Might Say - It is about more than just Fallujah.

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Posted by Sam 2004-05-01 10:58:37 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 More Hanson BS. On Sept. 11, 2001, there were 19,000 Muslim Brotherhood terrorists and extremists in Egyptian prisons. Bush-Powell's acceptance of "political Islam" put half of those animals back on the streets. In fact, Egyptian seculars were pressured to treat subjective renunciations of terror, as gospel. Am I the only one who remembers that Bush-Powell forced Afghanistan's Northern Alliance to accept status quo armistice arrangements with Taliban? Did not Bush-Bremer make "De-Baathization" (read: Anti-Secularism) order #1 in nation-building in Iraq, with predictible jihad-terror consequences? Did Bush not engineer the squelching of the "9-11 lawsuit" by having his Justice Dept. serve as an Amicus party with Saudi terrorist defenders? Name a single act of scrutiny of Saud-Wahabi terrorism, done by Bush-Powell. Victor Davis Hanson is a pathological liar, and a slavish supporter of a lifelong crook.

Posted by Man Bites Dog 2004-05-01 1:42:42 AM|| 2004-05-01 1:42:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 MBD - when you start a comment with "More Hanson BS," I doubt if most Rantburgers will read much further. VDH is one of the most thoughtful and articulate anti-idiotarians writing today. In other words, blow it out your ass.

Posted by PBMcL 2004-05-01 2:14:50 AM|| 2004-05-01 2:14:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 MBD: interesting screed but not sure where you're at. I can argue specifics with you -- we worked with the Northern Alliance to kick Taliban butt after 9/11. Jihad-terror in Iraq has not been made worse by De-Ba'athization in iraq. There's been a lot of quiet, behind the scenes scrutiny of the Soodis.

But more importantly: you seem impatient. There's a plan unfolding, Grasshopper, and you need to step back to see it. It isn't perfect, it's had some hitches, but the plan is there. The Soodis, the Syrians, the Iranians, the Nkors, they're all going to get what they deserve. Hanson sees that and sees the need for it, and his own impatience is that he wants to get on with it.

Watch and see.

Posted by Steve White 2004-05-01 2:42:09 AM|| 2004-05-01 2:42:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 "Man Bites Dog" smells like "Camel Prophet" / "Nastification Agenda" from lgf. FWIW

Posted by someone 2004-05-01 2:45:10 AM|| 2004-05-01 2:45:10 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Yep.

Posted by Shipman 2004-05-01 8:25:35 AM|| 2004-05-01 8:25:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 [Troll droppings deleted]

Posted by Man Bites Dog TROLL 2004-05-01 8:45:24 AM|| 2004-05-01 8:45:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Hanson's piece is so good, I wish I could believe it, especially the last part, where he talks about sacrifice and our will to see this through to victory. I don't see anything like that. To most Americans, "sacrifice" means missing the last episode of "Friends." I believe it will take another 9/11--only on a far greater scale--before people here wake up. I also think it would help immensely if GWB would stop calling this a war on "Terror" and tell people what it really is -- a war against Islam. These people don't hate us because "we're free," as Dubya likes to say, they hate us because we're not Moslems, and they want to kill us all. You'd be surprised how few people understand that. Then again, if you follow the mainstream media, maybe you wouldn't.

Posted by Infidel Bob 2004-05-01 9:16:35 AM|| 2004-05-01 9:16:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 [Troll droppings deleted]

Posted by Man Bites Dog TROLL 2004-05-01 8:45:24 AM|| 2004-05-01 8:45:24 AM|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Mike Sylwester TROLL 2004-05-01 8:45:24 AM|| 2004-05-01 8:45:24 AM|| Front Page Top

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