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2005-04-08 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Fred 2005-04-08 00:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ... as safe haven... lemme think...
HaHaHa, wouldn't that be 'safe heaven'?
(where hoofed, horned houris' have peculiar sexual apperites)

Posted by twobyfour 2005-04-08 3:45:16 AM|| 2005-04-08 3:45:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 This "safe haven" nonsense is actually a particularly stupid element of the generally clueless opposition argument to the US global offensive posture.

Let's see -- based on the 9/11 plot, I guess San Diego, New Jersey, and parts of Florida are "safe havens" for al-Qaida, too. Anywhere al-Qaida members draw breath, therefore, is a "safe haven".

This is absurd. Iraq is a place where the US has free reign with its conventional and unconventional forces, the support and cooperation of the national government, and the collaboration of increasing numbers of citizens who have problems with the national government. This is a "safe haven"? What would a hostile environment look like to al-Qaida?

This is a classic example of the upside-down thinking that holds that actually fighting the enemy in a war makes the enemy stronger, or somehow is responsible for the war's existence. The reductio ad absurdum of this illogical assertion -- which is obvious and arises nearly instantly -- would be that the best strategy for fighting the war is not fighting it.

Posted by Verlaine in Iraq 2005-04-08 5:19:49 AM|| 2005-04-08 5:19:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Lol, nice, ViI.

When certain eventual death by HE concussive dismemberment or hot-lead to the head can be termed "safe haven" or "shelter", then the notion of sanctuary has truly undergone a pole-flip in the StyleBook. But then we've already come to understand that reality plays little part in the press version of events. Play up whatever angle suits your editorial agenda - hang the facts and the obvious flaws.

I'm picturing a whole herd of Saudi cats dancing on ~~flypaper~~ a hot tin roof.

Posted by .com 2005-04-08 6:48:42 AM|| 2005-04-08 6:48:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Honey, where did you put the Jumpin' Jihadi bug spray?

Posted by Captain America 2005-04-08 8:00:26 PM|| 2005-04-08 8:00:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 ".....analysts assert that as many as 2,500 Saudi nationals have entered Iraq since 2003 to fight the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq. More than 350 Saudis were said to have been killed in the fighting."

So let's see. Almost a fifth of them killed in less than two years-- that's a "safe haven"?

Posted by Wuzzalib 2005-04-08 8:25:09 PM|| 2005-04-08 8:25:09 PM|| Front Page Top

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