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2005-11-21 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by Zenster 2005-11-21 01:11|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 But Jordan is also a country with a widening economic gap. Most Jordanians could not afford to spend the night in -- or even treat themselves to coffee and pastries in the lobby of -- one of the three hotels that was bombed.

Tough shit, I cant afford to go to the Waldorf Astoria, and would probably get arrested for hanging around the lobby filling my pockets with free mints. But I don't want to blow the place up for it. Even though there may be liberals who occasionally stay there.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-11-21 08:31|| 2005-11-21 08:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Pass the Kool-Aid, please.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2005-11-21 09:20|| 2005-11-21 09:20|| Front Page Top

#3 The Post is wordy and whiny but they eventually get many things right.

Jordan is just about as infected with Islamofascism and anti Americanism as anywhere in the mid east. It has a thin crust of liberalism and professionals and a deep reserve of fanatics.

Interestingly, the anti Americanism and anti semitism is about as deep as it is in the PA territory despite the fact that Jordanian TV and newspapers are far less depraved that PA TV and newspapers.

Posted by mhw 2005-11-21 09:24|| 2005-11-21 09:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Abu Ali said he had been waiting for something like this to happen ever since his country allowed U.S. troops to assemble on Jordanian soil during the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The Nov. 9 suicide blasts in Amman that killed 60 people, most of them Jordanians, were justifiable payback

Whoa. Time out Washington Post. When did we supposedly have that invasion force staging out of there? That's news to me. News to this guy too:

Jordanian king slams 'invasion' of Iraq
April 3 2003, 4:07 AM
Jordan's King Abdullah II today described for the first time the US-British-Australian attacks on neighbouring Iraq as an "invasion" and said his country had persistently refused to open its airspace to the coalition.
Abdullah, in an interview with the official Petra news agency, also expressed his "pain and sadness" over civilian war casualties in Iraq, whom he described as "martyrs".
"Frankly speaking, we were asked to open our airspace to military aircraft but we steadfastly refused," the king told the director of Petra, who was asking him to comment on reports that coalition planes used Jordan to attack Iraq.
"Jordan is not and will never be a launchpad for strikes on brethren in Iraq and if our airspace was being used for that purpose we would not have allowed civil aviation to use it and would have closed it like other countries have," he said.
Jordanian airspace has remained open since the start of the war on Iraq on March 20.
The king also strongly denied press reports alleging that US troops could deploy through Jordan to attack Iraq after Turkey denied them passage, saying: "This was never proposed to us and we would never allow it".
And he likewise dismissed as "shameful" reports suggesting that Israeli troops were deployed in Jordan as part of the war effort on Iraq.

So according to the Post, Abu the truck mechanic's right on the money and Abdullah's full of shit? That fact checking stuff must be really hard.

Posted by tu3031 2005-11-21 13:55|| 2005-11-21 13:55|| Front Page Top

#5 So according to the Post, Abu the truck mechanic's right on the money and Abdullah's full of shit? That fact checking stuff must be really hard.

Thank you, tu3031. It's why I selected the trainwreck graphic.

Posted by Zenster 2005-11-21 18:28|| 2005-11-21 18:28|| Front Page Top

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