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2010-01-09 Arabia

Saudi warplanes hit N Yemen districts again

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Posted by Fred 2010-01-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 ION WMF > KIM-IL-NAM: US IS INCAPABLE OF LAUNCHING FULL-SCALE "WAR ON TERROR" AGZ REGIONAL MILITANTS FROM YEMEN [argues USA at best has only a LIMITED "HIT-N-RUN/SEARCH-N-LEAVE" STRIKE CAPACITY]???

* SAME > SHOULD THE US MOVE ITS FUTENMA MARINE BASE TO SHIMOJI ISLAND? A US BASE ON SHIMOJI CAN PUT POWERFUL US FORCES IN THE MIDST OF CHINA'S "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN".

ARTIC > US-JAPAN deemed strategic tiny island 300-km closer to TAIWAN + CHINA than Okin which can be used as "springboard" for milstrikes agz mainland China.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-01-09 00:56|| 2010-01-09 00:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Obomba has raided the treasury. We are incapable of waging a war on anything.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-01-09 01:12|| 2010-01-09 01:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Obomba has raided the treasury. We are incapable of waging a war on anything.

That's a feature, not a bug. Don't forget he's a Muslim.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-01-09 12:38|| 2010-01-09 12:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Obama is not a Muslim and, my opinion, probably leans more towards atheism than anything else.

Posted by Yo Adrian 2010-01-09 13:14|| 2010-01-09 13:14|| Front Page Top

#5 I agree with Yo Adrian. Our president likes the Islam of his childhood because its quaint and picturesque, dovetailing nicely with colourful native costumes and colourful native village life, all suitable for a correct-thinking anthropologist to dissect in the search for universal truths lost in the hustle-bustle of modern life. His faith is the cant of ivory tower drawing room Reds sipping sherry in the evening.

I speak from distant observation and knowledge of the type rather than personal encounters, of course, for which I am quietly grateful.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-01-09 19:24|| 2010-01-09 19:24|| Front Page Top

#6 of course. If he witnessed a stoning death, he never actually participated. It's all good

Posted by Frank G 2010-01-09 19:32|| 2010-01-09 19:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Bambi can't be a moslem. Moslems worship Allah; Bambi worships no one but himself.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-01-09 21:32|| 2010-01-09 21:32|| Front Page Top

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