Yeah, let's broadcast this to the Taliban who are I'm sure monitoring our airwaves. Hey Makmood, all we have to do is bomb America.... What an idiot.
"But, if certain things happen between now and the election, particularly with respect to terrorism, that will automatically give the Republicans an advantage again, no matter how badly they have mishandled it, no matter how much more dangerous they have made the world."
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More like: Hey Makmood, please don't bomb America until after I'm elected. Then we can surrender and you won't hate us anymore!
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I really don't think AQ works under this mindset.
In fact, from what I've watched over the last 6 years, it seems more likely that AQ has been effectively challenged, not becaue they care about who wins our elections, but because they enjoy stabbing those who grovel before them in the back.
I think that if AQ can manage it, they would love this opportunity to globally humiliate an infidel of Hillary's stature and get the added bonus of kicking the entire weak-kneed Democratic party in the groin area (they don't have balls) to boot.
AQ's mindset, isn't, Oh! Thank You! Infidel Hillary. We now owe ya one, we're buds, Luv Ya.
They way they see it, they are not going to suck up to anyone, especially a western bitch and weak willed Dhimmis. Allah is on their side. Why should they?
The challenge is more along the lines of Hillary said, "don't kick me" to the meanest bully you know.
Brigadier General Richard Sherlock, deputy director for operational planning for the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Friday that terrorists and insurgents may use coincident sixth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, the onset of Ramadan, and the much-awaited US progress report to accelerate attacks in Iraq. An unconfirmed report says that some unidentified individual has made a $700M PUT order for Standard and Poor's Depository Receipts (SPY), for mid-September. If the S&P 500 crashed, they could make perhaps $2B.
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Not wrong merely stupid and didn't happen. A fantasy.
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It's like an unconfirmed report with no links to Unconfirmed reports have B-2's leaving Whiteman on the back of New Super-Stealthy-Transports, said to save time and money.
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How come Bernake intervened just before the August put expiration, harshly sticking it to put holders?
http://www.rgemonitor.com/blog/roubini/211386
It is strongly suggested in this article that this was a strong warning that he could do the same in September.
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THE SUMMARY OF the findings of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq released today is the predictable product of the process that created it. The consensus report of 16 intelligence agencies is full of on-the-one-hand-on-the-other-hand paragraphs that allow partisans of either side to make their points, if they are willing to quote selectively from the 4-page document. And it is a 4-page document (not 10 pages, as some media reports have it--the first six are title pages and descriptions of the methodology, and only the last four discuss Iraq). Its findings are broad and sweeping generalizations backed by little or nothing in the way of facts (which is natural, since intelligence agencies do not generally declassify the factual basis of such estimates).
Judging from the meetings of politicians in Rabieh and in Merab, Lebanon's Christians - including the Maronites - seem more divided than ever. This division threatens to undermine their future and historical role in Lebanese political life as they appear increasingly divorced from the country's sectarian-political scene - especially in light of the current Sunni, Shia and Druze positions on politics in general and elections in particular.
Although pluralism is a welcome development integral to democracy, it has become a source of weakness for Christians as compared to the solidarity among Lebanon's other sects and the spirit of cooperation embodied in the Taef Accords. If Lebanon's current division was purely political, it would be only natural for a variety of Christian parties to emerge - each pushing their own political and economic program. However, given the intense sectarian mobilization on the parts of other sects, Christian leadership seems divided into factions - each of which must follow the lead of other sects and - and does not emerge as an equal partner capable of defending its own interests.
The blame for the Christian's predicament lies mainly with the sect's leaders, many of whom brandish slogans that contradict their political positions. This includes MP Michel Aoun, who continues to view the current situation through the same lens as the 'war of cancellation' he fought almost two decades ago. Aoun recognizes no representative of the Christians but himself and attributes any opposition by others to "foreign influence." This thinking was behind Aoun's statement following the Merab meeting in which he insisted that the participants' decisions were not in their hands - apparently forgetting that many of the meeting's attendees had fought hard against Christian marginalization during the peak of Syrian hegemony and had paid a high price for it.
Following each political assassination, all eyes are on Aoun as he scrambles to craft a defense of Syria on the grounds that they have already "withdrawn from Lebanon." The presidential contest has in Aoun's eyes become a battle for survival: either Aoun becomes President or Lebanon enters a political vacuum as elections are stalled. Thus, the 'defender' of Christian rights becomes their violator - and a tool in the hands of those who wish to see a political vacuum in Lebanon for their own reasons. However, it will be Aoun alone who will bear responsibility for the crisis he creates - for the interests of his allies may be guaranteed in international and regional negotiations, while his will not.
In his last role as head of an interim government, Aoun gifted the Lebanese with two wars that resulted in the massive emigration of young Christians. Few are eager to grant him another position of leadership, for there are no longer enough young Christians remaining to don his orange shirts - unless he borrows followers from other factions.
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