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2003-09-12

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-09-12 00:09|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Too bad Al-Jazeera doesn't have a "right-of-reply" type deal, where they could (should) publish Fred's comments to this article. You never know, someone from that part of the world might actually learn something from the other side's opinion.

Posted by Rafael 2003-9-12 12:50:37 AM|| 2003-9-12 12:50:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 And there are those who believe we can deal with people who's perspective on commonly shared experiences is so alien from our own beliefs! This article demonstrates that the Arabs and Muslims in the world regard good will as weakness and the inability to take direct action as morale exhaustion. Perhaps they spend alot of time with Democrat presidentail candidates.

Posted by TJ Jackson 2003-9-12 1:52:50 AM|| 2003-9-12 1:52:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 OT : âThey see the demeaning and dehumanising treatment of Muslim prisoners in Guantanamo Bay"; typical double standards at work; in early 2002, Algeria released moroccan draftees that had been held prisoners since 1976 in desert or underground camps, w/o any legal justification. In 2003, Polisario front also made a similar release. As far as I know, muslim "public opinion" never cared much about them, nor about the dozens that still remain.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-9-12 4:02:53 AM|| 2003-9-12 4:02:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 The world has never been "safe" for anyone. It became much less safe 1400 years ago when the ~~horror~~ seed of the religion called Islam, the RoPâ¢, was ~~invented out of thin air by a demented failing merchant~~ "revealed" to ~~a woman-hating tiny-dick depraved moron~~ Mohammed, may bees pee upon him. Hell, I hope they shit fire upon him. If they don't, we will.

In typical Al Jizzwadi style, the author / apologist / propagandist who wrote this shit mongers his pathetic hope that we are terrorized. He quotes the mercantile phools, cowards, gutless turds, and self-haters who would've been killed and eaten by anything less than a free society. Blinded by his own hatred, he actually believes this pap will dishearten free people - particularly Americans.

Once again, the ~~demented Islamists~~ True Believers of the RoPâ¢ demonstrate that haven't the first clue about America. To paraphrase a poster here on 9/11, and quoting a common poster from my youth, "When faced with annihilation, defiance is the only recourse." In addition to missing this fundamental aspect of American thinking, they have miscalculated our capabilities by at least a generation. The petrified mentality of the RoPâ¢ is not conducive to critical thinking, as they have very recently begun to discover.

The RoPâ¢ has cast the Arab world in amber, turned Pakiland into the world's largest insane asylum, and imported that same insanity into Asia. It has even been imported into Europe and North America with impunity due to blindered and frightened political blundering. It has begun its insect-like work to undermine these places, as well.

On 9/11/01 it reared its ugly, barabaric, brutal, backward, regressive, sick, perverse, down & twisted head in America - and at great cost to us it nonetheless actually did us the huge favor of showing its true face of hatred and cowardice. Al Qaeda has managed, with that one act, to undermine the implacable nature of the asshat RoPâ¢ Islam. This dementia fervently prays for our destruction. It avidly explores ways to use our own freedoms and institutions and technologies against us, as it is bankrupt in all of these areas. It depends upon us to give in and, eventually, give up - for it is a collection of cowards who kill innocent people and cannot face us with any trace of honor.

It fears us, for we are mighty when we are resolved. It blathers about our freedoms being denied it, when it would happily destroy them were it to triumph. It cowers when we finally turn to confront it. It runs from us and hides in caves and behind the skirts of the women it enslaves. It cries out in pain when we locate a nexus of its hatred and strike back. It dies when freedom is allowed to shine. It has made war upon us of its own accord. We did not invite this hatred nor the attack upon us. Only one of them or a fool, perhaps which we have suffered in our midst in error, would believe the absurdity that we deserve this enmity.

What has begun is one of the Great Wars of Man. They have chosen the wrong opponent and have already lost, because we will never forget, nor will we ever forgive - and we are capable of destroying it to the root... and so we shall. With that tiny statement of fact, it is doomed - for the good of all mankind.

Posted by .com (a.k.a. Abu This Asshat RoPâ¢ True Believer) 2003-9-12 5:00:11 AM|| 2003-9-12 5:00:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 These folks better pray that our war on terrorism works as we are fighting it. We know exactly how to make the world a safer place, and have the means to do it. We simply lack the will to turn every Arab country into a glass parking lot. So far.

Posted by Ben 2003-9-12 7:03:42 AM|| 2003-9-12 7:03:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 "If it had been 3000 dead Frenchies, they'd probably feel different."

Not so sure. They lost 15,000 due to the heat, and they don't seem too broken up about it.

Posted by Ben 2003-9-12 7:08:37 AM|| 2003-9-12 7:08:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 . . .They lost 15,000 due to the heat, and they don't seem too broken up about it. . . That merely reduced the welfare rolls (a good thing?)

Dorf

Posted by Anonymous 2003-9-12 7:31:11 AM|| 2003-9-12 7:31:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 I see nothing wrong with being interested in Britney's honkers...

Posted by Raj 2003-9-12 8:29:40 AM|| [http://angrycyclist.blogspot.com] 2003-9-12 8:29:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Today, around 40% of Americans say they often worry terrorists may attack their country with nuclear weapons â a relatively novel concern.

Ignoring the 40 years of "duck and cover" of course

Posted by Tornado 2003-9-12 9:02:31 AM|| 2003-9-12 9:02:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 The next election will provide some answers on whether America is still the home of the brave or has become the home of chicken s**t.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-9-12 9:08:11 AM|| 2003-9-12 9:08:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Funny how Marlboro -- that symbol of the American cowboy -- keeps gaining share in Europe, isn't it?

Posted by Sharon in NYC 2003-9-12 9:35:07 AM|| 2003-9-12 9:35:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Seems to me the only difference between 9/10/01 and 9/12/03 is in 01 we nievly felt secure and safe.
In 03 we know better.
Do I fear the Islamists,no.
I am aware and wary of them as never befor,yes.
Will I cover my head and tremble in fear,no.
I will gleefully blow thier ass' away,

Posted by raptor 2003-9-12 10:56:01 AM|| 2003-9-12 10:56:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 don't give a damn if we are liked or not. we as people have not changed - except for the fact that we are now defending ourselfs. Should've of happened years ago but we had a prez more concerned with his dick and legal problems to actually deal with real and present threats.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-9-12 11:58:34 AM|| 2003-9-12 11:58:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 The way I see it, we're surrounded by a screaming horde of wild-eyed turbans, locked in mortal combat. Do we have time to listen to the neighbors complain about the noise and the occasional shrapnel that falls on their lawn?

Posted by Fred 2003-9-12 12:03:24 PM|| 2003-9-12 12:03:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 I doubt seriously that the world is a more dangerous place today than it was two years ago. I do believe more of us are aware, and aware at a deeper level, just how dangerous the world is, and we've taken action to protect ourselves, our family, and out nation from that danger.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-9-12 12:26:57 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-9-12 12:26:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 It's a terrible thought I know, but I often wonder what would have happened if the Spanish, flush with gold from the new world had continued their reconquesta into North Africa instead of fighting other Christians in Europe.

Posted by Yank 2003-9-12 12:56:14 PM|| 2003-9-12 12:56:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Who's it more dangerous for, Shaheen? Us or you? Call Binny, Sammy, and Mullah O up on the Al-Jiz hotline and ask them how safe they feel. I'll bet they don't feel as safe as I do.

Posted by tu3031 2003-9-12 5:30:15 PM|| 2003-9-12 5:30:15 PM|| Front Page Top

09:12 Douglas De Bono
09:02 raptor
08:09 raptor
00:03 Not Mike Moore
00:02 Fred
23:56 Not Mike Moore
23:35 Not Mike Moore
23:27 Not Mike Moore
23:12 Paul
23:10 Not Mike Moore
23:02 Paul
23:00 Not Mike Moore
22:48 Paul
22:44 tu3031
22:15 Craig
21:58 Old Patriot
21:52 True German Ally
21:43 True German Ally
21:42 Someone who did NOT vote for William Proxmire
21:30 Old Patriot
21:28 Ernest Brown
21:26 Fred
21:05 Super Hose
20:58 Old Patriot