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2004-02-25

Purported al-Qaida Audiotape Taunts Bush

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Posted by Steve White 2004-02-25 1:41:25 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yeah, whatever...keep yawning. These are not empty threats. It is only the continued vigilance (and luck) of our security and intelligence agencies that is keeping us free from harm. They only need to succeed once.

Posted by gromky 2004-2-25 5:32:14 AM|| 2004-2-25 5:32:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Er...'they' meaning AQ.

Posted by gromky 2004-2-25 5:32:56 AM|| 2004-2-25 5:32:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Did they recommend we vote for? Kerry or Nader?

Posted by tu3031 2004-2-25 8:14:29 AM|| 2004-2-25 8:14:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 There's been an interesting shift in the whining and ranting of AQ. Before, they used to piss and moan about how the world isn't islamic enough; how muslims were gonna create a worldwide caliphate. How the west (and Israel) were doomed...DOOOOOMED because of that. Now, it's more or less: "Oh yeah? You think you're so tough? We're tougher, ya know. Just you wait!" This latest screed seems to be more the position of a piss ant on the defensive. He's ticked off that he's losing.

Posted by PlanetDan 2004-2-25 8:20:21 AM|| 2004-2-25 8:20:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#5
the fighting Islamic community - which sent you New York and Washington battalions

Hey, I thought Mossad sent those guys.

Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-2-25 8:22:05 AM|| 2004-2-25 8:22:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#6
1. Bush destroyed two-thirds of al-Qaida.
2. Al-Qaida is still in the holy war battleground

Those two propositions are not mutually exclusive.

Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-2-25 8:45:52 AM|| 2004-2-25 8:45:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 "HEADLINE: AL-Q TAUNTS BUSH:"

"Your mother was a hanmster and your father smelt of elderberries!"

Coming up next - a reading from the Book of Armaments....

Mike

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-2-25 8:47:41 AM|| 2004-2-25 8:47:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Let's see... Here we have some pipsqueak hiding out in a cave afraid to show his face or disclose his whereabouts to anyone but a close and trusted few, who must transfer his statements by hand via tape more or less anonymously to the media, and who is living like a cockroach scurrying from hole to dark, stinking hole avoiding ~~Arclight~~ daylight.

Yeah, his threats of Gloom 'n' Doomâ¢ sure carry a lot of credibility with me. Look! I'm shaking!

Posted by Dar 2004-2-25 10:42:23 AM|| 2004-2-25 10:42:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 I hate it when they ccall us "poopyheads".

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-2-25 12:31:11 PM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2004-2-25 12:31:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Surrender! Or I will taunt you again!

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-2-25 2:30:10 PM|| 2004-2-25 2:30:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 gromky - dead right. I want to laugh at this pissant, too, but know that it only takes one mistake, one Border Guard or Immigation Official who's not on his/her toes, and innocents will pay for it. Hardcore application of the pre-emptive policy is the only thing that can prevent the eventuality. The election timing is, to my mind, among the list of impediments, but PC-ism is the core problem.

Recalling Lincoln's remarks about the terrible casualty numbers at Cold Harbor (to the effect that Grant was the General he had been looking for because he understood the hard arithmetic of war) gives me chills, now: the impetus for taking off the gloves - the hard arithmetic lesson which will remove the PC constraints - will be the next effective attack. Sad. Very sad.

Sorry to be morose, folks, but if you really think they will fail on every attempt forever, well, I beg to differ -- this will get very un-funny very fast. Killing every last jihadi with extreme prejudice is the only answer, of course, but our PC-challenged society is just not ready to embrace that obvious eventuality, yet. Someday they will be.

Posted by .com 2004-2-25 3:37:35 PM|| 2004-2-25 3:37:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 .com I agree with you. At some time some idiot will detonate a dirty bomb or nuke in a major city.

The only way to prevent/postpone it is to make it very, very, clear that we *will* respond in kind and with overwealming force. We have to state clearly, loudly, and very publically that any terrorism using WMD would be met with the destruction of Mecca, Medina, and the capitals of the 'axis of evil' followed by 'total war'. Time to stop pussyfooting around with these fools.

This is why the current U.S. election is so important. A president like Kerry or Clinton or Gore would hesitate or poopah about a response (or worse yet let the U.N. decide the response) which is a weakness.

Posted by Anonymous 2004-2-25 6:59:39 PM|| 2004-2-25 6:59:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 oops...I posted the above from 'Anonymous'....

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-2-25 7:00:12 PM|| 2004-2-25 7:00:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Amen, CF, amen. I'm not kidding about the chills - those morons will likely get through eventually - and if we don't have Dubya or his equivalent, you're absolutely right: we'll be nibbled half to death before the next leader with the stones & vision comes along.

Posted by .com 2004-2-25 11:18:47 PM|| 2004-2-25 11:18:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Dot, Yep, I know and it hurts. But so far so good and may God bless us.

Posted by Lucky 2004-2-26 1:25:21 AM|| 2004-2-26 1:25:21 AM|| Front Page Top

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