Comments on: The Bush Voter http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2004/09/27/the-bush-voter/ Jane Novak's blog about Yemen Mon, 07 May 2012 07:25:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: John b http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2004/09/27/the-bush-voter/comment-page-1/#comment-711 John b Thu, 30 Sep 2004 04:51:52 +0000 /?p=650#comment-711 The war in Iraq is a sideshow in the so-called 'war on terror', a senseless diversion of effort and resources away from the main game. The respected Chatham House in the UK has recently released a report that holds out little hope for the integrity of the country. A new but classified US intelligence report is said to share the pessimism. Iraq is a mess, growing worse by the day. The interim government barely controls the so-called Green Zone. Allawi is a slippery rogue, the man who sold the '45 minutes' notion to the Brits, a man with terrorist acts in his CV. Not-so-Trivial Pursuit Question: Which country HAS weapons of mass destruction including nuclear weaponry? Which country for years acted as the Wal-Mart of illicit international nuclear technology, its supersalesman selling the good stuff to rogue states such as Iran and Libya? Which country has given safe haven to al-Qaeda? Which country has been named in the 9/11 Commission Report as complicit in 9/11? Which country's intelligence service and military are suspected of sympathy with terrorists? Which country has thousands of unregulated schools teaching militant Islam instead of maths and science? Which country's population is thought to sympathise in large numbers with the likes of al-Qaeda? Which country could easily become a state governed by militant Islam within the near future, should its duplicitous leader not survive a third attempt on his life? Which country is playing America off a break? The answer is, of course, Pakistan, the epicentre of world terrorism. Yet Pakistan has been made a 'major non-NATO ally' of the USA. Work that one out. Dick Clarke writes in 'Against All Enemies' : '... Pakistan could become what bin Laden dreams of: an Islamic nation controlled by radicals, with popular support for fundamentalism and terrorism, armed with nuclear weapons. Such a state could use those nuclear weapons in a war of hatred with neighbouring India or it could provide them to terrorists... If we do not shift attention back where it should have been after September 11, we face the prospect of the following scenario by 2007: a Taliban-like government in Pakistan armed with nuclear weapons, supporting a similar satellite nation next door in Afghanistan and promoting al Qaeda-like ideology and terror throughout the world...' Dr AQ Khan has been pardoned instead of being charged for actually doing the things that Saddam Hussein was alleged to be contemplating. Khan sold nuclear technology, illicitly. He should be locked up in gaol, not 'held' under 'house arrest'. He may already have supplied al-Qaeda with nuclear know-how. Al-Qaeda are patient people. Their record shows that. They could be merely biding their time, possessing the wherewithal to make things really interesting. The big winner in the Iraq catastrophe has been Osama bin Laden. He could not have written a better script. As one commentator has said : 'The invasion of Iraq was Osama's wet dream'. Bin Laden must be hoping like hell for a Bush victory. George Dubya has enhanced recruitment for al-Qaeda, provided them with opportunities for work experience and given them common cause with hitherto disparate groups of nasties. He has hurt the US economy by ballooning out the deficit. He has got rid of his old enemy Saddam for free. What more could he have wanted to achieve? National Guards and their families may not share your rosy view of Iraq. jb sydney australia The war in Iraq is a sideshow in the so-called ‘war on terror’, a senseless diversion of effort and resources away from the main game. The respected Chatham House in the UK has recently released a report that holds out little hope for the integrity of the country. A new but classified US intelligence report is said to share the pessimism. Iraq is a mess, growing worse by the day. The interim government barely controls the so-called Green Zone. Allawi is a slippery rogue, the man who sold the ‘45 minutes’ notion to the Brits, a man with terrorist acts in his CV.

Not-so-Trivial Pursuit Question: Which country HAS weapons of mass destruction including nuclear weaponry? Which country for years acted as the Wal-Mart of illicit international nuclear technology, its supersalesman selling the good stuff to rogue states such as Iran and Libya? Which country has given safe haven to al-Qaeda? Which country has been named in the 9/11 Commission Report as complicit in 9/11? Which country’s intelligence service and military are suspected of sympathy with terrorists? Which country has thousands of unregulated schools teaching militant Islam instead of maths and science? Which country’s population is thought to sympathise in large numbers with the likes of al-Qaeda? Which country could easily become a state governed by militant Islam within the near future, should its duplicitous leader not survive a third attempt on his life? Which country is playing America off a break?

The answer is, of course, Pakistan, the epicentre of world terrorism. Yet Pakistan has been made a ‘major non-NATO ally’ of the USA. Work that one out.

Dick Clarke writes in ‘Against All Enemies’ : ‘… Pakistan could become what bin Laden dreams of: an Islamic nation controlled by radicals, with popular support for fundamentalism and terrorism, armed with nuclear weapons. Such a state could use those nuclear weapons in a war of hatred with neighbouring India or it could provide them to terrorists… If we do not shift attention back where it should have been after September 11, we face the prospect of the following scenario by 2007: a Taliban-like government in Pakistan armed with nuclear weapons, supporting a similar satellite nation next door in Afghanistan and promoting al Qaeda-like ideology and terror throughout the world…’

Dr AQ Khan has been pardoned instead of being charged for actually doing the things that Saddam Hussein was alleged to be contemplating. Khan sold nuclear technology, illicitly. He should be locked up in gaol, not ‘held’ under ‘house arrest’. He may already have supplied al-Qaeda with nuclear know-how. Al-Qaeda are patient people. Their record shows that. They could be merely biding their time, possessing the wherewithal to make things really interesting.

The big winner in the Iraq catastrophe has been Osama bin Laden. He could not have written a better script. As one commentator has said : ‘The invasion of Iraq was Osama’s wet dream’. Bin Laden must be hoping like hell for a Bush victory. George Dubya has enhanced recruitment for al-Qaeda, provided them with opportunities for work experience and given them common cause with hitherto disparate groups of nasties. He has hurt the US economy by ballooning out the deficit. He has got rid of his old enemy Saddam for free. What more could he have wanted to achieve?

National Guards and their families may not share your rosy view of Iraq.

jb
sydney
australia

]]> By: Jane http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2004/09/27/the-bush-voter/comment-page-1/#comment-696 Jane Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:03:38 +0000 /?p=650#comment-696 Thank you, Thank you and yes. Thank you, Thank you and yes.

]]> By: Doug http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2004/09/27/the-bush-voter/comment-page-1/#comment-695 Doug Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:53:21 +0000 /?p=650#comment-695 Support for John Kerry began dropping when he began complaining about the “200 billion” the US has already committed to Iraq. When John Kerry gives a speech that mentions this figure more than a dozen times, each time referencing a lost social benefit in the US, Americans recognize that he is appealing to their greed and selfishness, that he is suggesting that the money would be better spent on US schools than those in Iraq. The voters disagree.

When he does this, isn’t he advocating what the Eurotwinks et. al call “American arrogance”? The whole greedy, inward-looking, not doing a damn thing for anyone else meme?

]]> By: rumcrook http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2004/09/27/the-bush-voter/comment-page-1/#comment-688 rumcrook Tue, 28 Sep 2004 04:37:17 +0000 /?p=650#comment-688 exellent. exellent.

]]> By: Asher Abrams http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2004/09/27/the-bush-voter/comment-page-1/#comment-687 Asher Abrams Tue, 28 Sep 2004 03:58:36 +0000 /?p=650#comment-687 that was me that was me

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