Comments on: George Bush: al Qaida’s best friend http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/10/18/george-bush-al-qaidas-best-friend/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:52:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: grumpypilgrim http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/10/18/george-bush-al-qaidas-best-friend/#comment-14761 grumpypilgrim Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:56:29 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1706#comment-14761 In still more of the chaotic (read: "beneficial to al Qaida") results of Bush's unnecessary invasion of Iraq, Turkey is now moving troops and heavy equipment toward its Iraq border, while Bush neo-cons are saying that Pakistan is now al Qaida's home base. And, of course, they're also now blaming Iran for the insurgent violence in Iraq. Maybe it's a good thing Bush has his military bogged down in Iraq; otherwise, he might be sending them into Iran, Pakistan, eastern Turkey and God knows where else. In still more of the chaotic (read: “beneficial to al Qaida”) results of Bush’s unnecessary invasion of Iraq, Turkey is now moving troops and heavy equipment toward its Iraq border, while Bush neo-cons are saying that Pakistan is now al Qaida’s home base. And, of course, they’re also now blaming Iran for the insurgent violence in Iraq.

Maybe it’s a good thing Bush has his military bogged down in Iraq; otherwise, he might be sending them into Iran, Pakistan, eastern Turkey and God knows where else.

]]> By: Erich Vieth http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/10/18/george-bush-al-qaidas-best-friend/#comment-14737 Erich Vieth Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:34:43 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1706#comment-14737 We are happy to injure ourselves in ways that would outrage us if perpetrated by others. This applies to injuries we inflict on our own bodies and to collective injuries such as does described in this post. Yes, it wasn't al queda that squandered our national budget or killed 3,000 of our soldiers, or spied on Americans or corrupted our phone companies to spy on Americans. <a href="http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=298" target="_blank">The list could go on and on.</a>  For a musical rendition of Republican corruption, <a href="http://txsharon.blogspot.com/2007/08/corruption-in-government-comprehensive.html " target="_blank">see here. </a> We are happy to injure ourselves in ways that would outrage us if perpetrated by others. This applies to injuries we inflict on our own bodies and to collective injuries such as does described in this post. Yes, it wasn’t al queda that squandered our national budget or killed 3,000 of our soldiers, or spied on Americans or corrupted our phone companies to spy on Americans. The list could go on and on.  For a musical rendition of Republican corruption, see here.

]]> By: Niklaus Pfirsig http://dangerousintersection.org/2007/10/18/george-bush-al-qaidas-best-friend/#comment-14732 Niklaus Pfirsig Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:21:57 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1706#comment-14732 Actually, according to the state department, in a list of "significant" terrorist attacks that goes up through 2003, there has been at least one significant terrorist attack. The antrax letters. http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/pubs/fs/5902.htm The lists doesn't include any of the last four years, It also doesn't include the Columbine killings, the Beltway sniper, the unibomber, and many more. Actually, according to the state department, in a list of “significant” terrorist attacks that goes up through 2003, there has been at least one significant terrorist attack. The antrax letters.

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/pubs/fs/5902.htm

The lists doesn’t include any of the last four years, It also doesn’t include the Columbine killings, the Beltway sniper, the unibomber, and many more.

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