Comments on: Riding in on a high horse http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/19/riding-in-on-a-high-horse/ Wed, 9 Jul 2008 07:38:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Jon http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/19/riding-in-on-a-high-horse/#comment-145417 Jon Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:56:43 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/19/riding-in-on-a-high-horse/#comment-145417 Al Qaeda fights for the Caliphate it might be near impossible for them to get it but that is why they fight. Al Qaeda will keep fighting as long as the US has diplomatic and trade relations with nations Al Qaeda doesn't approve and votes at the UN in ways that Al Qaeda doesn’t approve of. Appeasement didn’t work in world war II and it won’t work with Al Qaeda Al Qaeda fights for the Caliphate it might be near impossible for them to get it but that is why they fight. Al Qaeda will keep fighting as long as the US has diplomatic and trade relations with nations Al Qaeda doesn’t approve and votes at the UN in ways that Al Qaeda doesn’t approve of.

Appeasement didn’t work in world war II and it won’t work with Al Qaeda

]]> By: Jon http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/19/riding-in-on-a-high-horse/#comment-145413 Jon Mon, 24 Mar 2008 04:47:49 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/19/riding-in-on-a-high-horse/#comment-145413 Al Qaeda fights for the Caliphate it might be near impossible for them to get it but that is why they fight. Al Qaeda will keep fighting as long as the US has diplomatic and trade relations and votes at the UN in ways that Al Qaeda doesn't approve of. Appeasement didn't work in world war II and it won't work with Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda fights for the Caliphate it might be near impossible for them to get it but that is why they fight. Al Qaeda will keep fighting as long as the US has diplomatic and trade relations and votes at the UN in ways that Al Qaeda doesn’t approve of.

Appeasement didn’t work in world war II and it won’t work with Al Qaeda.

]]> By: 8Ball http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/19/riding-in-on-a-high-horse/#comment-145129 8Ball Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:41:51 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/19/riding-in-on-a-high-horse/#comment-145129 correction: The first "fellow" was actually a woman... Francoise Ducros. A woman's intuition made the correct call. correction: The first “fellow” was actually a woman… Francoise Ducros. A woman’s intuition made the correct call.

]]> By: 8Ball http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/19/riding-in-on-a-high-horse/#comment-145106 8Ball Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:33:17 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/19/riding-in-on-a-high-horse/#comment-145106 <a href="http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/240366/all" rel="nofollow">This fellow</a> had Bush figured out a long time ago. And <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/22/AR2008032201020_pf.html" rel="nofollow">this fellow</a> shares his experiences in working with the US government during the run-up to operation "Iraqi Freedom". If you want irony, the essence of the Bush presidency and US foreign policy could be distilled from that one name. A New England preppie relocates to Texas (excepting a brief period during the Vietnam war)and pretends to be a cowboy. He proceeds to the governorship and then moves on to the the US Presidency. His father's PR machine and friends in the media are largely responsible for most of this. Americans should have paid attention to that Canadian fellow... This fellow had Bush figured out a long time ago. And this fellow shares his experiences in working with the US government during the run-up to operation “Iraqi Freedom”.

If you want irony, the essence of the Bush presidency and US foreign policy could be distilled from that one name.

A New England preppie relocates to Texas (excepting a brief period during the Vietnam war)and pretends to be a cowboy. He proceeds to the governorship and then moves on to the the US Presidency. His father’s PR machine and friends in the media are largely responsible for most of this. Americans should have paid attention to that Canadian fellow…

]]> By: george in Toronto http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/19/riding-in-on-a-high-horse/#comment-145054 george in Toronto Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:28:51 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/19/riding-in-on-a-high-horse/#comment-145054 Did you all this on Newsweek ? Seems the media is turning the corner towards truth telling but as always at the end of the column and Bush regime "Perhaps most revealing of all was a tape of Saddam's conversations with his ministers after the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993—a plot linked to a group of Islamic radicals, one of whom, Abdul Rahman Yasin, was an Iraqi-American who fled to Baghdad after the attack. For years Bush administration officials like Cheney and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz charged that Iraq had given "sanctuary" to Yasin, suggesting that the regime may have been complicit in the 1993 bombing. But the newly discovered tape shows that Saddam and his ministers were puzzled by the bombing and wondered whether the "Zionists" or U.S. intelligence were secretly behind it. They also were deeply suspicious of Yasin, whom the Iraqis had in custody and were interrogating. Yasin, Saddam says on the tape, is "too organized in what he is saying and is playing games." The Pentagon researcher said the exchange shows how "paranoid and suspicious" the Iraqis were about their adversaries. They may not have been alone. Did you all this on Newsweek ? Seems the media is turning the corner towards truth telling but as always at the end of the column and Bush regime
“Perhaps most revealing of all was a tape of Saddam’s conversations with his ministers after the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993—a plot linked to a group of Islamic radicals, one of whom, Abdul Rahman Yasin, was an Iraqi-American who fled to Baghdad after the attack. For years Bush administration officials like Cheney and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz charged that Iraq had given “sanctuary” to Yasin, suggesting that the regime may have been complicit in the 1993 bombing. But the newly discovered tape shows that Saddam and his ministers were puzzled by the bombing and wondered whether the “Zionists” or U.S. intelligence were secretly behind it. They also were deeply suspicious of Yasin, whom the Iraqis had in custody and were interrogating. Yasin, Saddam says on the tape, is “too organized in what he is saying and is playing games.” The Pentagon researcher said the exchange shows how “paranoid and suspicious” the Iraqis were about their adversaries. They may not have been alone.

]]> By: Kenneth http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/19/riding-in-on-a-high-horse/#comment-144856 Kenneth Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:21:13 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/19/riding-in-on-a-high-horse/#comment-144856 <i>The aged, paranoid freaks, who run our so-called government are so afraid of any other culture or faction that poses a threat to their global dominance that they are willing to ruin the country and the world in order to prevent whoever or whatever from cutting into their “action”.</i> Thereby expediting the process whereby competing imperialist powers like China and the EU gain ascendancy and ensuring their own decline. The irony- it kills, it kills! The aged, paranoid freaks, who run our so-called government are so afraid of any other culture or faction that poses a threat to their global dominance that they are willing to ruin the country and the world in order to prevent whoever or whatever from cutting into their “action”.

Thereby expediting the process whereby competing imperialist powers like China and the EU gain ascendancy and ensuring their own decline. The irony- it kills, it kills!

]]> By: Andy http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/19/riding-in-on-a-high-horse/#comment-144821 Andy Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:46:48 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/19/riding-in-on-a-high-horse/#comment-144821 George Bush. Making Americans safe. One unneccesarry war at a time. George Bush. Making Americans safe. One unneccesarry war at a time.

]]> By: Glendon Wayne http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/19/riding-in-on-a-high-horse/#comment-144702 Glendon Wayne Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:20:43 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/19/riding-in-on-a-high-horse/#comment-144702 Color code the empire red Full spectrum stupidity is just ahead Don't threat about pi or what's left of the pie Read them ''My Pet Goat' instead Color code the empire red
Full spectrum stupidity is just ahead
Don’t threat about pi
or what’s left of the pie
Read them ”My Pet Goat’ instead

]]> By: 8Ball http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/19/riding-in-on-a-high-horse/#comment-144114 8Ball Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:41:07 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/19/riding-in-on-a-high-horse/#comment-144114 US Über Alles! That is all you need to know to understand the basis of American foreign policy. The aged, paranoid freaks, who run our so-called government are so afraid of any other culture or faction that poses a threat to their global dominance that they are willing to ruin the country and the world in order to prevent whoever or whatever from cutting into their "action". Regardless, they have set the country on a course that will be hard if not impossible to reverse. The handwriting is on the wall and it is just a matter of time and choice as to whether we go out kicking & screaming or with a bump & whimper... My bet is that the idiot-in-chief, whoever it may be, will choose door #1. America's "leaders" have no interest in <i>"getting along"</i> with the rest of the world on a quid pro quo basis, their only desire is to dominate and to exploit whoever and whatever. Understand this and you will understand US foreign policy. Try to imagine what things would be like if Bush had decided (as if he actually <i>"decides"</i> anything!) to spend $3T on America instead of pissing it into the sands of Iraq, imagine... US Über Alles! That is all you need to know to understand the basis of American foreign policy. The aged, paranoid freaks, who run our so-called government are so afraid of any other culture or faction that poses a threat to their global dominance that they are willing to ruin the country and the world in order to prevent whoever or whatever from cutting into their “action”.

Regardless, they have set the country on a course that will be hard if not impossible to reverse. The handwriting is on the wall and it is just a matter of time and choice as to whether we go out kicking & screaming or with a bump & whimper… My bet is that the idiot-in-chief, whoever it may be, will choose door #1.

America’s “leaders” have no interest in “getting along” with the rest of the world on a quid pro quo basis, their only desire is to dominate and to exploit whoever and whatever. Understand this and you will understand US foreign policy. Try to imagine what things would be like if Bush had decided (as if he actually “decides” anything!) to spend $3T on America instead of pissing it into the sands of Iraq, imagine…

]]> By: Brad http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/19/riding-in-on-a-high-horse/#comment-143952 Brad Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:50:55 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/19/riding-in-on-a-high-horse/#comment-143952 Show how you feel. I have an anti-Iraq war sticker and some other right leaning stickers. www.goodoleboybumperstickers.com Show how you feel. I have an anti-Iraq war sticker and some other right leaning stickers. http://www.goodoleboybumperstickers.com

]]> By: DJ http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/19/riding-in-on-a-high-horse/#comment-143814 DJ Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:43:48 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/19/riding-in-on-a-high-horse/#comment-143814 People tend to forget that eight years had lapsed between the first attack on the World Trade Center and the second fatal one. These guys tend to bide their time until it's ripe, thoroughly planned, and funded. Just because nothing major has occured within the US since 9/11 doesn't mean a damn thing regarding the 'effectiveness' of Bush's security strategy...if there is a strategy. People tend to forget that eight years had lapsed between the first attack on the World Trade Center and the second fatal one. These guys tend to bide their time until it’s ripe, thoroughly planned, and funded. Just because nothing major has occured within the US since 9/11 doesn’t mean a damn thing regarding the ‘effectiveness’ of Bush’s security strategy…if there is a strategy.

]]> By: Game Cat http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/19/riding-in-on-a-high-horse/#comment-143597 Game Cat Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:04:16 +0000 http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/03/19/riding-in-on-a-high-horse/#comment-143597 I do think that technically Mr Laden cannot issue a "Fatwa" as he is not widely consider a scholar of Islamic Law. Or is he? I do think that technically Mr Laden cannot issue a “Fatwa” as he is not widely consider a scholar of Islamic Law. Or is he?

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