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   Magnaut said, about 1 month ago

   HE WON’T NOTICE FOLKS….THE CBO REPORT ON A DRAFT WHAT CROOKS

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   tpenna said, about 1 month ago

   The US is now the most admired nation in the world (http://tinyurl.com/yc6rg5d), up from number 7 last year. Surely that’s worth something.

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   HOWGOZIT said, about 1 month ago

   Yes tp–loved but no longer respected; worth diddlysquat.

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   deadheadzan said, about 1 month ago

   I disagree that we were respected under the Bush Administration. Feared, probably as bullies anywhere would be feared because of our powerful arsenal and the dimwits controlling it. Osama bin Ladin clapped his hands with glee, however, when the military attention turned from Afghanistan to Iraq. All that American blood and treasure sqaundered.

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   motivemagus said, about 1 month ago

   We were NOT, repeat NOT, respected under the Bush Administration. Bush was seen not only as ignorant of the world, but proudly ignorant of the world, blundering into wars he knew little about, and cared less – an arrogant ugly American. Which I guess was pretty accurate.
   I travel all over the world, and my colleagues – most of whom are very pro-American and indeed many went to school here – all sort of said the same thing after 2004, whether I was in Australia or Switzerland: “what happened that you elected him?”

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   churchillwasright said, about 1 month ago

   ZAN: ”Osama bin Laden clapped his hands with glee, however, when the military attention turned from Afghanistan to Iraq.”

   Pure revisionist claptrap.

   You must have forgotten the tapes of bin Laden and Zawahiri saying the war in Iraq was the “central front” in their battle.

   Here is how Ayman al Zawahiri described the war in Iraq in a letter to Abu Musab al Zarqawi, then al Qaeda’s chief terrorist in Iraq, in 2005:

   “I want to be the first to congratulate you for what God has blessed you with in terms of fighting battle in the heart of the Islamic world, which was formerly the field for major battles in Islam’s history, and what is now the place for the greatest battle of Islam in this era.”

   Zawahiri offered a program of action for Zarqawi, with several “incremental goals” to be achieved in four stages:

   “The first stage: Expel the Americans from Iraq. The second stage: Establish an Islamic authority or emirate, then develop it and support it until it achieves the level of a caliphate–over as much territory as you can to spread its power in Iraq, i.e., in Sunni areas, is in order to fill the void stemming from the departure of the Americans, immediately upon their exit and before un-Islamic forces attempt to fill this void, whether those whom the Americans will leave behind them, or those among the un-Islamic forces who will try to jump at taking power… . The third stage: Extend the jihad wave to the secular countries neighboring Iraq. The fourth stage: It may coincide with what came before: the clash with Israel, because Israel was established only to challenge any new Islamic entity.”

   I could write a book filled with quotes on how al Qaeda considered Iraqa their “central front”. Now that we have all but won there, al Qaeda has scurried like roaches to Afganastan and Pakistan to wreak havoc there.

   Of course I’m still waiting for Harry Reid to proclaim that the war in Afganistan is lost. Oh wait– there’s a Dem in the WH. Not going to happen.

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   believecommonsense said, about 1 month ago

   pure revisionist claptrap. Al Qaeda wasn’t even in Iraq until we invaded it after we screwed up and let him get away in Tora Bora.