Yeah....I don't see Foley ignoring poor Ashton. I would be concerned if I had a wife like Demi that it was I getting all that male attention. You would think Bill could identify though with some of those "That 70s Show" shenanigans. 8)
context context context <t>all of this seems to get tossed aside whever we try to discuss America's middle east policy. We continue to devour ourselves while the body count rolls inn.<br/> <br/> While MCG seems to discount the Muslim Brotherhood, I would submit to you that perhaps its most famous/infamous (to Western cultures) product is a guy by the name of Ayman al-Zawahiri. If you don't know who he is, you need to be forever removed from Middle Eastern policy discussion in any forum.<br/> <br/> Also, people seem to forget all of the following events:<br/> <br/> -1992 Hotel bombings in Yemen. 3 hotels house American soldiers. The reason this isn't bigger news is that only NON-Americans were killed.<br/> <br/> -The arms sale, training and potential military involvement of Islamofascists (including AlQaeda) in the various African wars of the 90s (see Battle of Mogadishu for starters)<br/> <br/> -1993 World Trade Center bombings<br/> <br/> -Operation Bojienka-Most Bushie haters choose to forget all about this one. This was the 9/11 that never happened. This was the brain trust of Khalid Sheik Muhammed and Ramzi Yousef. This was the plot to blow up 11 airliners over the Pacific Ocean that was only foiled when an apartment fire in Manillla exposed what was going on inside that apartment. This led to the arrest of WTC Bomber Ramzi Yousef. Many experts believe that the lessons learned from the foiled plot, and the airline industries adjustments to the 'rumored pending attack' led to the final polishing on the Sept 11th plans.<br/> <br/> -The 1995 Pope Assasination Plan-The one where a bomber was to get next to Pope John Paul II during World Youth day in Makati City. This foiled assasination, as well as another series of foiled airline bombings were all part of "Phase I" of the above mentioned operation. That's right. Just phase I. There would have been more.<br/> <br/> -"Phase II" of their operation was foiled. It would have involved something you may have heard before. They were planning on hijacking an airliner and crashing it into the CIA headquarters. They had some back up targets in case the whole thing in Langley didn't work out. Their back up targets were places such as the Sears Towers, Transamerica Tower, the Capitol building, the Pentagon, the White House and the World Trade Center. Stop me if you've heard this before. The Phase II portion became very popular with some powerful folks in Al-Qaeda mostly because they didn't have to worry about their explosives going to hell while preparing for the operation. All they needed to pull this off was a few nutballs and some plane tickets.<br/> <br/> -The bombing of the Riyahd military facility in Saudi Arabia<br/> <br/> -Khobar Towers bombing in Africa<br/> <br/> -Embassy Bombing in Kenya<br/> <br/> -Embassy Bombing in Tanzania, this one and the bombing listed above killed over a combined 500 people and injured thousands<br/> <br/> -The foiled millenium bombing plot that spread from Los Angeles, to New York and all the way to Jordan..targeting Americans and Isrealis around the globe.<br/> <br/> -The failed bombing plot of the USS The Sullivans<br/> <br/> -The bombing of the USS Cole<br/> <br/> The failed bombing plot of the Strasbourg Cathedral<br/> <br/> -The Sept 11th attacks<br/> <br/> What do all of these attacks have in common (aside from being direct attacks on American lives), yup, that's right, all of them took place before the Americans invaded Iraq.<br/> <br/> You've got a long way to go to tell me that the world is a less safe place. The jihadis got the war they wanted, and they get to fight it right in their own back yard on a tempered (non-nuke) scale.<br/> <br/> We could always pack up and come back home. Then again, those same guys hiding in spider holes in the Iraqi desert now would be looking for something to do somewhere else. I wonder what they'd do?</t>
Corey, They would be so grateful for us leaving Iraq that they would come over here and stand at every street corner waiting to help little old ladies across the street. :shock: :roll: