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Bo Derek Claims That If It Wasn't For Us that Al-Qaeda Would Be Part Of The Soviet Union
Fox News ^ | 8/30/04 | Misterrob

Posted on 08/30/2004 12:14:51 PM PDT by misterrob

Bo Derek was interviewed by Shep Smith of Fox News and said that she couldn't understand why Al-Qaeda is attacking us. If it wasn't for us they would have been part of the Soviet Union.

Smith managed to remain stone faced


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To: misterrob

Well, that isn't what your post said.
I only respond to what I read.
Post a transcript of the actual comments so I can view them in context.


101 posted on 08/30/2004 3:55:07 PM PDT by mabelkitty (Zealous Troll Hunter - and you know who you are - you've been warned.)
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To: misterrob
I am basing my comments on your version of what was said. Even with whatever gloss you put on the exchange, she comes out ahead.
102 posted on 08/30/2004 4:03:16 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: misterrob

10 ... is her IQ


103 posted on 08/30/2004 4:04:44 PM PDT by clamper1797 (This Vietnam Vet is NOT Fonda kerry)
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To: billorites
1. Q: What do you call a blonde with half a brain?
A: Gifted!

One of my old taglines:
A blonde walks into a bar....... 'ouch'!

104 posted on 08/30/2004 4:07:33 PM PDT by steveo (Member: Fathers Against Rude Television)
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To: misterrob

"Smith managed to remain stone faced"

Do you think this Republican backer in liberal Hollywood is wrong?


105 posted on 08/30/2004 5:35:10 PM PDT by Smartaleck
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To: sbelew

"I THINK she's saying that we are the reason that the Soviet Union fell apart,"

By God at least someone has a clue........LOL
Thanks


106 posted on 08/30/2004 5:42:06 PM PDT by Smartaleck
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To: Steel Wolf

"If it wasn't for the U.S., Afghanistan and many of the people who make up Al Qaida would be licking Soviet boot."


ta dah!!!!!!!!!!


107 posted on 08/30/2004 5:43:29 PM PDT by Smartaleck
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To: misterrob

the Rushkies knew Al-Qaeda was Bad News 25 years ago.


108 posted on 08/30/2004 5:45:19 PM PDT by pete anderson
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To: misterrob

Shep's still processing information from today's "G Block".


109 posted on 08/30/2004 5:46:02 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
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To: misterrob
"she really didn't appear to know too much about the subject matter."

Me thinks she knows a hell of a lot more than some of the people that have replied to your post.

While her assertion may be debatable on some esoteric level, and one my debate the gratitude of terrorist, she's fundalmentally correct.

She's exposed a lot of airheads, blonde or otherwise.
110 posted on 08/30/2004 5:49:21 PM PDT by Smartaleck
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To: Smartaleck

"she really didn't appear to know too much about the subject matter."
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note to self re-read before posting.

Me thinks she knows a hell of a lot more than some of the people that have replied to your post.

While her assertion may be debatable on some esoteric level, and one might be the debate of gratitude the terrorist might have, she's fundalmentally correct.

She's exposed a lot of airheads, blonde or otherwise.


111 posted on 08/30/2004 5:53:09 PM PDT by Smartaleck
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To: misterrob

This is a point that needs discussion. We've heard how members of Al Qaeda fought against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Well, I don't believe it. As for the Taliban, they got a reputation for anti-Communism very cheaply, by hanging the former dictator Najibullah - of course, only after it was perfectly safe to do it.
The point is this: it's perfectly true that if America had not taken a stand (led by Ronald Reagan), the Soviet Union would still be riding high and in control of Afghanistan (and probably much else). What I doubt is that Osama bin Laden and his associates were opposed to that outcome.


112 posted on 08/30/2004 6:53:29 PM PDT by Christopher Lincoln
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To: Christopher Lincoln
The point that I was making was that we had a hollywood persona making comments about history/current events that were not really all that accurate. Yes, if she had said Muslims or Arabs then I could see her point but to say Al-Qaeda should be grateful to us was a bit much.
113 posted on 08/30/2004 8:06:15 PM PDT by misterrob
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To: pete anderson
the Rushkies knew Al-Qaeda was Bad News 25 years ago.

I don't think so. Osama was still in Saudi back then, counting Daddy's money.

Osama didn't show up until 1981 or 1982, and his logistical and financial network wasn't renamed "Al Q'aeda" until years later. He wasn't even the Numero Uno in that org until his mentor -- an Egyptian, I think -- got smeared by the Russians.

I'd like to know someday how much CIA mentoring went into the logistical framework of Al Q'aeda. I guess those files are long since toast. But nobody on this planet organizes like Americans do -- I was told that by a former Luftwaffe flyer who was my high-school German teacher -- and I smell American organizational genius behind Al Q'aeda, back when it was supposed to be a backbone for mujahedin fighting the Sovs.

Of course, back then it was in a good cause, so I don't mean this as a criticism of the CIA, but Bo's point that the people we taught are surly ingrates, shouldn't be lost. They turned on us just because we aren't Moslems. We sent people to Arabia to keep Saddam out of the Persian Gulf oil fields and kick his army out of Kuwait, and Osama and his fellow-believers instantly got their underwear in a wad -- or at least they said they did, in order to challenge the House of Saud for the custodianship of the shrines of Islam.

Takes a special kind of person to wage a worldwide campaign of death and destruction on people who have helped him mightily in the past, over a particularistic religious beef, doesn't it?

Bo knows.

114 posted on 09/05/2004 5:59:35 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: misterrob
Yes, if she had said Muslims or Arabs then I could see her point but to say Al-Qaeda should be grateful to us was a bit much.

No, it isn't.

We helped them a great deal in convincing the Sovs to withdraw from Afghanistan. We kicked Saddam out of Kuwait, and then we knocked over his brutish regime. We didn't wage "war on Islam" or anything like it. We have done them a couple of fat favors -- yeah, sure, it was in our own interest too, but does anyone here think for 20 seconds that they'd have succeeded on their own? -- and they have rewarded us with violence, vitriol, hatred, and death.

Bo got it. You're just irked she didn't drop by an AAU-listed university for a degree you respect, before she ventured an invited opinion.

115 posted on 09/05/2004 6:06:48 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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