Posted on 12/21/2004 8:55:15 AM PST by repinwi
With what france, germany and spain is trying to do, it may well be US-Japan-Taiwan vs. China-EU.
Again.. you just lumped everyone together.
Did the American people not elect President Clinton?
Did the American people not elect President Carter?
Need I go on?
If there is no sale.. it's because you refuse to see the truth.
"Europeans are inadvertently funding the insurgency by paying ransoms. "
Inadvertantly??? Maybe some of the "other" Euro countries are "inadvertantly" funding, but you can bet your sweet as*, that France is NOT. They are/willbe/have/always been OVERTLY funding these THUGS!
And, that's what they are...THUGS! This is no more an "insurgency" than the Crips and Bloods killing each other everyday in L.A. Demanding ransom, shows their true colors...they are nothing but common as* criminals...nothing more, nothing less! Period!
They are a bunch of "Sunni Tribesman", who know and have known since we invaded, that their "days are numbered". They are grasping at straws, and hanging on by their finger nails all while trying to derail the democratic election process. They KNOW, when the elections happen and they are "out", that they'll be HISTORY! The Shiites will use there new found power to string their criminal arses up on high, and for good reason!
"did you noticed any shrinking of fundamentalism in iraq lately?"
No, but we have noticed that we have not been attacked since we went on the offensive.
"you've got to realize that you can't fight a phantom like "terrorism" by invading some countries. it didn't worked in vietnam and it won't work in iraq either.
if you want to fight terrorism, you've got to fight the root of it: poverty. rich men don't blow themselves up."
Mohammad Atta, the lead attacker on 9/11 was rich. He blew himself up and he was not poor.
"why is bin laden able to convince his fighters?" because they're full of hate? because of their religion? i don't think so. i know many people hating the us government, just as is know many islamic people. but they aren't terrorists."
If this was solely a rich/poor issue, then why did Patty Hearst join the simbianese army and fight against the way of life that she was brought up under?
If this is simply rich/poor, then why is it we have millions of Mexicans coming over our borders yearly and they do not attack us the way Al Quaida has repeatedly attacked us? Why have all the asians that have come here, some smuggled themselves here and many starved to death before they got here, yet they are not blowing themselves up after they get here.
All the examples that I have given and many more are some of the poorest from around the world and none of them have blown themselves up trying to kill us.
This is a terribly politically incorrect question, but Why do the Frogs always survive these things? No one else seems to....
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