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Osama and Saddam (Hit piece on Bush)
Newsweek ^ | 7/29/05 | Richard Wolffe and Holly Bailey

Posted on 07/28/2005 3:29:20 PM PDT by bitt

June 29 - Just in case anyone was reaching for the remote, President George W. Bush hit his keynote as early as he could while still being polite. After thanking the troops at Fort Bragg, N.C., on Tuesday night, the first two lines of his speech were blindingly simple. “The troops here and across the world are fighting a global war on terror,” he said. “The war reached our shores on September the 11th, 2001.”

In other words: forget about the Downing Street memos and Colin Powell’s now discredited speech at the United Nations. This is one war, against one enemy, making Iraq simply a continuation of the hunt for Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. Or, as Bush put it, “Iraq is the latest battlefield in this war.” He might as well have stood in front of a picture of the Twin Towers.

It’s easy to see why this approach is so attractive to the White House. The president’s response to 9/11 remains a potent memory in public opinion. So potent that it still drives the only positive numbers in the president’s performance ratings. Bush has disapproval ratings of more than 50 percent on the economy, energy and health care, according to the latest Gallup poll. On Iraq, 58 percent disapprove of his handling of the war. But on terrorism, the president has maintained the support of the people: 55 percent approve of his performance.

There are only three major problems with Bush’s latest attempt to tie Iraq to 9/11. One is political, another personal, yet another is practical.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
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Get mad, folks and give Newsweak a call...this whole issue on line is dusturbing in it's obvious slanted 'reporting' and commentary, and besides slitting their own throats for readership, they continue to obstruct and interfere with the progress of the war.

Shameful and nearly unlawful.

1 posted on 07/28/2005 3:29:21 PM PDT by bitt
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To: CHARLITE; Blurblogger; neverdem; Tolik; Smartass; Chieftain; Happy2BMe; ken5050; Enterprise; ...

ping-able


2 posted on 07/28/2005 3:31:22 PM PDT by bitt ('We will all soon reap what the ignorant are now sowing.' Victor Davis Hanson)
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To: bitt

Not gonna bother. It doesn't look like anyone is reading Newsweak anyhow.


3 posted on 07/28/2005 3:35:34 PM PDT by whershey
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To: bitt

These idiots put a great many people in danger with their foolish "Koran in the toilet" story, which was irresponsible and wrong. They are not qualified to comment any further.

Regards, Ivan


4 posted on 07/28/2005 3:36:59 PM PDT by MadIvan (You underestimate the power of the Dark Side - http://www.sithorder.com/)
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To: MadIvan

5 posted on 07/28/2005 3:42:59 PM PDT by andyandval (Try flushing a book down the toilet....get back to me on how you did)
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To: bitt

Newsweak morons continue to work like termites to undermine the USA. Everything in this article is 'spun' to create a negative impression upon the reader. These scumbags are not Americans, no matter how much they may protest otherwise - they are allies of the Islamo-fascists.


6 posted on 07/28/2005 3:43:40 PM PDT by Enchante (Kerry's mere nuisances: Marine Barracks '83, WTC '93, Khobar Towers, Embassy Bombs '98, USS Cole!!!)
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To: bitt

Connect the dots Saddam and Bin Laden.....

http://www.archive-news.net/Articles/SH040923.html
http://www.archive-news.net/Articles/SH040923.pdf




God I luv internet archives...........

http://tinyurl.com/ctl8s

Iraq Tempts Bin Laden To Attack West

The Herald
By Ian Bruce
December 28, 1999

The world's most wanted man, Osama bin Laden, has been offered sanctuary in
Iraq if his worldwide terrorist network succeeds in carrying out a campaign of
high-profile attacks on the West over the next few weeks.

Intelligence sources say the Saudi dissident believed responsible for the
bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and a US military
barracks in Saudi Arabia in 1998, is running out of options for a safe haven.

He is now thought to have overcome his initial rejection of Saddam Hussein,
whom he regarded as an exploiter of the Islamic cause rather than a true
believer, and is considering the offer of a bolt-hole from which he can
continue to mastermind terrorism on a global scale.

A US counter-terrorist source said yesterday: "Our State Department issued a
worldwide warning on December 11. We have solid information that many of the
groups operating under bin Laden's patronage are planning 'spectaculars' to
coincide with the period leading up to and through the millennium
celebrations.

"They want to inflict maximum loss of life in return for publicity. Now we are
also facing the prospect of an unholy alliance between bin Laden and Saddam.
The implications are terrifying.

"We might be looking at the most wanted man on the FBI's target list gaining
access to chemical, biological or even nuclear weapons courtesy of Iraq's
clandestine research programmes."

The US intelligence community has been squeezing bin Laden's finances steadily
for several years. His personal fortune of anything up to £500m has been
whittled down to single figures, although funds continue to flow into the
coffers of his Al Qaeda - Arabic for "The Base" - organisation from wealthy
individuals in the Middle East.

These include members of the Saudi royal family opposed to American
involvement in the region and rich businessmen in the Gulf States hoping to
buy themselves immunity if bin Laden's Islamic revolution ever manages to
overthrow their governments.

But the bulk of his income comes from acting as middleman and fixer for the
Afghan opium producers. According to the United Nations, Afghanistan supplies
75% of the world's opium and its heroin derivatives in a narcotics' trade
worth an estimated £4bn to £6bn a year.

The Taleban religious fanatics who control 85% of Afghanistan need the cash to
fund their never-ending civil wars. They gave bin Laden refuge because he had
connections with the Chechen and Russian mafias and their access to
money-laundering in the West.

According to Middle Eastern intelligence sources, bin Laden rakes off anything
up to £500m a year from his pivotal role in the drugs' trade. It is more than
enough to underwrite the cost of mujahideen training camps in Afghanistan,
Pakistan and Sudan and the provision of weapons for bin Laden's personal war
against the US and its allies.

Up to 20 Islamic extremist groups operate under the loose control of Al Qaeda.

They include Algeria's GSPC, responsible for the casual murder of civilians in
the country's Kabylie region, and a network for recruiting Muslim volunteers
to fight in the Balkans and Chechnya.

Al Qaeda's tentacles spread across Europe and the Middle East, including the
United Kingdom. Up to 2000 young Muslims a year were enlisted in Britain
between 1995 and 1998 to fight militant Islam's cause.

They received basic survival and unarmed combat training in Britain, and were
then flown to various camps in Yemen, Pakistan, and Afghanistan to be
instructed in the use of firearms and explosives. A few were involved in
combat in the latter stages of the Bosnian conflict.

The spread of bin Laden's influence has spawned some strange alliances.

Israel's Mossad agency is currently helping the Russians identify known
fundamentalist militants in Chechnya. British, Italian and US agents
reportedly co-operated with Slobodan Milosevic's regime to root out veterans
of the 1979-89 Afghan-Russia war while they were themselves on opposite sides
in Bosnia.

The Americans have also resorted to hi-tech destabilisation. Various agencies
inserted "sniffer" software programmes into the banking systems of Europe and
the Middle East from the mid-1990s onwards.

These were targeted on known or suspected accounts for bin Laden's front men
in Holland, Britain, Switzerland, Italy, the US and the Caribbean.

When large amounts of cash were moved around, the programmes flagged up the
transactions. Computer experts then transferred or deleted the cash
electronically to starve Al Qaeda of funding.

Bin Laden has almost outstayed his welcome in Afghanistan. Despite the
Taleban's public declaration of protection for a "guest", the regime is
suffering from international sanctions as long as it harbours him.

The Americans have a continually updated plan for a special forces' team to
snatch him from his mountain lair in the Hindu Kush.

But they look back to a Soviet raid in the same area in April, 1986, when
three battalions of elite Spetznaz commandos went in after a local Afghan
commander. Few came back.

Bin Laden is understood to have selected Yemen, his father's birthplace, as a
first alternative. But the Yemenis could not protect him from the wrath of the
West or Saudi Arabia. Chechnya was his second choice, but the province is
being ground under Russia's military jackboot.

That leaves Iraq, and the potential for an alliance which would be everyone
else's nightmare.


7 posted on 07/28/2005 3:43:49 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: Names Ash Housewares

Well, obviously Clinton was President then...


8 posted on 07/28/2005 3:51:56 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: bitt

bump


9 posted on 07/28/2005 3:52:04 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Islam is not a religion, but rather a means of world conquest" - ALAN BURKHART.COM)
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To: bitt
Thanks, bitt. This is disgraceful, and all the more so, because it is too obvious that these liberals in the anti-Bush spin machine know the "truth of the matter." If their Arkancide boy and his ruthless wife were in the White House, and IF (theoretical only) they had launched the exact same war on terror as has our president, this same bunch of "journalists" (rag meisters) would be singing the Arkies' praises.

Good post, bitt. We should watch what is being written out there in LoonyVille.

Char :)


10 posted on 07/28/2005 3:55:02 PM PDT by CHARLITE (I propose a co-Clinton team as permanent reps to Pyonyang, w/out possibility of repatriation....)
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To: bitt

""In other words: forget about the Downing Street memos and Colin Powell’s now discredited speech at the United Nations. ""

How about this: In other words: forget about nick berg, 3000 human beings slaughtered on 11 Sept, decades of terrorist attacks against Americans, hundreds of thousands of muslims slaughtered at the hands of the dictators hussein, mutant medieval thugs, and on and on and on.........
Newspeak can go to hell - useless rag.......


11 posted on 07/28/2005 4:01:05 PM PDT by InsureAmerica (the only free cheese is in a mousetrap)
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To: bitt

I had a lefty friend who had a 'taking the center of the board' chess analogy for why he thought we went in Iraq. I didn't get it at first. Upon further reflection, he may be right. What better place to concentrate both our efforts and their efforts in this global confrontation? Analogous to Bush's "Taking the war to them" speach...Didn't Sun Tzu say something about if you know you have to fight the next most important things to decide are when and where to fight?


12 posted on 07/28/2005 4:01:43 PM PDT by Lone Red Ranger (What's right is more important than who's right. Glad we're Right.)
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To: CHARLITE

Newsweak still publishes 51 issues too many each year.


13 posted on 07/28/2005 4:12:21 PM PDT by SmithL (There are a lot of people that hate Bush more than they hate terrorists)
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To: Names Ash Housewares

nice work.

Clintoon and his 'advisors' left us open to terrorism, and that's that. Most Americans wish that the leftys and the MSM would just shut up and do something helpful.

I only see these rags (Time, Newsweak) in offices now, and if emplooyees would make a stink about the ludictous costs and bias, maybe the bosses would send back a statement saying "Cancelled due to disinterest in your agendae".


14 posted on 07/28/2005 4:17:59 PM PDT by bitt ('We will all soon reap what the ignorant are now sowing.' Victor Davis Hanson)
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To: bitt

Bunch of losers won't drop the propaganda.


15 posted on 07/28/2005 4:21:42 PM PDT by satchmodog9 (Murder and weather are our only news)
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To: bitt

Pathetic.


16 posted on 07/28/2005 4:22:12 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: bitt
We will continue to hear this mantra over and over. The objective of Newsweek and evry other neocommunist you hear spouting it has little to do with Bush. The whole purpose is to divert attention from Willie's connection with OBL, Saddam, Iraqi oil money and thei frequent pre-9/11 contacts.

To prove Willie's involvement (that's the evidence Berger was destroying) is to implicate Hillie. The leftists back Hillie and must block/hide anything that might hurt her chances with the normal voters (the dem voters are too stupid to decide for themselves). Attacking W draws attention from Willie. That is one reason that an honest investigation of UN corruption is so important. If Volker dug deep enough, he'd find Willie (or his pardon buying surrogates) at the same trough as the UN thieves.

17 posted on 07/28/2005 4:22:41 PM PDT by Tacis ("Democrats - The Party of Traitors, Treachery and Treason!")
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Mark Rich, etc?

I agree with you...why the investigation is taking so long, tho, is beyond me..

we all could have completed this in say, 90 days...


18 posted on 07/28/2005 4:56:59 PM PDT by bitt ('We will all soon reap what the ignorant are now sowing.' Victor Davis Hanson)
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To: bitt

Can the two numbnuts who wrote this piece mischaracterize reality and history any more?

I mean really.


19 posted on 07/28/2005 5:09:43 PM PDT by nuffsenuff
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To: bitt
Richard Wolffe and Holly Bailey

Worthless a-holes...I already have one.

FMCDH(BITS)

20 posted on 07/28/2005 5:52:46 PM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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