Posted on 09/28/2006 8:40:02 AM PDT by ikez78
CAIRO, Egypt - The new leader of al-Qaida in Iraq said in an audio message posted on a Web site Thursday that more than 4,000 foreign insurgent fighters have been killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. It was believed to be the first major statement from insurgents in Iraq about their losses.
"The blood has been spilled in Iraq of more than 4,000 foreigners who came to fight," said the man, who identified himself as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir - also known as Abu Ayyub al-Masri - the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq. The voice could not be independently identified.
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I use our bug zapper a lot more since my friend told me.:)
>>So are the Iraqis too infantile or brown skinned to want freedom?<<
It is not the color of their skin. It is their culture.
Fact is, the American heritage that we have had drilled into our heads since kindergarten, coupled with our country's actual history and beginnings cause us to understand and value individual freedom and the strengths it brings to our society in general. It is based very stronly on Christianity, whether many want to admit it or not. And it has become our collective identity, although it is eroding. But it takes many generations for it to do so.
In places like Iraq, they too have been trained since childhood and also have a long heritage with which they identify. It is based on Islam. Islam teaches total obedience down to which foot with which you are to enter a room and where to point your head when you pray. You are controlled and cared for by others and, if you obey the rules, you are not responsible at all for what happens to you or your condition. Like a toddler lost in Disneyland without their parent, they don't want freedom. They want their mommy!
Individual freedom is a foreign concept to them. And as with the US, it will take multiple generations to remove that perceived identity. Democracy, or even the concept of a REAL constitutional republic will not be coming any time soon there.
Bush knows this.
Bush knows what exactly?
Check out Bush's speech from right after 911. He explicitly said this would take a LONG time.
True, more than that though.
They've been talking and planning to do that for a while now.
Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman is a blind Egyptian Muslim cleric who is currently serving a life sentence at the Federal Administrative Maximum Penitentiary hospital in Florence, Colorado.
(For what it's worth) I was reading an article a while ago where one of the guard at Super Max in Florence said that most of the inmate go insane after a couple of years there. You're pretty much cut off from all human contact.
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