Posted on 12/11/2006 7:15:30 AM PST by PurpleMan
The dialogue went like this:
Al Qaeda is what, I asked, Sunni or Shia? “Al Qaeda, they have both,” Reyes said. “You’re talking about predominately?” “Sure,” I said, not knowing what else to say. “Predominantly — probably Shiite,” he ventured. He couldn’t have been more wrong.
Al Qaeda is profoundly Sunni. If a Shiite showed up at an al Qaeda club house, they’d slice off his head and use it for a soccer ball.
That’s because the extremist Sunnis who make up al Qaeda consider all Shiites to be heretics.
(Excerpt) Read more at public.cq.com ...
So we need the Sunnis on our side to help fight Iran
And Al Qaeda is Sunni
So we need The Shiites on our side to help fight Al Qaeda
And Iran is harboring and helping Al Qaeda
So....I think my head just exploded
Oh but the Dims know what they are doing...remember Folks, they ran on NO AGENDA!!...Why would anyone even think Democrate are not tuned in on terrorism?? The first thing they did was fire one of the best tried and true guys in the country who was cut off at the knees from day one, Donald Rumsfeld!!
Congressman Sgt. Silvestre Reyes would do well to hire himself a tutor on the fractious tribes in Iraq as well as all in the Arab world. That should be a prerequisite for all members on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Why do they send good men to do jobs with no background or knowledge about what they are doing?
"Why do they send good men to do jobs with no background or knowledge about what they are doing? "
Better... What is a congressman arrogantly and ingrantly answering quwtions he does NOT know the answer to. (apologies for ending in a preposition)
For the incoming chairman not to know this stuff. Well.
I remember when candidate Bush could not go through a litany of heads of state for some smart aleck Boston reporter...this Democrat won't get the same treatment from the broadcasters. He'll be lionized.
Democrats are bleak.
Regards, Ivan
Smartest man Nancy knows!
**Rep. Silvestre Reyes**
In a way this is frightening, but in a way it is good.
Unelect the dimocrats in 2008!
BTW, it's Pelosi'fault!!!!!!!!
Any chance Carl Levin could sit in on this meeting?
ping to read during lunch
It will probably come crashing through his window, shortly after being hijacked.
You might find this of interest, too. I doubt the Congressman cares.
Aceh wary over new Sharia police
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6220256.stm
Reyes has been a sitting member of the Intelligence Committee for the past five years, has he not?
This report seems to constitute ample evidence that he hasn't been paying attention. At all. Why should he start now?
It's republicans and democrats alike. I'd be willing to bet that most of the people in congress would be unable to answer most of those questions.
"I'd be willing to bet that most of the people in congress would be unable to answer most of those questions."
This issue that HE was unable to tell the difference. Not every one of the 435 reps are going to be Head of the House Intelligence Committee.
And you're right, the head of the intelligence committee is criminal if he doesn't know the difference between Shiia and Sunni.
It's not just them, though. The Republicans also appear clueless in this regard.
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