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Gates: Baghdad Bombings May Show Insurgents’ Desperation
American Forces Press Service ^ | Gerry J. Gilmore

Posted on 02/02/2008 9:52:54 AM PST by SandRat

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To: Brilliant
They are Mohammedans.

““How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. ”Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.

Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytising faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science - the science against which it had vainly struggled - the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.”

Winston Churchill c. 1899

21 posted on 02/02/2008 11:02:50 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: RightWhale

The American Libs will over look it in the name of Peace and want to negotiate with the scum.


22 posted on 02/02/2008 11:05:15 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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Yeah well, I think Al-Qs desperation was tolerably obvious oh about the fall of 2001 at the latest.

This sort of spin is just too ridiculous for serious commentary...

23 posted on 02/02/2008 11:07:27 AM PST by JasonC
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To: SandRat

Obama said he wants to do that, exactly that. He’s clueless and hopeless.


24 posted on 02/02/2008 11:09:11 AM PST by RightWhale (oil--the world currency)
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Add just plain,.. what’s Carlos Mencia’s phrase????? OH! Yeah! DEE-te-DEE!


25 posted on 02/02/2008 11:10:57 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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