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Why Do Terrorists Love To Strike Around Elections?
Slate Magazine ^
| Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008
| Daniel Benjamin
Posted on 10/22/2008 12:11:16 PM PDT by presidio9
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posted on
10/22/2008 12:11:18 PM PDT
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
Because it works..............
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posted on
10/22/2008 12:12:12 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(My wallet is made out of depleted you-owe-mium........)
To: presidio9
Because that’s where the little boys are?
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posted on
10/22/2008 12:12:52 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: presidio9
To: Red Badger
Because we only are worried about what our vice presidential nominee spent on clothes and what type of underwear our pres and ex nominee wear. Best tme to hit
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posted on
10/22/2008 12:17:02 PM PDT
by
GoCards
To: Red Badger
Except that it doesm’t work in America. If you play the DNC game, al Quaeda was trying to cow Spain and it worked. Bin Laden tried to cow us before each of the last two elections and we did exactly the opposite of what he wanted.
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posted on
10/22/2008 12:18:15 PM PDT
by
presidio9
(One day this economy is going to turn itself around, and the terrorists will still be there.)
To: presidio9
My suspicion would be that it allows them to virtually control the course of the administration. You either fight back and listen to all the pacifist girls whine, or you just take it and earn the contempt of the hawks. You can’t win when the enemy is really the media and public opinion.
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posted on
10/22/2008 12:18:21 PM PDT
by
JustRight
To: presidio9
I am waiting for the Osama endorsement, as in 2004. Trick or treat!
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posted on
10/22/2008 12:19:13 PM PDT
by
Genoa
To: presidio9
They aren’t very clever or attuned to American Politics. They would probably try it again and again. It worked in Spain, so it will eventually work here, or so they think..........
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posted on
10/22/2008 12:21:14 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(My wallet is made out of depleted you-owe-mium........)
To: presidio9
If Obama wins they will strike Israel, with a nuke if they can, and Barry will do nothing. It will “seem like the wrong thing to do”, but muslims around the world will rejoice knowing that BO has hobbled the protector of Israel. This is why Israel will likely strike Iran first, and it will be because we have left them no choice.
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posted on
10/22/2008 12:36:38 PM PDT
by
Camel Joe
(liberal=socialist=royalist/imperialist pawn=enemy of Freedom)
To: Camel Joe
It's actually worse than that: If Obama wins, it forces Israel’s hand. They will know that we won't take out Iran's nukes ourselves. They will also know that we will not respond in kind, should Iran launch an attack against Israel. If Obama wins, Israel is very likely to move to attack Iran before the Inauguration.
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posted on
10/22/2008 12:43:03 PM PDT
by
presidio9
(One day this economy is going to turn itself around, and the terrorists will still be there.)
To: presidio9
Let me shorten this article...’because they are stupid’
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posted on
10/22/2008 12:43:59 PM PDT
by
Fred
(The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nihilism)
To: presidio9
***If Obama wins, Israel is very likely to move to attack Iran before the Inauguration***
There’s the real elephant in the room.
If Obama wins, there will be a MAJOR blowup in the Mideast, maybe even all out war.
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posted on
10/22/2008 1:11:31 PM PDT
by
Mrs.Z
("...you're a Democrat. You're expected to complain and offer no solutions." Denny Crane)
To: Mrs.Z
and “W” gets ALL the BLAME...Every last bit of it all, for the entire administration of O
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posted on
10/22/2008 1:49:20 PM PDT
by
xhrist
("You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. " - C.S. Lewis)
To: xhrist
/sarcasm
in case it wasn't clear..
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posted on
10/22/2008 1:50:17 PM PDT
by
xhrist
("You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. " - C.S. Lewis)
To: Camel Joe
If Obama wins they will strike Israel, with a nuke if they can, and Barry will do nothing.You underestimate him. I think he will send Colin Powell to the UN to demand a harshly worded UN resolution. I'm sure the very thought of such a resolution will scare off Al Quaida. < / sarcasm >
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posted on
10/22/2008 2:00:30 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
To: presidio9
Obama has an 87% chance of winning the election?
Slate magazine apparently hasn’t seen the latest polls showing otherwise....
To: Vigilanteman
I hadn't considered that, perhaps they could get Edward Woodward to give Mr. Powell some lessons on stern tongue lashings as well.
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posted on
10/22/2008 3:04:39 PM PDT
by
Camel Joe
(liberal=socialist=royalist/imperialist pawn=enemy of Freedom)
To: Mrs.Z
Maybe Barry is the twelfth imam...
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posted on
10/22/2008 3:06:31 PM PDT
by
Camel Joe
(liberal=socialist=royalist/imperialist pawn=enemy of Freedom)
To: Camel Joe
***Maybe Barry is the twelfth imam...***
Isn’t that what “calypso Louie” Farahkan (sp) thinks he is?
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posted on
10/22/2008 3:14:10 PM PDT
by
Mrs.Z
("...you're a Democrat. You're expected to complain and offer no solutions." Denny Crane)
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