HUGE Explosion, UN Building, Baghdad (All US Senators safe)

ABC Radio, WLS-AM, Chicago ^ | 08/19/03 | GRRRRR

[GRRRRR]

WLS-AM & ABC News, just A LARGE explosion just reported at the UN Building in Baghdad...perhaps 500lb bomb or more..

[rintense]

Yep. Said this earlier. If the Iraqis did this, they were stupid. The UN was against any war in Iraq. But I don't think the Iraqis did this.

[Interesting Times]

Just heard a NPR babe, say: "who would attack a UN mission?"

After all, the UN has tried hard not to annoy the terrorists.

Ungrateful bunch, aren't they?

[mhking]

ABC news just reported that Senator Inhoffe's office has still not located him.

This is not good.

[ohioWfan]

There's an awful lot of confusion there, Mo......he probably just can't get in touch with them.....

[dogbyte12]

I'm waiting to see how Drudge is going to blame this on Schwartzenneger.

[mabelkitty]

Or perhaps the U.N. didn't want guards around the building, because they didn't want the U.S. to see what they were doing.

Was Saddam's body found in here?

[Consort]

We actually need to do more than get out of the UN, we need to dismantle the UN.

If it's dismantled, then fine. But if it exists, then we have to be part of it and exert our influence or else it will become a much worse anti-American organization that we ahve to deal with from the outside. We can't run and hide.

[Dog]

Or Bush....:-)

[Mo1]

Here is the UN Building before todays bombing

An Iraqi soldier stand guards in front of the United Nations (news - web sites) headquarters at al-Canal hotel in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), in this Saturday, Nov. 23, 2002 file photo. A huge explosion thought to be a car bomb went off at the hotel Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2003. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

[rintense]

I'm waiting to see how Drudge is going to blame this on Schwartzenneger.

Or how Hillary blames Bush.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

The SOD agrees with you.

Secretary Rumsfeld Pentagon Town Hall Meeting, Aug. 14

We're such a fortunate people with these two oceans and two friends on the north and south, that we've always been able, for the most part, to get up in the morning and walk out a door and not have to look both ways and see if we're going to be killed.  And if you live in places like Beirut, when it was under terrorism, and in places elsewhere around the world today, you can't do that.

     And so I think the -- what we see going on is a very serious problem.  We see people are being drawn into these so-called madrassa schools, the ones that teach the worst things -- there are many madrassa schools that teach fine things, but -- and we ought not to mistake that.  But there are a lot of people being brought in to training as a terrorist -- to kill other people.  They're not being taught languages, they're not being taught mathematics, they're not being taught how to function in a society or what a civil society is, how to be a doctor or a nurse or a lawyer or a policeman or a fireman, they're being taught how to kill people.  And they're being led to believe -- enough people have hijacked these schools and the religion and are trying to pervert it to teach people that they -- for whatever reason, it's their role in life to sacrifice themselves and to kill people who are not like them.

     Now, what's the end state?  The end state is that there are fewer of those people coming into that process than there are being arrested or captured or killed for doing terrible acts. 

And that means that, as successful as we are on the defense side, it seems to me, we have to be even more successful in the battle of ideas, in the war of ideas, if you will; in encouraging the countries where this kind of training is taking place to stop it, to stop the people who are funding it, to stop the people who are encouraging it, to stop the people who are so fearful of it for themselves that they're afraid to do anything about it; to give them courage and to give them heart and encouragement.

     The world would be a terrible place if they win.  If they're able to so intimidate nation-states around the world that the nation-states become tolerant of the fundraising and tolerant of the teachings of terror and killing, tolerant of allowing them to use their real estate for terrorist training camps and transit, it will change the nature of the world, and  -- which is why Dick Myers said what he said.  This battle we're in, this war we're in is as important as any other because it is, quite apart from the reality of the fact that it's a war that involved kinetics, it is also a war that involves people's minds and ideas, and that's terribly important.

[Steve_Seattle]

"At it's very worst, this is designed to drive the US and the UN into closer cooperation with each other."

It was designed for no such thing - this bomb wasn't planted by One-Worlders trying to increase the role of the U.N. in Iraq, but by Islamic militants and/or Ba'ath Party dead-enders trying to scuttle the creation of a post-Saddam Iraq.

[Mo1]

Might be hard for the senator to get through to anybody right now. Bet all the phone lines are jammed there. Hopefully, everything will be ok.

That's true

[Peach]

PLEASE keep us informed about Senator Inhoffe's whereabouts as news is provided.

[boxerblues]

Hillary is history if she does

[dixie sass]

Lol, no problem.

[faithincowboys]

God Help me, but the arab mentality is sick. I have never seen a race that is so committed to cutting its' nose off to spite its' face.

It's getting to the point where the Arab muslims have really earned our contempt. Other Nations with the power we have would do something to end it once and for all, I'm not advocating this, but at certain moments a person can think like that.

Oh God I hate the media. On Fox just now some idiot news babe just asked if the Saddam as Elvis and Saddam as a blonde pinup pictures caused this bomb to happen. Fire that idiot. Fire her.

[mhking]

PLEASE keep us informed about Senator Inhoffe's whereabouts as news is provided.

I'm watching the wires as well as the other news sources.

[Mo1]

I'm waiting to see how Drudge is going to blame this on Schwartzenneger

Naaa .. he'll blame Bush

Has Hellary spoken about this yet?