Posted on 01/02/2003 1:04:39 PM PST by Destro
Do these people check their numbers before they publish the article or what?
I am still waiting for Bush to admit it.
America has a death wish!
BIG BUMP!!
Happy New Year
Clinton personally flew all these planes and bombed Yugoslavia???So,it has nothing to do with US Government,Pentagon,ect...So,Bush(American President) has no need to appologize for the criminal act commited by his country?
After all,why should he?His father publicly declared that "He will never appologize for anything done by USA"!
At least,Germans had Willie Brandt to kneal in front of the monument in Warshaw Getto and ask forgiveness in the name of German people!
He,as an certified antifascist,certanly,didn`t have to:another German (we know which one) was responsible...Bush will continue the mission of Balkan destruction(he had shown his colours in Macedonia!!
)Gratenes of a man is measured by his/her abbility to addmit a mistake and appologize.
Maybe in 22nd century we will see an great American president.Just maybe.
During 98-99 none of the mosques vere destroyed by VJ or police,some were damaged as sniper and machinegun nests.
I believe that famous Red Mosque in Kosovo was demolished in order to make space for the new,modern,Wahhabi one!
BTW Kosovo Mufti,a rabid fundamentalist and mortal enemy of Serbs and Christians,is not saying a word against a total anihilation of Serbian churches in Kosovo!He is,BTW,an ILLEGAL mufti because elected Mufti of Kosovo and whole Islamic comunity of Yugoslavia(Serbia+Bosnia+Croatia+Macedonia) lives in Belgrade and is extremely,nice tolerant and modern man!Born and bread in Belgrade,an intellectual and not a peasant from Koso vo or Sanjak,he was allways a thorn in the side of Izetbegovich`s zealots.When somebody threw a handgranade at the Belgrade`s Mosque and caused fire,(the one and only incident of that kind in Belgrade)his enemies were jubilant!But,he replied:"I don`t know who had planted the bomb and caused fire.But I do know who was extinguishing the fire,shoulder to shoulder with me:my first neighbours,the Serbs!They saved the mosque,not the fire brigade.So,go and preach your hatred somewhere else but not in my town among my people and my friends!"
That`s why he is so respected by Serbian Patriarch and citizens of Belgrade of all religions!
Brandt had to do the kneeling because Adolf wasn't around anymore; Klinton is.
Intelligent comment and facts but conclusions are ,in my oppinion,entirely wrong!
Wretchard,religion is not about money but about faith and beliefs.You don`t need a monumental mosques or churches to preach fundamentalist Islam/Christianity.History has prooved that to all of us.
House of Saud might be the sponsor of Wahhabists but,not the only one.You can bring them down,occupy the whole country and...face a massive backlash,out of control.In the meantime,its easier to allow them to infest Europe by destroying their enemies(your natural allies and friends).
Come to think of it,I can`t stop wandering,if your (American) leaders and Presidents have any morals at all!3000 American citizens were killed by 19 Saudi citizens and what do you do??You bomb a piss poore Afganistan!And now,you will with no reason at all appart from personal wendeta("He annoyed my daddy long time ago!")attack and bucher Iraq!
If you really care for the victims of 9/11 with all the might you have,you should arrest the families off all Saudis involved in that terrorist act,arrest the whole Bin-Laden family,burn their company to the ground,kill al their goats and donkeys,and freze all their assets.Permanently!Than,do the same thing with Pakistani leadership until they deliver Osama`s head .That is what a moral man would do,rightfuly so,and had support of 90% of the world.
Instead,"Attack Iraq,Osama`s and Saudis enemy!Axis of Evil???"What a bunch of bolocks.
3000 lives lost for what?So that Bruce Willis can win against Denzel Washington?If you don`t understand watch "The Siege".
When your leadership shows such contempt for your own citizens,I understand why they show utter contempt for anyone else!
Good luck with "forging alliances" with other brands of Islam.But,please,don`t showe it down our throaths!Like,"You must accept Turkey in EU"!!!!!
Turkey is as European as China!I would choose Chenese,any time!
Brane, Willy Brandt would have never had the opportunity to kneel in apology had Germany not been brought down to her knees. The arrogance of any power is such that none will ever be humble before it is itself humbled. There are no benevolent superpowers in the world. Only defeated ones.
KOCTA
The founder of the House of Saud made a pact with militant Wahhabis to stamp out idolatry that started to creep up in Islam in the 18th century Arabian peninsula. Wahhabi disappeared for a while only to make a second coming in the 1920's -- thanks to a defunct, blundering, but supremely arrogant superpower, England.
The only other country with Wahhabi brand of Islam fundamentalism is our friend and ally -- Qatar, the best kept secret by all accounts.
The fact is, we will make a deal with the Devil himself if it will boost our sales and make Wall Street happy. Major reserves of strategically useful oil are located in a belt that stretches from Saudi Arabia, through the Persian Gulf to the Caspean Sea (Lake). America is now by far more dependent on imported oil than it was in the early 1970's when the world-wide oil-embargo hit the US like a ton of bricks.
That nearly killed our economy, and must never be allowed to happen again. So, what's the answer? The US must have an alternative source of oil -- a dependable alternative source of oil. After all, our closest ally in the region, Israel, has none, so if we don't supply it, who will?
Actually, our friend and ally "secular" Turkey, the only Muslim nation that has a defense pact with Israel. But Turkey has no oil of its own. It was supposed to get it from the Caspean Sea, but since that project took a nose dive, what's left? You got it: Iraq.
By establishing a "friendly" (read: mercenary) government in Iraq, that will work for a hefty amount of "aid," not only will the US have a dependable alternative source of oil, preventing any future blackmail by the Saudis, but its friends and allies in the Middle East will have a direct land route of Iraqi oil supplies through Turkey and Jordan. Three good reasons to go there, it seems.
Once we have Iraqi oil, we can turn and deal with the Saudis and arrange for proper changes in that corner of the world. With Saddam and Saudis "pacified," Palestinian Arabs will have no material support and their ability to fight Israel will subside, probably die offf. The intefada will be over, our friends in the Middle East will have peace and oil, and we will no longer be in a position to be balckmailed by people whose religion teaches them to hate us as infidels.
After that, comes Iran. The crown prince of Iran is already being primed for his eventual return. In the meantime, the Wahhabi brand of Islam in Qatar and its attitude to women in particular will be ignored, even supressed from generally uninformed and disinterested American public.
And the goings on in the Balkans, for now, at least, have lost any importance because the Caspean Sea oil project is on ice. So, whether Wahhabis infiltrate Albania or not is of no immediate concern.
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