Is The "GOP" Actively Aiding And Abetting Al Qaeda? - R. J. Eskow

[applegrove]

Is The Republican Party Actively Aiding And Abetting Al Qaeda?
by R. J. Eskow
Huffington Post
09-15-2006


"Let me get this straight: "Islamic fascism" is the greatest world threat since Nazism, Bin Laden is its Hitler ... and yet chasing him is not a priority. What's going on with the GOP's leadership? Do they want Al Qaeda to remain a threat to the US and its allies?


Think about it: Al Qaeda's actions saved an already-failed Bush Presidency and gave the Republicans total political control in 2002, and in return we've given it great publicity and a new recruiting grounds in Iraq.

With their heated rhetoric, our leaders elevated Bin Laden from a vile and desperate criminal to the de facto leader of world Islamic radicalism. It's just what he wanted - and they gave it to him.

They've also given him a free pass, time and time again - first at Tora Bora, later when they disbanded the CIA Bin Laden unit (reinstated by Democrats), and now with their most

....SNIP"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/is-the-republican-party-a_b_29507.html

[blm]

1. This is GREAT. It's exactly what I would say if I could write.

K&R.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

2. To label Al-Qaeda as fascist is simply to try and draw attention

away from the fact that our own government has become fascist.

http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm ">14 Points of fascism

[RC]

4. The criminals label other as they are, just as they accuse others

of the crimes they are committing.

[applegrove]

9. I think anyone who has rigid laws for women..it is like fascism..you know

where freedom is gone and every part of the economy has its role. Wanting a caliphate and getting it by suicide bombings.. in places like Thailand... is fascism. Wanting to have multiple countries in the world act exactly like your narrow set of rules or be "invaded or attacked" is facism.

That being said... Terrorism I think is more accurate. Fascism is the Taliban. Al Qaeda..Terrorists.

[bleever]

3. K. And. R.

[texpatriot2004]

5. This Administration had no intention of catching OBL or anyone

else. This Administration produces all the terror. If they were serious about fighting terrorism, they would have gone after the real terrorists the ones in Saudi Arabia who were really involved.

The * Administration is ALL TALK and NO ACTION.

IMHO

[applegrove]

10. I think they wanted the slow war..the one that would have all sorts

of other places in the ME fall into the struggle & war... and it would become a black and white region...(where you either support American hegemony or you support al Qaeda). Nothing in between. But it ain't working for them (DUH! Social engineering never does you facsists!!!)

IMHO

[texpatriot2004]

16. You're right, it's not working for them. nm

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. Lots of convulted thinking on their part:

"Support the troops," yet they send the most incompetent of their lot to fuck up the reconstruction of Iraq. And when you DARE to mention the jeopardy those soldiers are in, the asshat Republican will tell you, "Well, they knew what they were getting into when they volunteered."

No, Senor. NOONE KNEW WHAT THEY WERE GETTING INTO WHEN THEY VOTED FOR BUSH. That seems to be getting quite obvious, every day.

[applegrove]

11. Kind of reminds you of Katrina "well the victims were warned". People

assumed that because people in the Bush WH walked like human beings..they would act like human beings and have good policies that tried to minimize pain... so everyone was very surprized when pain actually became part of the agenda. Social engineers are like that!!

[The Backlash Cometh]

14. It's taken a year to show those asshat Republican constituents that

catastrophic means CATASTROPHIC!

It pisses me off when they start whining that those New Orlean's residents had time to evacuate. For years and years Florida has known that it will be impossible to evacuate large urban areas and people need to prepare to bunker down in their own houses. Why then, weren't they more careful with the New Orleans people, knowing how susceptible those levees were?

[applegrove]

15. For sure the levees were ignored like much in New Orleans. It was

a poor city. But ignoring powerless people like nursing home people and children..because "they were warned to leave town"..while they were in crisis & danger..and marching around repeating "it is their own fault": just the meme Repukes in their grandiose narcissism felt they had taught AMericans by that point. Boy were they wrong. Seems given the choice.. the vast majority of people expect altruism in a crisis. HARDWIRED within the vast majority of the population. People don't want to be like what Bush & his friends are like. Nobody human aspires to be that.

[The Backlash Cometh]

17. I think I'm beginning to understand their perspective of blaming the

victim. You have to believe me that these people have been making a living stealing from the commons. They have absorbed this way of life over the years as if they were entitled to it. Texas is a good example. It has its own agrarian rules that basically allows you to steal your neighbor's water supply if you can funnel a pipe down to the water caverns; and they have another law which allows the first person to the waterhole, permission to take it all. This kind of "stealing fair and square" is endemic in our municipalities and people just learn to toughen up and not feel sorry for the person they took advantage of.

It has spread into our government. You have public officials who have side jobs to take advantage of the inside information they get. You have board members and small committees in government who are keeping information from everybody else, and then voting tax dollars or association fees, or giving away common grounds, without even sending one letter to their cares telling them about the usurpation. And no one, but no one can help the public, because they're all complicit in this way of life. They have to blame the public, because if they don't it means they might actually be the ones at fault.

[applegrove]

18. A true "virus of the heart/mind".

[CJCRANE]

7. It's not so far-fetched.

Here's the rest of Bin Laden's quote that B*sh didn't see fit to mention in his last nine-eleven-terror-palooza speech:

"So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy...

That being said, those who say that al-Qaida has won against the administration in the White House or that the administration has lost in this war have not been precise, because when one scrutinises the results, one cannot say that al-Qaida is the sole factor in achieving those spectacular gains.

Rather, the policy of the White House that demands the opening of war fronts to keep busy their various corporations - whether they be working in the field of arms or oil or reconstruction - has helped al-Qaida to achieve these enormous results.

And so it has appeared to some analysts and diplomats that the White House and us are playing as one team towards the economic goals of the United States, even if the intentions differ."

(This is from the full transcript of his Nov 04 videotape on the al-Jazeera site. This part and another large section were censored from the CNN website.)

ON edit: expanded comments in parenthesis.

[applegrove]

12. Interesting points. Something to think about.

[indepat]

8. By their body of works the Repugs shall be known and it ain't pretty

[glitch]

13. Why assume they are two separate entities? Two parts of the same body

is how I see them, based on how they work together.

[AntiFascist]

19. Bush and his team are experts at pointing out certain truths....

while setting us on completely the wrong track. We are seeing the results of "Islamic" fascism right now: Saudis are lowering the price of gas in order to effect upcoming elections so that (the wrong) Republicans will stay in power. Yes, there is fascism at work but Bushco has brainwashed America into thinking we are fighting it instead of being behind it.