O'Reilly: "Al Qaeda understands it can never defeat the USA in Iraq"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Will There Be a Civil War In Iraq?
Friday, February 24, 2006

By Bill O'Reilly

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,185924,00.html

This is a big story. And some are even ignoring it. But the attack Tuesday on the Golden Mosque in Iraq, a Shiite shrine, could ignite a civil war in that country that this country would not be able to control.

Here is the deal. It looks to us like Al Qaeda now understands it can never defeat the USA in Iraq. Now the only strategy the terrorists have is to ignite a civil war between the Shiite majority and the Sunni minority. If that happens, no one be able to control it and Iraq would descend into bloody chaos.

After the Golden Mosque was defiled, violence immediately broke out. Sunni mosques were attacked and the death toll stands at 100. That, of course, is what Al Qaeda wants. The crazy Shiite cleric, al-Sadr is already accusing the new Iraqi government and U.S. forces of failing to protect the Shiite shrines. And al-Sadr, a truly dangerous man and has ordered his armed militia to defend the holy sites. Again, Usama bin Laden is applauding all this.

The frustrating thing is that the USA can't control this religious violence. No country could. So there is little we could do is pray things don't get worse. "Talking Points" believes America's cause in Iraq is noble. We have liberated millions of people and trying to give them a chance of freedom. Also, if Iraq does become a free nation, it would be a huge victory for the USA. But those are huge ifs. And right now Iraq is tottering.

[tularetom]

1. Who is this guy "Talking Points" he keeps referring to?

It appears to me that "Talking Points" has his head up his ass and Bill should stop listening to him.

[Danieljay]

2. that was the strategy all along you smithering baffoon!

We on the left KNEW this would happen and no one listened when we marched the streets in massive numbers.

[jamesinca]

3. They don't have to defeat us

they only have to stay one day longer, like North Vietnam did. They only have to ignite a civil war and breed a lot of discontent and this will be the fertile ground of future terrorist.

[joefree1]

4. Uh, ain't an Iraq civil war a lost for you neo-con men?

You bet your O'liely ways it is.

By the way is O'liely buying pancake make up by the gallon these days? He must put it on with a butter knife.

[fasttense]

5. No Al Qaeda will never defeat us in Iraq but here in the good old US of A

they certainly can what with bush selling their friends and allies, the UAE, our ports. All Al Qaeda has to do is identify a target, place the bomb and stand back what with the help of their good friends and allies the UAE royal family. They have a better chance her in the US than in Iraq. Free trade, free trade, free trade!!!!

[MrBenchley]

6. Imagine, "some people ignoring" a civil war in Iraq....

Where DOES O'Reilly find those sort of people, I wonder? The office cafeteria?

[tularetom]

7. Without "some people"

FAUX would be off the air.

[MrBenchley]

8. One wonders how right wing loonies avoid whiplash

when they have to change direction like that....

[onenote]

9. even by O'lielly usual low standards this is incomprehensible babble

Let's see, we can't be "defeated" but we can't control the violence. Hmmm.

And we went over there to install a new government, but now some "crazy" cleric thinks its either our fault, or the fault of the government we installed to protect against "terror". (Nice..I guess its not the US government's job to protect us against terror either).

Maybe next week O'Reilly can just look at the camera and pick his nose. It would make him look more intelligent

onenote

[DavidDvorkin]

10. Wrong definition of "defeat", Bill

America's insane and spineless reaction to 9/11 was that defeat. The invasion and occupation of Iraq, with all of its consequences for our position in the world, confirmed it.

[Clark2008]

11. "We have liberated millions of people..."

Yeah - from their bodies.

Unless you're into transcendentalism, I don't think that's a good thing, Ted Baxter.

[ncteechur]

12. I love it when Keith Olberman calls him Ted Baxter. Sums it all up.

Bill O'Reilly. Journalist Eunuch. Not a real journalist-fake newscaster on a fake news station.