Yes, Bush missed hint of the worst attacks on U.S.; Where is Osama?

[ProSense]

MORE OF JOHN KERRY'S RETROACTIVE CAMPAIGN PROMISES

By Ann Coulter 43 minutes ago

On Sunday, John Kerry said of Israel's war against Hezbollah, "If I was president, this wouldn't have happened," adding, "we have to destroy Hezbollah."

But wait a minute -- Hezbollah didn't attack us on 9/11! Wouldn't fighting Hezbollah distract us from the urgent task of finding Osama bin Laden?

Democrats can't come out and admit that they refuse to fight any war in defense of America, so they utter the "Where's Osama?" incantation to pretend that they'd be doing something. To wit: dedicating the entire resources of the U.S. military to locating Osama bin Laden.

Thus, in the third presidential debate, Kerry complained about the cost of the war in Iraq, saying the war was "the result of this president taking his eye off of Osama bin Laden."

After making the capture of Osama bin Laden their sole objective in the war on terrorism, now Democrats expect us to believe they would have been fighting every other Muslim jihadist on the planet like mad -- just not one of the main sponsors of Islamic terrorism, Saddam Hussein. But they'd be merciless with every other mass-murdering, Islamic terror-sponsoring lunatic.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucac/20060726/cm_ucac/moreofjohnkerrysretroactivecampaignpromises

Hey she did a good job spotlighting Bush's failures!

[JohnKleeb]

1. Yeah Democrats are so against fighting war in the defense of the US

Thats why Ive contemplated joining the Armed Forces. Fuck her, all she does is blame Democrats and liberals.

[karynnj]

2. What a lunatic

Didn't that Kerry guy write a whole book about the globalization of crime and terror - and why the world had to fight it better in 1997? Her quote from the 3rd debate is completely wrong. The question was on terrorism and Kerry quoted Bush, accurately as always, that he didn't think or care where OBL was. It certainly wasn't that he ever said that we went to war because Bush took is eye off OBL.

It was Bush who confused OBL with Saddam and said we attacked Iraq because of Sept 11.

[TayTay]

3. No, they didn't attack us on 9/11

Osama bin Laden did. His sympathies are Sunni. Hezbollah is Shia. Geez, Coulter, what a retard.


http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=48282


New: A Muslim jihad against Muslims
Sunday, July 9, 2006

Opinion by Barry RUBIN


In a shocking statement, the implications of which are enormous, Osama bin Ladin has called on Sunni Muslims to fight their Shia counterparts. This is only the latest in a trend toward rising conflict between the two groups that is already the central feature of the Iraq situation.


While bin Ladin is echoing ideas earlier expressed by his man in Iraq, the late al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- killed by U.S. forces in Iraq on June 7 -- last year bin Ladin criticized this approach. Now, however, he has made it his own strategy. Equally shocking, and revealing, is the lack of denunciation of this view in the majority Sunni Arab world, even though this would give regimes ample ammunition to use in discrediting bin Ladin, who is also their enemy.

Shia Muslims are the largest group in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Oman and Bahrain, while also comprising significant minorities in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other countries. The Sunni and Shia sects split in the early years of Islam, with the Sunni generally becoming the rulers throughout the Arab world and elsewhere. Iran's 1979 revolution created a Shia Islamist state, where Sunni Muslims are often treated as second-class citizens in practice.

Yet generally, and certainly in the Arab world, any existing distinctions were formally papered over by the doctrine of Arab nationalism, which transcended issues of religion. Now that Arab nationalism is declining and Islamism is on the rise, theological questions are re-emerging in the political arena. While Sunni and Shia Islamists sometimes cooperate -- Iran is the patron of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Sunni Islamist groups -- they are far more often in contention.