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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:24 AM Original message |
Poll question: Simple poll question: Does Al-Qaeda exist? |
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WannaJumpMyScooter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
1. Al-Qaeda is Arabic for CIA |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:26 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. so i take it you voted no. |
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WannaJumpMyScooter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:28 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. ding, ding, ding... tell 'em what he's won |
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Bolo Boffin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:32 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Expand your horizons: read the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Looming Tower |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:56 AM Response to Reply #9 |
16. Bin Laden comes home to roost His CIA ties are only the beginning of a woeful story |
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Bolo Boffin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 10:01 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. Nope, Osama's group was a sidebar to the real action. |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 10:24 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. I'll see if I can get a copy of it from my library. Meanwhile, why should the writer |
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Bolo Boffin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 11:08 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Misinformation abounds. |
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WannaJumpMyScooter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 02:03 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. with or without Tim Conway |
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Hestia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
2. I personally have never believed Al-Qaeda has existed- I think it's made up |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:28 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. OK. |
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goforit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 04:08 PM Response to Reply #4 |
33. LOL!!!! |
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goforit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 04:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
34. Well you're right. Al Qaeda has paved way for Bush and given him all that |
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FSogol (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:29 AM Response to Original message |
6. There are small, but well funded quasi-connected terrorist groups |
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gollygee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:30 AM Response to Original message |
7. I think they exist but they aren't as organized as suggested |
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ima_sinnic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:36 AM Response to Reply #7 |
13. exactrly -- I think of them as like Earth First -- with no HQ and no one "leader" |
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PVnRT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:40 AM Response to Reply #7 |
15. I think that's the most accurate description |
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stevenleser (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 02:13 PM Response to Reply #7 |
27. Decentralization is the whole point of modern terrorist organizations. |
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Bolo Boffin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:31 AM Response to Original message |
8. The No. 2 guy in Al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahri, just called Obama a house Negro |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-20-08 08:27 PM Response to Reply #8 |
48. Yeah, but you also believe that a washed up magician "proved" the guilt of Lee Harvey Oswald |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-20-08 08:52 PM Response to Reply #8 |
50. Um, sorry, but we already got the #2 guy in al-Qaeda. Several times over, in fact. |
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sweetpotato (678 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:33 AM Response to Original message |
10. Yes, originally created and trained by CIA |
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ipfilter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:33 AM Response to Original message |
11. I've always thought they were the Neo-Con's boogie man. |
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Zynx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:35 AM Response to Original message |
12. To me, this is like denying the existance of the Federal Reserve. |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:37 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. rather odd to me too. |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 09:56 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. If you think it exists, define it? |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 10:01 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. I pretty much agree with post #7 |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 01:20 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. I agree. If defined as a highly trained, organized world wide group |
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stevenleser (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 02:11 PM Response to Reply #17 |
26. How many different kinds of cancer can you completely define? |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 02:47 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. I didn't say they had to define it for me to accept it exists |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-20-08 09:38 PM Response to Reply #12 |
54. To me, this is like denying the existence of witches |
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dorkulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
20. They do now. /nt |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 03:33 PM Response to Reply #20 |
30. Exactly what I was going to post. They certainly do exist because we created the idea. |
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wildbilln864 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
24. Al Qaeda means "the base".... |
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goforit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 04:13 PM Response to Reply #24 |
35. Tim Osment???? |
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wildbilln864 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 05:17 PM Response to Reply #35 |
39. I'm sorry but I mis-typed it.. |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-20-08 09:39 PM Response to Reply #39 |
55. Was he supposed to be one of the "Osman" brothers? |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
28. Yes, but hardly as defined |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 03:34 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Good description. It's like any street gang. There are people calling themselves "crips" |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 04:03 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Not just America; I was in a faux-bloods neighborhood in backwater Ontario last year (nt) |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
36. Well if it doesn't we the taxpayers need to complain to the CIA for wasting the investment. |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 04:29 PM Response to Original message |
37. How could there be a #2... |
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darkism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
38. Only on DU could this kind of poll actually be close. |
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wildbilln864 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 05:25 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. us conspiracy nuts shamed the whole board!? |
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-20-08 02:35 PM Response to Reply #40 |
44. Yes Indeed. |
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wildbilln864 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-20-08 08:20 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. I think the whole board got over it. nt |
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LeftishBrit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
41. Yes. |
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wildbilln864 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-20-08 02:23 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. Just ask anyone from Pakistan!? |
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OPERATIONMINDCRIME (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-20-08 02:32 PM Response to Original message |
43. There Ya Have It! 32% Of Poll Respondents Are Irrational Non-Objective Tin Foil Hatters! |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-20-08 08:21 PM Response to Original message |
46. Wow. This poll sure is disheartening. |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-20-08 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
47. 32% of DUers demonstrate exactly why Obama does not and should not ask our opinion on appointments. |
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Dark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-20-08 09:11 PM Response to Reply #47 |
52. You think that's bad? Check out the 9/11 forum sometime. |
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Junkdrawer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-20-08 08:44 PM Response to Original message |
49. "Creating Terror": The History of al Qaeda.... |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-20-08 08:54 PM Response to Original message |
51. al qaeda = emmanuel goldstein, inc. |
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FKA MNChimpH8R (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-20-08 09:23 PM Response to Original message |
53. Yes, in a goofy sense, but not really. |
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