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eddo said:Where exactly do you find a Muslim or Islamic cleric that speaks out against al-queda or fundamentalist Islam?
Thousands of nationalist Turks marched in the capital Saturday, vowing to defend the secular regime against radical Islamic influences and urging the government not to make too many concessions in order to gain European Union membership.
Some 12,000 people from more than 100 pro-secular associations waved Turkish flags as they marched to the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. "Turkey is secular and it will remain secular," they chanted during a march broadcast live on television.
Turkey is predominantly Muslim but is governed by strict secular laws that separate religion and state. Many fear that if left unchecked, Islamic fundamentalism will lead to a theocracy like that in Iran under the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
ToriAllen said:There is more fear today because before 9/11 we lived in a bubble. Nothing bad could get to us and all of the problems in the rest of the world were too far removed from us for any of us to be worried about them.
ToriAllen said:9/11 woke a lot of people up to the fact that we do not live in a bubble protected from all that is bad in the world. It doesn’t matter who was in power, our view of the world changed that day. Just because Bush didn’t try to hide the threats and danger doesn’t mean he is responsible for elevated fear among the masses.
ToriAllen said:If you want to go back to believing all is well with the world that is up to you, but remember, these terrorists planned that attack while Clinton was still in office, and they would have gone through with it no matter who had been elected, and our views would have been forever changed, no matter who was elected. You are probably right about one thing though…If a democrat would have been in office they probably would have coddled the terrorists and tried to ‘understand’ what we had done to provoke such an act.
ToriAllen said:They would have tried to give the American public a false sense of security and left us open to future attacks.
ToriAllen said:Yes, we all know what an upstanding guy Saddam was when he was in power…The invasion into Iraq was only remotely related to 9/11. 9/11 woke us up to the need to take action against perceived threats instead of issuing sanction after sanction and hoping they would eventually comply. Invading Iraq was not retaliation for 9/11 and it was never presented that way. Trying to link the two events does nothing more than show your ignorance on the subject.
ToriAllen said:Our problems with Iraq continued for the first Gulf War. Do you not remember Clinton bombing them in 1998? I think you should do a little more research on the subject of US/Iraqi relations throughout the ‘90’s and leading up to the War.
ToriAllen said:Yeah, because there is no way they could ever use it anywhere but in North Korea. I guess there is no way the nukes could reach US soil by boat or plane either.
ToriAllen said:And the idea that they might be sold to terrorists who are a little closer to home never crossed you mind…
ToriAllen said:Tell me, is ignorance really bliss?
ToriAllen said:Yes, we can all see how this has advanced his political career, what with the protests, low poll numbers, and liberal trash talk. What a tricky little devil he is.
hugo said:Marxist boy is too damn dumb to post and a ****ing coward who refuses to admit he is a Marxist.
hugo said:He did not even know Ashcroft was appointed before 9/11.
Hugo said:He is a ****ing fool..as all Marxists are.
hugo said:Another question might be "When was the last time you saw a film of a Christian cutting off someone's head?"
eddo said:The difference is Christians leaders all over speak out agains thte KKK, against the likes of Fred Phelps, against others that diminish the beliefs of their faith.
Where exactly do you find a Muslim or Islamic cleric that speaks out against al-queda or fundamentalist Islam?
TooDrunkTo**** said:Not a Marxist. I'm closer to an anarchist. I'm just not an idiot like you
Ctrl said:I just thought that was funny. If I have to explain why, you still wont get it.
I guess, that you believe that the thinktank that is Bush, designed this intricate plan to line the pockets of haliburton, get his daddies attempted assasin, and pass the Patriot Act, which he drafted... stay with me... by convincing the worlds intelligence agencies that Saddam had WMDs (of which 400 tons of anthrax catalogued by the UN as recently as '97 was not even claimed to have been destroyed)... stay with me... The profoundly brilliant Bush then just set everything in motion and waited for a catalyst... and then after 9/11 IMPLANTED Al Zaquari and his Al Queda forces in Iraq... and convinced congress to go to war... because you do realize that congress sends us to war right? Wait... back to the long and winding plot by the most brilliant criminal meglomaniacle mastermind of the millennium... after implanting insurgant forces to fight against us... He did all of this NOT to pit these AQ forces against the best fighting force to ever walk the planet instead of trying to bring the war here to us... He did it all to get Hussain back for an assasination attempt.
Smart guy... wouldn't you agree?
TooDrunkTo**** said:I knew a Muslim guy in high school who spoke out against the Jihadists.
Exactly, they were attempts. 9/11 was the wake-up call that we were not invincible.TooDrunkTo**** said:Um, there were already several 9/11 attempts prior to 9/11.
Do you listen to all of his speeches? The war isn’t the only issue that is discussed, but since it seems to be the one America is interested in, it gets the most focus. And, no, I don’t feel a raised amount of fear.TooDrunkTo**** said:Oh, really? When the focus switches from a myriad of issues to "security, security, security", virtually every speech is about war, he defines himself as a "war president", talks about freeing "outlaw regims" around the world, comes up with ****amamie conspiracy theories about an "Axis of Evil" involving people that dislike each other (Osama and Saddam, for instance), etc., you don't think that raises the people's fear?
Again they are separate issues and we are doing both.TooDrunkTo**** said:So ... Dealing with the problem and going after REAL terrorists, as opposed to wasting time in Iraq and constant fear-mongering is "coddling terrorists?"
Oh boy, this is fun. You realize that the WTC was bombed in 1993, right? Not an attempt, but an actual bombing. It was also during the year Clinton took over. There is always a period of transition during such years. What a coincidence. Terrorist attacks are stopped a lot more often than you seem to think.TooDrunkTo**** said:... Um, yeah, because talking 24/7 about "outlaw regimes", "axis of evil", etc. really makes people safer. OTOH, actually stopping terrorist attacks, like the attempts on the WTC that were prevented pre-9/11 "leaves us open to attack."
You don’t know me very well. Every opinion I have is thoroughly researched. Ignorant assertions about topics, you know like yours, get on my nerves. Here is a post from a few years ago that I made on the topic. Maybe it can clear up how the two events affected each other but did not cause each other.TooDrunkTo**** said:It's amazing how people here will just listen to what idiots like Hugo say, without actually researching things for themselves.
And I guess you missed his "Axis of Evil" speeches. The reasons for invasion were his claims that they had WMDs and were linked to Al Queda. The fact that Saddam Hussein is a bad guy is well know; hell, we have a guy in our own government (Ashcroft) who'd like nothing more than to create a theocracy (research the group he's in if you don't beleive me). But we don't go around invading every "bad guy" in the world any time we feel like it. Otherwise, we'd have already invaded China, North Korea, Iran, etc. Which would lead to our forces being stretched thin, and most likely the rest of the world rebelling against the US.
Well, didn’t you just answer your own question about why we invaded Iraq, but haven’t bothers with North Korea?TooDrunkTo**** said:Given how poor they are and how crappy their navy is compared to ours, I doubt they'd reach us. They don't have ICBMs; as I recall, their nukes arre left over from the 50's. This is aside from the fact that they wouldn't want to lose China's support by doing something stupid, for instance declaring war on us. Likewise, we don't want to piss China off by invading North Korea. Which is why it's unlikely that we're going to do anything to China beyond economic sanctions.
I think this is the stupidest thing you have said. You don’t have to be a member of an organization to sell weapons to them. You just have to like money. Wasn’t it you that said North Korea is poor? I don’t see that there is a big leap from making weapons to selling them, or the technology to make them, or the knowledge of how to make them.TooDrunkTo**** said:Oh yeah, because Kim Jong Il is a member of Al Qaeda, too.
I’ve done the research. You obviously haven’t. Here I’ll give you some links from the UN to get you started…TooDrunkTo**** said:You tell me. You're the one who's trying to pretend the Iraq war was justified. It seems all your knowledge of world events comes from what you hear on the US news. Why don't you actually do some research on the cold, hard facts before you come in preaching?
Gaining oil money? Where the hell are you getting that from? That is another one of those nonsensical reasons for the war that the ignorant try to push. Same with ‘getting revenge on the guy who tried to kill his dad’. You need to do more research.TooDrunkTo**** said:Oh, yes, because actually having a war in Iraq, adding a new country to US imperialism, gaining oil money, getting revenge on the guy who "tried to kill [his] dad", etc. are all secondary concerns compared to "liberal trash talk."
Ctrl said:I just thought that was funny. If I have to explain why, you still wont get it.
I guess, that you believe that the thinktank that is Bush, designed this intricate plan to line the pockets of haliburton, get his daddies attempted assasin, and pass the Patriot Act, which he drafted... stay with me... by convincing the worlds intelligence agencies that Saddam had WMDs (of which 400 tons of anthrax catalogued by the UN as recently as '97 was not even claimed to have been destroyed)... stay with me... The profoundly brilliant Bush then just set everything in motion and waited for a catalyst... and then after 9/11 IMPLANTED Al Zaquari and his Al Queda forces in Iraq... and convinced congress to go to war... because you do realize that congress sends us to war right? Wait... back to the long and winding plot by the most brilliant criminal meglomaniacle mastermind of the millennium... after implanting insurgant forces to fight against us... He did all of this NOT to pit these AQ forces against the best fighting force to ever walk the planet instead of trying to bring the war here to us... He did it all to get Hussain back for an assasination attempt.
Smart guy... wouldn't you agree?
hugo said:A true anarchist would understand how someone can not support the minimum wage.
hugo said:A Marxist does not. In the real world commie boy is a Marxist. In his fantasy world, where everyone is a Marxist, he is an anarchist. He is a fool who actually thinks others are stupid enough to believe Lenin is the cause of all the calamnities which have struck true socialist nations (nations that make a strong attempt to have the state control productive assets).
hugo said:He is an ignoramous. Did not know Ashcroft was appointed before 9/11, a total fool.
ToriAllen said:Exactly, they were attempts. 9/11 was the wake-up call that we were not invincible.
ToriAllen said:Do you listen to all of his speeches? The war isn
ClassyMissFancy said:OK... What gets to me is this..
The same Dem leaders who say Bush is an idiot.. Bush is stupid... Blah blah blah.... are also saying about their vote to give Bush power to invade Iraq...
"We were DUPED!!!
Tell me... What the hell kind of retarded monkey can be duped by a stupid idiot ?
They need to make up their minds. Either he is a stupid ****ing idiot and they are intelligent... which means a bunch of intelligent Dems who are about to battle for the Dem presidential candidacy knowingly voted to give a stupid ****ing idiot the power to invade Iraq and topple the government of a sovereign nation... or Bush duped them and they are stupid ****ing idiots.
Ya can't have it both ways.
Which is it, Dems?