Nov 12 2006
Al Qaeda Prepares To Send Signal To World & Dems
When I posted that Bin Laden and Olbermann would be the two happiest people on the planet with a Democrat sweep of Congress a lot of liberals thought I was being harsh – until of course Al Qaeda and Iran and the Palestinians cheered the Democrat win. Then a little later I posted on my fears that Al Qaeda would not let the momentum they perceived (or wanted to create) in their cries of success on the Dems win slow down, and that they would be sending signals to the US media and Democrats. Well, it could very well be that these signals are in the process of being sent if we look at the news out todat.
First we have India renewing its security clamp down at their airports after the FBI issued warnings that Al Qaeda is planning on highjacking US planes for a 2nd 9-11.
“We sounded an alert after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) forwarded an email that spoke of the possibility of an al-Qaeda attempt to hijack US-bound flights from India,†a home ministry official said.
The official, who did not wanted to be named, said the email written by an “unknown entity†appeared to have originated from India and was received by the FBI Saturday at its headquarters in the US.
On top of this new concern is word out regarding Al Qaeda plans to topple the democratically elected government in Lebanon. This is in addition to word that Al Qaeda plans to attack Europe around the Christmas and New Year holidays. And we all know about the mobilization of Al Qaeda in Iraq – to send these kinds of signals to Pelosi and Reid. If this trend continues, the election of the Democrats will have been seen as one of the biggest political blunders in modern history. The Democrats emboldned the terrorists with their unrelenting calls to surrender Iraq. And now they have to make good on their commitments to Al Qaeda – at least that is what Al Qaeda believes. I wonder if we would be here, with this problem, if the liberal media and dems (and impatient Reps) has stood by Bush on this one issue and declared no option but success in Iraq. My guess is Al Qaeda would have given up the ghost by now. But we will never know for sure.
When politics trumps national security this is what you get. Dean wants to go back to the time of Clinton when everything was hunky dory, I guess he doesn’t remember 911. We lost 3,000 Americans on that day and a enormous hit on the economy. In 3 years we have lost as many soldiers hanging out with guys with guns trying to kill each other. Iraqi may not be going as well as we hoped but pull out and see how bad it will be.
Why Does Dean think he knows what is best in Iraq? He is a politician not a CIA, DOD, DOJ, NSA person, what gives him the inside track on anything but power. Does he care about the security of this nation? No! This whole discussion on our national security is unbelievable shallow. None of the talking heads even ask in depth questions to get at the heart of the problem facing the nation, they only ask political questions like what does this mean for the party, rather then what does it mean for the safety of the nation. No wonder the voting population voted for many who gave no answers or policy statement. I guess Rove thought that in such dangerous times people would never vote for a party who offered nothing but shallowness in thought and power for power sake.
AJ,
It’s your house so I do not wish to be disrespectful to you or the President, but consider the role the President and the Republican majority had in this defeat.
If the President had signaled that he was open to dialog about the course of the war in Iraq by dumping Rumsfeld before the election, what would have happened in the election?
If The Republican majority had worked in partnership with the President on conduct of the war in Iraq, asking some tough but fair questions of both the President and the SecDef, what would have happened in the election ?
If the President was a better more effective communicator who discussed the war in Iraq with the American people in a more effective manner instead of relying on the failed rhetoric of “Stay the Course” and “Just Win”, what would have happened in the election?
As just one voter who generally supports the President but has questions, I have been growing sense that the President has isolated himself from those inside his own party that would question the course in Iraq set by his administration.
This election is going to force some hard dialogs to the table now, it’s a a shame that dialog did not happen with a Republican majority.
Aj:
You know I voted a straight Republican ticket but if these clowns really push it with the Democrats they might be surprised at the reaction they get. Only about 30% of the American people really want to just leave Iraq. A great many just want to force a change in policy in the hopes the situation will improve. This election was not a mandate for retreat. I know the Democrat who won my district did not run as a dove.
Steve, some good points.
I’m a strong supporter of Pres Bush, but I too think the politics could have been handled a little better.
I’m not happy about Iraq, but only in the sense that we don’t seem to be making much progress very rapidly. We need to win, and will win if we stay at it. It would be a terrible disaster to ‘lose’ there. I don’t have the answers to what needs to be done except ‘win now’. Let the Generals in charge tell us what has to be done to be successful and if there is not any conflict with civilian rule, go get ’em. If the killing and maiming of Americans could be ended, then I don’t care how long they stay there as advisers or whatever. We still have troops in Germany and Japan 61 years later and I don’t hear the peaceniks complaining about that.
And Kathie, Dean just doesn’t want to remember all the terrorist attacks back in the good ole days under Clinton.
Immigration, I don’t think that was an issue in this race. Yea the lib dems and some repubs are for amnesty, but most Americans won’t stand for it, especially the new ‘conservative’ dems that just got elected.
Steve, Bush and Rummy have talked until they were blue in the face, sometimes very eloquently and always laying out the dangers. Few bothered to discuss what they had to say on a substance level. “Stay the Course” became a political joke not a military statement. Bush and Rummy talk to the world and the troops not just the shallow political talking heads. This country is in a very complicated battle, our political process simplifies this battle to sound bites. It does every body a disservice, and it will soon become apparent. Al Quada is on the move and more lethal then ever. Watch what they have in store for Israel, Lebanon, Somalia, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, when we witness this maybe some will realise sound bites do this country a disfavor. Some body in the media needs to get serious and not look at news as something that is fun for the news people but is a really necessary way to keep the people of this country informed about what is really going on so we can make good decisions for ourselves.
Enforcement,
Like it or not, the Senate plan on illegal immigration is going to go through. The challenge to those of you who are against “amnesty” is to make sure the penalties in the bill that are attached to those who have come here illegally is to make sure that they are a) tough, and b) enforced and not waved later on.
On the overall issue of immigration, I think you are wrong of your read of the American public. People were not happy with the obstructionist nature of the House Republicans who blocked progress in the name of getting tough, and the fence without funding was pure politics which everyone saw for what it was, pandering.
The dems and the MSM have never cared about national sercurity
if they did the would not have complained about showing the planes hitting the WTC buildings(excuse was we did not want upset the famlies that lost their loved ones), yet after pearl harbor we have made so many movies and I never heard any of any famliy members complain. In Iraq or Afghanistan do we really hear the good news of whats going on (just ask our troops and their opinion of whats going on) no the DEMS and MSM would look rather foolish.
If we go back in the last 40 years we can see the damage that both of these 2 have created. ( lets start with the Church Commission and go from there) History repeats itself it is up to us to either learn from our mistakes or learn with human lives later.
James Webb: Born Fighting?…
One of the big shake ups of the recent election is the unseating of George Allen and the election of James Webb to represent the state of Virginia as their newest U.S. Senator. I didn’t follow that race very closely, although with the number of times …
Steve, I don’t particularly want to get into a discussion about immigration. Main reason. I have seen that discussed over and over on this site and so far, nobody has changed anyone’s mind. If you are for amnesty, you will remain for it no matter what I or anyone says. and vice versa.
Exit polling indicated that no one voted the way they did in the election because of immigration. I don’t have any better info on that. I know it didn’t influence my vote either way.
But with that said, I’m gonna say a couple things, but bear in mind I’m not trying to change your mind because I feel like you are as correct about it as I am.
First and foremost, I don’t feel like anyone coming into this country just to get a better standard of living should be guilty of a crime. I favor legal immigration primarily. But I believe anyone that did come in illegally should be deported if they commit any ‘OTHER’ crime.
We should have some requirement that a person register with immigrations within some time period after their arrival. Failure to do so would be grounds for deporting. Citizenship should be available under the same conditons for these people as for everyone else. Being in the country first,illegally, shouldn’t put them ahead of anyone else.
this statement by you:
“The challenge to those of you who are against “amnesty†is to make sure the penalties in the bill that are attached to those who have come here illegally is to make sure that they are a) tough, and b) enforced and not waved later on”
is meaningless. Once amnesty is granted, there will be no conditions.
There won’t be anything to be waived. There will be NO penalties.
The counter to the above statement:
“The AIM to those of you who are FOR “amnesty†is to make sure there are no penalties in the bill that are attached to those who have come here illegally and to make sure there never is any limitations to illegal immigration and unconditional amnesty.
There will never be any limitations on amnesty if we don’t have a secure border.
Your statement about a fence without funding. is incorrect. 1.2 billion for the fence was signed prior to the fence bill itself being signed.
While I am for a fence the entire length of the border, I am realistic enough to believe NONE will ever be built.
Now I realize that there will be unbridled hatred directed toward me with everyone claiming there is no unconditional amnesty intended but I will go ahead and say there is nothing BUT unconditional amnesty intended
Now, be sure to tell me if I changed your mind and you are now against unconditional amnesty.
I personally don’t see why we should maintain a border patrol if we don’t want a secure border.
Well, at least we won’t have gridlock.
Enforcement,
Well you did not change my mind, and this is not the right discussion topic for that debate.
But you have lost the war, the President’s comprehensive reform will pass with Democratic help. Work hard to make it stronger please.
Steve, I’m not sure how you can make unconditional amnesty anything other than unconditional.
Main subject. basically Al Quaeda got the impression from the Dems that we would start withdrawing troops on Wednesday, it’s now Sunday so I expect they are gonna lose their patience by about Wednesday.
Your last paragragh says it all—most of all the last three sentences. If only politics stopped at the waters edge….
Where does National Security Fit in?…
We better get off our asses and start demanding answers. Not to who did what and when or what went wrong, but answers to what are we going to do to protect us HERE on our soil.
We have just put a huge bullseye on our asses…. what are we going to …..
Every one should read from “Real Clear Politics” “Iraq a mess, so what”. Quite interesting.
With friends like the Democrats, who needs enemies like France?
Considering how Spain and Italy went socialist on us, wouldn’t it be nice if France when center-right?
Well, here’s “The Most Amazing Story Ever”.
Corruption in France.
No really, it’s not that bad of a story.
The French blew through £18 million worth of a secret intelligence war chest designed for emergencies on “dancing girls” and such. Worse, they found out about it by investigating center-right politician and main leadership rival, Nicolas Sarkozy, the interior minister who supposedly had received secret payments from the intelligence service. This has been shown to be false.
Now, judges are trying to determine if our favorite leftist Dominique de Villepin, French prime minister, invented those false charges to discredit his chief political rival.
What way could this scandal lean and how would our Democrat friends react?
Steve,
“If the President had signaled that he was open to dialog about the course of the war in Iraq by dumping Rumsfeld before the election, what would have happened in the election?”
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Turn that around for a second and ask – just why throwing a good man to the dogs and giving Al Qaeda more ammunition for their “holy war” is a good thing? Also ask just whom we are open to dialog with?
Bush has said that he would NOT negotiate with the terrorists and the Democrats have made it crystal clear that it’s EXACTLY what Bush should do. Not only Al Qaeda but North Korea, Iran and any other state that wishes us death and distruction. Don’t you see that its just NOT LOGICAL to expect that giving into demands will make them give up and go away. All of those other attacks in the eight years of the Clinton administration did not provoke us to act to prevent it from happening again and worse. The result was the attacks escalated into 9/11 itself. Enough with the idea that Iraq didn’t have anything to do with Bin Laden, 9/11, or Iraq…the plain FACT is if we fail there we will pay a VERY dear price for it!
So ask yourself and all who wish this war never happened or that it would just go away, if it wouldn’t have been won by now if we had been united in our efforts to see it through. THAT has NOTHING to do with the election, and EVERYTHING to do with our survival as a nation and as Americans! We have people outside the country who are trying desperately to overthrow the elected government of the United States either by using our own elections against us or by force if doing the former doesn’t work. Making our elections increasingly vulnerable to foreign interference and attack is NOT in our interests! And to depend on the United Nations to solve all the world problems is nothing less than insanity itself! The mythical “United Nations” is a collection of some of the most corrupt and ill-meaning nations on this planet who will ALWAYS act in what they perceive as their own best interest. Where it does NOT coincide with the interests of the United States a line needs to be drawn!!! That is why John Bolton must NOT be thrown overboard after Rumsfeld. It will once more send a terrible message and will have nothing but terrible results! It is extremely wrong that, now that Bolton has a tract record of successes with the UN, that he be opposed for renomination simply because the Dems want to stick it to President Bush.
The rhetoric I have been hearing is that its PAYBACK TIME and that is horrible news while we are at war. Jack Murtha just said on NPR that Bush is powerless and can’t do anything without the oversight (read PERMISSION) of the party who wants to quit and withdraw from the war. Do you think that the Taliban in Afganistan are just going to shrug their shoulders and say that’s politics? The message will be the same there as anywhere else. They cannot defeat us on the battlefield so they seek to destroy us from the inside.
AJ…sorry about the length of this comment. Just something I have been storing up for awhile.
Carol
Kathie, that was a good link, recommended reading.
Rumsfeld was never the problem. This man took a derelic military and built it up to the standards now in place. A faster paced more modern military. Why in the world would Bush fire him? What for? For doing an excellent job? All this hooha about Rumsfeld was the dems trashing Bush. They do that to anyone in the administration they can. They use everyone to trash Bush. They cannot allow him to succeed at anything. Never mind the good of the country. Look at how they refuse to confirm Bolton even though they can see what a good job he is doing in the UN. And how can Rumsfeld be held accountable for Abu Ghairub (spelling)? This was caused by a few immature and vindictive soldiers doing their childish trickswho have since been punished. And the idea of the general in charge of the prison and actually responsible for what happened there appearing as a prosecution witness against Rumsfeld is not only insane but laughable. The world is totally skewed.
Everyone says Bush should have talked more about Iraq. Can anyone remember what happened every time he opened his mouth? The liberal media twisted everything he said until it was not recognizable.
Maybe Bush felt he did not have to talk ad nauseum about Iraq because he thought the American people understood that we are fighting for our lives. He gave them too much credit. The American people think only of their own comfort and grevances. To put a party in power who have publically stated over and over again that they are against war in Iraq and don’t believe there is a global war on terror are truly naive and self destructive. I am constantly amazed at the people who vote not knowing the issues or even thinking of the consequences of their action. I am constantly amazed also that there are so many in the democratic party at all. Of course with the liberal media publishing untruths might have something to do with it.
I am not so much a republican and I am anti democrat. I belonged to the democrat party for decades and was totally ashamed of their actions way before the Clinton debacle. I saw how corrupt they were on both a local level and a national level. I found this out long before the left took over the media just by watching what they said in opposition to what they did. I watched how news anchors twisted a speech I had just heard until I no longer recognized it as the speech I actually heard. I felt that they were trying to manipulate my thoughts and ideas and I resented it. But this is the way the democrats work. Brainwashing. Get ready for more of the same. We are in line for some rough times ahead just because the electorate had no thoughts for survival.