The U.S. has launched air strikes in Somalia
By on Jan 8th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
The U.S. has launched air strikes in Somalia
against “suspected al-Qaeda operations,” NBC News reports.
UPDATE: CBS News has details.
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Oh, crap. What are we getting into now?
January 8th, 2007 at 7:13 pmMore civilians getting killed, I suppose. Why would you airstike a ‘suspected‘ target. With all we have done wrong, and all the innocent people we have killed, would it not be better to KNOW if the target was, in fact, a legitimate target?
January 8th, 2007 at 7:15 pmyessss
kill al the muslims
January 8th, 2007 at 7:16 pmThis strike….and the “odor” in NY are just preps for Bush’s “New Way Forward” talk Wed. eve. The cabal is just softening us up a bit with a little good oldfashioned fear. We’ll be so much more receptive don’t cha see…..to his “leadership” cause we’ll be so much more AFRAID. We are in dark dark times. I really wounldn’t put it past them to be staging these things before his talk……We have to stop this madness or we’re in for much worse. Our society as we knew it is coming unraveled.
January 8th, 2007 at 7:18 pmperpetual war for perpetual peace?
January 8th, 2007 at 7:20 pmyessss
kill al the muslims
Comment by franny
But what if I am a Muslim? I may be a loyal American who has served his country with distinction and honor. My grandparents may have been some of the first settlers of Northern Arizona back in 1920. You have legislators who are Muslim (kill them too?). I know it is difficult, but you must begin to understand that the mere fact somebody belongs to a certain religion, doesn’t make them any less patriotic than you are.
January 8th, 2007 at 7:23 pmwag the dog. trying to distract from congresses agenda of helping people and providing oversight of the executive branch.
January 8th, 2007 at 7:29 pm#2 Tom
January 8th, 2007 at 7:35 pmYou make a good point – why are we striking suspected targets – don’t we wait any more to be sure who we are bombing?
Mr. Shoot first and ask questions later Bush doesn’t feel the need to check himself – he just follows his gut. Remember when he mocked Clinton for firing a rocket in an effort to get Bin Laden – Bush said he wouldn’t do something so stupid as to shoot a camel in the ass.
Times change and Bush does as he pleases – preemtive strikes, strikes on uncertain targets – no matter – they’re only muslims, and so what if we kill a few by accident.
Surely this is just one step closer to China and Russia attacking us…
What the hell is the Bush Regime doing?
Oh my god…
January 8th, 2007 at 7:36 pmMust have been ordered by “Shoot First, Avoid Questions Later” Cheney.
January 8th, 2007 at 7:48 pmIt’s just a warmup for the big mission coming in Iran. Only next time it might be tactical nukes.
January 8th, 2007 at 7:48 pmyes, a distraction…
January 8th, 2007 at 7:52 pmtoo bad this kind of “distraction” kills…
prelude to the bad news we will hear wednesday…
fear fear fear…
Here is a newer article to prove my previous point.
The Bush administration, undeterred by the horrors and setbacks in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon, has opened another battlefront in this oil-rich quarter of the Muslim world.
January 8th, 2007 at 7:54 pmHmmmm…..airstrike right before bushs big address wednesday……seems somewhat familliar.
January 8th, 2007 at 7:58 pm#9
Why would they want to do that unless they are supporting al Qaeda?
January 8th, 2007 at 7:58 pmklyde
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perpetual war for perpetual peace?
Comment by klyde — January 8, 2007 @ 7:20 pm
Yeah, let us all march off to Carthage.
January 8th, 2007 at 8:13 pmFrankly, at this point, there is absolutely no doubt that Bush is a greater threat to America and the world than Al-Qaeda could muster on their best day. If Congress doesn’t pull the plug on this guy now, there won’t be a United States, or an Israel. There also won’t be any of the oil they are so ardent to obtain. Bush is a certifiably insane psychopath who must be brought down.
January 8th, 2007 at 8:13 pmCan there be any doubt that these alleged Al Qaeda camps hit in the airstrike will be prominently featured in Bush’s speech on Wednesday? Can there be any doubt that the warmongers at Fox News and the ultra-right wing blogger echo chamber will resound with fear-stoking hysteria between now and then?
Escalation is coming, folks, and it is coming soon. And it won’t be isolated to Iraq. Our fuehrer has his sights on Iran, where he expects to find his destiny as the greatest leader of our age.
January 8th, 2007 at 8:13 pmI keep trying to post a link to a Robert Parry article at http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/010807.html
January 8th, 2007 at 8:15 pmbut my posts are being deleted. Why?
GWB: Go Team Go!! Go World War 3!!!
January 8th, 2007 at 8:16 pmOkay, now all my posts are appearing at once, Sorry for the wasted bandwidth, folks
January 8th, 2007 at 8:18 pmThis president is out of control. When or when are the men in the white coats coming for him? The generals just need to go in grab this lunatic before he blows up the whole world. Frat boy is just itching for Armageddon.
January 8th, 2007 at 8:20 pmWHA at 7 has at least part of the larger, “Rovian” agenda correctly stated.
I suspect it’s not the first time for this infernal crew. Remember—they project like I’ve never seen before. And who was always accusing someone else of “wagging the dog” a few years back, no matter what he was trying to respond to?
January 8th, 2007 at 8:35 pmExcellent….This is exactly the type of non-controversial action against Al Qaeda upon which we can all agree in the wake of Al Qaeda’s slaughter of 3,000 innocents on the morning of September 11, 2001.
January 8th, 2007 at 9:52 pmCan’t we just get out of Iraq and make war money in Afrika.
January 8th, 2007 at 10:13 pmAnd the nazi left is angry why? Oh, because someone is putting the hurt on their islamo-fascist friends.
January 8th, 2007 at 10:18 pm“nazi left” … “islamo-fascist friends”
who makes up such stoopid things and passes them around?
January 8th, 2007 at 10:28 pmwho actually uses their brain and then believes such idiocy?
oh… yea… guess it doesn’t take a brain to just parrot shite…
totally nonsensical…
And the nazi left is angry why? Oh, because someone is putting the hurt on their islamo-fascist friends.
Comment by Rick
Go open a book and learn something, then come back and be a not-quite-as-dumb troll.
January 8th, 2007 at 10:28 pmEvery time I am busy for a minute else where the nut bag bull shit bush bomb’s some one some where with word’s or the real thing….Damn..
Does any one else besides me think this all is very odd considering the new guy to the U.N he picked to day, and his relegion is.? and he has dead eyes like who else in bush’s bed room.?…I know the answers but I want you’re spin on this…..Why the hell did the crack pot do this today.? Oh I forgot fear and smear…OK ladies and gent’s start the email’s and light up the switchboard’s tomorrow….D.C and our rep’s need to know we werent kidding….Don’t forget to clean you’re gun’s and get you’re water .food and supplies like batteries all in good shape…The game’s may be starting and we need to be ready….Blessings..P.S. keep all you’re car’s full and have extra gas handy..In the winter I never let my rig get below half a tank…Join me in survival mode..You will be glad you did,,,,
January 8th, 2007 at 10:34 pmCongratulations go out to Bush on this one . As in Iraq .
Comment by rachel b
You are one sick bitch troll. Wag the Dog.
January 8th, 2007 at 10:36 pmSharon,
Bullshit Bush did this today, I think, because he’s giving his “major speech” on Wednesday. He’s stirring up the sheeple.
Gas tank full, extra water in the house, extra soup.
January 8th, 2007 at 10:38 pmWell said, Rachel B….Al Qaeda must be made to learn that no matter where they run or hide, the U.S. will find them and attack them. America’s memory of 9/11 still remains fresh. Even the Democrats, including the leadership of Pelosi and Reid, will support this strike against Al Qaeda.
January 8th, 2007 at 10:51 pmAcutally I agree with Exley, this is the type of action the US military should be used for in this conflict, not the full scale invasion of Iraq, but hitting Al Qaeda, and supporting those who wish to install non-theocratic governments.
January 8th, 2007 at 10:59 pmYa know if we raise half the hell we did during the Nam protest’s we will get it done…First off we have better communication’s, organization and lot’s of old timer’s are still willing and able to beat the chicken hawk’s back into their sorry assed coop’s…..
Here’s something for the troll’s , farro pig’s and roaches to think on…When we impeach. bush and cheney guess who will be out new president..? You got it….First speaker of the house, first woman president….Wahooo. Blessings to all but the short straw bunch..LOL..
January 8th, 2007 at 11:01 pmAnd I suppose the next “suspected al-Qaeda operations” will occur in the Congress….There is no place this man won’t attack.
January 8th, 2007 at 11:02 pmGas tank full, extra water in the house, extra soup.
Comment by Zooey
Don’t forget the duct tape. This man must be stopped.
January 8th, 2007 at 11:03 pmF*ck duct tape. :)
January 8th, 2007 at 11:09 pmReal women don’t need duck tape red state liberal. We stoped the war’s before we can do it again…..Blessings all..Nite..Have to get up early and get busy badgering every one in DC…
January 8th, 2007 at 11:26 pmI am not allowed to comment about this subject on this thread, so this post will probably be deleted as well > not allowed to mention an attack on Iran is in the works soon!
January 8th, 2007 at 11:59 pmI see my earlier posts have been restored, so best to say nothing more!
January 9th, 2007 at 12:04 amWell, we will see who exactly was bombed and all the details eventually. The subterfuge was the Ethiopians putting the war lords back into power in Somolia.
All in order to go after three Al Queada suspects in the Kenya bombings?
When the smoke clears, we will then see whether or not the Somolian government is stable or another terrorist creating machine, like Iraq.
The victory is not the short term attacks or the conquest — it is the longer term effect that is more important – Stable/secure/economiclly viable govt – no training argument for terrorists.
Then again, maybe it is still the oil.
January 9th, 2007 at 12:19 amCBS told the story as if it were ALL facts, in a neat, simplistic story. Didn’t use quotes and claimed Al qaeda was the target, however didn’t have ANY idea who was killed, oh well just another U.S. drive-by.
January 9th, 2007 at 12:26 amOh Well, we Americans always love a good fast clean bombing. It’s easy to support, always looks like the bad guys are defeated. “It’s a slam dunk” as one CIA director has been known to say.
It’s easier and cleaner than police action or investigation and it makes for great politics to say: “Just this week our armed forces took out Beelzebub and his men in Nadaland, exacting justice for crimes against our people some decade ago” cheers ” Now we are planning a strategic placement of special forces to take out other enemies of Freedom”. Zieg Hiel!! Zieg Heil!!
Hell, I think I could be a speech writer, but this one writes itself – the propaganda is so obvious.
Rove really hasn’t given up his MO since losing the election.
January 9th, 2007 at 12:36 amI find it interesting that the pro-war trolls on this thread have taken it as fact that these airstrikes hit Al Qaeda. We don’t know that yet, and somehow I doubt it. After all, your beloved President has committed our military for 4 years attacking a country that had nothing to do with Al Qaeda. Face it, your President can’t hit the broad side of a barn. I think it is likely that this airstrike is contrived to generate propaganda leading into Bush’s upcoming speech, and that it will come out later that an essentially random target was hit. Like that restaurant full of people we bombed trying to hit Saddam on bad intelligence. But you trolls somehow find a way to avoid processing this information.
The brain dead idiocy of the trolls at this site is breathtaking.
January 9th, 2007 at 12:56 amCBS told the story as if it were ALL facts, in a neat, simplistic story.
Comment by Kahoneez — January 9, 2007 @ 12:26 am
Yes, a neat, simplistic story, and watch how the simpleton trolls sop it up like pigs at a trough.
January 9th, 2007 at 1:04 amAl Qaeda must be made to learn that no matter where they run or hide, the U.S. will find them and attack them.
Comment by Exley — January 8, 2007 @ 10:51 pm
So then why the hell are we in Iraq, Exley? Al Qaeda wasn’t there until we reduced the country to chaos and turned it into the new Afghanistan, the perfect breeding ground for terrorists. Why hasn’t your guy Bush run down bin Laden? Why do you love Al Qaeda so much that you want to protect them?
January 9th, 2007 at 1:06 amAl Qaeda? we’re still fighting them? Whoa
January 9th, 2007 at 3:42 amWell then, according to Walter, the way to promote free speech is to stifle free speech! It’s the liberals who are threatening liberty! Get it? Remind me to avoid George Mason University! But then again, I see that Walter only published one paper in 2006 – did the school get wise to his hateful nonsense and pull the plug?
Back on thread, the newspapers are reporting that per CBS “many bodies were seen on the ground after the airstrike” – gee I thought there were only three “suspected” terrorists they were after. I sure hope that each and every dead person was guilty of murder! But I guess we won’t know now.
January 9th, 2007 at 7:22 amWalter, give it a rest. Why don’t you put all that energy into something productive? I’m in a bad mood today (civilians getting killed does that to me) and I made the mistake of looking at one of your articles. Apparently you lack the ability to reason and are therefore a danger to those around you.
From one of your delusional writings:
“The secondhand smoke from my cigarette might harm you. However, your being able to prevent me from smoking harms me; I have less enjoyment. We cannot say which person’s harm is more important and should take precedence.”
What if that person sitting next to you has an oxygen tank so they can breathe? Would that help you decide who is being more harmed?! Or does your gratuituous “enjoyment” still carry equal weight?
If you are truly a professor, I can only imagine the discussions that go on in your classroom. Let me guess, when a student insists on asserting a contrary view do you eventually resort to shouting them down?
Universities are an important place to cultivate open minds. Your mind seems as closed as they come and between that and your faulty logic you represent a danger to young minds.
But that’s just my opinion.
January 9th, 2007 at 8:35 amI guess two wars is not enough. We need to fight in a third.
January 9th, 2007 at 8:51 amSeems the US, commanded by the nut in chief is striking the right target again…..civilians, camels, sheep, dogs, children….or how to kill an al-qaeda terrorist together with 50 innocent people….
All this without direct U.N approval, congress approval or darth vader’s approval….did i say approval?
January 9th, 2007 at 10:27 am#47
“Face it, your President can’t hit the broad side of a barn.”
I remember six al Qaeda operatives in Yemen getting evaporated by a Predator drone in 2002. I also remember 2 – 500lb LGBs taking out al Zarqawi
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/2404425.stm
January 9th, 2007 at 11:24 amFace it, your President can’t hit the broad side of a barn.
Comment by VerbalKint — January 9, 2007 @ 12:56 am
As long as you are a US citizen he is your President too .
Comment by Las Vegas Louie
Not me sir. Mr Bush is like that black sheep cousin some of us have. He comes to parties and we wish he wouldn’t – but we have to invite him. We are ’stuck’ dealing with this person even after he has given us many reasons to avoid and ignore him. Every sunrise Mr Bush represents fewer and fewer Americans – you may be the last.
January 9th, 2007 at 11:28 amHey Vegas puppet to vote a president does not give him a blank check to do what he pleases.At least in civilized countries like mine.
Decisions in civilized countries are based on agreement, and not on personal caprices of Chimps in chief.
He has to respect the outcome of last november elections, respect the military advisors respect iraq study group, respect congressmen and respect his own voters.
WTF….this criminal does not even respect himself!
January 9th, 2007 at 12:23 pmThanks TP for posting that last comment (#61). I could tell that you had to think about it for a little while. I will take it to heart and try to tone it down a bit. I just wish people would think ‘outside the box’ a little more.
These recent military actions are making me a little jumpy…
January 9th, 2007 at 12:53 pmOh – perhaps I thanked TP too soon? I see my post have disappeared.
Very disappointing. It’s becoming too frustrating to post here these days. I used to think this was a cool site but the trolls are taking over. They seem to get to say whatever they want.
See ya.
January 9th, 2007 at 12:58 pmBecause we are fighting a war on terror. :-|
January 10th, 2007 at 1:29 amWho do you think you are kidding Hector? If I remember right you said you were Venezuelan right?
January 10th, 2007 at 1:33 am