Iraq is a ‘big moneymaker’ for al-Qaeda.
U.S. officials say that “al-Qaida’s command base in Pakistan increasingly is being funded by cash from Iraq, where the terrorist network’s operatives are raising substantial sums from donations to the insurgency as well as kidnappings of wealthy Iraqis and other criminal activity.”
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If Bush and Co. had intended to formulate a foreign policy that would be inimical to U.S. interests, they could not have done a better job.
May 20th, 2007 at 10:02 amI was wondering what happened to all that missing Halliburton cash!!!
May 20th, 2007 at 10:09 amUS foreign policy has been inimical to U.S. interests since January 31 1949. The junta has just taken it to a whole other level.
May 20th, 2007 at 10:13 amYawn…
May 20th, 2007 at 10:15 amWas it Perot in his run for pres that talked about the huge sucking sound of job’s leaving the u.s. or was he talking about all our borrowed money leaving the country…Sorry I am a little slow this morning…Was wondering the other day who took delivery of all those palett’s of money…Any clues.? Blessings
May 20th, 2007 at 10:24 amUgh.
Orrin Hatch to be AG Recess Appointment?
May 20th, 2007 at 10:25 amIt was reported today in the Charlotte Observer that the USA gives 1 BILLION a year to pakistan…. can anyone guess what for?
May 20th, 2007 at 10:26 am#7 Does Pakastan have mangos.?…..LOL..Blessings
May 20th, 2007 at 10:30 am“U.S. officials say that “al-Qaida’s command base in Pakistan…”
Anyone besides me see a problem with this. Their “command base in Pakistan”. Wait a minute, we give Pakistan billions of dollars a year to help us fight the “war on terror”. I guess an al Qaida command base doesn’t qualify as being part of the “war on terror”.
May 20th, 2007 at 10:35 amNuke ‘em all. I’m tired of fighting these terrorist islamofascists anyway.
May 20th, 2007 at 10:39 am“Orrin Hatch to be AG Recess Appointment?”
It’s time for Congress to stop these “recess” appointments. Bush has consistently used them to put in people he knows won’t pass muster with Congress. If nothing else, it should define a recess as more than X number of weeks. There is no emergency that can’t wait a week to be addressed and to appoint a recess appointment when Congress will only be gone a week is a gross misuse of this ability.
May 20th, 2007 at 10:39 amWHAT NEXT THEN
Afghan soldiers mass on border, ready and willing to take on old foe Pakistan
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/ tol/ news/ world/ asia/ article1811094.ece
Since Sunday evening there has been a build-up of forces in the contested zone as hundreds of regular Afghan soldiers from the 203rd “Thunder†Corps, who had been fighting the Taleban, have deployed to the area to reinforce the beleaguered border police, bringing with them heavy artillery sent up from Kabul. “We can’t wait any more,†Brigadier Sanaoull Haq, a staff officer in the corps, said. “Now if anything further happens we will reply in kind.â€
May 20th, 2007 at 10:40 amThe whole region is a powder-keg. GDumbya has blundered into the biggest misadventure this country has ever been mired down in. Many have compared his dirty little war in Iraq to Vietnam. There is no comparison. The idiocy of Iraq exceeds Vietnam to the third power!
We are bleeding lives, treasure and reputation all over the world but GDumbya “stays the course” without a clue of the residual consequences of his stupid and ill-informed decisions. It is past time to throw him out of office and begin to repair this country.
The situation in Pakistan is merely the most recent indication of how close to the tipping point GDumbya has brought us. The only — the only – asset we have in Pakistan is Musharraf. The most important nexus of any real War on Terror is along the Afghan/Pakistan border and GDumbya is trying to operate it by remote-control as a virtual after-thought because all his attention and resources are being used in an effort to fix the mess he created in Iraq.
GDumbya took his eye off the ball and he lacks the intelligence, resolve or moral fiber to rectify his numerous and monumental errors.
May 20th, 2007 at 11:00 amAt much the same time in Baghdad, 144 members of Parliament — out of a total of 275 — signed a petition calling for a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. The petition is now being developed into a draft bill by the legal and foreign affairs committees of the Iraqi Parliament.
same link as above
May 20th, 2007 at 11:02 amJ Scott. When did you fight terrorist islamofascists?
May 20th, 2007 at 11:03 amThe chymp and his dictator buddy Masharref are screwed on this one. Pakistan does not militarily control the area the Taliban are operating out of, nor does he have the political will or support to root them out.
May 20th, 2007 at 11:04 amIf the Afghanis invade, all hell’s agonna break out, more of our troops will be killed.
Heckuva GWOTing, chymp.
NATO secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer visits President George W. Bush at his Texas ranch on May 20-21. The message de Hoop Scheffer has to convey is sombre: NATO is losing the war against the Taliban. A fundamental policy review is urgently needed.
On May 8, the Senate in Kabul approved a bill that called for negotiations with the Taliban, a ceasefire, and a date for the withdrawal of foreign troops. The proposed legislation demands that foreign forces should not engage the Taliban unless they are themselves attacked or have first consulted with the Afghan army, police and government.
May 20th, 2007 at 11:04 amhttp://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=20701
link
May 20th, 2007 at 11:05 amIncoming British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will remove all British troops from Iraq within two years (before the next election) as a way of gaining back the trust of Labour voters, according to The Scotsman.
May 20th, 2007 at 11:07 amWhat can Jaap de Hoop Scheffer say to George W. Bush? His task is unenviable. The American president believes he is engaged in a ‘global war on terror’, but, in fact, the people his troops are fighting and killing are tribesmen seeking to defend their families and ancestral lands against foreigners. In Afghanistan, attachment to Islam and hatred of foreigners are both very great, and have defeated other armies, whether the Soviets in the 1980s or the British a century earlier.
May 20th, 2007 at 11:09 amAnyone guess ?
What, did you think there way someone besides you who couldn’t read to the end of the opening sentence of a news article ?
May 20th, 2007 at 11:10 am#6. Hoyer says no vay-kay for the House until the Iraq funding bill is approved. Maybe having no recesses is the only way to avoid these onerous recess appointments. Hatch has been making overtures for the AG job for a long time. Damn–I bet the little weasel will slip in through the back door.
May 20th, 2007 at 11:11 am3422 - 7 U.S. soldiers die in Iraq attacks
3422 - 7 U.S. soldiers die in Iraq attacks
3422 - 7 U.S. soldiers die in Iraq attacks
May 20th, 2007 at 11:11 am3422 - 7 U.S. soldiers die in Iraq attacks
May 20th, 2007 at 11:12 amThe only Constitutional check on a dictatorial President is impeachment. And impeachment is still off the table. The Democratic majority is quite content to let Bush do whatever he wants, while keeping us entertained with oversight hearings.
Corruption upon corruption is unveiled, to what end? From January 5 to now, has there been any real changes? Bush’s surge moves forward. Military Commision “trials” move forward. Loyal Bushies still staff the Department of Justice. American citizens are still subject to warrantless surveillance. We are still imprisoning and torturing innocent people.
Impeachment is off the table, and so is any hope of restoring the rule of law.
May 20th, 2007 at 11:19 amGreat post’s all, …Again your post is great BnF….What to do that will bring on posative change is my constant question..Every day I send out emails and make phone call’s pleading, demanding and sometimes threateneing to change party allegence to try and get their attention and nothing seem’s to be working…..Any one else have ideas to make these representatives listen.? I know with out a doubt there are hundred’s of thousand’s of other voter’s that are doing the same…This madness has to stop now…Blessings
May 20th, 2007 at 11:59 amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPfKWA0cVS4 http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=kdL0lTbxcRw&mode=related&search= http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=sceiMfFuN3g&mode=related&search=
May 20th, 2007 at 12:40 pmNuke ‘em all. I’m tired of fighting these terrorist islamofascists anyway.
Comment by J Scott — May 20, 2007 @ 10:39 am
If this is really J Scott,
Yeah, I know what you’re saying man. I’m sure every American here has felt the same way. The only problem is that if we nuke ‘em we’ll probably decimate some non-shiteating muslims, and you know what all the bleeding-heart liberals would say about that.
May 20th, 2007 at 2:52 pmNot to mention the Pakistani ISI, the Saudis, the UAE, and my own home country, Turkey.
Oh ya, they all have very intimate relations with our CIA, which includes terrorism and drugs/arms smuggling.
May 20th, 2007 at 3:13 pmWell, it seems it’s a big ass money maker for everyone except Iraqis. Marvelous. Did they pass that oil law yet?
May 20th, 2007 at 8:32 pm#28 - Turkey is the hub. That is, if you believe Sibel Edmonds.
May 20th, 2007 at 8:33 pm