US Embassy attacked in Yemen.
By John Amato Tuesday Sep 16, 2008 2:30pmThis is awful...Since we invaded Iraq, these attacks will only continue...
Speaking of Iraq, in Baghdad, ten also died. And that's not all. Read and weep about the "success" of the "surge."
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So, since Embassies are considered US Soil, can we just drop the silly idea that the US hasn't been attacked since 9/11?
IT'S CLINTON'S FAULT!!!!
*sarcastic*
Sounds like the calm in Baghdad is so fragile that it is breaking.
Gawd I hope Obama's team 'spins' this as Well, 8 years of Republican rule hasn't made us any safer before the red team spins this as you aren't safe.
After the terrible, bad, no-good day the McCain-Palin camp had yesterday, I'll bet they are pleased as punch to have a disaster not connected with the economy and that they can be "strong" on. How many Americans have to die to give the Republicans a bounce in the polls?
Norah O' Donnell on msnbc just did a great piece about McCain's history with deregulation and about how Gramm was involved too.
pissed off patricia @ 6:
Oops, wrong thread. Sincerely sorry!
The neo-cons must be getting a collective woody over this. Which one of them was it who recently wrote that a terrorist attack would be good for mccain? Was it william the bloody?
To quote the video:
pissed off patricia @ 7:
make sure you add a link when you get your act together.
CoIntelPro against the WAR of LIES @ 10:
My act is together, I just made a mistake. There is no link because I watched it on tv.
I wonder if our foreign policy has anything to do with it. Or do they just simply hate us for our freedoms? I wonder if we'll go after the people who did this and fully investigate the attack. Or just whitewash it and attack another country with resources the corporations desire.
The anniversary that no one is talking about:
Sept 17 2003 "No, we've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September 11"
Bush's answer to a reporter
Yellow Elephant Safari @ 8:
And that the majority of the US people will be screaming for more blood behind them, in pure ignorance ......... oh yes, a well groomed and compliant sheelp indeed !
Oh that is while they aren't complaining about their economy brought to it's knees by their own countries greed ....... ah karma ..........
"....This is awful…Since we invaded Iraq, these attacks will only continue…"
What a moron! We were attacked like this long before Iraq. I am far from a Bush fan, but grow up, you can't blame EVERYTHING on him.
Well.. another USS Cole, it would seem.
I doubt the Yemenese themselves are behind this, actually. To make a kind of prejudiced argument.. most of them are too busy chewing khat.
(Imagine a country where 70% smoke pot.. think much violence would happen?)
This is from my day to day calender of bush quotes
"When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt"
-President Bush, September 13, 2001-
John, what is going on here? I don't get the sudden shift.
"Since we invaded Iraq, these attacks will only continue" is pretty much empty blather. We were attacked before invading Iraq, so while you are (IMO) correct in believing that Iraq will make us even more of a target, this specific post doesn't make that case at all.
In fact, it kind of weakens the overall argument, because "Since we invaded Iraq, these attacks will continue" is an easily defeated strawman that Bushtards would use to discredit the larger point.
Are you getting enough sleep these days? I'm starting to worry about you.
pissed off patricia @ 11:
I was just pokin' fun atcha! :)
Let's invade and give them democracy, and then use this as an excuse to attack Iran. Obviously this is their fault.
/sarcasm.
surge=lipstick
pig=iraq
And I thought Bush said he was a 'uniter'.
Is there any nation on Earth (other than........can I say it? Israel)
that doesn't despise us yet?
CoIntelPro against the WAR of LIES @ 18:
That's okay. I'm having the day from hell and it felt like you were shoveling more coals on the fires of hell. Not a problem, we're good! :)
In the WaPo today there is a story about French commandos rescuing hostages that were held in Somalia, just across the gulf of Aden from Yemen, by pirates(quaint term for seaborne terrorists). According to the report there are over 50 people and a dozen boats still being held there by said pirates, some I assume for a long time. Why I bring this up is that we have a large fleet of ships in the immediate area and can do nothing to stop this. This is not some out of the way area, this is the entry point for the Suez canal from the Indian Ocean, lots of ship traffic, more so than anywhere else in the world. With all the naval ships, the importance of this sea lane, the money being made by the pirates from ransom being used for not good uses, why cant we stop this? This bombing and the continued piracy in the area just go to show that we will not be safe until we can get Obama in the white House and realign the priorities for our own safety and that of our allies. Bush cant, or wont, do anything that is not going to involve bettering his legacy in Iraq and damn the people that have to die, or suffer, for that to happen.
Impartial Obser @ 17:
conflating 9/11 and Iraq make you look like an idiot.
the invasion of Iraq is a continuation of the boosh idiocy which began with pappy boosh's placing US troops on Holy Land in Mecca and Medina, which prompted the wrath of the original WTC bombers(remember those guys. the one's who were found with basic detective work by NYPD and the FBI?).
Then there was also the USS Cole.
So on the second try, the towers come down and boosh executes the chainey-enron energy plan by invading Iran. No detective work; no real investigation, unless you count the few hours it took to throw Osama Bin Laden into the airwaves while people are still reeling from the shock.
Then boosh declares the Holy War(later retracted). Rummy, chainey and other neocons all cry out against 'muslim extremists'.
John is right. You are wrong. Educate yourself and broaden your perspective.
jakes @ 20:
pairing=excellent
pissed off patricia @ 16:
Clearly, he was concerned about wasting a perfectly good $10 tent. How Republican...
What's worse is that this story has gotten absolutely NO major news outlet attention today. The story is currently #8 on CNN's front page behind, of all things, "Video shows piglets slammed to floor". I mean, I'm all for the PETA folks, but a terror attack on a U.S. embassy in an election year where Republicans are giving themselves a massive circle jerk over how great they are at fighting terrorism, you'd think the story would be a bigger deal.
Yellow Elephant Safari @ 8:
Kinda reminds me of 9/11 when Netanyahu of Israel said the attacks were a good thing for Israel:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/975574.html
Think about it.
BigTallMatt @ 27:
Those piglets must have been wearing lipstick. Otherwise it wouldn't be nooz.
jeff @ 23:
We could stop it, but they haven't 'jacked any OIL TANKERS yet....
BigTallMatt @ 27:
If Americans don't die, is it truly "terrorism?" Our exceptionalism is showing.
So this is how it will go if I understand neo-con logic:
US embassy in Yemen is attacked........we must swiftly retaliate against Iran.
It will be interesting to see how these guys are involved:
http://www.asecondlookatthesaudis.com
And lest you think I'm jumping to conclusions, here is a little background material:
http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1177&p=local&a=3
http://story.zimbabwestar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/2411cd3571b4f088/id/397...
The same folks who hijacked those airplanes on 9/11 are still very much in business, due largely to the fact that the Bush administration refuses to lift a finger against them.
Impartial Obser @ 17:
I was confused by that at first as well. But I think his point is that invading Iraq is the opposite of what we need to do to prevent these types of actions and to prevent radicalism from spreading.
fastfeat @ 31:
Good point, all that they have hit are pleasure craft and tour boats, you know innocent civilians.
B-b-bb but why???? I thought the world loves Georgie and his excellent policies....No?? Whaaaat!!! They hate us!!!???? Because of what Georgie has been doing??? Oh... Well then, never mind...........JD
KickSave23 @ 4:
WE AREN'T SAFE! 9/11 is proof of that and each of these attacks are as well. They tried to bomb this same embassy in March of this year, but were unsuccessful and the bomb did more damage across the street killing 13 girls and a guard. This all goes back to oil. We have to be able to retaliate and eliminate the people responsible for these attacks and create our energy indepedence.
I'm not voting for someone that will just try to preach people into changing. That isn't how the real world works. We have to continue to show our strength as a country. Obama won't perpetuate that image.
Jack @ 15:
To me that phrase reads as stating that the occupation of Iraq will prevent there from being any opportunity to eliminate or reduce such attacks.
Hope that's grown-up enough for you.
What goes around comes around.
Northwestern @ 38:
How do you describe the invasion by one sovereign nation of another because the nation was invaded -- with approx. 300 thousand of the civilians (primarily women and children) killed by the invaders -- had a commodity that the invading nation wanted? What exactly is the wording that you would use?
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chris @ 1:
Yeah, I thought the Repubs were on top of security. Don't tell me that bubble is bursting, too. Didn't we invade Iraq so we'd fight them over there? Isn't that why we've all given up our constitutional rights? Has Bush mentioned this event publicly yet?
Neo-classical secular humanist@42:
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Come on D'Amato, don't be such a dinbgbat, these will happen whether we attacked Iraq or not. We had our embassies attacked prior to 9/11 and we'll have them attacked again. It has nothing to do with Iraq.
Neo-classical secular humanist @ 42:
Sorry about that. I should know better.
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Llyonnoc @ 45:
what flavor koolaid is that?
Gee whiz. What a coincidence. Al Qaida shows up right before the election. Those guys are better than all of McCain's PR people put together.
Neo-classical secular humanist @ 41:
I totally accept your premise that we aren't safe. Now please explain to me how eight years of the Bush junta have made us even the tiniest bit safer.
How do you JUSTIFY the invasion of one sovereign nation by another? Because they had a commodity that the invading nation wanted? I spent one summer working at a child care facility, and I had three year olds who knew better than taking someone else's stuff just because they wanted it.
I'm not voting for someone who doesn't have any interest in changing anything whatsoever. That's the way the world has been working these past years.
I do, however, concede your point about this all going back to oil.
What is it with attacks in Yemen in the last year of a Presidency?
pissed off patricia @ 11:
m'dear pat
No good deed goes unpunished. But.........Keep up the good work.
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Q U E S T I O N:
How many dead bodies = SUCCESS...?
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