posted on February 23, 2007 03:09:02 PM new
Just in case there's any stupid person here to might happen to believe your lies....
"This coming from the person that does not know that Hillary is US Senator, who furthermore does not know the difference between a person's opinion and what is printed in an article"
That is another lie . But hopefully since they've seen that you believe 'this president doesn't approve of this war'....they understand how you're unable to see the facts or truth.....because you're just not in touch with any kind of known reality.
posted on February 23, 2007 03:58:34 PM new
Liar_K and her step son Bear post stuff from some BOLG by RIGHT WING FIRE BREATHERS and expects us to read it. LOL
The truth is (LIAR_K KNOWS) I stopped seriously reading anything she posts when I found her to be nothing but bold face LIAR time after time after time.
The good news is we now have cons like LIAR_K completely surrounded and are watching their every sleazy move.
posted on February 23, 2007 04:10:26 PM new
Linda-if ya see two big eyes looking thru your bathroom window while you're taking a shower-its Bigpeepa...
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If you dont want to hear the truth....dont ask the question.
posted on February 23, 2007 04:24:17 PM new
lol....I wouldn't be surprised, classic.
He continues to speak of how he's 'surrounding' us righties. lol
But I personally think he prefers MEN.
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Britain to increase troop levels in Afghanistan
Updated 2/23/2007 2:00 PM
LONDON (AP) — Britain said Friday it would send additional troops to southern Afghanistan in response to NATO's call to bolster forces in the region, days after the country said it plans to withdraw 1,600 troops from Iraq in coming months.
Defense Minister Des Browne confirmed the deployment in a statement late Friday.
"We have decided that it is right for the U.K. to provide some additional forces for the southern region," Browne said, adding he would announce full details in Parliament on Monday.
The Defense Ministry refused to confirm reports in the British media that an additional 1,000 soldiers were to be sent.
Brown said the government made the decision after a NATO defense ministers said last week in Seville, Spain, where the alliance asked countries to send more troops.
"NATO must respond to this request, or we will put at risk everything we have achieved across Afghanistan in the last five years," he said.
"We have been trying hard to get other nations to live up to the joint commitment NATO made to Afghanistan and provide more forces, forces which are authorised to fight. We will continue to press. But we must be realistic," he said.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Tony Blair told lawmakers that Britain will be withdrawing 1,600 of its soldiers from Iraq in the next few months and hopes to make other cuts to its 7,100-strong contingent by late summer.
Opposition lawmaker Tim Garden said announcing an increase in Afghanistan so soon after the decrease in Iraq seems to be strategic planning on the government's part.
"They're making it a balance with the withdraw from Iraq," said Garden, a member of the Liberal Democrat party. "But it won't relieve the strain on the British forces."
Britain has more than 5,000 soldiers in Afghanistan, concentrated in the southern part of the country ? a former Taliban stronghold where the government wields little power. In all, NATO has about 35,000 troops in and around Afghanistan.
NATO issued a statement earlier this week that the Taliban is planning to increase suicide and roadside bomb attacks in the south and west.
Several European nations have resisted pressure to send more units to Afghanistan, especially to the south and east. In particular, the reluctance of France, Spain, Italy, Germany and Turkey to provide more combat troops has caused frustration among nations on the front lines.
The U.S., Britain, Canada and the Netherlands have provided most of the troops in the south. But Antonio Giustozzi, a London School of Economics researcher working in Afghanistan, said cracks are starting to appear among those countries, as well.
"British, Americans and Canadians are already complaining quite loudly about the 'combat-shy' approach of the Dutch in Uruzgan (in southern Afghanistan)," he told the AP in an e-mail. "The only solution would therefore be to send more 'gung-ho' troops, like the British."
Since the beginning of operations in November 2001, 48 British soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday in Kabul that all countries in the region must tackle Afghanistan's booming opium production by arresting drug traffickers, providing alternative livelihoods for poppy farmers and bolstering patrols of the roads through which drugs are moved toward other countries.
In his first visit to Kabul as foreign minister, Lavrov met President Hamid Karzai and inaugurated a new Russian embassy, just days after Afghanistan celebrated the anniversary of the start of its uprising against Soviet occupation in the 1980s.
notice: it's a USA Today article FROM the AP lol lol lol
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"While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation": "What would a Democrat president have done at that point?"
"Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack."
Ann Coulter
[ edited by Linda_K on Feb 23, 2007 04:29 PM ]
posted on February 23, 2007 04:53:28 PM new
"This coming from the person that does not know that Hillary is US Senator, who furthermore does not know the difference between a person's opinion and what is printed in an article"
tomwiii
posted on February 14, 2007 01:27:53 PM
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17154697/ link probided by tomwiii
Gag...Retch...Yuck!
"Father Flotsky made me do it! Now leave me alone! I have to join Marky-the-Molester in REHAB..." the above sentence was tomwiii's opinion
Your statement is below linda
Linda_K
posted on February 14, 2007 01:47:13 PM
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Here we have a QUOTED sentence that is NOT in the article.
Are you going to tell me now that I am lying when the proof has been spelled out to you once again. Who is lying now Linda. It sure is not me.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on February 23, 2007 06:03:41 PM new
Linda_K
posted on February 23, 2007 05:14:34 PM
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Yes, I see you can't comprehend that either. LOL
When you get help and come back to some sense of 'normal'.....we'll talk.
Until then I prefer not to speak to someone like yourself who just can't GRASP anything written."""
posted on February 23, 2007 06:12:46 PM new
Not at all true, sybil.
I just can't talk to an IDIOT who knows NOTHING and continues to post all sorts of falsehoods - because HE can't comprehend the written word - and is so VERY misinformed.
'he who believes President Bush doesn't approve of this war'....isn't based in reality.
It's crazy making to try to have a conversation with one that comes UNARMED to the discussion.
posted on February 23, 2007 08:43:20 PM new
It is funny that when Liar_K is shown the facts, she claims others do not live in reality.
Liar_k claims everyone else is stupid, but she keeps proving how stupid she really. What is really sad is her son probably has the same genes as her.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on February 26, 2007 01:28:11 PM new
No Sunnis in Basra, only Shiites and the different Shiite factions haven't starting squaring off in that area yet so why should the Brits not pull out? They have accomplished their goal. Why should they occupy that country?
buyhigh
posted on February 26, 2007 02:05:31 PM new
Exactly.....but the libs here can't GRASP that fact.
Plus now that I've read the report about how the UK is being put on notice to expect MORE terrorists attacks inside their own country....could be their gov. feels they need more troops at home, fighting the terrorists there. ??
But then they also have planned on sending more troops into Afghanistan also.
Could be many reasons....but yes, it's been reported the Iraq's have taken more control over the areas that the Brits previously protected.
posted on February 26, 2007 02:46:06 PM new
BUYHIGH,
Why didn't the Brits send the troops to Baghdad to to fight BUSHY's WAR. America could have used the British Troops we are so short on boots on the ground?
02/25/07 Reuters: 17 bodies found in Baghdad
Police found the bodies of 17 people shot dead in different parts of Baghdad over the past day, a police source said.
02/25/07 Reuters: 24 bodies found in Mosul
Police in the northern city of Mosul said 24 bodies were found in different parts of the city over the past day.
posted on February 26, 2007 02:59:55 PM newThe British Retreat from Iraq Brings Peril for US Troops
By Juan Cole
In reality, southern Iraq is a quagmire that has defeated all British efforts to impose order, and Blair was pressed by his military commanders to get out altogether -- and quickly. The departure has only been slowed, for the moment, by the pleas of Bush administration officials like Cheney. And far from the disingenuously upbeat prognosis offered by the vice president, the British withdrawal could spell severe trouble for both the Iraqi government and for U.S. troops in that country.
The British helped provide the security that allowed private supply convoys bearing fuel, food and ammunition to travel from Kuwait up through Shiite-held territory to the U.S. military's forward operating bases in and around Baghdad and in Anbar province. Col. Pat Lang, a retired senior officer with the Defense Intelligence Agency, has pointed out that if Shiite militias began attacking those trucks, American troops in the center-north of the country would become sitting ducks for the Sunni Arab guerrillas.
The other danger posed by the British withdrawal is to Iraq's economy. The southern port city of Basra is the country's primary economic window on the world. Exports of the 1.6 million barrels a day of petroleum it managed to produce in January all went out of Basra. The pipeline that used to take Iraqi exports from the northern oil city of Kirkuk to Ceyhan on Turkey's Mediterranean coast has been subject to constant sabotage. The Iraqi state depends on the revenue realized from Basra's exports for its survival. As it is, it has been charged that militias siphon off $2 billion a year in petroleum revenues through smuggling operations. Were the central government to lose control of even more of those revenues, it could be starved to death.
And the danger is imminent. Although it is often alleged that Basra is relatively calm because it lacks Sunnis, neither claim is true. Though heavily Shiite, Basra also has tens of thousands of Sunnis -- even, perhaps, the odd al-Qaida operative. Sunni spokesmen such as Qatar-based Yusuf al-Qaradawi maintain that thousands of Sunnis have been driven out of the city and that a hundred Sunni mosques have been confiscated by Shiites. The Shiite-dominated Iraqi government denies these allegations.
posted on February 26, 2007 03:07:21 PM new
buyhigh - Yes, PLEASE explain to 'waco' about the different coalition groups covering different areas of Iraq.
"Why didn't the Brits send the troops to Baghdad to to fight BUSHY's WAR. America could have used the British Troops we are so short on boots on the ground?"
I have tried and tried to explain it to him...but just CAN'T get it past that extremely THICK, CLOSED mind of his.
posted on February 26, 2007 04:30:18 PM new Juan R. I. Cole
President of the Global Americana Institute
Professor Juan R. I. Cole
Professor of History
1029 Tisch Hall
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003
Voice: (734) 764-6305, 763-1599
FAX (734) 747-4811
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Juan R. I. Cole is Professor of Modern Middle East and South Asian History at the History Department of the University of Michigan. A bibliography of his writings may be found here. He has written extensively about modern Islamic movements in Egypt, the Persian Gulf, and South Asia. He has given numerous media and press interviews on the War on Terrorism since September 11, 2001, as well as concerning the Iraq War in 2003. His current research focuses on two contemporary phenomena: 1) Shiite Islam in Iraq and Iran and 2) the "jihadi" or "sacred-war" strain of Muslim radicalism, including al-Qaeda and the Taliban among other groups. Cole commands Arabic, Persian and Urdu and reads some Turkish, knows both Middle Eastern and South Asian Islam, and lived in a number of places in the Muslim world for extended periods of time. His most recent book is Sacred Space and Holy War (IB Tauris 2002). This volume collects some of his work on the history of the Shiite branch of Islam in modern Iraq, Iran and the Gulf. He treated Shi`ism in his co-edited book, Shi`ism and Social Protest (Yale, 1986), of his first monograph, Roots of North Indian Shi`ism in Iran and Iraq (California, 1989). His interest in Iranian religion is further evident in his work on Baha'i studies, which eventuated in his 1998 book, Modernity and the Millennium: The Genesis of the Baha'i Faith in the Nineteenth Century Middle East (Columbia University Press). He has also written a good deal about modern Egypt, including a book, Colonialism and Revolution in the Middle East: Social and Cultural Origins of Egypt's `Urabi Movement (Princeton, 1993). His concern with comparative history and Islamics is evident in his edited Comparing Muslim Societies (Michigan, 1992).
Professional History
1975 B.A. History and Literature of Religions, Northwestern University
1978 M.A. Arabic Studies/History, American University in Cairo
1984 Ph.D. Islamic Studies, University of California Los Angeles
1984-1990 Assistant Professor of History, University of Michigan
1990-1995 Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan
1992-1995 Director, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan
1995- Professor of History, University of Michigan
Scholastic Awards and Grants ; Hudson Research Professorship, Winter, 2003 ; Award for Research in Turkey, May, 1999, International Institute, U-M ; Research Excellence Award, College of LSA, U-M, August, 1997 ; OVPR and LSA Faculty Assistance Fund Grants, June, 1995 ; LSA Faculty Assistance Fund Grant, March 1994 ; Rackham Research Partnership, 1992-93 ; National Endowment for the Humanities, Jan.-June, 1991 ; Office of the Vice-President for Research, U-M (Pakistan), Summer 1990 ; Horace H. Rackham Faculty Grant, Egypt, Summer 1988 ; SSRC/ACLS Post-Doctoral Award, England, Summer 1986 ; Fulbright-Hays Islamic Civilization Postdoctoral Award, Egypt, 1985-86 ; SSRC/ACLS Doctoral Fellowship, Pakistan, India, UK, 1981-83 ; Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Fellowship, India, 1982
At the University of Michigan, I teach courses on the modern history of the Middle East and on South Asia. I regularly teach a survey, History 443 Modern Middle East History. I also offer with fair regularity an upper-level class, History 542 Modern Iran and the Gulf States. Among my favorite courses, which I do not get to teach as often, is History 456 Mughal India. For graduate students I offer History 664 Studies on the Modern Middle East, History 749 Seminar on the Modern Middle East, and History 793 The Study of the Near East, and have co-taught History 615 Comparative World History. In fall, 1998, I offered for the first time History 334, "War and Society in the Modern Middle East."
The Coles were originally the Kohls, from the County of Hessen-Darmstadt, and had a connection to the lumber business there. For more on the Cole genealogy click here. They emigrated to the U.S. around 1830, settling in Pennsylvania as dairy farmers. A branch moved south to Winchester, Virginia, late in the nineteenth century, and so Cole's roots are in the Shenandoah Valley, though he did not spend much time there. Rather, he grew up in a peripatetic military family that happened to be in Albuquerque, N.M., when he was born, and had two long tours in France (a total of seven years) and one 18-month stay at Kagnew Station, in Asmara, Eritrea (then Ethiopia), and which lived all over the U.S. After going to Northwestern and becoming interested in Islamics and the Middle East, he went on to live six years in the Arab world, and another two and a half in South Asia (India and Pakistan, mainly Delhi, Lucknow and Lahore). He writes primarily about three broad areas: the social and cultural history of modern Egypt; the religious and cultural history of modern Iran; and religion in South Asia. In addition to writing history, he enjoys translating, and has rendered into English books by Kahlil Gibran and Mirza Abu'l-Fadl Gulpaygani, as well as working on Urdu fiction. His hobbies include reading literary novels and science fiction, learning languages, bicycling, and the World Wide Web. He married the former Shahin Malik in Lahore in 1982, and they have one son, Arman, born in 1987, (who produced some of the graphics throughout this site).
Recent National Service
Middle East Studies Association of North America:
1999-2004. Editor, The International Journal of Middle East Studies (Published by Cambridge University Press for the Middle East Studies Association of North America).
1998 Program Committee chair, MESA annual conference
1996, 1989 Officer Nominating Committee
1991, Book Award Committee, Middle East Studies Association
1988-1992 Book Review Editor, International Journal of Middle East Studies
posted on February 26, 2007 06:20:24 PM new
I wonder at the reasioning of the cut & run liberals here.
The way I'm reading them is, that if the Brits leave Iraq, it will be a disaster in the making. BUT if the US withdraws all our troops, Iraq will be SAVED?
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.George S. Patton
posted on February 26, 2007 08:25:15 PM new
ROFLOL
now hellen's being a parrot also....only in copy and paste. lol lol lol
Gotta love all these extremely progressive liberals who just worship the muslims who teach ME history in our colleges .....teaching our young adults how TERRIBLE America is for everything they do. tsk tsk tsk
Many respected this muslim professor also. Now he's in JAIL.
FBI charges Florida professor with terrorist activities
Seven others named in 50-count indictment
University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian, right, was arrested Thursday in an early morning raid by the FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force.
RELATED
• Background on Sami Al-Arian
• Document: Indictment (U.S. v. Al-Arian) (PDF)
TAMPA, Florida (CNN) -- A Florida college professor identified as a fund raiser and organizer for a Palestinian terrorist group blamed for killing two Americans -- and many others -- was arrested Thursday and charged along with seven other people with racketeering and conspiracy to commit murder.
Federal authorities arrested Kuwaiti-born University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian, 45, described as the North American leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and three others.
Four others -- allegedly the top leaders of the PIJ -- were named as co-conspirators in the 50-count indictment but had not been arrested.
Al-Arian's lawyer, Nicolas Matassini, called the indictment "a work of fiction" and said his client -- who has long acknowledged his fund-raising activities for humanitarian Palestinian causes -- planned to go on a hunger strike to protest the charges.
The four now in custody made their first court appearances Thursday and were being held without bond pending a detention hearing Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Tampa.
Al-Arian was arrested at his home in a 5:30 a.m. raid by officials of the FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force
posted on February 26, 2007 09:13:28 PM new
Then, of course, for those gullible enough to be just SOOOoooo impressed with juan coles credentials....lol....lol...lol
might want to read some of his statements.
He's NOT a very nice guy. REALLY has a HUGE problem with Jewish people and Israel. lol [To say the LEAST]
"While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation": "What would a Democrat president have done at that point?"
"Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack."
Ann Coulter
[ edited by Linda_K on Feb 26, 2007 09:27 PM ]
posted on February 26, 2007 11:18:16 PM new
I copied and pasted a different viewpoint of the Brits pulling out of Iraq from Der Spiegel which I happened to be reading today. I made no comments on it whatsoever.
Linda_K, for you to leap to the conclusion that I must agree with or support what Juan Cole does or what Helen believes is beyond me. Are you truly that stupid?
Simply put, if I post an article (with or without comment) or ever agree with any one thing said or done by a reporter, a newspaper, a congressman, a professor or a fellow poster or anyone else it does NOT mean that I then support or believe everything they do or say and become a mini-me. Can you understand that? If not, let me know and I'll try to simplify it even more for you.
Footnote: I'd take Juan Cole's writings hands down over neocon David Horowitz 'discoverthenetwork' and his FrontPageRag nonsense.
"Linda_K, for you to leap to the conclusion that I must agree with or support what Juan Cole does or what Helen believes is beyond me. Are you truly that stupid?
I'll try to explain that reaction to you, Kiara. I have often posted articles by Juan Cole because he is very knowledgeable about the Middle East, as you can see by the information that I posted above. Linda therefore links me to Juan Cole. With no resources to refute the article that you posted Linda chose to attack Juan Cole by calling him anti-American with of course the insinuation that I am also anti-American. We know of course that anti-American means anti-Bush from Linda's perspective.
The nastiness continues unabated, I see and as a result this board is dead in the water. Guess the Linda/Mingo show is a flop.
posted on February 27, 2007 12:23:28 PM new
Don't get your tail feathers all bunched up you two.
ROFLOL
I'm PRO-American....PRO-Israel and I know that since hellen has OFTEN posted FROM juan cole's BLOG....she obviously agrees with him. As she does KOZ....another like blog site.
LOL
It just kills them when I post the opposite side. One that evaluates cole, koz, and other RADICAL/Socialist lefties.
They're adults....they can make up their OWN minds.
live with it hellen and kiara
It's called presenting the OTHER side. The more PRO-American side.
I know that just ticks you off to no end....lol....too bad.
"While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation": "What would a Democrat president have done at that point?"
"Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack."
posted on February 27, 2007 02:06:37 PM newt's called presenting the OTHER side. The more PRO-American side.
No, it's called being closed-minded to leap to the conclusions that you do, Linda_K.
Just because you flaunt the fact you're trying to be Ann Coulter's mini-me, don't ever assume that others are as weak and simple-minded as you present yourself to be.
You are so insecure in the outcome of your own beliefs and convictions that any differing opinion is threatening to you. That's why you go into attack mode to smear or belittle the source and anything or anyone even remotely connected to it in your mind.
posted on February 27, 2007 02:18:57 PM new
Like I said kiara....I know it bothers you that I post opposing opinions.
That's YOUR problem.
And IF you'd like to pretend that you post quotes from BLOGS whose opinions you DON'T agree with....LOL LOL....maybe SOME will believe you. I sure don't.
And I believe, as MANY others do, that cole DISTORTS FACTS AND history....because he DOES.
It's called offering FAIR AND BALANCED views. LOL LOL
posted on February 27, 2007 02:50:25 PM new
Kiara....it's QUITE clear you're still confused about how sites use an article....or what a BLOGGER like COLE has said....but the SITE the article is viewed on - doesn't give the ARTICLE ANY credibility. Because that SITE didn't write the article - the AUTHOR did. The site only copied it.
Just as you continue to be confused on when I post an article from [say] WND and you WHINE about it being a 'rag' also.
The FACT that the WND ARTICLE came from the associated press....obviously means nothing to you....because you can't GRASP the difference.
MANY websites take that 'same' AP article and post it on their sites.
The so called 'rag' FrontLineMagazine that I used mentions that the muslim FL college professor was DEPORTED.
You certainly CAN'T DENY he wasn't. LOL LOL Cause YOU'D be wrong...and FrontLineMag would be CORRECT.
So call them whatever you want....again it's YOUR problem in grasping what is NEWS and the truth...and what comes from some CREEP like juan cole - A BLOGGER - who HATES jews...and is anti-ISRAEL....and his articles prove it.
Now IF you support that life view....that sucks in my opinion....but it doesn't change the FACT that IS coles' position.
