Are we on the brink of WWIII ?

[KinKyJ]

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"War, what's it good for?"

"Halliburton"

[Jenks]

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profiteering

"Halliburton"

neither one of you jackasses have seen seinfeld?

[KinKyJ]

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neither one of you jackasses have seen seinfeld?

Yeah yesterday when I was having a drink in the bar downtown, but he had to run. Something about killing Hezbollahs or sumtin'


why?

[Jenks]

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not bad kinky. lol.

[lancecashion]

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Something to read....

Arab Majority May Not Stay Forever Silent

BY YOUSSEF IBRAHIM
July 17, 2006



URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/36110


Yes, world, there is a silent Arab majority that believes that seventh-century Islam is not fit for 21st-century challenges. That women do not have to look like walking black tents. That men do not have to wear beards and robes, act like lunatics, and run around blowing themselves up in order to enjoy 72 virgins in paradise. And that secular laws, not Islamic Shariah, should rule our day-to-day lives.


And yes, we, the silent Arab majority, do not believe that writers, secular or otherwise, should be killed or banned for expressing their views. Or that the rest of our creative elite - from moviemakers to playwrights, actors, painters, sculptors, and fashion models - should be vetted by Neanderthal Muslim imams who have never read a book in their dim, miserable lives.


Nor do we believe that little men with head wraps and disheveled beards can run amok in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Iraq making decisions on our behalf, dragging us to war whenever they please, confiscating our rights to be adults, and flogging us for not praying five times a day or even for not believing in God.
More important, we are not silent any longer.


Rarely have I seen such an uprising, indeed an intifada, against those little turbaned, bearded men across the Muslim landscape as the one that took place last week. The leader of Hezbollah, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, received a resounding "no" to pulling 350 million Arabs into a war with Israel on his clerical coattails.


The collective "nyet" was spoken by presidents, emirs, and kings at the highest level of government in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, Morocco, and at the Arab League's meeting of 22 foreign ministers in Cairo on Saturday. But it was even louder from pundits and ordinary people.


Perhaps the most remarkable and unexpected reaction came from Saudi Arabia, whose foreign minister, Prince Saud Al-Faisal, said bluntly and publicly that Hezbollah's decision to cross the Lebanese border, attack Israel, and kidnap its soldiers has left the Shiite group on its own to face Israel. The unspoken message here was, "We hope they blow you away."


The Arab League put it succinctly in its final communique in Cairo, declaring that "behavior undertaken by some groups [read: Hezbollah and Hamas] in apparent safeguarding of Arab interests does in fact harm those interests, allowing Israel and other parties from outside the Arab world [read: Iran] to wreck havoc with the security and safety of all Arab countries."


As for Hezbollah and its few supporters, who have pushed for an emergency Arab summit meeting, the response could not have been a bigger slap in the face. Take a listen:


* Abdul Rahman al-Rashed, the general manager of Al-Arabiya, possibly the most influential Arab opinion-maker today, was categorical yesterday: "We have lost most of our causes and the largest portions of our lands following fiery speeches and empty promises of struggle coupled with hallucinating, drug-induced political fantasies." As for joining Hezbollah in its quest, his answer was basically, "you broke it, you own it."


* Tariq Alhomayed, editor in chief of the Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat, stuck the dagger in deeper: "Mr. Nasrallah bombastically announced he consulted no one when he decided to attack Israel, nor did he measure Lebanon's need for security, prosperity, and the safety of its people. He said he needs no one's help but God's to fight the fight." Mr. Alhomayed's punch line was, in so many words: Go with God, Sheik Nasrallah, but count the rest of us out.


Several other Arab pundits, not necessarily coordinating their commentary, noted that today Sheik Nasrallah has been reduced to Osama bin Laden status, a fugitive from Israeli justice, sending out his tapes from unknown locations to, invariably, Al-Jazeera, the prime purveyor of Mr. bin Laden's communications.


All in all, it seems that when Israel decided to go to war against the priestly mafia of Hamas and Hezbollah, it opened a whole new chapter in the Greater Middle East discourse. And Israel is finding, to its surprise, that a vast, not-so-silent majority of Arabs agrees that enough is enough. To be sure, beneath the hostility toward Sheik Nasrallah in Sunni Muslim states lies the deep and bitter heritage of a 14-century Sunni-Shiite divide, propelled to greater heights now by fears of an ascendant Shiite "arc of menace" rising out of Iran and peddled in the Sunni world by Syria.


The sooner this is settled the better.

[KinKyJ]

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Thanks for the share Lance.

The above should've been said much earlier imo. It's a sentiment which has been "breeding underneath the surface" for months, maybe even years.

When I talk to my girlfriend of her friends, the same message is repeated over and over again: Al Quaida, Hezbollah and Hamas aren't muslims, they're criminals who abuse our religion and drag it through the mud.

I'm happy that the vast majority of the muslim community is finally "coming out of the closet" and taking position. I hope this can be a turnpike and that the rotten apples will finally be removed from the basket...

[thesightless]

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"Halliburton"

ummm...

1. they lost their contract a year ago. and were not only investigated, but forced out by the iraqi police.

2. neither darth vader (runsfeld), the emporer (cheney) nor the spokesman (bush) have owned stock in the company for roughly 7 years. once they announced thier intent to run for office, all thier portfolios were handed over to PWC and ernst and young to be put in a blind trust. the only contact they receive about thier stocks is the 1099 statement they receive in late january.

sorry but im sick of the halliburton comments over the years by people who watched that fat fuck michael moore's movies and "reports". they were one of only a handful of companies capable of the work to be done there. and they were the lowest bidder. i guess we should be happy we are saving the iraqi taxpayer money. grrrr..

[KinKyJ]

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ummm...

1. they lost their contract a year ago. and were not only investigated, but forced out by the iraqi police.

I knew about the stock options, but I didn't know about the above. Got a link with some background on that?

[thesightless]

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yes i do. www.google.com

its a wonderful tool.

[Bryanw24]

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sorry but im sick of the halliburton comments over the years by people who watched that fat fuck michael moore's movies and "reports".

I couldn't agree with you more.

[KinKyJ]

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its a wonderful tool.

I guess it takes one to know one, right?

[toasty]

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they were one of only a handful of companies capable of the work to be done there. and they were the lowest bidder.

Uh, weren't they the ONLY bidder in most circumstances?

[thesightless]

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yes, in certain contracts. but that is hardly to work of the other 3 clowns. is it their fault that people didnt want to work in a war zone. also, the contracts are approved by a comittee in the house.

edit

also, the kellog brown root contract that drew the ire of people, that was the illegal one. there wasnt a bid. haliburton's link to KBR is stock. they do not directly control the comapny otherwise. and the reason they won it is that no companies could afford to absorb the initial costs of well over 4 billion for materials. the payments are deferred until the iraqi government can develope a resonable tax to pay for it. even microsoft would have a hard time throwing roughly 4 billion away for a few years until the revenue was generated.

im not defending them. but just trying to give the peices of the picture that tend to get left out.

also, jimmy, on a side note, can you see if you can find me a copy of the decision against apple for the slave labor camps making ipods and macs. (sry, but i forgot to PM you)

[thesightless]

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Guess What Guys

More MILITANT ACTION sponsored by clerics is going off as we speak.

somalia's capital is being advanced on by islamist mlitants, who btw, have murdered a few thousand people in the last few months. they have already taken a good chuck of the country and dont seem to be stopping. so far sharia is in effect for mogadishu and the surrounding areas..


does anyone notice a recurring theme here?]
somalia
sudan
kashmir
israel
iraq
afghanistan

[davetlv]

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Today's Update

5,392 Islamist terrorist attacks around the globe since 9/11.

Iraq and
India and
the Sudan and
Algeria and
Afghanistan and
New York and
Pakistan and
Israel and
Russia and
Chechnya and
the Philippines and
Indonesia and
Nigeria and
England and
Thailand and
Spain and
Egypt and
Bangladesh and
Saudi Arabia and
Ingushetia and
Dagestan and
Turkey and
Kabardino-Balkaria and
Morocco and
Yemen and
Lebanon and
France and
Uzbekistan and
Gaza and
Tunisia and
Kosovo and
Bosnia and
Mauritania and
Kenya and
Eritrea and
Syria and
Somalia and
California and
Kuwait and
Virginia and
Ethiopia and
Iran and
Jordan and
United Arab Emirates and
Louisiana and
Texas and
Tanzania and
Germany and
Pennsylvania and
Belgium and
Denmark and
East Timor and
Qatar and
Maryland and
Tajikistan and
the Netherlands and
Scotland and...

...and pretty much wherever Muslims believe their religion tells them to:

"Fight and slay the Unbelievers wherever ye find them. Seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war."
Qur'an, Sura 9:5

" The List " of Islamic Terror Attacks For the Past 5 Months :

http://thereligionofpeace.com/