Long read but interesting.

Al-Qaida No. 2 insults Obama with race epithet
In first video since election, he says president-elect does bidding of whites

CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader slurred Barack Obama with a demeaning racial term for a black American who does the bidding of whites in a new Web message posted Wednesday. . . .

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27800654/

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Honestly - I don't give a rats behind what Al-Qaida thinks. JMHO

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I also agree I could care less what Al-Qaida thinks at all.... Catherine

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I think it's important to know what they're thinking. . . .

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.

I was just wondering when we would hear from them and what they would have to say. I did wonder if it's "normal" for their #2 guy to come out with a tape like this. Kinda makes you wonder if Bin Laden is even still alive.

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IT has been 7 years since the attack on 9/11 from Al-Qaida and Bin Laden, I honestly do not know what to believe.. Personally I truly hope and pray that he is no longer living, I also find it so hard to believe that we have never found him or his remains either to prove whether or not he is no longer alive... I also truly pray there will never ever be another attack like that on our land or anywhere else... From a personal stand point having lived in New York all my life, its very hard to imagine that those buildings would ever come down.Sadly there horrific acts of terrorism are a fact of everyday life... Catherine

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The message indicates that Al Qaeda is afraid of Obama. Let's face it, they were able to play Bush like a piano.

I agree with hambig that Bin Laden is most likely dead. I know that the CIA doesn't think so because there has never been an increase in "chatter" among the members that they monitor.

You are joking. You can thank President Bush for keeping this nation safe for 7 years. Al Qaeda afraid of Obama? I hardly think so.

Homer: Well, there's not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol is sure doing its job.

Lisa: That's specious reasoning, Dad.

Homer: Thank you, sweetie.

Lisa: Dad, what if I were to tell you that this rock keeps away tigers.

Homer: Uh-huh, and how does it work?

Lisa: It doesn't work. It's just a stupid rock.

Homer: I see.

Lisa: But you don't see any tigers around, do you?

Homer: Lisa, I'd like to buy your rock.

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If you mean't that Bush kept this country safe by going to war with Iraq I totally disagree, I am sure I am not the only person who felt this way.. More attention should have been focused on catching Bin Laden.. After all it was Al-Qaida who committed those horrible attacks on the United States on 9/11 not the Iraqi nation nor Saddem Hussein, who I also firmly believe was a horrible leader, who has his country living in fear each day and he so deserved to die... however not at the cost of going to war and lossing so many Innocent American lifes and countless Iraqi Lives and countless scores of people who are permantely physically or mentally damaged as a result of a war that was not needed...Bush should have spend more time looking for Bin Laden...As far as our country safe, I never will believe that statement ever,We has Americans are always under threat from terrorism its a every day occurance, but if we as a nation are going to fight every country when will the bloodshed shop and at what cost to how many innocent lost lifes, whom I know signed up to serve our country, but again not this war, not this time... Peace.. catherine

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No, that's not what I meant at all. What I mean is that there are things that we as the American public do not know about. They (meaning the government) can't tell us everything having to do with threats, attempts, etc. I think that is one thing that President Bush can be commended on is making sure that we as Americans have been kept safe by making good decisions when it comes to the threats of terrorist attacks.

Al Qaeda's stated goal was to ruin this country financially.Bush gave them more than they could have dreamed of.

I'm so sorry that you were so scared that you supported the invasion of a country that posed no threat to this nation and the taking of more than a million innocent lives.

Over 1,000 more Americans have died in Iraq than died on 9/11.

Bush hasn't done a thing to keep those 4,204 Americans safe.

Bush keep us safe? What a joke.

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You are absolutely right!!!!! Clinton is the one responsible for not getting Osama when the snipers had him in their sites...he dropped the ball big time...lets think of all the terrorist attacks we suffered during the clinton years....Lets see...the USS Cole, WTC, Khobar towers....And their are quotes from just about every major democratic senator saying Saddam had WMD and something had to be done...but when it was...They tryed to make themselves look like...WHAT???? We didnt know that????? Stupid....I may not agree with everything George Bush has done, but he has kept us safe and My heart aches for the thousands who have been killed, they died doing what they signed up to do, Serve our Country and my heart goes out to their families....I have a nephew who has been to Iraq twice and I felt the fear of him being there....While I honor those people....it pales in comparison to the poor innocent children, who have no choice, which are killed everyday....Approximately 46 million abortions are performed globally each year. People care more about animals and trees than they do babies....

And just for facts sake, which a liberal will never mention....it has made the newspapers in the smallest print available, the violence in Iraq is at the lowest it has ever been and that the troop surge has worked.....God Bless George W Bush.....Sherri

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I think that WHOEVER had been elected we would be hearing Al Q'aida sniping about it! They (Al Q'aida) see the division of our country now--and they feed on it....

If we could just present a united front against the "enemy"...
I am not overjoyed by the result of the election. But what's done is done, and we should deal with it, and quit sniping and snarking about who's to blame and who Al Q'aida is afraid of.

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I guess they didn't get the memo being circulated around wingnut boards about Sen. Obama being a Muslim, terrorist, Anti Christ, bent on ruining the United States singe handedly.

God BLess George W. Bush, I want to throw up give me a break.... He went into and invaded a country that we as a nation had no business to do so..... God Bless him for what for killing over 4600 innocent men and women from our country for what, Saddem hussein didnot commit those acts on 9/11 AL-Qaida did..Also how about all the innocent lives of lost of the Iraqi nation and many more to come.. Also how about all the money God Bless George W.Bush spent on this war that our country who needs it so bad could have used.. Also seriously how many times did God Bless George W. Bush go over to Iraq and visit those soldiers. Sure put the blame on Clinton, George W. Bush is sooooooooo perfect..... not never ever will be....Face all the above facts and also that when the attacks of 9/11 occurred your blessed George W.Bush was the president and as such he should have spent more time and engery on finding Osama Bin Laden. But at this point its been 7 years .

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It is interesting to bring up the issue of WMD as a reason for invading Iraq. Had Saddam maintained a stockpile, he still could not have deployed them against this country. Then again, I remember The UN weapon's inspectors being on the ground and finding nothing. I remember the right confidently stating that they couldn't find their a** from a hole in the ground. And so, with the UN inspectors having almost concluded their work, and finding nothing, we attacked Iraq. By the time we invaded, nobody believed that Iraq possessed WMD anymore.

It would have been nice if Clinton would have disregarded civilian casualties in order to take out Bin Ladin when he had him in his sites. But, he isn't Bush. It would have been nice if Clinton had gone ahead and invaded Afghanistan one month before he left office rather than drawing up a plan for his successor to carry out. He is a lot smarter then Bush. Then again, nobody ever handed him a memo stating "Bin Ladin determined to strike in US." Lord knows, it wouldn't have been seemly for Bush to interrupt his vacation. But, that is, I guess, "keeping us safe."

What matters is that Al Qaeda got exactly what they wanted.

Don't forget that it would have been nice if Clinton had retaliated for the Cole attack, which took place shortly before Bush was "elected," so that Clinton could leave one big mess for Bush to clean up. Fortunately, Bush has graciously left a huge mess for Obama. Such a great guy.

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It is correct the WMD were the reason for going in. It wasn't based on just US intelligence, but also UK intelligence.

Though no WMD were found, they did discover that they were poised to resume production of WMD if the Iraq sanctions were lifted and Saddam was still in power. They had received recordings of Saddams son-in-law stating they hiding information pertaining to the WMD. They were not cooperative and acted as if they had something to hide. It sure looked like guilt. Should we have waited until we or someone else got hit with a WMD to go after them? I think not. I would rather be proactive in a situation like that, then to sit on our collective butts and take a chance.

We also have to remember that at least one good thing has come of going in that will protect innocent people for years to come... the removal of Saddam.

The super strict sanctions backfired in sense considering they were mainly imposed to suppress the Iraq military and weapons development. It did that in a sense, but also ended up effecting the county in other negative ways, that Saddam intensified because he was such an evil person. The sanctions were not supposed to withhold food and medical supplies and other necessities. If the Iraq government had played nice, they wouldn't have been sanctioned to begin with.

I do agree we need to wrap up this war, but I also feel we can't pull out and leave the innocent people of Iraq out to dry. We did that before and they grew to hate us for it. We need to find a way to start removing ourselves for the region, yet still help them recover from years of suffering. I know people think that the population over there hates us for being there, but I hear time and time again from military that have done tours there that the average everyday person there thanks them time and time again. So it must have a positive impact on those Iraqis that did not become refugees, in their daily life, in some way

The Bin Laden issue is its own issue. Do we have people actively looking for him? Yes. It is not like we haven't tried to find him. About the only way to tie the two issues together is because Iraq was supposed to be helping Al-Qaeda and possible hiding some of them out.

Poor Obama. He is getting the mess of a past president, just like most presidents before him have done. Their 4 years are generally spent working through the mess and the ideas of previous presidents. That is why when candidates say they will do this and that, I don't expect they will. I consider what they want to do as ideas, especially since it is not really up to them. They have to go through a whole mass of other people first before it even arrives to them to decide on.

It is ridiculous to state that Saddam was poised to resume production of WMD. Anyone could do that at any time.

The UN weapon inspectors did a very thorough job. They found no WMD. They found evidence that Saddam had destroyed his stockpiles. They disproved American and UK intelligence. Bush attacked Iraq anyway.

It is true that the Kurds felt abandoned by America after Bush 41 encouraged them to rebel and did nothing to protect them when they did. They paid the consequences. While I'm sure that the Kurds don't fully trust us, they never hated us. As far as the rest of Iraq, they didn't hate us before we invaded.

We have taken more than a million Iraqi lives. Almost all of these lives were civilian. I hope that you can understand how the Iraqis feel about the losses.

I would rather "take a chance" than take innocent lives.

As far as Bin Ladin goes, he never had anything to do with Saddam Hussein. There was never any collaboration. Dick Cheney made that all up and Fox dutifully reported his allegations as fact.

We had no right nor valid reason to attack Iraq. We have been asked to leave. We are not wanted.

wtf ???????

This administration did an amazing job when it was able to convince a large group of people that supporting a war of choice is not inconsistent with an ethic that rejects abortion. And this odd jumble of thoughts proves their tactics to control the antiabortion, single issue voter, was genius.

Reminds me of the thought process that killing someone who performs legal abortions is an acceptable means to an end. And, in a way, that is what a vote for Bush in 2004 was for many like Sherri. Putting a stamp of approval on killing others in foreign countries on the off chance the right to a safe and legal abortion would be removed in the United States.

So sad ............... Because you were pwnd and unknown numbers of innocent people (already alive) have been killed due to the reckless actions of this administration.

It was Sherri, so that kind of explains it.

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God bless George Bush for keeping us safe from nonexsistent WMD?

I agree that Saddem Hussein needed to go but at what expense, does anyone here realize all the many innocent lives were lost because of this war.Does anyone who was for the war realize that when we will begin the process of leaving this country what will happen to our troops and all the Iraqi people who will be left behind, they are not leaving, that is their country.. Again I asked how many times did anyone see our President Bush go over to that country and visit our troops. Face it he Bush is going soon and do you honestly feel once he leaves office, he will think of our troops or the Iraqi nation..That country of Iraq has been hit with so many bombs the country is all torn apart, its enough already. Time to leave and sincerely hope that one day they the Iraqi nation can rebuild themselves. However when we will leave I fear so much for what will be, I cannot even imagine what will be.. Yes poor Obama because Bush will leave and go to his home safe state of Texas and Obama will be the one who has to deal with all the mess Bush left us with and this war that should have never been. Terrorism is fact of every day life and if anyone thinks in their right mind, that Bush put a end to it, they are so sorely mistaken..Peace to our troops and all the innocent lost of lives here and aboard... Truly sad,, Catherine

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Yes, you socialist!

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Ok, then with your reasoning, although Bush2 inherited a SURPLUS budget, his first 4 years were spent on other "messes" left by Clinton (Clinton, who, then, once again according to your theory, had to spend his first 4 years cleaning up Bush the first's "messes"); then the second 4 years' worth of messes Bush2 left for P.E. Obama were all of his own doing. So, let us see if you are as lenient with P.E. Obama for his first four year term because he has a HUGE lot of messes to clean up that were totally created in the Bush2 second term----since according, once again to your theory, he spent the first 4 years taking advantage of the SURPLUS "messes" left by the Clinton administration and still left office with trillions of $$$ of national debt and a very costly war that we will have trouble getting out of---not to mention a very very near financial collapse.

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