Bush: Yemen attack reminder that we're at war with "extremists"

I propose a new term, "Islamic Medianists".

It's now the global war on extremism? Good, lets start by bombing D.C.

Damned Jews! At it again!

/sacr_off

President Bush, it is ISLAMOFACISTS!

He's insufferable. He's too stupid to understand the need to say things aright, even if it has to be, at first, obliquely, and thence to more, as the public becomes acclimated, and is ready. For seven years we have been fed this crap about "radical extremists." For seven years we have not had any hint of a desire to explain to us what the word "Jihad" means, what the texts are that inculcate the duty, and why Islam is not merely, or mainly, a "religion" as that word is commonly received in the West, but an ideology of conquest and domination. Why keep pretending? What will happen? Will we be less, rather than more, vigilant? Less, rather than more, willing to sacrifice in order to get off oil, in order to diminish to manageable proportions the Arab and Muslim "money weapon"? What are they so afraid of? That the Arabs will stop selling them oil, the only thing they have to sell, on which their entire existence depends? That the Iraqis will refuse to take the hundreds of billions we have lavished upon them? That the government of Pakistan might, just might, turn out to be untrustworthy and essentially useless? What is it that the Bush Administration, and so many others outside the Administration, are fearful of?

Or is it just mental incapacity, as I suspect, the inability to study, to learn, to see more deeply, and to base policies on the recognition of a reality that, while more unpleasant than had hitherto been recognized, nonetheless offers the only sure guide to self-defense?

What is it about them all?

Good question, Hugh. Obviously, Bush has gotten the State Department memo.

I often feel like I'm living on another planet.

"We want mothers to be able to raise their sons and daughters in a peaceful environment so they can realize the hopes and dreams of a better world...."

Read this speech (especially the above) in a W.C. Fields voice. Sounds like he's selling Magic Kickapoo Elixir.

What extremists?

Who are these extremists?

Who do these extremists speak for?

Who do these extremists represent?

What ideology drives these extremists?

What are the objectives of these un-named extremists?

Gee why do we have to play the game "20 questions"?

"Know your enemy and know him well, to be able to defeat your enemy you must be able to define him, and you must be able to define yourself as well"

General Douglas MacArthur

They're extreme extremists, which are the worst kind, really. There are moderate extremists and hard-line extremists, and then there are the extreme ones.

Which extremists are we at war with again, Hillary's hallucinatory "vast right wing" conspiracy of extremists? Is it leftwing extremists, or environmental extremists, or extreme sports enthusiasts, or the extremely dumb? Are the "extremists" extremely ugly, extremely gay, extremely straight, or extremely moderate? Maybe it's a war on the extremely gullible?

We've got a democrat party in congress and in the media that has positioned itself somewhere to the left of Lenin in support of a Marxist for president, yet has the audacity to call itself mainstream and moderate… and accuse others of racism if they don't support its crock. The republican party now approximates where the democrats used to be when they were still slightly more interested in survival than obstructionism and endless pontification about their coming utopia.

For an ironic comedy effect I suppose, we have Nancy Pelosi; barely able to mumble her own name, but determined lecture the nation and the president about "serious people who aspire to lead the country" and "trying to save the planet" with the wide eyed look of someone just ejected from her private jet… in flight.

I've got a question: how did these people ever survive into adulthood?

Here's what should be easier questions: who are we fighting and what motivates them? Can we have a decoder ring Mr. President?

Now if we could get Bush to stop using that word "extremists". We must not use such words where it is left to the imagination as to who exactly the extremists are. Good grief, what if some Islamophobe associates that word with Muslims. We need a ban now! /

With this public statement, perhaps the generally pro-bush commenters here who criticized Sally Lopez in this story can understand why I defended her.

At any rate, the financial meltdown we are currently witnessing has one potential upside for the counter-jihadists. The meltdown is the final nail in the coffin of bush's legacy. So george, since your much-coveted legacy lies in shambles on the romper room floor, you should abandon altogether your efforts to achieve a paper peace in the Middle East by forcing Israel to accept a long list of essentially unilateral concessions that only serve to compromise its national security and endanger its existence as a nation. And if you're refusing to deal with the iranian nuclear problem yourself, at least take the leash off of Israel & provide them with the means to eliminate the risk of a nuclear iran and take care of your problem for you.

"What is it about them all?"

It's the weather. Extremely misty in foggy bottom and those there parts. Forecast is for more of the same. A cryin' shame.

President Bush, it is ISLAMOFACISTS!

Posted by: bigcatgirl13106 at September 17, 2008 6:19 PM

Even if Bush is given the benefit of doubt, is this kind of ignorance, acceptable from US Commander-in-chief, specially when he himself is fighting a "war-on-terror"?

Hugh wonders what the administration is afraid of.

Then he suspects it's mental incapacity.

I suggest a third explanation: corruption.

Top government officials for both parties have been, are, and will continue to get paid handsomely, directly and indirectly, by wealthy Muslim organizations around the world.

Doesn't money talk?

kamala,

Although there likely are, and will be, revolving door consultants coming from this administration, I do not believe that dubya is personally corrupt. I think, as sheikh yer booty points out in his reference to a "Bush legacy", George W. Bush is unable to admit that he has been so wrong about so much for so long. The "so much" being the "RoP". This inability is due, as Hugh points out,to mental incapacity. This is sad and infuriating, and no candidate on the November ballot will be substantially better. We need a write-in protest vote to get a message across and into Washington DC.

The real truth, I suspect, is that President Bush (like Sean Hannity and others) simply doesn't want to hear it.

It is extremely unlikely that no member his staff (or members of his family or of his non-Muslim friends) has ever asked him what he thinks these unnamed 'extremists' are being extreme about.

In seven years, has no one asked him?

Fox News has labeled Bakri and the boys as 'Muslim radicals' for threatening Paul McCartney.

Do they ever wonder what separates Muslim radicals from their 'mainstream' cousins?

I will say directly what many here have eluded to, but haven't said directly. The so called "radical" Islam, is in reality, mainstream Islam. There, I said it, and it wasn't so hard!

I will also repeat something I read here long ago, but is closer to the truth than not. "There are two kinds of Muslims. Jihadists, and potential Jihadists." Their mindset to me as a Westerner is difficult to understand, but smacks of a mental illness.

There is stupidity, lots of that to go around and plenty to spare; exacerbated by propaganda, "a vast program to propagate Islam" (to use the words of Jacques Ellul in his preface to 'The Dhimmi' (1983).

There is greed - and corruption, ditto.

But 'Fear' needs to be looked at more carefully.

I don't think it's a general, free-floating fear. I suspect that in some cases it might be very, very specific.

Islam reminds me so much of the mafia, in the way that it operates (the mafia indeed arose in Islamified areas of Italy, and seems to have borrowed/ adapted some Muslim techniques and concepts), that it seems to me to be quite possible that at least some public figures throughout the kafir world - in government, in media, in academe, in business and finance, even in the churches - may have been specifically, repeatedly, and cleverly, threatened and/or blackmailed.

Think of how the mafia ruled Italy, by bribing but also by violently threatening key members of the police force, the judiciary and the legislature.

Perhaps we're not just dealing with the 'Islamintern'. We're dealing with the Islamomafia.

I saw my President speek today on the news. I'm thinking that America has lost its way. PCism will be our downfall.

I do not believe that dubya is personally corrupt.

Posted by: del at September 17, 2008 9:30 PM

Check out Arbusto, Google Harken Energy, then "Bandar Bush".. Finally,check out James / Jim Bath and Samel Bin Laden. If still not convinced, check out Daddy Bush and Gdandpa Prescott Bush. Bush knows that Americans will at the worst, call him a fool or a stupid idiot. But who cares, as long as one gets to make millions? Americans still cannot believe that the Gulf War I was faught to protect the Saudis from Saddam. Gulf War II was faught to finish Saudi rabia's enemy Saddam. So what if Saddam had no WMDs or nothing to do with 9/11? if "Saddam and 9/11" are spoken in the same sentence, guess what will Americans believe? More importantly, focus will move from the real culprits, the Saudis. See how Iraq war served Bush/Saudi ties? Oh, since Saudis shower billions into Bush pockets, it never hurts to take them as allies in the phony "war on terror"..... but Americans do not need to know that.

Here are some dots to connect:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz2h-FtnvKk

If Americans knew half about the Bush family, they would not elect GW to White House. If they didm they would "impeach him", rather than re-elect this Saudi puppet.

Maybe, just maybe when the President was negotiating with the Saudis to up the oil supply to help keep prices down the Saudis wanted something in return.....say, like no more references to "Islamic Jihadists" or "Islamofacists".....

I'm sure they wanted something besides the usual arms deals to encourage them to 'stand' against the rest of OPEC.....

Just wondering. It could never be proven, but the timing is suspect.

Just wondering. It could never be proven, but the timing is suspect.

Posted by: Agent Maxwell Smart at September 18, 2008 4:53 AM

Didn't you see how Bush danced around right after he used "Islamo-fascism" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le1Nz0CSxto ) in public? Why would the most powerful man on earth retract a true statement, unless he got an angry call from his masters in Saudi Arabia?

Connect the dots: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij8_4OToWEE

Guess who is Saudi Arabia's favourite slave? http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/2008/01/truly-america-i.html

Look, as long as we don't actually name an enemy, we can turn this 'war' into whatever we want.

The cursed Middle East would not be called Dar Al Suicide Bombing without these suicide bombings. Congrats to the Yemenis, keep the good work.

Guess who is Saudi Arabia's favourite slave?

Alert

If that quote is accurate from the Saudi King, then it should be front page news. Frankly, I believe it, because it is in effect true.

Does anyone remember Sami el Aryan, the Florida prof who was accused of aiding and abetting Hamas and put in jail for a time?

How many recall that at the beginning he was interviewed by Bill O'Reilly? O'Reilly's invective was monstrous (to great cheers and clapping in our house!! Bill wasn't afraid to say it like it was!). Bill accused Sami and warned that he better watch his back because he (Bill) would never let him out of his sight. At the same time, Michelle Malkin (another brave one) spoke her view against Islam. Now however, Bill never says anything against islam! Michelle never appears on his program anymore.

It's my humble opine that FOX nixed the tendency to be honest and forthright! Shame on them if so. Or did an oil-rich Arabian buy stock in Fox and effectively squelch them?

Hugh,

Do you REALLY think that GWB is stupid?

Regards,

ABS

لن استسلم

If President Bush is such a dummy with regards to Islam, then why has the MSM not beaten him to death about it? Given the general dislike for him in the media, you would think they would love to beat him over the head with it. For some reason,no matter how truthful it may be, how on the money he may present it, or how elliquently he may deliver it, declaring All of Islam Hostile is unlikely to be presented very well in the Media.

What is the World are we going to do when George is not around to blame anymore. The only Western Leader with the Stomach to kill the enemy. Or, at least the ones the Media kinda, sorta, maybe, lets him.

Bush: Yemen attack reminder that we're at war with "extremists"

Extreme what?
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Yes, yes, I do agree with the criticisms about GWB's cluelessness, and imprecision, and hewing to the pc line.

However, at least he knows that we are at war with somebody--or, more to the point, that somebody is at war with us.

I realize that with all the jihad attacks of the past few years, that this acknowledgement should be a given--but it is not.

A few days ago, Hillary Clinton decided to pull out of appearing at a rally against Iranian-backed terrorism--because she found out that Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin had also been invited to speak. Clearly, political brinksmanship is more important to her than standing up to Islamism.

Here's one article:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1022090.html

Last I heard, the organizing group had dis-invited Ms. Palin in order to accomodate Ms. Clinton--if this is true, it is both rude and foolish.

The disturbing thing is that Clinton would probably be at least a bit tougher on "the war on terror" than would Barack Obama.

As much as George Bush has fallen short of what the times call for, there may come a day when we will consider him resolute in hindsight.