I Dare You
“Islam is the only religion acceptable to God…God recognizes no separation of church and state…he has no needs for legislators and parliaments.” (Source)
Of course. I know I’m a little behind the curve here, and I wasn’t going to post on it because everyone else has covered it so extensively…but I wonder how Moore fans can justify that a propoganda video explicity says by the narrator that he’s fighting American, in part, due to Michael Moore…and it’s not the first time.
“After all, there are honest and influential guys in America and if Mr. Moore can talk to you like that, so can I,” says the narration over the film. I guess that’s just a scam though…because that would make them more patriotic than someone who is for the war, someone like me…”because dissent is the greatest form of patriotism.” And of course, the greatest dissent is blowing civilians up…you must really dissent heavily if that’s your recourse.
Today, the Whitehouse releases “The National Strategy for Combating Terrorism,” a concise and insightful document, but those who are destined to be butt hurt over the “fear mongering” (people aren’t supposed to be afraid…that would be bad) or butt hurt over the “questioning of our patriotism“, still fail to address the root of the issue…people want us dead, and the government has the right, and the moral obligation to prevent it. It’s not a pipe dream, it’s not a conspiracy…and it’s been happening for years (read the report before you scoff, it’s all there…very little room for interpretation). And yet…in the spirit of politics, those on the left are willing to risk the lives of their countrymen to “kill the patriot act” or expose the faults of the Bush administration. As I said in an earlier article, they will vote against every issue supported by this President, simply because of who he is…what he represents to them, their blatant failure to achieve anything productive in the last 6 years.
Read his speech today…read it so you liberals don’t have the auto-hatred gene trigger the moment you hear his voice. Then address the points on his speech where you think he is factually wrong, totally devoid of ad hominem attacks. I dare you.
Here is what al Qaeda says they will do if they succeed in driving us out of Iraq: The terrorist Zawahiri has said that al Qaeda will proceed with “several incremental goals. The first stage: Expel the Americans from Iraq. The second stage: Establish an Islamic authority or amirate, then develop it and support it until it achieves the level of Caliphate… The third stage: Extend the jihad wave to the secular countries neighboring Iraq. And the fourth stage: …the clash with Israel.”
I am a Michael Moore lovin’, commie sympathisin’, gay weddin’, pot smokin’, porn watchin’, tree huggin’, lazy ass hippie and I just can’t believe you dared me! How dare you dare me! Why, I am…(abrupt sigh, almost a scoff but more of a sigh), I am…I am………………………………………… BUTT HURT!
GOD I hate being dared. GOD!
I reserve the “double dog dare” for special occassions…not rhetorical editorials…when I whip that big ‘un our it front of you, then be prepared to be butt hurt (pun intended)…I’m damn funny yo.
There are truly FEW spoilers…
Fatboy’s (celeb past dujour and past expiration date) agendamentary publicist must have a raging woody.
“…Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so FEW…”
BTW is there some capitalistic nuance in your choice of title for this article, “I Dare You”? Odd how the $ links are referencing out to the WWW via the title…good JOB SiR, occidental or not. Two words, “Ambient Findability”…
I find it interesting, even terrifying to see where we are almost five years after the slaughter of 9/11. On that horrific day, American flags everywhere stood at half staff and we mourned together and vowed to fight whoever we had to in order to avenge the deaths of our innocent brothers. “We Will Never Forget 9/11″ was the catchphrase of the year. Fast forward five years and look around. How did defending our great country become a partisian issue? How is it that the soldiers fighting for us are actually being dishonored and disrespected by those who have hate impaired vision? Those we fight don’t play by rules, but we do. Those we fight respect no boundaries, we do. We honor women and children, they rejoice in the demise and destruction of all. How about we get our focus back to where it belongs (instead of Bush-bashing and party-trashing): let’s not forget 9/11 and fight to the death the bastards to started this war.
You forget…Rumsfeld is the real enemy…yes…Rumsfeld…
We won’t be able to fight to war here as effecitvely as we need to as long as there is a group of people dedicated to making sure that our administration doesn’t have the tools or support to do what is necessary to win…only in the name of politics.
Defending our country shouldn’t be a partisan issue, but it only looks like there’s one party who seems to be serious about it…
I’ll assume Jolene’s little rant was all rhetorical because, really, after 5 years…she should know as well as any American with the ability to hear and see knows why the disapproval rating for Bush and his war has grown into many righties as well.
Honestly, I could comment on the many things that have disappointed me about the wars we are fighting and the way we’ve fought them. I am furious that our men and women who are fighting for us have had their hands tied by libs and their “civilized” rules (though heavens knows we aren’t fighting a “civilized enemy” – the beheading of Eugene Armstrong proves that point). I am furious that our own borders aren’t more protected. We should not have top Al Quaida leaders in our scopes and have to call and ask permission to shoot. I know that this is a loaded comment to make, and that there are countless hot-bed political issues lying herein, but the right/wrong black/white aspect of the issue at hand is clear as day: we have an enemy. The enemy came to our country, lived here, walked among us, and slaughtered us. The enemy danced in the streets as the towers fell. The enemy, my friend, is not Bush. The enemy is not Rumsfeld. The enemy isn’t even Hillary(yikes, did I say that? Just to prove this point…). The enemy, my friend, is Fundamental, Extremist Islam, and every person that devotes their life to living in it’s filthy lies. The issue is that five years after 9/11, we have made progress in putting out fires, but we haven’t yet touched the firestarter.
I’m not sure who you’re talking to Jolene. No one’s arguing that radical Islam is the enemy. However I will clarify on your behalf that the enemy for us all is radical, fundamental religion…period. If those people weren’t fighting for the next life, they’d finally choose to live for this one.
I agree, radical Islam is the enemy. Unfortunately, that’s just about as abstract an enemy as fighting Terrorism…that’s like fighting badness. Ain’t gonna happen, and as soon as these screw-ups in office realize that, we’ll finally stop putting ourselves in situations where these idiotic mistakes are more and more inevitable.
So Mark, you are suggesting we just pull out, lie down, and do nothing because we are fighting an abstract enemy? At least the “screw ups in office” have the juevos to fight, even if it is a difficult battle.
So because we can’t define the enemy 100% we should just sit on our hands…I also like how you threw in “fundamental religion…period”, as if Hindu’s are blowing up civilians, Daoists are cutting heads off on camera, and Christians are strapping bombs on their children’s back and walking them into public places. Yes, we have had Christians do terrorist acts, as we have had atheists to terrorist acts (Timothy McVeigh)…but none of that is sponsored by global religious leaders who are in power. Not like Nasrallah, Ahmadinejad, Saddam (who paid Palestinian suicide bomber families in cash), and Ayatollah Khamenei who promote it. I think you’d be hard pressed to find one of another religion who encourages members of their country to kill. I think you’re urge to morally equate one religious group with another is blinding you to obvious facts. It’s Islamic Militants.
Ehhh, those words you put in my mouth taste like Heaven on a Saturday night. Like a cracker on a cracker. No, I’m saying we stick with the extremely difficult task of going after the one we know caused 9-11, and by limiting our military to the one objective, we won’t be spread so thin and will be able to defend ourselves God forbid another attack occurs…or even if another one doesn’t occur, by going after credible threats like North Korea or, apparently, Iran.
That saves American lives, keeps Americans as faithful as possible in our government, keeps our deficit from exploding more than it has, gives a real sense of security that we’re currently lacking and gets at least some of the respect of the world we had for centuries until now.
Oh, and Stout? I said “radical, fundamental religion”. Apparently you think the Hindis are radical in their faith. You two, so cute how you proceed to put words in my mouth.
That requires pulling out, but that’s why we then give them a time table.
But go ahead and kill our soldiers by making excuses why we can’t trust or even force the Iraqis to take care of themselves. Iraq’s our 51st state and it’s getting treatment, financially and militarily, like it’s our only one.
Better yet…let just bail because thy didn’t reconstruct per our expectations….I always thought the UN was our 51st state with their funding.
Uh..har har?