Why is it, as a Catholic, I have to endure bonfire night and the orange parades, and yet when the Pope makes some vague reference to a 14th Century Byzantium King, the world and its oyster seems hellbent on castigating him for his attack on Islam?
Is it that Islam is higher up the pecking order in religions than the others? I don't remember the British Government being too sweet with Northern Irish Catholics during the 70s and 80s, and yet the slightest comment or cartoon against Islam and we're all denouncing the Pope or the Danes, or whoever dares to make any sort of comment about it.
It seems that the Head of the Catholic church is not allowed to make any reference to Islam but in the same breath we have the leader of Iran denouncing the whole of the USA as the Satan of the world, from a Muslim perspective..
What on earth is going on?
2006-09-16 12:50:51 · 16 answers · asked by ? 2 in Other - Politics & Government
2006-09-16 12:47:09 · 19 answers · asked by Tony 1 in Elections
I think the democrat party should dissapear.
2006-09-16 12:43:34 · 27 answers · asked by Proud white american 1 in Politics
2006-09-16 12:43:07 · 23 answers · asked by The Angry Stick Man 6 in Military
An American Thing from a Freind to You!
15 Sep 2006 17:38:42 -0600 When WW III Started **** 1979
This is not very long, but very informative. You have to read the catalog ue of events in this brief piece. Then, ask yourself how anyone can take the position that all we have to do is bring our troops home from Iraq, disregard the Nuke problems with North Korea and Iran, sit back, reset the snooze alarm, go back to sleep, and no one will ever bother us again. In case you missed it, World War III began in November 1979... that alarm has been ringing for years.
US Navy Captain Ouimette is the Executive Officer at Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida. Here is a copy of the speech he gave last month. It is an accurate account of why we are in so much trouble today and why this action is so necessary.
AMERICA NEEDS TO WAKE UP! That's what we think we heard on the 11th of September 2001 (when more than 3,000 Americans were killed) and maybe it was, but I think it should have been "Get Out of Bed !" In fact, I think the alarm clock has been buzzing since 1979 and we have continued to hit the snooze button and roll over for a few more minutes of peaceful sleep since then. It was a cool fall day in November 1979 in a country going through a religious and political upheaval when a group of Iranian students attacked and seize d the American Embassy in Tehran. This seizure was an outright attack on American soil; it was an attack that held the world's most powerful country hostage and paralyzed a Presidency. The attack on this sovereign U. S. embassy set the stage for events to follow for the next 25 years.
America was still reeling from the aftermath of the Vietnam experience and had a serious threat from the Soviet Union when then-President Carter had to do something. He chose to conduct a clandestine raid in the desert. The ill-fated mission ended in ruin, but stood as a symbol of America's inability to deal with terrorism.
America's military had been decimated and down sized/right sized since the end of the Vietnam War. A poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorly organized military was called on to execute a complex mission that was doomed from the start.
Shortly after the Tehran experience, Americans began to be kidnapped and killed throughout the Middle East. America could do little to protect her citizens living and working abroad. The attacks against US soil continued.
In April of 1983 a large vehicle packed with high explosives was driven into the US Embassy compound in Beirut When it explodes, it kills 63 people. The alarm went off again and America hit the Snooze Button once more.
Then just six short months later in 1983 a large truck heavily laden down with over 2500 pounds of TNT smashed through the main gate of the US Marine Corps headquarters in Beirut and 241 US servicemen are killed. America mourns her dead and hit the Snooze Button once more.
Two months later in December 1983, another truck loaded with explosives is driven into the US Embassy in Kuwait, and America continue s her slumber.
The following year, in September 1984, another van was driven into the gate of the US Embassy in Beirut and America slept.
Soon the terrorism spreads to Europe. In April 1985 a bomb explodes in a restaurant frequented by US soldiers in Madrid.
Then in August 1985 a Volkswagen loaded with explosives is driven into the main gate of the US Air Force Base at Rhein-Main, 22 are killed and the snooze alarm is buzzing louder and louder as US interests are continually attacked.
Fifty-nine days later in 1985 a cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, is hijacked and we watched as an American in a wheelchair is singled out of the passenger list and executed.
The terrorists then shift their tactics to bombing civilian airliners when they bomb TWA F light 840 in April of 1986 that killed 4 and the most tragic bombing, Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in1988 , killing 259.
Clinton treated these terrorist acts as crimes; in fact we are still trying to bring these people to trial. These are acts of war.
The wake up alarm is getting louder and louder.
The terrorists decide to bring the fight to America. In January 1993, two CIA agents are shot and killed as they enter CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. The following month, February 1993, a group of terrorists are arrested after a rented van packed with explosives is driven into the underground parking garage of the World Trade Center in New York City. Six people are killed and over 1000 are injured. Still this is a crime and not an act of war? The Snooze alarm is depressed again.
Then in November 1995 a car bomb explodes at a US military complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia killing seven service men and women.
A few months later in June of 1996, another truck bomb explodes only 35 yards from the US military compound in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. It destroys the Khobar Towers, a US A ir Force barracks, killing 19 and injuring over 500. The terrorists are getting braver and smarter as they see that America does not respond decisively.
They move to coordinate their attacks in a simultaneous attack on two US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.. These attacks were planned with precision. They kill 224. America responds with cruise missile attacks and goes back to sleep.
The USS Cole was docked in the port of Aden, Yemen for refueling on 12 October 2000, when a small craft pulled along side the ship and exploded killing 17 US Navy Sailors. Attacking a US War Ship is an act of war, but we sent the FBI to investigate the crime and went back to sleep.
And of course you know the events of 11 September 2001. Most Americans think this was the first attack against US soil or in America. How wrong they are. America has been under a constant attack since 1979 and we chose to hit the snooze alarm and roll over and go back to sleep.
In the news lately we hav e seen lots of finger pointing from every high officials in government over what they knew and what they didn't know. But if you've read the papers and paid a little attention I think you can see exactly what they knew. You don't have to be in the FBI or CIA or on the National Security Council to see the pattern that has been developing since 1979.
I think we have been in a war for the past 25 years and it will continue until we as a people decide enough is enough. America needs to "Get out of Bed" and act decisively now. America has been changed forever.. We have to be ready to pay the price and make the sacrifice to ensure our way of life continues. We cannot afford to keep hitting the snooze button again and again and roll over and go back to sleep.
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Admiral Yamamoto said "... it seems all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant." This is the message we need to disseminate to terrorists around the world. This is not a political thing to be hashed over in an election year - this is an AMERICAN thing. This is about our Freedom and the Freedom of our children in years to come.
2006-09-16 12:39:27 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government
They abort it
2006-09-16 12:36:21 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics
Seems the only time Bush is willing to sacrifice life is when it fits into his agenda. Perhaps if big oil could reap a profit from stem cell research, he would sacrifice innocent life there as well.
2006-09-16 12:36:05 · 7 answers · asked by - 2 in Politics
that they he/she will pull the troops from Iraq? Afghanistan? The Phillipines?
2006-09-16 12:35:50 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics
2006-09-16 12:34:11 · 8 answers · asked by belleshappy 1 in Law & Ethics
50 tweddy birds and all american polices, oh manbe 50 tweddy bierd are too much, how about 10 tweddy birds and all american polices?
2006-09-16 12:33:29 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law Enforcement & Police
jama-athe-islami-al-hind is constituted for the purposes
2006-09-16 12:33:27 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics
I studied astronautics/aerospace engineering at a very good college in the US but upon graduation I had to go back to my native country for various reasons (I am not a US citizen). There is no field of work in my country where I can use my skills as an engineer. I am desperately seeking to work as an engineer in the States. Would I be able to obtain an employer-sponsored visa? How would I go about doing that? Much thanks.
2006-09-16 12:32:32 · 3 answers · asked by inexsilium 2 in Immigration
I'M LOOKIG FOR FORMS TO FILE FOR FREE GOVERMENTS GRANTS FOR HOUSING, FURNISINGS AND BILLS AND FURNEL EXPENCES
2006-09-16 12:32:07 · 1 answers · asked by jessie b 1 in Government
why is it that long to commision, and what is commision any ways?
2006-09-16 12:31:54 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military
Of course they should. Whites typically disingenuously rspond, "I ddn't do it, so I should not be held accountable." This is a funny rationale given that every stinking bloody White who stands to inherit one million smackaroos will never oppose such a reward. It suddenly matters not in the least that the White never earned the one million dollars.
Yes, Blacks should get reparations. There is no denying this simple fact. No, no, no! You idiotic Whites are thinking they should get money. If you have an ounce of sense, you know that a typical poor family would spend $150 not on books, but on some stinking set of Michael Jordan sneakers.
In Chicago, we have an inexcusable dropout rate for minority high school students. We need to teach them that it is not money that is so important as knowledge. I think that we should give a free encyclopedia set to each Black family in this Nation. How is this for a step in the direction of reparations?
2006-09-16 12:30:53 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government
Violence surges in Baghdad after lull.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - After a one-day lull, bloodshed surged again in the capital Saturday, with at least 17 people dead in attacks and 27 probable victims of sectarian killings found dumped in the streets as Iraq's prime minister launched a fresh appeal for reconciliation.
Violence has escalated sharply in Baghdad over the past week, except for Friday, when only three killings were recorded — two Iraqis shot to death and a U.S. soldier killed by a bomb.
Saturday's toll raised the city's violent deaths to more than 180 just since Wednesday — either slain by bombs and gunfire or tortured and shot before being dumped, a hallmark of reprisal killings being waged between Shiite and Sunni Muslims. The USA military has been doing a very poor job and will most likely lose the war.
Appealing again to Iraq's divided sects, Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki urged Iraqis to put aside their sectarian, ethnic and political differe
2006-09-16 12:28:30 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military
These republicans are always bashing my fellow American soldiers. I sware they are literally bashing fallen soldiers parents, family, and friends.
Almost like they are saying " SOLDIERS DIE IN WARS AND YOUR SON KNEW WHAT HE WAS GETTING HIMSELF IN TO. SO STOP COMPLAINING"
Instead of saying what the democrats say which is the right thing to say " We want the soldiers safe and to return to home"
WHY ARE REPUKES ALWAYS BASHING THE MILITARY AND THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS?
2006-09-16 12:24:45 · 17 answers · asked by ast5792 1 in Politics
2006-09-16 12:22:59 · 3 answers · asked by mikeyboy602 2 in Elections
.... why is it that when, I, or anyone I know, is refered to in a "Racist" manner, i,e. honky or white trash, or any other variation ,it dosen't bother us at all? Do you think that people who do react (over- react?), have an ulterior motive for doing so?
2006-09-16 12:22:40 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration
they have even protested the funerals of american soldiers. funny thing is they carried rainbow flags and wore kerry T shirts
Source : www.kdh.com
2006-09-16 12:22:38 · 13 answers · asked by S H I R A Z 3 in Politics
2006-09-16 12:20:58 · 13 answers · asked by amanda_shorts 1 in Politics
2006-09-16 12:20:25 · 1 answers · asked by @au$t!inpow! 1 in Government
Exactly what does it mean? It's the end of the case or what?
2006-09-16 12:20:04 · 9 answers · asked by ♥ LysoL 3 in Law Enforcement & Police
such as, "if it flies it dies" etc..
2006-09-16 12:18:21 · 19 answers · asked by andyfox1979 3 in Military
2006-09-16 12:17:28 · 20 answers · asked by Vinnie C 1 in Law & Ethics
As in elected without fraud , wasnt appointed, didnt stop a legal recount, had debolt rig the electronic voting machines.
Wouldnt that make president clinton the last elected president by the people in America?
2006-09-16 12:15:20 · 23 answers · asked by ast5792 1 in Politics
Why do so many people dispute an arguement with insults and personal attacks that does nothing to dispute a question? And should the Yahoo Community even pay attention to people who uses verbal abuse instead of facts to dispute questions?
2006-09-16 12:14:03 · 13 answers · asked by choyryu 2 in Civic Participation
let me just make this clear...we live in a DEMOCRACY!
it's american to be able to voice our opinions. especially since the president is so terrible.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws/
check out that site to see what laws he has broken.
he has created such a far lower standard of living for us ever since clinton left office. it is very patriotic, whether you realize it or not, to question our president. we must speak out against these rediculous and utterly pointless wars for one thing. i can't wait till 2008 when he leaves office so that i won't have to worry about being lied to and having my civil liberties taken away every couple of months.
be sure to check out the site. i highly encourage it. and if you do and you believe that it is just biased liberal rhetoric, you need to understand that it is in fact government recorded facts about the president being released to the public. same thing goes with the news.it's all facts
2006-09-16 12:10:39 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government
They are against the Patriot Act. They are against the NSA wiretapping program which allows us to spy on terrorists. They are against allowing the CIA to use techniques against terrorists such as sleep deprivation to get information. Is there anything they support in fighting terrorism?
2006-09-16 12:09:24 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics
they said that they were going to take this guy out and kill him andmy friend asked to be let out ,and they did . he did nothing but went home with out calling the police . is he guilty ????and if he is // , of what ???
2006-09-16 12:07:19 · 13 answers · asked by dirtdevil216 2 in Law & Ethics
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