Obama: Shift troops to fight al-Qaida
OELWEIN, Iowa - The U.S. should shift troops from Iraq to pursue al-Qaida along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Saturday.
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"We cannot win a war against the terrorists if we're on the wrong battlefield," Obama said. "America must urgently begin deploying from Iraq and take the fight more effectively to the enemy's home by destroying al-Qaida's leadership along the Afghan-Pakistan border, eliminating their command and control networks and disrupting their funding."
The wrong battlefield? Less than a week ago, al Qaeda killed over 200 people in Iraq (150 in a single suicide bombing attack). They've been killing thousands of innocents there over the last few years. Foreign suicide bombers are headed to Iraq (not to Afghanistan) at a rate of 60 to 80 per month, and they are just wreaking havoc. Al Qaeda has declared Iraq to be the central front in the war with America, and they have put their money (and their suicide bombers) where their mouth is.
Do you have any doubt about this? If so, let's start by considering what Osama bin Laden had to say about it:
A second Bin Laden tape, released on December 27, 2004, underscored Al Qaeda's interest in Iraq and support for the ongoing insurgency. In this recording, Bin Laden personally welcomed and endorsed Jordanian-born terrorist leader Abu Musab Al Zarqawi as an Al Qaeda affiliate and leader of Al Qaeda operations in Iraq.19 Bin Laden identified the insurgency in Iraq as "a golden and unique opportunity" for jihadists to engage and defeat the United States, and he characterized the insurgency in Iraq as the central battle in a "Third World War, which the Crusader-Zionist coalition began against the Islamic nation."20 Describing Baghdad as "the capital of the caliphate," Bin Laden asserted that "jihad in Palestine and Iraq today is a duty for the people of the two countries" and other Muslims.
That seems pretty clear to me. Not convinced? Then let's consider what al Qaeda's deputy chief, Zawahiri, stated in a letter to Zarqawi back in 2005:
So we must think for a long time about our next steps and how we want to attain it, and it is my humble opinion that the Jihad in Iraq requires several incremental goals:
The first stage: Expel the Americans from Iraq.
More recently, in a video taped message released last week, Zawahiri had more to say:
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Al-Qaida's No. 2 has issued a new video tape calling on Muslims to unite in jihad, or holy war, and support the Islamist movement in Iraq, a U.S.-based intelligence monitoring group said Wednesday.
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In the tape, al-Zawahri encouraged Iraqis and Muslims in general to show greater support for the Islamic State of Iraq, an al-Qaida insurgent front in the country, even though it lacks "necessary qualifications", the SITE group quoted al-Zawahri as saying.
In case you don't know, the Islamic State of Iraq is the al Qaeda terrorist group that is responsible for the spectacular suicide bombings that occur on a regular basis in Iraq. Al Qaeda's global leadership seems to approve of them. What do they think of al Qaeda's leadership? They made that crystal clear in their own video released a few weeks ago:
Al-Qaida front group airs video glorifying Osama bin Laden
BAGHDAD: An al-Qaida front group aired a nearly hour-long video Friday showing dozens of masked men singing religious and patriotic songs and brandishing automatic weapons as they praised Osama bin Laden and the leader of the Taliban.
The Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella group that includes the terror network, included footage with excerpts from old speeches by the al-Qaida leader and slain al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who died a year ago Thursday in a U.S. airstrike northeast of Baghdad.
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"Our leader bin Laden, with power of faith, made America tremble .. Our Emir Mullah Omar .. We destroyed America .. Baghdad, the cradle of esteem, is calling on us .. hurry up to head for paradise . we are the soldiers of God," the militants chanted.
Do these people need to hit you over the head with a tire iron before you get the picture? Al Qaeda's leaders are endorsing operatives in Iraq and those operatives in Iraq (namely, the Islamic State of Iraq) are swearing allegiance to Osama bin Laden. And their suicide bombers are waging an extremely deadly war by doing things like this:
Around 150, Death Toll in Iraq Attack Among War’s Worst
BAGHDAD, July 8 — The death toll from a suicide truck bombing in a remote village in northern Iraq rose to around 150 on Sunday, making it one of the deadliest single bombings, if not the deadliest, since the 2003 invasion.
They also recently did this:
Car Bomb Kills at Least 87 at Shiite Mosque in Baghdad
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
BAGHDAD — A truck bomber attacked a revered Shiite shrine in the heart of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 87 people and wounding more than 200 in a resumption of Iraq's relentless sectarian slaughter.
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Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl, a military spokesman in Baghdad, said the truck was loaded with propane tanks and that a suicide driver detonated his bomb when the vehicle became stuck trying to drive over a curb.
A few weeks before that, they did this:
Suspected Qaeda bombs kill nearly 200 in Baghdad
Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:42 PM EDT
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Suspected al Qaeda militants killed nearly 200 people in a wave of car bombings in Baghdad on Wednesday, including one that was the single deadliest attack in the Iraqi capital since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
That's just a little sample of what the suicide bombers are doing, and I've only gone back to April 18, 2007 (less than 3 months ago). There are many, many more stories like this. Do you cling to the hope that these suicide bombers really aren't al Qaeda? If you do, then read this again:
'Martyrs' In Iraq Mostly Saudis
Web Sites Track Suicide Bombings
By Susan B. Glasser
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, May 15, 2005; Page A01
Who are the suicide bombers of Iraq? By the radicals' account, they are an internationalist brigade of Arabs, with the largest share in the online lists from Saudi Arabia and a significant minority from other countries on Iraq's borders, such as Syria and Kuwait. The roster of the dead on just one extremist Web site reviewed by The Washington Post runs to nearly 250 names...
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Many of the Arabs, according to the postings, were drawn to fight in Iraq under the banner of al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the group run by Jordanian militant Abu Musab Zarqawi that has taken credit for a gruesome series of beheadings, kidnappings and suicide attacks -- many of them filmed and then disseminated on the Internet in a convergence between the electronic jihad and the real-life war.
This fits with what the U.S. military reports (in case you, like reporters for the New York Times, preposterously suspect that the U.S. military is prone to lying):
200 suicide belts found in lorry at Syria-Iraq border
IRAQI security forces seized 200 explosive belts yesterday during a search of a lorry that had crossed into Iraq from Syria at the Waleed border station.
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Brigadier-General Kevin Bergner, a spokesman for the US military,, said that 60 to 80 foreign fighters enter Iraq "in any given month" - 70 per cent of them through Syria. He said up to 90 per cent of the suicide attacks in Iraq were carried out by "foreign-born al-Qaeda terrorists".
The suicide bombers are the foot soldiers of al Qaeda, and there is, unfortunately, no getting around it. They are flocking to Iraq every month (along with truckloads of suicide belts), and they are incredibly lethal. But they are mostly killing Shiites, not Americans. Why are they doing that, again? Zarqawi explained that quite clearly in a letter that was intercepted in 2004:
The Shi'a in our opinion, these are the key to change. Targeting and striking their religious, political, and military symbols, will make them show their rage against the Sunnis and bear their inner vengeance. If we succeed in dragging them into a sectarian war, this will awaken the sleepy Sunnis . . . .
So I say again, the only solution is to strike the religious, military, and other cadres of the Shi'a so that they revolt against the Sunnis. Some people will say, that this will be a reckless and irresponsible action that will bring the Islamic nation to a battle for which the Islamic nation is unprepared. Souls will perish and blood will be spilled.
This is, however, exactly what we want...
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As for the Shi'a, we will undertake suicide operations and use car bombs to harm them.
Is any part of this analysis unclear to you? Foreign suicide bombers are not streaming into Iraq to participate in a civil war. They are coming to Iraq to defeat America, and their method is to slaughter Shiites. Unfortunately, that method works like a charm. Don't believe me? Then consider again this suicide bombing attack, and note the date:
Suspected Qaeda bombs kill nearly 200 in Baghdad
Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:42 PM EDT
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Suspected al Qaeda militants killed nearly 200 people in a wave of car bombings in Baghdad on Wednesday, including one that was the single deadliest attack in the Iraqi capital since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
In response to this attack by al Qaeda, Harry Reid had this reaction (again, note the date):
Iraq war is 'lost': US Democrat leader
Apr 19 02:45 PM US/Eastern
The war in Iraq "is lost" and a US troop surge is failing to bring peace to the country, the leader of the Democratic majority in the US Congress, Harry Reid, said Thursday.
"I believe ... that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week," Reid told journalists.
Al Qaeda kills in an effort to drive America out of Iraq, and Herry Reid responds with precisely the reaction they are trying to elicit. That is not good.
How did the Islamic State of Iraq respond to this announcement from Reid on their English-language web site? Like this:
This comes on the heels of an important statement by House Majority Leader Harry Reid who previously said, “The Iraqi war is hopeless and the situation in Iraq is same as it was in Vietnam.”
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This is how the cross worshipping occupiers and their henchmen live. Their morale continues to collapse as the result of the increasing strikes of the Mujahideen, carried out by the grace of Allah.
That's al Qaeda, folks, and they are paying close attention to what Harry Reid says (and they are rejoicing when he speaks). It is not an exaggeration at all to say that the Democrats are demanding that we surrender to al Qaeda in Iraq. It is, instead, an accurate summary statement that is based on a veritable mountain of factual evidence (some of which I have considered in this post). The U.S. military generally points to the same evidence when offering their assessment of Iraq. If you suspect that the military is lying, then ignore what they say and think through the evidence yourself. You'll arrive at the same conclusion. If you are not interested in what the U.S. military says or what the factual evidence suggests, then read the New York Times instead (and stop reading my blog because my posts are always full of evidence).
In light of all of this, it is downright surreal that Barack Obama doesn't even think that al Qaeda in Iraq is worth mentioning (because he thinks all the terrorists are in Afghanistan, where they doing next to nothing by comparison with Iraq). Isn't that remarkable? He's like a lot of other Democrats in that regrad, almost all of whom have adopted an eerie code of silence on al Qaeda in Iraq. I found a bit more from Obama's speech here:
"It's time to say to the president the time is up, enough is enough, our men and women have done what we asked of them, they got Saddam Hussein, they have shown that there are no weapons of mass destruction, now it's time to bring them home."
That's it? Al Qaeda in Iraq is such an utterly inconsequentual terrorist organization that it does not even warrant so much as a fleeting comment? That seems to be what Barack Obama thinks, and it is incomprehensible to me.
On those rare occasions when Democrats do mention al Qaeda in Iraq, they generally say something like "Al Qaeda wasn't even in Iraq before George Bush decided to invade that country." Whether or not that is true, al Qaeda is there now, and they have an excellent plan to defeat us. The only question is whether or not you want to cooperate with that plan. I don't, but that's just me.
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Engram, you are beginning to make progress.
Carl Levin said this morning that the main reason Al Q is in Iraq is because we are there (how convenient for us, much better terrain than in Afgan. as well as the fact that the population is beginning to turn on them).
Now he wants to just take enough troops out to get out of the "civil war," leaving enough to fight Al Q.
OK, Carl, how many is that, asked Brit Hume.
"We haven't made a determination, but we want the political issues to be settled."
SR,
Al Qaeda had a presence in Iraq before we arrived, but Carl Levin is not too far off the mark if he believes that the presence of American troops in Iraq is the main reason that al Qaeda is there in such force now. That's just another way of saying that al Qaeda has decided to wage war against us in Iraq. We know that. It's obvious. They have sent their suicide bombers to Iraq, not because they are mad at us, but because they have a strategic vision (all spelled out in detail by Zawahiri). Step 1 of that vision involves defeating America, and the American experience in Vietnam serves as their model. Their plan is to create enough chaos that we will become demoralized and begin to withdraw our troops (i.e., they expect us to abandon those who have worked with us in Iraq, and they've said so explicitly).
Levin's reference to Iraq's civil war obviously assumes that Shiites and Sunnis are killing each other because George Bush uncorked centuries of animosity that had been held in check by the ruthlessness of Saddam Hussein. The problem with that all-too-common analysis is that it fails to take into account the undeniable fact that al Qaeda deliberately engineered that sectarian violence (and that's what they are still trying to do with their spectacular suicide bombings). The troop surge is designed to (a) stop al Qaeda from doing that and (b) get the Shiite militias back on the sidelines (which is where they were until al Qaeda finally enraged them enough by bombing the Golden Mosque). I wonder which one of these objectives Carl Levin specifically wants us to abondon?
Once you understand all this (Carl Levin apparently doesn't), it becomes clear that if we withdraw, say, half our troops, al Qaeda will be freed up to pursue their plan with greater vigor. That, in turn, is sure to bring out the Shiite militias in full force. That's al Qaeda's plan. It is a brilliant plan, and with people like Carl Levin and Barack Obama in power, I fear that al Qaeda will succeed.
Magnificent post.
I don't know if this Administration intended it, but they and, more importantly, the American Military have made Iraq into a sacrificial anode. Together, they have said that the anti-democratic and repressive fantasies of Pan-Arabism, Islamofascism, and the Global Caliphate will be broken on the anvil there.
Our men and women in uniform absolutely do fight to defend us ---and they are rebuilding the world from right there in the Cradle of Civilization as they go. The degenerate hippies can only think of how to surrender at home what our military is making there. They and their dhimmicratic leadership sicken me.
Engram, you get the "hit the nail on the head" award for the day.
Watching the anti-war Democrats, Republicans and socialist/communist types like ANSWER and Moveon.org do their level best to sacrifice this country for their political gain, is, well, I'll say it: unpatriotic. Pelosi strutting around the Middle East in defiance of the administration (and common sense) just fed the terrorists more of the political divisions they are trying to take advantage of. Remember when, in September 2002, Jim McDermott (D-WA) traveled to Baghdad along with fellow Progressive Caucus member Rep. David Bonior (D.-MI) and Rep. Mike Thompson (D.-CA), and embraced Iraq's dictator Saddam Hussein and created propaganda in his behalf? Interviewed upon his return by George Stephanopoulos on ABC, McDermott declared that he found Saddam Hussein more credible than the President of the United States. "I think you have to take the Iraqis on their value - at their face value," said McDermott, but "I think the president would mislead the American people."
It used to be that politics stopped at the water's edge, but now, politicians go abroad and spout dissent! And with the internet, Al Queda gets news as fast as we do, and with the sympathies and biases of the mainstream media being what they are, the terrorists get instant reassurance and gratification that their actions are working. Democrats are being played like a fiddle by the Al Queda and either don't know it or don't care. The result is the same: Al Q. attacks Americans or Iraqis at opportune times, like before an election or relevant vote, and the likes of Harry Reid go squealing to the press that "the war is lost," or Obama displays his rank ignorance of facts and is still praised by the press.
When our soldiers and even the Iraqis themselves shake their heads in disbelief at the antics of the MSM and our Congressional "leaders," one has to be particularly ignorant not to realize that something doesn't smell right. Even the Iraqis themselves are turning against the terrorists (as stories are starting to show), when it is obvious to them that the Americans aren't killing them, but Al Queda is.
Sadly though, most of the regular population still labors under the misconception that entities like the NYTImes are ethically obligated to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, but quite the opposite is true.
The chink in their armor is talk radio and the internet, and expect to see them try to take action against both entities in the near future. The attempted reinstatement of the "fairness doctrine" was an attack on the truth, or at minimum, American's right to speak out, and further attacks can be expected.
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