Cheney in Oz

[SteveGrenard]

TERRORISTS' ultimate aim is to establish "a caliphate covering a region from Spain, across North Africa, through the Middle East and South Asia, all the way to Indonesia -and it wouldn't stop there," the US Vice-President, Dick Cheney, warned yesterday.

Not just terrorists but all or most orthdox, conservative radical and/or fundamentalist muslims. Otherwise I agree with him. He is parrotting what alZawahiri (AlQueda) has been saying all along.

In comments that could have been made in the months after the September 11 terrorist attacks, but which fell flat with his Sydney audience, he said terrorists "had ambitions of empire".

Again not just terrorists. Their ambitions are self evident from their pursuit of jihad and their rhetoric. Why it should fall flat with a Sydney audience is a mystery.

Mr Cheney said if jihadists tasted victory in Iraq they would look for new missions, not only in Afghanistan but in capitals across the Middle East.

Not so. A jihadi or insurgent victory in Iraq as Cheney calls it won't help; but, the elements of islam are pursuing their ambitions of empire and are doing so regardless of what's happening in Iraq. Tying Iraq in together with their global ambitions is more of the same tired old justification for the administration's prolonged adventure there.

Above quotes from Sydney Morning Herald at:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/terrorists-aiming-for-empire/2007/02/23/1171734021090.html

 

[Joe Random]

Damn it . I read the thread title and thought 'I hope he has to share a pod with Adebisi'. Oh well.

 

[SteveGrenard]

No, but it has been suggested he take Howard out hunting.

 

[Charlie Monoxide]

IIRC Ari Fleisher (ex-press secretary for Bush Whitehouse) was the guest on The Daily Show a few weeks back. When Jon Stewart was asking about Cheney, Ari said (I'm paraphrasing here) that Cheney has his own unique worldview.

What kind of medication is Cheney on?

Charlie (effing nasty pills it seems) Monoxide

 

[Darth Rotor]

IIRC Ari Fleisher (ex-press secretary for Bush Whitehouse) was the guest on The Daily Show a few weeks back. When Jon Stewart was asking about Cheney, Ari said (I'm paraphrasing here) that Cheney has his own unique worldview.

What kind of medication is Cheney on?

Charlie (effing nasty pills it seems) Monoxide

Heart medication. And beer.

DR

 

[TragicMonkey]

Cheney in Oz? He'd best spend all his time looking up, in case of stray houses.

 

[Tony]

Otherwise I agree with him. He is parrotting what alZawahiri (AlQueda) has been saying all along.

I agree, but Cheney and the administration obviously don't think the threat is too serious. As evidenced by the government's extremely dismal response to said threat.

 

[SteveGrenard]

I agree, but Cheney and the administration obviously don't think the threat is too serious. As evidenced by the government's extremely dismal response to said threat.

Their response is, er, Iraq, more Iraq and then some more Iraq with a modicum of Afghanistan thrown in. There is no way to fight a global
"pandemic" of radical, orthodox Islamicism anyway except on a case by case basis.

 

[Tony]

Their response is, er, Iraq, more Iraq and then some more Iraq with a modicum of Afghanistan thrown in.

So, their response to the threat of a global, fanatically religious cult is to attack a violently secular country? While propping up a bastion of fundamentalism (and exporters thereof) like Saudi Arabia?


Like I said, dismal.