Muslim group *demands* apology

[Pei]

Spain did it because the Muslim terrorists bombed their train and told them to withdraw the troops. Anything else they want
Spain to do will be done.

It was never that simple.

Firstly the Spanish people were overwhelmingly against sending troops to Iraq in the first place.

Secondly the incumbant government at the time deliberately tried to blame the attacks on ETA as they new their Iraq policy was already unpopular.  Once this attempt at spin came out they were doomed in the elections.

Once this came it out in the open the goverment was doomed. The Spanish people voted in the opposition whose Iraq policy was more popular (and had been more popular before the bombings anyway). That's just democracy in action: don't implement unpopular policies and then lie about the consequences.

[Seagoon]

Pei,

Originally posted by Pei
don't implement unpopular policies and then lie about the consequences.

It has since been shown that the bombings were done by home-grown Andalusian Jihadis. Since the total withdrawal of Spanish troops from Iraq, the terror campaign has continued, which should have surprised no one.

You may find this interesting but the unpopular government policy that the Jihadis in Spain are opposed to was the end of Muslim control of the Iberian peninsula in the 15th century. Their current campaign is ultimately aimed at reversing that particular setback. Given sufficient time their chances of success are excellent.

EDIT: For more on the war for Andalusia, this article from the Toronto Star is worth reading: Andalusia's Connection

- SEAGOON

[Westy]

If you're going to get  fired up after reading, and posting, a wall of text made from bull_dung then your'e declaring to the reader that you're as clever and smart as a block of granite.


"nops liberal based California based website"


lol.   You're batting a thousand.

[Vudak]

Originally posted by Westy
If you're going to get  fired up after reading, and posting, a wall of text made from bull_dung then your'e declaring to the reader that you're as clever and smart as a block of granite.

I'm just wondering, what makes it "bull_dung?"  Just because the author was misrepresented?  What about the words inside?  I think the guy had some points.  I wouldn't take him as the be all and end all, but he has some points.  Whoever he is.

[Westy]

Why is is BS?  Besides it not what it claims to be which is an essay written by a retired USAAf General? It is a wall'O'text  that someone tried to lend validity and credence to by claiming the Generals wrote it al while sprinkling enough convenient facts into it in order to support the new right wing hysteria (last one being the Marxist and Communism)

 It's BS because it's something that through countless forwardings and embellishments has grown into a shrill, paranoid, chickenhawk spiel about the coming downfall of the US and all of Western civilisation at the hands of the Mooselimbs.



p.s. this kind of BS feeds the sheep and lemmings who cannot and won't think for themselves.

[Suave]

Originally posted by deSelys
What about the american anything-else-but-muslim that advocates the violant (sic) overthrow of the government of the United States of America? There are quite a few on this board....

Yeah I was wondering that myself. It's a constitutional right, and the main reason we have the right to bear arms.

[Suave]

Originally posted by Westy
Why is is BS?  Besides it not what it claims to be which is an essay written by a retired USAAf General? It is a wall'O'text  that someone tried to lend validity and credence to by claiming the Generals wrote it al while sprinkling enough convenient facts into it in order to support the new right wing hysteria (last one being the Marxist and Communism)

 It's BS because it's something that through countless forwardings and embellishments has grown into a shrill, paranoid, chickenhawk spiel about the coming downfall of the US and all of Western civilisation at the hands of the Mooselimbs.



p.s. this kind of BS feeds the sheep and lemmings who cannot and won't think for themselves.

Westy it's unamerican to not think what the TV tells you to think!

People like you want to hurt christmas!