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Why Are We Fighting On the Same Side with Al Qaeda?

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Reuters notes that the leader of Al Qaeda - Ayman al-Zawahri - is backing the Syrian rebels, and asking his followers to fight the Syrian government.

Some of the main Al Qaeda fighters who overthrew Gadaffi - and now appear to be in control of Libya - are already helping the Syrian rebels.

This is curious, given that the U.S. is considering military options for ousting the Syrian government, American allies Britain and Qatar allegedly already have foreign troops inside Syria, and the U.S. has been planning regime change in Syria for over 50 years.

Mainstream reports also state that the U.S. and its allies are backing Iranian terrorists.

I thought Al Qaeda was America's mortal enemy. Why are we backing terrorists?

 

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Mon, 02/13/2012 - 13:52 | 2154135 Xkwisetly Paneful
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Yea and those blowing themselves up in Iraq against trained volunteers wouldn't be doing so elsewhere absent the US military being in Iraq, really I read it on the internets.

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 17:57 | 2151435 knukles
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We have always been at war with ourself. 

Mon, 02/13/2012 - 11:41 | 2153556 DaveyJones
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 I'm ready for the treaty

Mon, 02/13/2012 - 02:52 | 2152739 Kiwi Pete
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Well if AlCIAda is a CIA run operation then that would be doubly true.

 

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/31/760117/-Bombshell:-Bin-Laden...

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 17:55 | 2151426 The Alarmist
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Because once Al Qaeda have control of Syria, we'll finally have a reason to invade Syria ????

I don't know, GW.  We backed Anastasio Somosa, Rheza Pahlavi, Ferdinand Marcos and dozens of other bad guys in the name of defeating even worse guys.  it's just what we do. 

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 21:59 | 2152264 Monk
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Who's "we"? The elite profit, the military gets their hardware, and we foot the bill, either through debt or collateral damage.

 

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 19:34 | 2151739 Rick64
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  The U.S. backed a lot of bad guys to defeat good guys. Fernandid Marcos had Aquino assasinated. After Marcos's corrupt dictatorship ended Aquino's widow became President. How was Aquino a bad guy?  How was Mosaddeq a bad guy? Because he cared more about his country than foreign oil companies and was tired of getting ripped off by them? How was Allende(Chile) a bad guy? And his replacement Pinochet was less of a bad guy guy? Who supported the Sandinistas guerrilla war against Somoza? Cuba and the Soviet Union. Guess who supplied weapons to Somoza, Israel.  The U.S. backed Somoza until Carter withdrew support due to human rights violations. There is a long history of the U.S. supporting dictators that support their agenda and exploitation by corporations.

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 17:52 | 2151422 A Lunatic
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It's simple really, Al Qaeda is no longer the Terrorist; Constitutionally minded American citizens are. Remember kiddies.........see something say something...................

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 18:38 | 2151515 Spastica Rex
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Don't suspect a friend, report him.

Everybody needs to go watch Terry Gilliam's "Brazil," not the "Love Conquers All" version, though.

Mon, 02/13/2012 - 15:05 | 2154527 ParkAveFlasher
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that movie = genius, prophetic, clear-seeing

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 21:23 | 2152177 Bob
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Easy to say but harder to do.  For the past year and and half, I can't find it other than mail order.  It's a tough search term at youtube.  Got a link to this movie, perchance?

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 17:46 | 2151409 Poor Grogman
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Why did all those poor sods get gassed in the trenches in WW1 ?
Can anybody explain that?

Just more sheeple getting turned into cannon fodder to feed the machine.

Cmon people learn to love the ponzi, it's for the "common good"...

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 17:49 | 2151418 john39
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forced changed through destruction of older institutions.  enrichment of the banker class through war loans to all sides.   divide and conquer so a very small group can slowly get its tentacles in positions of power around the world...  one step at a time.

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 19:57 | 2151885 Xkwisetly Paneful
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yea and the USA invented war.

we get it, we being the actual anglicans posting here, not the folks who sign up as Bob23 when Achmed39 was available.

it is hilarious mainly because for years the people who signed up as Jim24 were mostly government.

hilarious how the caveman is behind even the dolts at the fed.

but we get it, misery loves company and between the resident eurotrash, the self loathing americans and the pretend anglicans such as yourself, you have company in droves.

Asalam Alekem

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 21:06 | 2152096 Bringin It
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What's a matter Paneful? Hebrew420 was taken?

we being the actual anglicans posting here, not the folks who sign up as Bob23 when Achmed39 was available

Pot --> kettle --> black.

 

You are projecting your flaws onto others. 

For example, you GIYUS-allumni used to love to goof on the 72 virgin thing, until ... you inspired enough people to get the balls together to take a look at all the anti-goy hate speach in the Talmud.  Now you don't talk so much about the 72 virgins anymore.  See how that works? 

The more obnoxious you get, the more obnoxious response you do cause yourself to suffer.

You are losing and you are going to lose bad.  I'm sure it must be increasingly painful.  So bust a move.

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 21:27 | 2152183 Xkwisetly Paneful
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All fine and dandy except I have no interest in hebrew or jews for that matter,

otherwise your allegation would be spot on!

My nick is as appropriate as they come.

Not sure what I am losing or supposed to be winning at exactly?

But good job keeping score!

 

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 23:25 | 2152420 Bringin It
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Paneful - why are you ashamed to admit you are a Jew?  And a zionist Jew to boot?

I have no interest in hebrew or jews for that matter

But you are fascinated with calling out arabs in 50% of your posts and ending them with Asalam Alekem.  What did Achmed ever do to you?  Nobody but a Lidkudnik wanna-be carries on like that.  Do they Paneful?

You're fooling no one but yourself.  Come on, be a man if you can and 'fess up to the charade.

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 23:37 | 2152440 john39
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dunno man, you ever been to the deep south in the US?  despite that they have never actually seen a real Muslim, they are convinced that the Caliphate has already taken over the united states.  and if would help bring back the messiah, they would gladly pay every last penny over to Israel to pay for white phos and bulldozers to finish off the palestinian women and children.

Mon, 02/13/2012 - 06:32 | 2152866 Element
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wait a minute ... ain't we supposed to fight them over there ... so ... they can fight us over here?

Mon, 02/13/2012 - 03:02 | 2152747 Bringin It
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Sorry to hear the South is so buffaloed by the media they ingest.  But Paneful from the Deep South is impossible.  He wouldn't have the lingo.

Mon, 02/13/2012 - 02:01 | 2152688 RockyRacoon
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True enough.   And the scary part is where those toothless morons get their "fair and balanced" news confirming their own paranoia.   They wouldn't be thinking like that unless they were coaxed.

Mon, 02/13/2012 - 13:38 | 2154055 Xkwisetly Paneful
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Yea own paranoia, radical islam really hasn't been waging a low level war against the US interests for decades, it is all imaginary, covered that several posts up already, from the hostages to the ship they blew, it all never took place or it was the evil zionistas.

No shame here Abu Nadal. 

The radical islamic muzzies are in a  deep struggle with the chinese for largest anchor to the human race and they are taking over northern and western europe and northern africa.

Unlike yourself who instead of admitting you are radical islam and all for the de evolution of mankind,

choose to try and cloak yourself in some frock of imaginary intellectual elitism all the while hailing cyber blowjobs from like minded mankind de volutionaries.

Aslam Alekem brothers, enjoy  stoning that adulterer tonight.

 

Mon, 02/13/2012 - 14:28 | 2154367 RockyRacoon
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What?   Nah, never mind.

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 22:35 | 2152327 sun tzu
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you jist wanna get them thar terrists hiding behind every tree and rock. gidder dun

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 17:46 | 2151408 RickC
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Often, just reading the headline is enough to conclude that we are being "treated" to another post from George Washington.  Such posts are often created from faulty logic and unsupportable conclusions.  In this case, just because Al Quada and the US come to the same conclusion as to where our interests lie, does not mean we are on the same side.  For example, Al Quada love chaos because it provides them an entry.  The US, on the other hand, does not like kindly on Syria's proxy actions for Iran, the destabalization of Lebanon via Hamas, and the killing of the Syran people by its own government.

 

This idiotic piece by George Washington makes an implicit assumption that we should base our concept of our national interest on what Al Quada thinks.  It would be hard to find a more absurd conclusion.

Mon, 02/13/2012 - 16:26 | 2154928 Things that go bump
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Because the US government prefers to kill the Syrian citizens itself?

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 23:39 | 2152461 lincolnsteffens
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The minority ruling bunch in Syria are not Muslim. They are an offshoot off Christianity called Aloites. Syria and Iran are buddies. Al Qaeda are rabid Muslims. Hence a common enemy. This does NOT mean we are on Al Qaeda's side.

 

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 18:52 | 2151590 AllWorkedUp
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You should apply for a position as a gov't spokesperson or maybe get on a talking head Sunday a.m. show. Perfect for the part.

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 21:12 | 2152143 Bansters-in-my-...
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Allworkedup....

The critter(RickC) your texting at is part of the "Thunder'-"Paneful' -"TheAlarmist" team...

all on the same Govt shift....

Pro Terrorist...all the way

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 19:18 | 2151703 FeralSerf
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He already did and he was accepted.  What do you think he's doing?  These boards are full of taxpayer supported shills and ADL volunteers.

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 19:35 | 2151791 LasVegasDave
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No, these boards are full of conspiracy theorists and mentally disturbed anti semites trying to drown out liberty loving sovereign individuals.

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 23:47 | 2152368 DaveyJones
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LVD the word conspiracy and the word theory are different words. They don't automatically go together. Most crime at any sophistication beyond a candybar theft is a "conspiracy" as long as it involves two or more people. Look up the criminal definiton. Are you suggesting that our government, or any other for that matter, never pulls off conspiracies? Does history support this view? Do countries (just like people) commit more crime the more deperate they become? Aren't most conspiracies driven by a financial motivation? Do you think "America" is some human and historical excpetion? Do you think this country is in good shape? Do you think our government always tells us the truth? Do you think they operate in our interest? If not, and if they lie about many of their exploits for some non-public interest, is that not a conspiracy? Was most of the real estate and financial mess not the result of a conspiracy? Why would you think that MO would be any different for OIL and other vital yet depleting resource?        

Just curious  

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 23:52 | 2152491 LasVegasDave
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Since you asked:

Are you suggesting that our government, or any other for that matter, never pulls off conspiracies?

A:  No, it happens all the time

Does history support this view? Do countries (just like people) commit more crime the more deperate they become?

A:  Depends on the country

Aren't most conspiracies driven by a financial motivation?

A:  Or religious, or lust for power

Do you think "America" is some human and historical excpetion?

A:  Of course not

Do you think this country is in good shape?

A: Terrible shape; never worse

Do you think our government always tells us the truth?

A:  Did you really have to ask that.  You've read shadowsats, right?

Do you think they operate in our interest?

A:  No the Pols pander to special interests; be they big banks or environmentalists.  Individual liberty lovers like myself are on the outside looking in

If not, and if they lie about many of their exploits for some non-public interest, is that not a conspiracy?

A:  It could be, depends on the facts.

Was most of the real estate and financial mess not the result of a conspiracy?

A: Not necessarily. But certainly the result of greed

Why would you think that MO would be any different for OIL and other vital yet depleting resource?

A:  It wouldnt be.  All I'm saying is that I dont subscribe to the conspiracy that the US Govt. was behind 9/11.  Their policies may have caused it, but I dont believe they planned it or conspired with Al Qaeda to bring it about. 

 

Mon, 02/13/2012 - 05:40 | 2152840 Element
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All I'm saying is that I dont subscribe to the conspiracy that the US Govt. was behind 9/11.  Their policies may have caused it, but I dont believe they planned it or conspired with Al Qaeda to bring it about. - LasVagasDave

 

Well good luck explaining away the video of WTC7 'collapse' ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RzLR6lsyhl4

And also the curious miraculous coincidence of weaponised US-strain anthrax spores from a US bio-weapon, which just happened to show-up, concurrently, with the WTC7 'collapse'.

Because I sure can't explain it away so easily (except maybe via willfull bloody-minded denial).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=YVkoHYegXr0

--

Coincidences happen, yes, but unfortunately I'm also rational and sceptical, so I'll have to go with Occam's Razor on this one. i.e. the simplest explanation, that can account for all the observations, is the one that's most likely to be correct.

 

As Wiki states it:

"... a principle that generally recommends that, from among competing hypotheses, selecting the one that makes the fewest new assumptions usually provides the correct one, and that the simplest explanation will be the most plausible until evidence is presented to prove it false. ..."

Mon, 02/13/2012 - 03:06 | 2152750 Kiwi Pete
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Hi Dave, have a look at this video and see if anything in it causes you to question that belief. 

 

http://www.bushstole04.com/911/9-11_videos_embedded.htm

 

These guys are definately not rabid conspiracy theorists and pose some very serious doubts about the official version of events.

Mon, 02/13/2012 - 00:26 | 2152530 DaveyJones
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Are false flags not a common historical occurance? Does history not demonstrate that as empires start to decline, they take desperate measures and even turn on their own? Do you consider America an empire? Do you consider it in decline? Can you explain how NORAD and the Pentagon missle defense system failed that day with more than an hours notice? Can you explain Cheney's response to the question "do the orders still stand?"Can you explain the size of that hole relative to the size of that plane? Can you explain how all of the area cameras were immediately seized an how to this day there is not a single image of that plane hitting the Pentagon? What have expert pilots said about the skills needed to exercise those flight patterns and strikes? What were those "terrorists" flight skills as reported by their flight school teachers? Do you know how many similar terrorist airplane related exercises were going on that day? Can you explain that coincidence? Do you know who coordianted them? Can you explain why our government in complete contradiction and violation of the law, immediately has all steel from those towers removed and shipped overseas? Can you explain the collpase of Tower 7 and how the BBC annnounced it fifteen minutes before it occured.

I could go on and on however, these questions alone demonstrate that this "conspiracy theory" is based upon huge anomolies in the military, air control, architectural, criminal and hijack investigation arenas in addition to a hundred other disciplines. And sure enough, numerous CREDIBLE indiviuals in numerous professions have come out and raised serious doubts and questions on the "offical" narrative. To suggest that George Washington and his readers are "conspiracy theroy nuts" based on your personal belief that 911 was executed by outsiders with no intimate access to our defense, air systems, and other structures is just that a personal opinion....        

Mon, 02/13/2012 - 01:54 | 2152683 Milestones
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Took me several trys to give ya a greenie. Good response.              Milestones

Mon, 02/13/2012 - 13:27 | 2154024 DaveyJones
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it's a new anti-terrorism measure, any comment that questions the official narrative takes fourteen clicks to make the green arrow go up.

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 22:36 | 2152332 sun tzu
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we murkans love that liberty. we are spreading it around the world like a bad case of herpes

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 18:38 | 2151535 Uncle Remus
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our concept of our national interest

Well shit homestyle, there's your problem right there and on a couple different levels to boot.

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 18:30 | 2151504 Spastica Rex
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Sun Tzu, jackass.

 

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 17:46 | 2151407 alien-IQ
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You will never defeat Emmanuel Goldstein.

Al Qaeda? Seriously GW...come on.

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 17:40 | 2151399 DogSlime
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The Taliban were friends when they were fighting the soviets on behalf of the west.

Saddam was a friend when he was attacking Iran on behalf of the west.

Ghaddafi was an enemy, then a friend, then an enemy.

Noriega was a friend, then an enemy when he was no longer co-operative.

Al Qaeda are friends or enemies depending on how TPTB want to use them.

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 18:25 | 2151493 bigkahuna
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alqueda allegedly brought down WTC 1, 2, and 7--as well as a side of the Pentagon.

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 19:30 | 2151774 alien-IQ
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The also rigged the 1919 World Series and are believed to have been responsible for the deaths of Elvis Presley, John Belushi and Jim Morrison.

They get around.

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 21:17 | 2152163 lasvegaspersona
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alien IQ guy

wasn't that bare foot Osama in 1919? Maybe I'm confusing my sports or scandals...dunno, not sure

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 20:37 | 2152026 disabledvet
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no, no. "That was D'arth Vader" not Al Qaeda. That's why all those movies about "the Vader" came out and were so popular! (Apparently the klieg lights got to him--he's lyin' low now as "the Rapper De-veda." Do NOT ask him about Al Qaeda which is ALSO lyin' low as "the Rappers known as L Qeusadilla" which apparently "De Veda" finds offensive cuz it's so girly. And now we hear "they're working with the Americans!"??? Welll...how does a bad man keep his baddy-waddy image with press like that?
now i know the image is a little grainy but "this just in"--we've infiltrated:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DGiPpFG4PY&feature=player_detailpage
how dare you say we're on the same side!

Sun, 02/12/2012 - 19:48 | 2151846 Xkwisetly Paneful
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No same folks who can't plow the roads or deliver the mail pulled off 9/11.

They just forgot to plant those WMDS in Iraq, instead they said to themselves,

you know what, lets have the entire debacles hinge on WMDS but instead of planting them there,

lets not and abdicate power to some could be manchurian candidate.

makes perfect sense.

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