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US Ambassador To Libya, Three Others, Killed

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Yesterday it was the US embassy in Egypt which fell victim to rioting as angry protestors stormed the building and replaced the US flag with a black one. Today, the violence shifts to Libya where the US ambassador and three staffers was just killed after an attack over a US-produced filmed deemed insulting to Muslims. Perhaps it is time for the US to replace one "pro-democracy" regime with another. From Reuters: "The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staff were killed in a rocket attack on their car, a Libyan official said, as they were rushed from a consular building stormed by militants denouncing a U.S.-made film insulting the Prophet Mohammad." Number of US ambasadors to Libya killed under Gadaffi's regime? Zero.

More:

The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other embassy staff were killed in a rocket attack on their car, a Libyan official said, as they were rushed from a consular building stormed by militants denouncing a U.S.-made film insulting the Prophet Mohammad.

 

Gunmen had attacked and burned the U.S. consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi, a centre of last year's uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, late on Tuesday evening, killing one U.S. consular official. The building was evacuated.

 

The Libyan official said the ambassador, Christopher Stevens, was being driven from the consulate building to a safer location when gunmen opened fire.

 

"The American ambassador and three staff members were killed when gunmen fired rockets at them," the official in Benghazi told Reuters.

 

There was no immediate comment from the State Department in Washington. U.S. ambassadors in such volatile countries are accompanied by tight security, usually travelling in well-protected convoys. Security officials will be considering whether the two attacks were coordinated.

 

Libyan deputy prime minister Mustafa Abu Shagour condemned the killing of the U.S. diplomats as a cowardly act.

 

The consular official had died after clashes between Libyan security forces and Islamist militants around the consulate building. Looters raided the empty compound and some onlookers took pictures after calm returned.

 

In neighbouring Egypt, demonstrators had torn down an American flag and burned it during the protest. Some tried to raise a black flag with the words "There is no God but God, and Mohammad is his messenger", a Reuters witness said.

From Al Jazeera:

The US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, has died from smoke inhalation in an attack on the US consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, the country's interior ministry and security sources have said.

 

An armed mob attacked and set fire to the building in a protest against an amateur film deemed offensive to Islam's Prophet Muhammad, after similar protests in Egypt's capital.

 

The ambassador was paying a short visit to Benghazi when the consulate came under attack on Tuesday night, Al Jazeera's Suleiman El-Dressi reported from the eastern Libyan city.

 

He died of suffocation during the attack, along with two US security personnel who were accompanying him, security sources told Al Jazeera. Another consulate employee, whose nationality could not immediately be confirmed, was also killed.

 

Two other staffers were injured, Idrissi reported. The deaths were confirmed by Wanis al-Sharif, the Libyan deputy interior minister, to the AFP news agency.

 

Mustafa Abu Shagur, the Libyan deputy prime minister, condemned the "cowardly act of attacking the US consulate and the killing of [the ambassador] and the other diplomats".

 

The bodies of the dead were transported to the Benghazi international airport, to be flown to Tripoli and then onwards to a major US airbase in Germany.

 

Abdel-Monem al-Hurr, a spokesman for Libya's Supreme Security Committee, said on Wednesday that rocket-propelled grenades had been fired at the consulate from a nearby farm.

 

"There [were] fierce clashes between the Libyan army and an armed militia outside the US consulate," he said. He also said roads had been closed off and security forces surrounded the building.

 

A group calling themselves the 'Islamic law supporters' carried out the attack in response to the relaese of the film, Al Jazeera's El-Dressi reported.

 

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Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:47 | 2784855 Buckaroo Banzai
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But but but... It's a religion of peace!

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:28 | 2785028 Davalicious
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Muslims say that Islam is the religion of peace. If you don't believe them, they kill you.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 18:36 | 2787681 Element
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nah, just a translation error ... should be a "Religion of pieces" ... mostly of chunks of flesh.

 

It's just like the current wave of populist pseudo-christianity, in that respect.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:15 | 2784753 TwoShortPlanks
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I'm betting a Jooo just thumbed me down.

 

EDIT: 4 Jooos...and counting...keep it up; we'll soon have the numbers to fill a shower.

EDIT: That's 5...calm down, don't all rush at once, there's plenty of room for everyone.

EDIT: 7, come-on team, we need twice that number for a each Iranian nuke test....remember, "Duck and Cover!"

EDIT: That's 8 Thumbs Up and 7 Thumbs Down...not near enough for a Rail Road Carriage.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:21 | 2784995 XitSam
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Look Kittens

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 09:12 | 2785225 Gully Foyle
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/china-and-russia-are-ruthles...

...

Just the other day, China and Germany agreed to start conducting an increasing amount of trade with each other in their own currencies.

You would think that a major currency agreement between the 2nd and 4th largest economies on the face of the planet would make headlines all over the United States.

Instead, the silence in the U.S. media was deafening.

At least there were some reports in the international media about this.  The following is from a Reuters article about this very important deal....

Germany and China plan to conduct an increasing amount of their trade in euros and yuan, the two nations said in a joint statement after talks between Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing on Thursday.

"Both sides intend to support financial institutions and companies of both countries in the use of the renminbi and euro in bilateral trade and investments," said the text of the statement.

By itself, this deal would not be that alarming.

However, the truth is that both Russia and China have been making deals like this all over the globe in recent years.  I detailed 11 more major agreements like the one that China and Germany just made in this article: "11 International Agreements That Are Nails In The Coffin Of The Petrodollar".

In that article I listed a few of the things that will likely happen when the petrodollar dies....

-Oil will cost a lot more.

-Everything will cost a lot more.

-There will be a lot less foreign demand for U.S. government debt.

-Interest rates on U.S. government debt will rise.

-Interest rates on just about everything in the U.S. economy will rise.

So enjoy going to "the dollar store" while you can.

It will turn into the "five and ten dollar store" soon enough.

Okay, so if you are China and Russia and you are working hard to undermine the dollar, how do you get prepared for the fiat currency crisis that your hard work will eventually create?

You guessed it.  You hoard gold and other precious metals.

And that is exactly what China and Russia has been doing.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 09:55 | 2785436 Vendetta
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the lack of relevant news in US media has been deafening for years.  When India was making deals with Iran to trade gold for oil, the crickets in the US were astounding.  Japan doing deals with China bypassing dollar ... crickets.  Brazil and china.... crickets.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:00 | 2784715 mjorden
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I forgot where I read it, but I think it said that 'gang violence' is down and they can contribute it to Video Games (not bored anymore I guess).

Wonder if the same would work.  Buy some Xbox 360's or PS3's for Aid and boost the US economy while you are at it.  Violence goes down.  All good.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:47 | 2784809 EvlTheCat
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Yea, they attribute low violence to video games until they don't.  It's all Dungeons and Dragons fault.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:10 | 2784745 Slightly Insane
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How many "other" religions kill people for making a movie?  I think that we've got a problem with these folks (musloids).  We have "freedom of speech" being regulated by force of musloids?  I don't think so.

This is intolerable!!!!   Where is the OBAMSTER?  Where is CLINTON?  Where are the musloids in America jumping all over this?

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:24 | 2784779 Vagabond
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I see you take what you are told at face value.  Me... I think I'll hold off judgement until more facts surface.  Killing ambassadors because you don't like a movie someone else is making makes no sense.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:30 | 2784791 LULZBank
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Cant you just tow the official line and leave everyone happy.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:53 | 2784866 Buckaroo Banzai
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"Killing ambassadors because you don't like a movie someone else is making makes no sense."

The Muslim religion is completely fucked up. It makes perfect sense because it is perfectly consistent with Muslim behavior over the last 50 years.

Millions of Christians have been slaughtered in the middle east and Africa over the last decade. How many ambassadors have they killed? but you offend some muzzies with a movie and the next hing you know, a consulate is attacked.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 09:22 | 2785273 JOYFUL
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So this is it, huh, the day when all yu kloset krypto kabbalist luvers can kome out and puff up with the pride of phony patriotism...or somethin.

Nobody kills Christians like kosher kabbalists...Nooooobody!

the world over, it's part of the BIG PLAN, that when mayhem ensues after the sionists pit peeple against each other, it's always our Christian minorities that get the worst of it. In Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt and elsewhere, the terror kampaign of the sionist entity thrives on the blood sacrifice of the Christian...but that would not koncern yu...

Christians are just counters in your krodocile-teared kronicle...spewing forth the necessary hatred to get everybody ready for a bloody finale to yur masters millenialists madness.

Get lost lackey.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 09:25 | 2785286 HellFish
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50 years?  Try 1500.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 10:15 | 2785528 fuu
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"Millions of Christians have been slaughtered in the middle east and Africa over the last decade."

Millions? Got anything to back that up, I could look myself but I want to see what you are reading.

1,000,000 in a decade is 273 a day every day for 10 years. 2,000,000 would be 547 per day. With nary a peep heard?

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:47 | 2784851 Sofa King
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Time for a little Carpet Bombing, Reagan-Style.

 

 

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:22 | 2784991 Ignatius
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Atleast they seem to know how to draw a line... as opposed to we Amerikans taking it up the ass repeatedly from the banksters.

"Thank you, sir, may i have another?"

Sincere condolences to the families.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:23 | 2784776 LongSoupLine
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kind of reminds me how the American religion of "Lemmingism" reacts when anyone says something bad about the Prophet AAPL...

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 10:08 | 2785499 resurger
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I know someone who fits that description, an infidel and a terrorist:

Reggie Middleton

He must go too ..

/sarc

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:30 | 2784795 Hobbleknee
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Will Obama invade Sweden if I'm killed over here?

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:12 | 2784955 piliage
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Go walk around Malmo for an hour with an American Flag or Union Jack on your shirt and then get back to us with that question.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:59 | 2784893 Ruffcut
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Amb assadors, collateral damage. NWO control of all oil, priceless.

Blame it on Iran so we can keep the war games going. ONly one more king pin oil empire to go. Set, match.

First to pray to be delivered from evil, then you see no relief, then you start seeking street justice.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:10 | 2784952 Translational Lift
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This administration has fostered an atmosphere where any asshole/group/government in the world can attack the US/Americans with impunity.........with no repercussions!!  No casus belli!!  All hail the POTUS, the friend of the world!!   sic

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 06:55 | 2784698 Isotope
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Hey, Obammy, how's that Libyan revolution workin' out for you?

Reapin' what you sow?

Let's make sure you double down on Syria.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:54 | 2784871 Buckaroo Banzai
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Obama is a fucking traitor, so yes, he does like reaping what he has sown.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:38 | 2785077 LongSoupLine
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"Nobel Peace...bitchez!" - BarryO

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 09:45 | 2785351 DosZap
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Hey, Obammy, how's that Libyan revolution workin' out for you?

Reapin' what you sow?

Let's make sure you double down on Syria.

SEE a pattern here?,we take Police actions/war, and FREE the Libians, and we fee the Egyptians, and we create TWO more Radical ISLAMIC states.

Egypt is alreay in talks with Iran.

Let's see?????............Hmmmmmmmmmmmm, think this is a coincedence your a moron.

These NEW governments that ALLOW these murders, should shoot down everyone participating in any of these horrible murders,as soon as they hit the streets.

Freedom of expression,and speech against any religion,give NO ONE the right to murder anyone, much less total innocents.

WE should hold these governments to account, and the people that particpated in this should be publically executed on TV, showing this will never be tolerated again.Otherwise, we bomb their governmental centers.

Instead of having the Muslim US Admin, apologize FOR COLD BLOODED murder,because of a stupid film.

This insanity must stop.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 06:55 | 2784700 walidsassia
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a 'who let the dogs out ' would apply perfectly on what happened. the US did not knew what she did when she overthrow Gaddafi and gave the Power to the Islamic Fundemantalist in the called Arab Spring. 

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:00 | 2784714 Bobbyrib
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True, because Gaddafi never supported terrorists. /sarcasm.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:10 | 2784749 Christophe2
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I would say to the contrary that the satanic war criminals in the White House planned and orchestrated things in order to bring us to this current state of affairs.

 

Why else did they use their al Qaeda minions to attack Libya?  From the very beginning they were lying, telling us these fundamentalist sell-swords were in fact legitimate 'rebels', so why believe that there is any good will behind any of their actions?

 

The reason for all this should be evident to all: the 3rd world war is meant to pit Christians (NATO) against Muslims (c.f. Albert Pike).  Just like how Hitler was funded by the Zionists to create the monstrous Nazi regime, which Europe and America had no choice but to willingly go to war against, the Zionist governments are working to turn ALL secular regimes in the Middle East and North Africa into fundamentalist regimes that will behave so terribly that we will have no choice but to murder tens (if not hundreds) of millions of people once more.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 09:27 | 2784800 JOYFUL
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Now we're getting somewhere.

With that reprise of the truth, we can move on to breakin this down to the simplest and easiest to komphrend komponents of the 'master plan'...

khazarian kryptos|(atheistic Sabbateans masquerading as "jews") incite hatred between peeples of the Book*, who will end up destroying each other in an orgy of misplaced aggression against those who would be both friends and allies, were it not for the machinations of the malevolent kooks who seek the demise of both east and west so as to rule over the wasteland that follows.

*whether yur into religion or not doesn't matter - the fact is that peeple who are are being purposely misled into fear and hatred of each other, for no other reason than the hegemonist agenda of the evil-doers amongst us. These dual citiizened kooks really do 'hate yur freedoms', and unlike the sad sack wastrels of the Arab world who get inveigled into the false flag freakshows, have the means and the motivation to do something about it!

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:08 | 2784941 Zero Debt
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And so, a false flag attack involving Libya makes total sense.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:15 | 2784973 overmedicatedun...
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blood in the water, silence in the skies..,Iran they are obviously behind it all, Obuma to the nation "I really hated doing it but they gave me no choice, I was planning 18 holes and I had to give that up for this shit..damn being president is hard work."

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:55 | 2785142 Canadian Dirtlump
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sure they did. smash a state you cant control. a failed lawless libya suits them fine as long as europe still gets the gold.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 06:55 | 2784702 Upland27
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wonder where the rockets came from....

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:02 | 2784725 tocointhephrase
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USA USA USA

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 09:45 | 2785371 Monedas
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It was the same eastern block, pick-up mounted AA, RPGs and AK47s !

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:35 | 2784812 Tirpitz
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No 'accidential' embassy bombing this time??

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:50 | 2784841 Ratscam
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accidental Israel missile for Obama not wanting to meet Nethanyahu next time he,s in Jew York.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 10:22 | 2785604 Monedas
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Bombing the Chinese Embassy in Serbia was no accident .... and the way they were using it .... it was no embassy !   That's the only thing Clinton did that I agreed with !

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 06:57 | 2784703 mjorden
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For fuck's sake, get the damn oil pipelines built already.

Just wait until the India/China conflict that will be in a couple of decades and takes place on land and sea (China's 'water')

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 06:57 | 2784706 New_Meat
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causus belli, bitchez!

Oh, wait, this is the Muslim Spring.

onvm

- Ned

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 06:58 | 2784707 walidsassia
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lIBYA down the Guys still have the US Embassador in  EGYPT, TUNISIA, YEMEN & possibly Syria to kill. Nice JOB USA. 

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 06:58 | 2784708 CheapPanderingCrony
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Isn't killing a country's ambassador a Casus belli?

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:03 | 2784727 Bobbyrib
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Yeah, but the Europeans are getting their light sweet crude so this man's death will be seen as a sacrifice in the name of Libyan democracy.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:24 | 2785008 piliage
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It would have been for most presidents from Jefferson through JFK. But we are nuanced now, particularly when we are the idiots who made this possible. We just pay the Jizya and say, "thank you third world regressive cult-following barbarian for taking our money and killing our representative. would you like an F-16?".

Think of it as our ROI for investing in the Arab Spring. Another fine program implemented by The One, like health care that doesn't reduce costs and 1 trillion in debt a quarter to prop up wall street.

Of course, with over 50% of Americans sucking like pigs from the teat of government, it will only get worse.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. Alexander Tytler

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 06:58 | 2784709 doomandbloom
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Lets bomb Syria...

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 06:58 | 2784710 whoopsing
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Hillary can handle this

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:46 | 2784848 Ratscam
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as well as the 13 innocent civilian Yemenites including women and children that got killed by a drone. Who cares about Yemenite civilians, when we have innocent US government officials killed....

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 06:58 | 2784711 youngman
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You can bet Obama is all pro Muslim....he is one in my mind....He will keep quiet and just let things happen...he is in favor of the caliafate....remember a muslim can lie to an infidel....no problem in their book..

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:04 | 2784729 Bobbyrib
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I bet they are look for a sucker..er replacement to go over there.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 06:58 | 2784712 Temporalist
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Greece faces more anti-austerity strikes, protests

A fresh wave of anti-austerity strikes hit Greece Wednesday as the leaders of the governing coalition struggled to finalize further spending cuts for the coming two years — without which the country will lose its vital rescue loans.

State hospital doctors, school teachers and local authority employees walked off the job Wednesday to protest planned salary and funding cuts under a new €11.5 billion ($14.7 billion) austerity package.

http://news.yahoo.com/greece-faces-more-anti-austerity-strikes-protests-...


Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:11 | 2784751 Parrotile
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And there but for the Grace of God go us all . .

Probably coming to a Country near you sometime soon (as the Western, and other dependent democracies) find out that the days of unlimited credit have disappeared.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:01 | 2784719 TwoShortPlanks
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Wouldn't happen if everyone just got the fuck out of everyone elses' country and stopped selling arms...not too fucking hard to draw that conclusion, is it?!

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:06 | 2784736 Bobbyrib
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Yeah, the country would still be in a Civil War. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with what you are saying, just stating that if it weren't for the US the Libyan rebels would still being fighting Gaddafi's forces.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 09:54 | 2785428 Hohlick
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just consider this: if it weren't for the US this Civil War will never started

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 21:19 | 2788008 Bobbyrib
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Proof?

Thu, 09/13/2012 - 09:49 | 2789235 Hohlick
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What kind of proof do you need? Proof that US actively supported and provoked rebels in Libya before war?

Or, may be, you need some proof that if there was no NATO help for rebels, this rebels had to be neutralized by Libyan army very soon?

Use the Google, Luke, and try to think!

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:07 | 2784739 Parrotile
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No chance Sunbeam - FAR too much moolah to be made in the International Arms Trade (where the US of A holds pole position I seem to remember . . .)

Where's Rumsfeld / Halliburton going to be making their billions??

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:24 | 2785011 Sauk Leader
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"The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities." -George Washington

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:02 | 2784721 Negro Primero
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...poor Archie

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:03 | 2784726 Fix It Again Timmy
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Why can't we take every single, last soldier, ambassador, contractor, etc. that is in that part of the world and bring them home: "Sorry, bros but we gotta lot of problems at home that need attention, so you will have to carry on without us."  Can you tell me what is wrong with this approach?

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:16 | 2784759 Parrotile
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Which Country CAUSED the problems???

The USA had "problems at home" well before the Libyan invasion, so perhaps you all should have thought a bit along these lines then.

How's the "Regime Change" working out for you all now??

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:29 | 2784789 Tirpitz
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"Can you tell me what is wrong with this approach?"

#1 - the endless appetite for limited resources, aka oil

#2 - the endless appetite of a chosen race (controlling most of the Western world) for world domination

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:35 | 2784811 DeltaDawn
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In case you haven't noticed our government does not work for our interests anymore. We just provide the muscle to get the job done for the global network. When we become weak enough, they will circle back on us with some peacekeepers.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 09:52 | 2785417 DosZap
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Why can't we take every single, last soldier, ambassador, contractor, etc. that is in that part of the world and bring them home: "Sorry, bros but we gotta lot of problems at home that need attention, so you will have to carry on without us." Can you tell me what is wrong with this approach?

 

You forgot the MAIN thing, stop giving them BILLIONS free, for these NEW Radical Islamic States.................GO Obama.

Your apologizing,instead of condemning them for cold blooded murder?

Anyone have any doubt who and what he is now?

Some of us have your NUMBER.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:05 | 2784732 Fantasy Planet
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It's Bush's fault. 

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:25 | 2784782 Tirpitz
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Did he arm the rebels last year?

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 09:28 | 2785292 giovanni_f
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not personally and not directly. As president he provided the political cover to the neocon mafia that is still in charge of supplying all that is needed to the saudis or the turks who in turn relay it to the "rebels". Hope that helps.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:42 | 2784837 giovanni_f
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he is but one of the war criminals. And you are a neocon-think-tank-paid-by clerk

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:06 | 2784733 dcb
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I have yet to see the name of this "film" or evidence of it. anybody know

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:06 | 2784734 Dr. Engali
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Clearly we need to go in and liberate these people now. Send in the tanks and the planes , take their oil, gold, and establish a central bank for them.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:23 | 2784778 BlackVoid
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You already did that.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:33 | 2784805 ParkAveFlasher
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They'll just do it again.  Our armed forces are like road crews:  If there no potholes, there is no work, no dole out, and then no kickbacks.

Nothing like filling in the same pothole once every three months or so.  Hey, that pothole creates jobs, puts bread on the table for working families, and so forth, and so on.

And here comes the Euro agin.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:07 | 2784737 CheapPanderingCrony
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No you stupid idiots, it was our (the US's) fault. We let some stupid dope produce a film that was insulting to Islam. Obama is doing just what he should be doing, apologizng to the natives for pissing them off, as opposed to, g-d forbid, demand accountability, or worse yet, show them there are consequences for their actions.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:17 | 2784760 Zero Govt
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another possibility is they're so wound up they'd have triggered on any equally lame excuse available

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:07 | 2784738 Winston Churchill
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Seem to remember something about not poking a hornets nest,

and being carefull about what you wish for.

The Hubris of Empire,part ??

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:10 | 2784746 CheapPanderingCrony
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Here's the trailer: http://youtu.be/qmodVun16Q4

 

Just be warned, if you watch it you may be labeled a blasphemist, with all its implications.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:25 | 2784781 Christophe2
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Wow, that movie is such an obvious attempt at provocation and propaganda.  The acting and text is abysmal, but worse yet are all the attempts to communicate hateful caricatures.

 

It's interesting how hate crimes against Muslims are considered 'art' and must be defended at all costs, whereas anything that targets Jews would be treated completely differently.

 

I'm not saying that the savagery in Libya is anything laudable, but let's be honest: Libya is now under al Qaeda control (meaning American control), and these al Qaeda savages are being paid and armed by NATO, Saudi and Qatari governments, in part so they can commit more brutal war crimes in Syria...

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:29 | 2784794 CheapPanderingCrony
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So you saying that if, for example, there was an Opera being held with the severed head of Moses, Jesus and Muhammed, and the Jews went nuts they'd cancel the Opera? http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/27/world/europe/27germany.html?_r=1&oref=...

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:55 | 2784874 Christophe2
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I am referring to the negative portrayals seen in the movie.  The Arabs are all savages, with one scene for example showing a pretty young woman with a very visible Christian cross being murdered by the brutal Arab throng.  OBVIOUS propaganda and hate mongering: Christians are meant to watch the movie and hate/fear Muslims...

 

A more appropriate counter example, for Jews, would be a movie depicting them defrauding and murdering their goy neighbors.  I can well imagine the cries of antisemitism and the political and financial pressure that would be brought to bear on the producers and distributors of the movie: no movie house in America or Europe would allow it to be shown.

 

For a very real example of this, consider the French comedian Dieudonné, who dares tell jokes that target elite Jews (amongst many others).  At one point, the guy (who is by FAR the most popular comic in France, selling more seats for his shows than any other) had to do his show in a bus because none of the cities in France would allow him to do his standup show.  And quite frankly, the guy is not an antisemite and certainly not a hate monger: he is against all forms of racism, and hence is highly critical of Zionists.

=> Dieudonné's latest film (ironically called "The anti-Semite") resulted in the CRIF (the French AIPAC) suing him to try to stop its sale and distribution...

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:46 | 2785110 shovelhead
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Exactly so,

Because everybody knows that Islam is Peace and Christians in Muslim countries are committing mass suicides because they weren't fortunate enough to be born Muslim.

Everybody's got to love the Big Mo...

If they know what's good for them.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 10:46 | 2785784 catacl1sm
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Dude, you're equating political and financial pressure with mob murder. You fucking dunce.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 11:09 | 2785938 Christophe2
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Not at all.  I was discussing the movie that is at the source of this, rather than the reaction it engendered.

 

But if you want to focus on the ambassador's murder, then let's not forget that he was killed by the al Qaeda thugs that work for and are paid and armed by the US (+Qatar, Saudi Arabia, etc.).  Furthermore, this targeted assassination, where a single rocket managed to kill the top guy, seems to indicate planning, intent and ability far above what a random mob could ever accomplish.  False flag / targeted state-sponsored killing if I ever saw one, so don't be so quick to blame Muslims.

 

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Anyhow, there are so many trolls on this page, it's really tiresome.  Or do people in the states really hate Muslims that much?  It feels like a nauseating wave of Zionist scum has puked their manipulative hatred all over the page.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:59 | 2784899 Buckaroo Banzai
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"hate crimes against Muslims"??? Are you serious?

Millions of Christians have been killed in the middle east and Africa over the last decade, and we're calling a movie insulting muslims a "hate crime"???

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:22 | 2784988 Christophe2
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Pogroms don't happen by themselves: invariably you have people working behind the scenes to make things happen, and these manipulative people are the real culprits, much more than the mob.

 

In Rwanda, for example, they were using the radio to exhort Hutus go out and assassinate the Tutsis.  This movie is no different: it teaches people to hate Muslims and to fear them.

 

For an example of how the 'hate-crime' label can be misapplied, you would do better to look at the works of that French comic Dieudonné (whom I describe above).  For the simple act of making jokes about Zionists he is considered responsible for massive hate crimes by the Jewish lobbies and the mainstream press...

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 10:07 | 2785447 piliage
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Soooo, the people who killed the ambassador were simply expressing themselves? Some sort of extroverted suicide?

Perhaps people don't like Muslims much is because everywhere a muslim and non-muslim country share a border there some type of war, murder, or killing.

Also, since Pan Arab-ism took hold there is a nasty confluence of hard leftist Marxism, anti-west orthodoxy, and violent Islam too.

In my mind Wahabi Islam is very similar to Japanese Shinto when it was joined to Militarism in Japan, with similar results for conquered peoples.

 

 

 

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:10 | 2784747 Shineola
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Mossad Operation......

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:39 | 2784819 samsara
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Hmmm.   Let's see if there is some recent events that would support what you are saying...

Seems like we have an escalation here....

 

 

White House declines Netanyahu request to meet with Obama

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/white-house-declines-netanyahu-request-to-meet-with-obama.premium-1.464328

 

 

ISRAELI SCIENCE WEBSITE: OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE FORGED

http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/israeli-science-website-obama-birth-certificate-forged/

 

Netanyahu Lashes Out At U.S. Over Iran Program

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/11/netanyahu-us-iran_n_1873399.htm...

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:58 | 2784892 Crassus
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Would the Mossad be this stupid?

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:01 | 2784907 Buckaroo Banzai
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"By way of deception, thou shalt do war."

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:14 | 2784748 Zero Govt
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"Perhaps it is time for the US to replace one "pro-democracy" regime with another."

Yes that always works

Puppets here, puppets there, puppets every friggin where

the deranged dysfunctional elite and their endless gaming (cheating) of society.... keep juggling the balls boys, mind they don't drop on your face one day (soon)

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:10 | 2784750 Shineola
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.....just like 11 years ago.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:12 | 2784754 apberusdisvet
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but but but; the bankster cartel got the gold and the oil; what's one ambassador when you're having so much fun looting countries

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:15 | 2784757 overmedicatedun...
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Obuma's job creation: opening for an ambassador, 3 security agents, hmm this could solve the old 8% UE right quick ..putting the American people to work in jobs the mexican's refuse to do.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:44 | 2784845 Let The Wurlitz...
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Dont forget the construction jobs required to repair the building.  These are "good" jobs.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:16 | 2784761 BudFox2012
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were they killed because "they hate our freedom", or was this brazen attack made to protect the weapons of mass destruction of ________________________ (insert name of bad guy country here)?

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:16 | 2784763 giovanni_f
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The plan is actually working fine. To sink the whole asian landmass and the near east region into chaos is the neocons and zionists plan for a world that better fits their goals. The idea is to fragment the whole area into western-hostile but essentially weak war zones. Oabama inherited the strategy but didn't change it. Had he dared change it he would have been JFKed before being in the position to buy that poodle. I am sorry for the victims both, american and libyan, who for the neocons are just a collateral damage.

 

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:15 | 2784961 Dr. Engali
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Obama inherited it? Oh the messiah couldn't change direction..... He would if he could , but he can't for fear of his life. Oh please what a load of crap. He is as much a part of it as Bush was. He knew what he was getting into.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:36 | 2784994 giovanni_f
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nice try, AIPAC clerk, to refute what I didn't say

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:35 | 2785059 moondog
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Obummer is a small time mobster compared to the Bushes. Obummer and GW are/were puppets. Now daddy Bush, he is a real Don. Being head of the CIA (and part of the blue blood syndicate) creates that kind of power base.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 09:03 | 2785173 giovanni_f
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+1 moondog. You nail it

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:19 | 2784771 Tirpitz
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"Number of US ambasadors to Libya killed under Gadaffi's regime? Zero."

It's not about ambassadors, which can be replaced one at a time. It's about the precious liquid found in the sands of the deserts, the black gold permitting endless warfare to secure the empire of financial fraud.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:20 | 2784774 HD
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Run for it Marty!

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:12 | 2784954 dwdollar
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Apparently he didn't make it up to 88 mph.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:28 | 2784784 Catullus
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Is it common to bring a rocket launcher to a protest?  Targeted attack, I could understand. 

Also, the British called the Americans "cowardly" during their occupation of New England too.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:42 | 2784838 Parrotile
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Suppose it depends on "local customs"! Seems it's pretty common to bring a LOT of personal firepower to protests in many Muslim countries - you really need to attend a wedding in Pakistan, especially if the groom is a Military figure - they really DO go "slightly overboard", and I wonder if people are injured by the rain of spent bullets  after the shooting in the air free for all!

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 09:02 | 2785171 fajensen
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Sure - some people believe all that guff about "Freedom" and the "Right to bear arms" and "well regulated militia" enough to act on it.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 10:27 | 2785655 BooMushroom
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Libyans: We don't always protest, but when we do, we protest with rockets.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:28 | 2784787 Coldfire
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Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:38 | 2784825 boooyaaaah
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So, Glen Beck Was right All Along

The new caliphate (The nations of the south)

Add the The 10 nation confederacy Euro Zone

And then the Kings of the East

And viola, you have Armegeddon

 

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:39 | 2784829 helping_friendl...
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From Al Jazeera:

The US ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, has died from smoke inhalation in an attack on the US consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, the country's interior ministry and security sources have said.

 

Mossad has been busy.Why is Israel attacking our Embassies?

 

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:40 | 2784831 youngman
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What is sad...is that all these Muslim leaders are coming to New York to spew hatred again...and we as Americans are going to protect them....they have their diplomatic passports...so we will protect them...where they do not protect us in their countries.....and we give them money tboot....boy are we stupid...

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:41 | 2785084 giovanni_f
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American hospitality. Sure. Guantanamo comes into my mind

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 09:41 | 2785342 10mm
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Whats this "WE" buisness.Do you or I have a say in the matter/outcome?

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:52 | 2784840 Yardfarmer
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In the presence of international provocations such as this and the attack on the US embassy in Cairo, both designed to inflame and further exacerbate already existing tensions, yet once again we have to ask the question," Cui bono?" With the question of the on again off again and, to many minds, inevitable attack on iran, the answer to this question is obviously the state of Israel. The film, "The Innocence of Muslims" which apparently inspired the latest "Muslim outrage" over the the blasphemous ridicule of the Prophet Mohammed (may peace be upon him!),"was directed and produced by an Israeli-American,   real-estate developer Sam Bacile with $5 million in funds from 100 Jewish donors" 

Though little known, Mossad, the Israeli inteligence agency along with the CIA has, created, supported and funded the Benghazi Libyan rebels. The "coincidence" of Netanyahu's visit to New York to address the UN, Obama's well publicized "snub" of the Israeli prime minister and the timing of these attacks arouses suspicions that we are witnessing yet another false flag designed to further Israeli plans to discredit the "recalcitrant" president and lay the groundwork for the attack on Iran. Of course, Obama's "pose" is designed to distance himself from any involvement, as he has shown unwavering commitment to the Zionist state especially in his speeches to AIPAC over the years, continuing an unbroken and unwavering support of Israel by an ongoing succession of US chief executives.

http://empirestrikesblack.com/2011/08/libya-the-cia-mossad-nfsl-and-its-...

 

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:47 | 2784852 egoist
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How much Chinese money are we diverting through our treasury / DoS to Egypt & Libya, yearly? (I don't think it's turn-offable, no matter who gets in next, that stuff has a life of its own)

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:48 | 2784858 Ar-Pharazôn
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"demonstrators had torn down an American flag and burned it during the protest".

 

wow!!! this kind of things are happening since 30-40 years so..................

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:51 | 2784862 RR 232km_h
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Religion is the cancer of mankind

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 09:11 | 2785218 tu-ne-cede-malis
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And statism is a religion.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 09:20 | 2785263 darteaus
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The religion of athiesm

Achievements:

  • Mao -> 60 million dead
  • Stalin -> 25+ million dead
  • Hitler -> 25 million dead
Wed, 09/12/2012 - 09:49 | 2785398 laosuwan
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Hitler was not aethiest, he was a great follower of the occult and he openly praised islam and stated he wished fate had made europeans muslim not christian. 

 

 

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 10:03 | 2785476 piliage
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He also cut a deal with Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jeruselem who worked closely with the Nazi's.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 23:34 | 2788268 laosuwan
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correct, and there were one or two SS divisions in the balkans made up entirely of musims. Amin al-Husseini is believed by some scholars to be the one who presented hitler with the plans and concept for the jewsih death camps. I cannot remember for sure but his son or grandson was the one who went on the be one of the founders of the "Palestinean" movement and you see images of them even today doing nazi salutes.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:56 | 2784876 autonomos
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salafistfucking bitchez

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:57 | 2784881 falak pema
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Without going into conspiracy theories, taking things at face value; both Q-daffy and Assad are/were not part of the Salafist/Wahhabist clique sitting in Riyadh, as now in Benghazi and Cairo; best buddies of the West.

Sitting on the dock of tiger bay, watching the buzzards come to rest...

How can Pax Americana, orchestra conductor and its western violin quartet that plays in front of world opinion, in both Libya yesterday and Syria today, pretend thay work for democracy, when the two pillars of US policy in ME are Jerusalem zionism and Riyadh Wahhabism. What kind of logic is that and what sort of music is this if it isn't cacaphonia orchestrated to defend : human rights?

Now that begets what it begets; as in Benghazi yesterday! 

When big oil money and hegemony power play games like this in cauldron trouble and oil field bubble, we can only expect one thing : more dysfunctional chaos and sufferance for the people. The only local winners look like the extremists of all ideological bends.

Is this PAx Americana's ME swan song beginning or is it more of sham Kissinger type brinkmanship?

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:58 | 2784889 teahouse
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it's not just the market rigged....it is the whole world ....

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 07:59 | 2784896 nathan1234
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When you mess around with others the chickens come home to roost.

Why does the US need military bases in over 130 countries?

 

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:02 | 2784917 TwoShortPlanks
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America puts Bases all around the world which costs money, whereas China puts China Towns all around the world which generates income.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:19 | 2784985 De minimus
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It has something to do with second world war and then Soviet expansionism.

But you'd have to read a history book to know that, that is if you can still find one that will tell you the truth, instead of propagandising and indoctrinating you into becoming a good little Marxist drone.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:00 | 2784904 Bobbyrib
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Libertarians are basically foreign policy liberals who believe in the free markets. 

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 09:51 | 2785409 Louie the Dog
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+100

Spot on.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:05 | 2784925 docj
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First: Godspeed to Amb. Stevens and those killed with him.

Second: I wonder if Kaptain Kickass will be spiking the ball on this one.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:07 | 2784937 BigInJapan
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What's the movie that's got everyone's burkas up their asses?

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 09:16 | 2785249 darteaus
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2016

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 09:34 | 2785309 resurger
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thanks for the link buzz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC6yGzpSvjU

Those are clips from the movie

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:12 | 2784958 alarm bell
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As my grand pappy used to say " fuckin you get for the fuckin you gave"

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:13 | 2784960 De minimus
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What's more, the administration knew about this yesterday and sat on it until this morning. They had to have help doing this and so they released the information that "0ne" person had been killed yesterday, to ease everyone into the idea of the assasination today.

And the media knows this and will go along with it.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:14 | 2784972 the not so migh...
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Time to attack Libya and install a friendly goverment...oh wait

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:16 | 2784979 Cman5000
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Well once again that turned out well. Can't wait to see how Syria turns out ?

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:25 | 2785017 Moneyswirth
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Annnnd nobody cares.  This is an act of war.  But nobody will give a shit.  Because the media will continue to carry water for Obama and the Democrats.  They're on lockdown mode from now until November 6th to make sure their guy gets re-elected.   So instead of reporting the news, Pravda will replay the next Kardashian interview.

Also, isn't the new reality tv season about to start?  So there's that.  Can't be distracted with a blatant act of war when the new season of Look At Me I'm A Transsexual Hoarding Guido starts.  And we also got Hot Pockets nuking in the microwave, while apply for a new credit card to buy iPhone 20.1X

It's all good in 'Murica.

 

 

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:59 | 2785154 TrulyStupid
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Who do we punish for this blatant act of war? Our valiant allies who we have just installed as the new government? The local Muslim leadership? Or do we just carpet bomb Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and Syria. Maybe Mitt Romney can save the day.

And BTW how do we pay for any future adventures while the debt is piling up for the last (ill advised) ones. Are you volunteering to pay more taxes ... much more?

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 09:13 | 2785237 fajensen
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Print up some USD - they are Free of Charge, Gratis, paid for by an "inflation tax" on international trade - and you are going to default on that debt shit anyway so: The rational strategy is to use the reserve currency to grab as much land and ressources as possible while griefing the opposition (aka Russia, China & the EU).

Afghanistan and Iraq demonstrated that the US can occupy a hostile country and suck out the ressources for a lot less casualties than the annual toll of drunks falling off barstools. The money is Gratis, so why not? The perpetually stirred hornest nest makes nice business opportunites for the US-army and it's corporate appendages while poisoning the well for others thinking to do business there.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 09:14 | 2785239 darteaus
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Punish the Muslim in Chief on November 6th.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 10:45 | 2785770 hangemhigh
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TO:Moneyswirth

It's all good in 'Murica.......becuz we've always been at war with east asia.................

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:30 | 2785036 jesusonline
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Karma is a bitch, what goes around comes around.

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:34 | 2785042 buzzsaw99
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i'm sure that joo film maker had no idea the bad reaction this would cause. stevens is happy to die for the joos. [/sarc]

Wed, 09/12/2012 - 08:33 | 2785046 Platinum_Investor
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So because of some artsy movie produced and posted on You Tube 3 innocent people have to lose their lives.

Why on earth would someone believe creating this type of movie was a good thing.  Hope they are feeling shame.

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