Three bomb blasts struck the London subway and one tore open a packed double-decker bus during the morning rush hour Thursday. Reports estimate at least 45 are dead and 1000 wounded.…
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126 - Dave Nalle
Mihos - I have a clue for you. Nothing in the Guardian editorial section actually relates to the real world in any way. If it's printed there you can pretty much count on it being false.
Dave
127 - Eric Olsen
unless, of course, it reaffirms one's presuppositions
128 - Mihos
I linked to the Guardian editorial because it is well written, short and concise.
I disagree completely with your take on the Guardian. The freedom for information act has confirmed each one of the issues raised in the editorial. I had a presuppositional bias leaning against the terrorists and oil barons in general. As time has gone on and Ive learned more about the real underpinnings of this former war on terrorism now called war on extremism-
I have realized that this is nothing less or more than a boom for military industrialists. Our obsession with the play by play is sad and disheartening.
No one can argue against the facts here.
Big industry is benifiting from this war .
Big industry isnt taking sides.
Big industry has plenty to sell and new skirmishes are like PR.
Big industry needs the spice to flow.
Were just extras in Terry Gilliam's Brazil.
129 - Dave Nalle
Big industry benefits from war no matter who it's made on or why it's being made.
Big business profiting is good for the economy
Big business doing well is good for their employees - the workers of the US
Big business making money is good for the large and growing portion of the population who have investments
Oh wait, we're just talking about the Guardian piece.
When you see a grand fantasy like that being spun, what you look for is the fundamental error at the base of it all. In this case, the assumption that the Bush administration is implementing some PNAC plan to dominate the world.
Since there's no evidence whatsoever to support that belief the entire article kind of falls apart from the very start and remains what it is - the ravings of a conspiracy nut.
Dave
130 - Mihos
Gee Dave,
you are so insightful and in tune with what Im thinking. I was reading this little opus :
"When you see a grand fantasy like that being spun, what you look for is the fundamental error at the base of it all. In this case, the assumption that the Bush administration is implementing some PNAC plan to dominate the world.
Since there's no evidence whatsoever to support that belief the entire article kind of falls apart from the very start and remains what it is - the ravings of a conspiracy nut.
Dave"
I thought we were like mind melding for a minute.
Are you trying to recycle toilet paper the hard way? Let the professionals do it for you.
I am not a conspiracy nut. I do not believe George Bush is trying to run the world nor do I believe George Bush is responsible for the world's problems thank you very much Butt Munch.
I do believe that the industry of war is bigger and better off than ANY government. The sooner you catch on to that fact the sooner you will stop forcing yourself to eat used toilet paper.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1715166,00.html
131 - Sajada
I am a muslim living in the U.S. Even though i am, it does not mean I support the terrorists. To be honest, my whole family is against it. The terrorists are stupid motherfu****z that dont know wut the r doing. They need to learn to respect people of diverse religion, and culture. In 9/11 muslims died too. All muslims aren't bad. When you tell people u r Muslim, some assume that u r Arab and that ur some kind of terrorist. That isn't true. Like I said before, as a born U.S. citizen, I stand by my country forever and always.
132 - Lauren
I am becoming more and more concerned that people are starting to view muslims as hate filled, fanatic terrorists who will stop at nothing to blow up a few innocent people and the islamic community will support these attacks. These judgements are completly wrong. Of course there are some fanatics as we have seen from the recent news stories, but as a British citizen myself, they do not increase my hatred of Muslims.
The majority of Muslims are peaceful law abiding citizens and the British Muslim council and every Islamic cleric in Britain quickly condemmed the attacks after they happened on Thursday morning.
Maybe some of you should watch the news more carefully before making dangerous accusations such as this.
"Perhaps it IS time to stop being politically correct, & just start shutting down mosques & deporting muslims back to the middle east they all come from. BTW, I haven't heard a peep from any muslim news source concerning any muslim authorities or organizations whatsoever condemning this latest outrage."
I do not support terrorism, I am not a Muslim myself but I also do not support Islamaphobia which has been caused in the hearts of so many by the recent terrorists attacks.
However if we let the terrorists scare us into believing that all Muslims are bad and they should be "departed back to the Middle East where they came from" I quote from another blog doesn't that means that the terrorists have won? For it is they who have injected the terror into peoples lives not just ordinary peaceful Muslims.
133 - Eric Olsen
Lauren, you bring up very important points: I think the key is to find a balance between overreaction/stereotyping and not taking the problem seriously enough.
134 - Martin
The most important thing now is to start a steady deportation of all the muslims. Tear down the mosques and use the land for something else. This will lower the crime rate.
135 - Martin
The most important thing now is to start a steady deportation of all the muslims. Tear down the mosques and use the land for something else. This will lower the crime rate.
136 - Martin
Selling hard drugs to non-muslims is OK. Wife beatings, bombings, sexual mutilation. Muslims are the most backwards people on the face of the earth. No religious group has ever committed more crimes than the muslims. It is too expensive to sort them out.
The most important thing now is to start a steady deportation of all the muslims. Tear down the mosques and use the land for something else. This will lower the crime rate.
137 - STM
Yeah, right Martin. That's exactly what the extremists want us all to do, so that they get all the peaceful, moderate muslims angry and radicalised as well ... and more people to join their cause. The real issue here is that the people who do this stuff are criminals who also happen to be radicalised muslims.
You know, the same way that the IRA were criminals who also happened to be radicalised Catholics.
I didn't hear anyone at the time calling for the deportation of Irish Catholics from Britian or the demolition of Catholic churches so the land could be put to better use.
Come on mate ... get real.
138 - Dave Nalle
Nothing discourages rebellion like vicious and misdirected oppression, right?
It sure worked for the Brits here in America.
Dave