It's official: The terrorists want Bush to lose

[ivylass]

Terrorists hope to defeat Bush through Iraq violence

Interesting.

[SentientMeat]

Interesting in a “Neoconservative pornography” kind of way?

Should one’s enemy’s demands affect one’s strategy one iota? Think carefully before you answer, considering the following:

Binladen engineered 9/11 becuase he wanted US troops off the Saudi peninsular. He succeeded.

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

@ivylass

Terrorists hope to defeat Bush through Iraq violence - Washington Times

Interesting.

No, no–that’s what the terrorists WANT you to think. Do you really believe they’re so stupid as to make this announcement, not realizing that a terrorist endorsement of Kerry ain’t likely to help his chances?

It is highly foolish for anyone (and I’m not saying you’re doing this) to the statements of a lying mass-murderer or his supporters influence their choice in an election. Mohammad Amin Bashar just doesn’t have a lot of credibility with me.

Daniel

[GorillaMan]

Did you bother to read more than two lines of that article?

Mowafaq Al-Tai, a London-educated architect and intellectual, said different types of resistance fighters have different views of the U.S. election.
The most pro-Kerry, he said, are the former Saddam Hussein loyalists… The most pro-Bush, he said, are the foreign extremists. “They prefer Bush, because he’s a provocative figure, and the more they can push people to the extreme, the better for their case.”

Even within the resistance, not all agree that removing Mr. Bush from office would make a difference.

“The nation of infidels is one, and Bush and Kerry are two faces of the same coin,” said Abu Obeida, nom de guerre of a leader of Fallujah’s al-Noor Jihadi regiment.

[Brutus]

@SentientMeat

Binladen engineered 9/11 becuase he wanted US troops off the Saudi peninsular. He succeeded.

Not that I suppose it matters much, but not only do we still have several hundred troops in Saudi Arabia proper (air controllers and whatnot), and we have scads of troops on the Arabian peninsula.

[El_Kabong]

I’m just saying, here, mostly people who want to launch a debate need to provide an actual position, not just a one-word post with a link. You seem to just be using the linked article as a political advertisement of some sort.

But I’ll act as though you want a debate anyway. From the linked article:

The most pro-Kerry, he said, are the former Saddam Hussein loyalists — Ba’ath Party members and others who think Washington might scale back its ambitions for Iraq if Mr. Kerry wins, allowing them to re-enter civic life.
The most pro-Bush, he said, are the foreign extremists. “They prefer Bush, because he’s a provocative figure, and the more they can push people to the extreme, the better for their case.”

So, which of these two groups do you contend should we let decide our election for us? Personally, I feel I should ignore what any of these people have to say on this subject and vote for the candidate I feel will best serve my interests. How about you?

[Rashak_Mani]

Did you read the article at all ? There were all kinds of views… not only against Bush. Actually a bit of everything… including a very correct assesment:

“The nation of infidels is one, and Bush and Kerry are two faces of the same coin,” said Abu Obeida

Some favor Bush and these I view as the most dangerous ones:

The most pro-Bush, he said, are the foreign extremists. “They prefer Bush, because he’s a provocative figure, and the more they can push people to the extreme, the better for their case.”

Do notice that the bottom half of the article they ask only normal people… not terrorists.

[PatriotX]

@ivylass

http://www.washtimes.com/world/20041027-121030-7792r.htm

Interesting.

You may want to re-read that.

It seems that Iraqi nationalists prefer Kerry.

The “foreign extemists”, who prob’ly fit the one of the definitions of ‘terrorist’ better “They prefer Bush, because he’s a provocative figure, and the more they can push people to the extreme, the better for their case.”

[SentientMeat]

Brutus:we have scads of troops on the Arabian peninsula

Of course, but many thousands have been redeployed elsewhere and most of the bases closed, in accordance with Binladen’s wishes. My point was that one’s enemy’s demands should be irrelevant.

[mack]

Ivylass, FYI - the foreign extremists who want Bush to win are the Islamic radicals. You know - our enemy in the war on terror.

U.S. military commanders across Iraq say that a combination of foreign and indigenous Islamic extremists have eclipsed loyalists of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party as the dominant organizers and financiers of attacks on American and Iraqi security forces and civilians.

The Islamic radicals have been deemed by the commanders to be largely responsible for not just a series of high-profile suicide car bombings that have killed more than 1,000 people, but also a spate of recent attacks on U.S. troops, foreign civilians and Iraqis working with American forces. In many cases, the commanders said, religious extremists have begun to exercise leadership over cells of low-level Baathist fighters whose superiors have been captured or killed, by offering money and weapons to conduct mortar strikes, drive-by shootings and assassinations.

[Rufus_Xavier]

It’s official: The SDMB wants ivylass to post more threads with misleading titles.

[5_time_champ]

Maybe a friendly mod could come along and change the title of this thread to more accurately describe the contents of the OP’s link-- "Terrorists prefer Bush"

[John_Mace]

Yeah, but let’s be serious. How informed are the terrorists on the US election? And what about the terrorist polls? Most terrorists use cell phones, so they can’t be contacted easily. And, there are a LOT of first time terrorists this year, so we really don’t know what they want.

[Guinastasia]

Isn’t the Times owned by the Moonies?

[Bippy_the_Beardless]

But then again everyone wants Bush to lose

[Pashnish_Ewing]

@Rufus Xavier

It’s official: The SDMB wants ivylass to post more threads with misleading titles.

Interesting.

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

@John Mace

Yeah, but let’s be serious. How informed are the terrorists on the US election? And what about the terrorist polls? Most terrorists use cell phones, so they can’t be contacted easily. And, there are a LOT of first time terrorists this year, so we really don’t know what they want.

And don’t even get me started on the Undecided Terrorist factor!
Daniel

[Illinois_Boy]

@John Mace

Yeah, but let’s be serious. How informed are the terrorists on the US election? And what about the terrorist polls? Most terrorists use cell phones, so they can’t be contacted easily. And, there are a LOT of first time terrorists this year, so we really don’t know what they want.

That was very funny on a dreary Wednesday morning (It’s Wednesday, isn’t it?). Thank you.

[ivylass]

So, which group of terrorists do we make happy?

Seems like no matter what happens, half (thereabouts) of the world (and the country) will be pissed off.

[Apos]

I’d rather piss of Putin/Russia and Iran/assholes than Britian and Canada and, well, most of the Democratic world.