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Old 12-06-2011, 11:35 AM
 
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Youtube is unavailable to me at the moment, so I can't speak for the OP but for my point. "Al Qaeda" is indeed a catch-all phrase, that was caught equally by both sides (by Osama Bin Laden, as well as those who wanted to keep the military industrial complex well lubricated and running). But the label itself is said to be synonym for CIA's database of Afghan Freedom Fighters... the "good" guys, the Islamic fundamentalists who we supported through the 1980s against those "commies".
Yeah, let us not forget the famous picture of FDR and Churchill alongside Papa Joe.

Our actions in the 80's in afghanistan were payback for them helping make life suck for us in Korea and Vietnam. They weren't the "good guys" the russians were the "bad guys".
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Old 12-06-2011, 12:03 PM
 
Location: Texas
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It's a MOXNews YouTube video. MOXNews = satire.
Ignore and deny all you want, doesn't make your post the truth.
All the relatives of the ones killed in the Middle East aren't calling the death of their loved ones satire are they?
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Old 12-06-2011, 12:49 PM
 
Location: Fort Worth Texas
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Quite an example of Orwellian new speak.
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Old 12-06-2011, 01:29 PM
 
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Ignore and deny all you want, doesn't make your post the truth.
All the relatives of the ones killed in the Middle East aren't calling the death of their loved ones satire are they?
Um, the guy you are excoriating was merely pointing out that the original source is a known source of satire.

If Saturday Night Live does a sketch about Mitt Romney eating babies that someone posts up as fact.....and I happen to point out that SNL is a comedy site and not a news source....are you going to yell at me for saying baby cannibalism is comedic?

I am at a complete loss how you came to write this post.
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Old 12-06-2011, 01:43 PM
 
Location: NC
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I always questioned that myself. Every 6 months or so the #2 leader of Al Qaeda is killed.
Earthquakes, mudslides, famine, tsunamis are usually Al Qaeda fault
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Old 12-06-2011, 01:47 PM
 
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Ignore and deny all you want, doesn't make your post the truth.
All the relatives of the ones killed in the Middle East aren't calling the death of their loved ones satire are they?
MOXNews is satire.

That's the truth. Deny it all you want, but even their website states that they are satire.
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Old 12-06-2011, 01:56 PM
 
Location: One of the 13 original colonies.
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BBC Now Admits AL Qaeda Never Existed .






Damn! Who forgot to tell them they never existed.
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Old 12-06-2011, 04:45 PM
 
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Um, the guy you are excoriating was merely pointing out that the original source is a known source of satire.

If Saturday Night Live does a sketch about Mitt Romney eating babies that someone posts up as fact.....and I happen to point out that SNL is a comedy site and not a news source....are you going to yell at me for saying baby cannibalism is comedic?

I am at a complete loss how you came to write this post.
Um, So let me see if I get this right.
The person who was Head of the CIA Bin Laden Unit told us about the report that gave the reasons why they attack us and YOU want to make it about how MOXNews is the name on the you tube?

Are you saying the video was satire? I am at a complete loss how you came to write this post.

Its a cspan video btw

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Old 12-06-2011, 04:48 PM
 
Location: Texas
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MOXNews is satire.

That's the truth. Deny it all you want, but even their website states that they are satire.
Michael Scheuer was the head of the CIAs Bin laden unit that told us the reasons for the attack. That's the truth, you can make it about anything you want in order to deny and deflect from the issue.

Are you saying Scheuer never said any of these things or the video was satire? which one?

Its a cspan video btw

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Old 12-06-2011, 04:59 PM
 
Location: Earth
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Pakistan's ISI intelligence service is very much real and the ISI and Al Qaeda are pretty much the same organization.
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