Comments on: U.S.: Al Qaeda In Iraq Training Children

Seized Videotapes Show Young Boys Learning How To Kill And Kidnap, Officials Say

[feelfree1]

Posted by ObservantX at 10:52 PM,

Good comment, but this article, however, appears to be cartoonish propaganda.

Note that it was provided to us by the dark comedian, Mark Strassmann.

[liberalme]

That film is all about 911 and the towers. (implosions)

[feelfree1]

liberalme,

I''m glad that you enjoyed it.

www.zeitgeistmovie.com

I still haven''t watched the film that you suggested, but I plan to.

[observantx]

Unfortunately training children for war is not anything new. The Viet Nihm and Viet Cong did it. It was standard practice for Hamas and the PLO and Hezbollah not so long ago. I remember seeing a special filmed report in the very early 70''s report that showed young Palestinian boys being trained with wooden rifles and taught to line prisoners against the wall to shoot them. The chilling part was how they taught the boys to check the bodies and slit the throats of those not yet dead. They gave them wooden knives to practice that gruesome task with.

We see regular recruitment of young boys in Africa by every run-of-the-mill warlord they have there. On top of that the girls are drafted as modern day equivalents of the "comfort women'' the Japanese kept.

The madrassas in Afghanistan, Pakistan and, yes, the ones our dear friends in the 9/11 highjacker haven Saudi Arabia fund and maintain are propaganda factories and brainwashing facilities meant to churn out eager and disposable human bombs. In all, Al Qaeda is a Johnny come lately to this strategy.

So the math is simple. Why get shot or killed, when you can jive talk some inexperienced kid into doing it for Allah.

Gee, now to think of it we have our own warriors by proxy in our dear old USA. They''re called neocons. They''ve managed to get thousands killed in the worship of their twin gods, money and power.

[feelfree1]

Re: "What if..."

"Your government was lying to you?"


Ha,ha!

Say it ain''t so, "Inventagod"!

[liberalme]

Posted by FeelFree1 at 10:44

What a fabulous inspiring video!! (zeitgeist).

The one thing we have to be thankful for is, we have so many more avenues of communication than they did during WW1 and 2 and Vietnam, and as Americans, we have to ability, as a nation, to not let these events happen again!

[inventagod]

What if...

Your government was lying to you?

[feelfree1]

Prinzowhales,

Re: "A new tape discovered by US Intelligence reveals that al CIAda is training nasty little dogs to wear suicide vests, hump US soldiers legs and then explode...it was to shocking to show to the public, so they just showed it to the CIA people in the media so they could write about it..."

"...This could be a big boost for the Hucksterbee campaign. This candidate has stoned, killed and gutted a dog before and will not shirk his duty to ''Mer''ka in dispatching jihadist mutts with extreme prejudice."

"When a Regime has lied over 935 times announced that it will lie to us and has the parrots at CBSNBCABCCNNFOXPBS to repeat its lies over and over again...I think I''ll wait and watch the movie...We''''ve already seem enough fake Osama videos."

Fact-based sardonic humor.

Very good, "Prinzowhales"!

[on_alert247]

Posted by FeelFree1 at 09:39 PM : Feb 06, 2008
Living large off of his "Oil for Food" kickbacks from Chevron and others would be my guess.

I can hear Steve Nicks singing in the background right now "Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies...."

[feelfree1]

AJMarine1,

Re: "I thought we have the strongest economy in the world and whenever there is a crisis somewhere, people want their money in a safe haven and that is why they invest their money in the Dollar."

That has historically been true, and still is to some extent. But as our empire continues to be overstretched by military misadventures, crippling debt, etc., that is beginning to change.

Re: "Iran''s President said that the US dollar is a worthless piece of paper. The last time I checked, it took 9,357 Iranian Rial to make one dollar............so who''''s money is a worthless piece of paper."

Well, that was obviously hyperbolic rhetoric, since they can still be traded for goods and services. However, it is only U.S. economic stability that allows this to be true. Our currency is what is known as a "fiat" currency, in that it has value because we say it does, and we are a huge economic power.

We are extremely vulnerable though right now, economically, and a number of things could easily unravel the predominance of the dollar.

If that happens, then President Ahmadinejad''s declaration could easily come true, for all practical purposes.

[on_alert247]

Saddam wasn''t going anywhere. With all he had been through not a chance. Now how did we get Slobodan Milosevic? I don''t think we sent a pretty please card. And the UN was of course absent. I recall quite an intense bombing campaign.

[on_alert247]

Feelfree,

I was unawares that other countries outside the US used oil. I thought perhaps that the explosive growth of the Chinese economy was being fueled by egg rolls. Its not like some oil companies without major US investors, BP and RDP come to mind, cow-tow to Darth Bush. And who is buying all that Iraqi oil. Hmmm, seems like the majority is going to Asia. Now ain''t that something.

Cannabis and thinking is a dangerous mix.

[ajmarine1]

That is to say, if oil was suddenly no longer traded in dollars, there would be far less demand for them, and our currency would collapse. This is the nature of the real threat currently posed by Iran.

Posted by FeelFree1 at 10:27 PM : Feb 06, 2008


I thought we have the strongest economy in the world and whenever there is a crisis somewhere, people want their money in a safe haven and that is why they invest their money in the Dollar.

Iran''s President said that the US dollar is a worthless piece of paper. The last time I checked, it took 9,357 Iranian Rial to make one dollar............so who''s money is a worthless piece of paper.

[feelfree1]

Correction:

Should be-

"That is to say, if oil was suddenly no longer traded in dollars, there would be far less demand for them, and our currency would collapse. This appears to be the nature of the real threat posed by Saddam%u2019s Iraq."

[j-whitman]

AJMarine1,,,, That''w what they say, but obvioulsly not, he said he didn''t think we would invade, & said he would have left 1st.. But that''s history & hopefully we will never repeat the same mistakes again, if history records it right.

[j-whitman]

on_alert247,,,, Many leaders who committed genocide went into exile in recent history & the World Court caught up to them.

[ajmarine1]

still doubt if he would have been in power,,, He would have settled for exile.

Posted by j-whitman at 10:22 PM : Feb 06, 2008

My Dentist is Palistinian and I told him if Saddam was smart, he would go into exile and live like a King; he told me that Saddam would not go anywhere, he was not afraid of the US.

[feelfree1]

AJMarine1,

Re: "I still say if all this was about oil, it would have been cheaper and easier to have left Saddam alone and bought the oil from him."

Well, the slogan "No War for Oil" does point to one of the primary reasons for the invasion of Iraq, but it does not provide us with an adequate explanation.

Control of the oil seems to be one of the main reasons for invading Iraq. Some have even argued that one of the main reasons to invade was for "no oil". That is to say, that by destabilizing the oil market, and restricting the supply, the price of crude has skyrocketed, leading to record profits for the Bush regimes main constituency- oil corporations.

If this was the intent, then it has worked like a charm, as we have witnessed with embarrassingly large profits for corporations like Exxon-Mobile.

[feelfree1]

AJMarine1 (cont.),

But there is another key oil-related reason for overthrowing Saddam. He had supposedly decided to start selling his oil in euros instead of dollars. This is significant because the current standard of oil being priced in dollars creates a demand for them, thereby propping up their value.

That is to say, if oil was suddenly no longer traded in dollars, there would be far less demand for them, and our currency would collapse. This is the nature of the real threat currently posed by Iran.

This factor seems to be the main reason for the saber-rattling towards Iran at the present. Iranians have divested their dollar holdings and are attempting to open an oil exchange based on other currencies.

If the world stops trading oil in dollars, plan on pushing a wheelbarrow full of dollars to the store to do your shopping, just as we saw during Germany''s Weimar Republic.

This is a more complete explanation of the "No War for Oil" slogan, by my understanding. You can only fit so much on a placard;-)

[on_alert247]

Exile in Iraq was pretty much the status quo since 1991 for Saddam. With the oil-for-food scandal, and billions of oil revenue coming in, and 30 some-odd years of murdering your way into power and taking out whole villages at your whim. I mean how could he have it any better.