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Bin Laden Urges Holy War Over Palestine

Al Qaeda Leader Slams Negotiations With Israel In Purported New Audio Tape

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(CBS/AP)  Pan-Arab Al-Jazeera TV on Thursday broadcast what it describes as a new audio tape by Osama bin Laden in which the al Qaeda leader slams Palestinian negotiations with Israel and urges holy war for the liberation of Palestine.

Bin Laden says in the recording that "Palestine cannot be retaken by negotiations and dialogue, but with fire and iron."

If Thursday's recording proves to be that of bin Laden, it will be the second audio by the al Qaeda leader in as many days. Al-Jazeera did not say how it obtained the recording.

In a tape released Wednesday, bin Laden accused Pope Benedict XVI of helping in a "new Crusade" against Islam and warned of a "severe" reaction to European publications of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that insulted many Muslims.


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by finewoven March 20, 2008 2:58 PM PDT
Here is the Pop Media, making money off of news reports that have not be verified, that support a fear-mongering tone.

Mainstream Media play the role of the joker in our society, prodding and ridiculing the populace with ignoable content. Let''s see how people respond to such tactics.
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by feelfree1 March 20, 2008 3:01 PM PDT

al-CIA''da digital sock-puppet angry about cartoons.

al-CIA''da digital sock-puppet angry about Pope.

al-CIA''da digital sock-puppet angry about Israel.

al-CIA''da digital sock-puppet speaks on the 5th anniversary of the criminal, self-defeating, and shameful, lie-based mass-murder campaign against Iraq, but forgets to metion it.

Good thing that so many Americans are so gullible and dumb, else nobody would believe this ooga-booga silliness.

Boo!!!
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by tylenol6 March 20, 2008 3:01 PM PDT
Osama Bin Laden has been dead for 6 years....Pres. Karzi
of afghanistan and Pres. Muscharaff have both stated that. There was even an obituary, but Musharaff was forced by the U.S. to take it out of the newspapers.
Do your research people!!!!!! OSAMA BIN LADED IS DEAD!!!
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by tylenol6 March 20, 2008 3:03 PM PDT
OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD!!!!!
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by notblue March 20, 2008 3:08 PM PDT
FeelFree1, since everytime Osam sends a message and you CLAIM it''s CIA please provide us with the information to prove your ongoing statements or is it just more baseless claims handed out by you the terrorist sympathizer? Furthermore people like you scream the U.S. is not looking for Bin Laden, America let him go, Which is it?
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by feelfree1 March 20, 2008 3:13 PM PDT

notblue,

Since every time we see another installment of these ridiculous al-CIA''da fables, you show up to berate those who doubt them, I must conclude that you have a personal stake in maintaining this dark fantasy.

You are in no position to demand proof of anything from anyone.
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by liberalme March 20, 2008 3:20 PM PDT
Wow--get Cheney in Afganistan and its a never ending barage of threats from Bin Laden---go figure!!!
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by mudrose-2009 March 20, 2008 3:31 PM PDT
Hey Osama, wanna wage work over Palestine. Take a plane over and wage your war. If you can''t fight yourself, don''t ask others to fight for you. Now where have I heard that before?
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by rushman71 March 20, 2008 3:37 PM PDT
FreeFeel1: You are so Anti-American it''s pathetic!!! Please, go brown-nose bin Laden if you love him so much!!!
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by fibonacci_ March 20, 2008 3:40 PM PDT
Angry about cartoons - its like being pissed off about a stuffed animal. These people are really ill. Muslims - seek help.
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by ajmarine1 March 20, 2008 3:43 PM PDT
He says in an audio internet posting that the "wise men" of the European Union had gone "overboard in your unbelief and freed yourselves of the etiquettes of dispute and fighting and went to the extent of publishing these insulting drawings. This is the greatest misfortune and the most dangerous".

"The response will be what you see and not what you hear and let our mothers bereave us if we do not make victorious our messenger of God," he goes on to say without specifying what action will be taken.


War,...war,... and more war; doesn''t he have anything else to do.

Maybe he should just issue a blanket statement of war on everyone and everything and be done with it.

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by hungry1968 March 20, 2008 3:45 PM PDT
Hey Osama, wanna wage work over Palestine. Take a plane over and wage your war. If you can''''t fight yourself, don''''t ask others to fight for you. Now where have I heard that before?

Posted by mudrose at 03:31 PM : Mar 20, 2008





George Bush in regards to Iraq?

Oh wait. That''s right. He called dying in Iraq for nothing "romantic", and wished he was younger so that he could fight for his country when they needed him.

He apparently was too high and drunk to notice that his country DID need him while he was in the military, but he was AWOL and therefore couldn''t fight for his country when they needed him.

Isn''t THAT romantic.
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by lloydbest1 March 20, 2008 3:50 PM PDT
Bin Laden is probably dead. Non classified information had it his health was in the blender as far back as early 2002. The ailments were "undisclosed" but he probably had some form of cancer.
But even if he is still very much alive, he no longer has much, if any, say in the running of Al Qaida. His influence in the terror networks is minimal at best. In fact, his only value is to the Bush administration as a boogie man to wave in front of Americans who have been conditioned by 8 years of fear mongering to turn a blind eye while His Georgeness and Cheney continue to make a financial killing off the chaos they deliberately engineered.
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by feelfree1 March 20, 2008 3:50 PM PDT

Notice how important it is to the Regime supporters, for us to believe these absurd al-CIA''da fables.

Using a little bit of common sense and reasoning, we must ask ourselves, why would Regime apologists be so determined to assign importance to this nonsense, when it would only seem to demonstrate the ongoing failure and impotence of the Regime to bring this boogy-man to "justice"?

The only logical answer seem to be that the Regime is generating these fables themselves in order to further justify their fascistic policies, and many of their apologists are aware that this is the case.

Boo!!!
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by truthword08 March 20, 2008 3:51 PM PDT
damnedrelign,

You said it buddy.

Very true stuff your posting on here. Keep up the good work.
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by truthword08 March 20, 2008 3:52 PM PDT
Muslims - seek help.
Posted by fibonacci

-Unfortunately as long as they continue to rely on that Quran my friend which tells them to eliminate all the Jews and Christians on this planet,there is no help for them. Only more their "holy" jihad war against all of us "infidels"

TW08
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by truthword08 March 20, 2008 3:55 PM PDT
This article is about Bin Laden urging the "Palestinians" to continue their jihad on Israel, and liberals are still coming on here to bash Bush instead, just as Bin Laden would have it.

BDS is running rapid!

TW08
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by ajmarine1 March 20, 2008 3:56 PM PDT
Michael Scheuer, the former head of the CIA''s bin Laden unit and author of "Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq," said bin Laden may be trying to rally his followers before the release of Wilders'' film, which has already sparked outrage in Europe.

"I think he''s trying to get a little bit ahead of the curve before this film comes out in the Netherlands, which I think is going to be a problem for us, in the Muslim world," Scheuer said. "And the fact that it was apparently the prophet''s birthday."

The tape''s release coincided with Mulid al-Nabi, the celebration of the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad.

The Central Intelligence Agency has analyzed the tape and has a "high degree of confidence" that the voice is indeed that of bin Laden, a U.S. intelligence official told FOXNews.com.

Scheuer dismissed claims that the Al Qaeda leader is dead or ailing.

"Very much alive %u2014 they (Al Qaeda) would tell us if he died," Scheuer said. "They would be grieving, but they would be celebrating that he got what he wanted: He was a martyr. Al Qaeda has no record, with all of the people we''ve killed, of ever trying to hide one of them."

The U.S. intelligence official agreed.

"Let me put it this way: We have no reason to doubt that bin Laden is alive," the official said.

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by yongamerica March 20, 2008 3:57 PM PDT
dead or alive, this talking face that resembles Osama continues to preach the hate and violence all in the name of a false religon.
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by truthword08 March 20, 2008 4:01 PM PDT
dead or alive, this talking face that resembles Osama continues to preach the hate and violence all in the name of a false religon.
Posted by yongamerica

-Absolutely. And the scary part is, you have people calling themselves "Christian" Reverands like the Rev. Jeremiah Wright who preach the same type of hatred towards Israel as Bin Laden does.

Bin Laden calls Israel a terrorist state, Ahmadenijad calls Israel the "little satan" and the USA the "Great Satan", and Chicago''s own "Christian" Rev. Jeremiah Wright says we''ve been supporting the "State sponsored Terrorism" against the Palestinians by supporting Israel instead of them.

Why isn''t Reverand Wright considering a conversion to ISlam? Or maybe he already is, after all, he did give Louis Farrakan, another Jew hater, and leader of the NATION OF ISLAM a lifetime achievement award.

Wake up America. Quickly!

TW08
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by demslie March 20, 2008 4:09 PM PDT
Whenever there is a story like this, you can always depend on the best frieds of the Terrorists, The Democrats, to immediately come to their aid and defence. This story is not even about Al Qaeda attacking the United States but, Democrats are quick to denounce America as the country to carry the Blame. And this is the "New Change for America" the Democrats promised us."
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by truthword08 March 20, 2008 4:10 PM PDT
Please go to this site when you get the chance everyone and find out straight from the mouths of former Middle Eastern Muslims who''ve become Christians, about what they were taught.Listen to/watch their testimonies....it will move you. There are dozens of them on here from former Muslims. Dozens!

http://www.muslimjourneytohop
e.com/watch.asp

That is all.

TW08
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by feelfree1 March 20, 2008 4:13 PM PDT

Re: "dead or alive, this talking face that resembles Osama continues to preach the hate and violence all in the name of a false religon."

Posted by yongamerica

See what I mean. It does not matter to this poster whether or not this message is authentic, or merely a psy-ops ruse designed to bolster support for the Regime.

What matters to them is that the message sufficiently scares gullible folks, and that it defames a religion that they do not approve of.
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by ajmarine1 March 20, 2008 4:17 PM PDT
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by yongamerica March 20, 2008 4:24 PM PDT
"the message sufficiently scares gullible folks, and that it defames a religion that they do not approve of."
Posted by Feelfree1

Gullible? There is ample evidence to cite that what we are witnessing with Islam today is not a random act of disobedience to the Islamic faith.
I''m not opposed to any religon/cult except those that use terror violence and war as a means to convert or sway other peoples beliefs. Unfortunately the Koran is used not only as a religous document but as the basis of government for many people. This document clearly spells out the laws a muslim can follow and legally, under the Koran, extort, lie to and kill non-muslims.

Until spiritual, tribal and country leaders stop ingraining into children that Jews and Christians are evil and God will reward those who kill, them I will denounce this Islamic idea of god and the Islamic faith as teachings from a false prophet who may well have been Satin himself, if you believe in those sort of things.
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by quetzal0666 March 20, 2008 4:37 PM PDT
TruthWord08 ...
now we all know youre SinginTwit!!!!
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by mudrose-2009 March 20, 2008 4:39 PM PDT
Argument By Emotive Language (Appeal To The People):
using emotionally loaded words to sway the audience''''s sentiments instead of their minds.

Many emotions can be useful: anger, spite, condescension, and so on.

For example, argument by condescension: "Support the ERA? Sure, when the women start paying for the drinks! Hah! Hah!"

See mudrose MO

Posted by red164

Oh well lookie here. Motivational Speaking l0l is giving you all a lesson of my MO. I''m not impressed.

Here analyze this:
The white woman struggling to break the glass ceiling; the white man who has been laid off; those without health care; the soldiers who have fought in a war that never should have been authorized.... The message: we need unity because ALL Americans are victims, racial and otherwise. He even mentioned working for change by "binding our particular grievances. And the cause of all the human misery, "a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices and short-term greed. The villains Wall Street and the GOP.

RamaLamaObama MO.
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by red164 March 20, 2008 4:40 PM PDT
OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD!!!!!



Posted by tylenol6 at 03:03 PM : Mar 20, 2008


Exactly

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by gunownerdan March 20, 2008 4:42 PM PDT

ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF LOVE.......


Love of bigotry,

Love of intolerance,

Love of hypocrisy,

Love of theocracy,

Love of gender inequality,

Love of jihad(holy war),

Love of suicide bombers,

Love of car bombs,

Love of kidnappings,

Love of beheadings,

Love of hijackings,

Love of death and destruction to every human on earth(especially fellow Muslims)!
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by red164 March 20, 2008 4:44 PM PDT
Argument By Emotive Language (Appeal To The People):
using emotionally loaded words to sway the audience''''''''s sentiments instead of their minds.

Many emotions can be useful: anger, spite, condescension, and so on.

For example, argument by condescension: "Support the ERA? Sure, when the women start paying for the drinks! Hah! Hah!"

See mudrose MO



I''''m not impressed.

Posted by mudrose at 04:39 PM : Mar 20, 2008

All trees have bark.
All dogs bark.
Therefore, all dogs are trees.

Wrong
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by hungry1968 March 20, 2008 4:45 PM PDT
OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD!!!!!



Posted by tylenol6 at 03:03 PM : Mar 20, 2008


Exactly


Posted by red164 at 04:40 PM : Mar 20, 2008





The latest audio tape was just confirmed as being legit.

Alas, the Bush family friend is still on the run.
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by gunownerdan March 20, 2008 4:47 PM PDT
"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him."
-- George W. Bush, Sept. 13, 2001

"I don''t know where (Bin Laden) is. You know, I just don''t spend that much time on him....I -- I''ll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him."
-- George W. Bush, March 13, 2002
6 MONTHS AFTER 9/11/01

I guess Bush needs "Bogeyman" Bin Laden to keep us good and scared.
The more fear we have, the easier we will give up our liberty for a false sense of government-provided security.
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by quetzal0666 March 20, 2008 4:47 PM PDT
Jeshuaslam IS A RELIGION OF LOVE.......


Love of bigotry,

Love of intolerance,

Love of hypocrisy,

Love of theocracy,

Love of gender inequality,

Love of Land Conquest

Love of Profits in exchange for eternity

Love of War

Love of Brainwashing

Love of TeleVangelists

Love of Mixing Religion and Politics.

Love of death and destruction to every human on earthEspecially people of other countries...
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by red164 March 20, 2008 4:48 PM PDT
Whenever there is a story like this, you can always depend on the best frieds of the Terrorists, The Democrats, to immediately come to their aid and defence. This story is not even about Al Qaeda attacking the United States but, Democrats are quick to denounce America as the country to carry the Blame. And this is the "New Change for America" the Democrats promised us."



Posted by demslie at 04:09 PM : Mar 20, 2008

False Cause:
assuming that because two things happened, the first one caused the second one.

Essentially, these are arguments that the sun goes down because we''ve turned on the street lights
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by red164 March 20, 2008 4:51 PM PDT
The latest audio tape was just confirmed as being legit.

Alas, the Bush family friend is still on the run.



Posted by hungry1968 at 04:45 PM : Mar 20, 2008

Confirmed by who and how?

Since not one human being has testified that they''ve seen Bin Laden at any time during the last three years

Logic says he''s not
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by ajmarine1 March 20, 2008 4:51 PM PDT
As the controversy regarding the Danish paper''s images of Mohammed has spread, another consideration has emerged. People are being asked to take stands regarding the images, and yet newspapers and television programs in their localities have decided not to make the images available. It is reasonable to ask how someone could possibly form an opinion regarding images of Mohammed if one could not see them at all. It is reasonable to expect that active, responsible citizens in an Information Age should be able to review the images and make their own considered decisions regarding them. When issues become salient and broadly relevant, materials regarding those issues must be made accessible.
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by red164 March 20, 2008 4:52 PM PDT
Alive
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by blondmadison March 20, 2008 5:00 PM PDT
The Danish need to send a lot of money to our troops on the line, fighting. A cartoon was done to provoke a reaction thus, encouraging the war that they are not involved in. Either they need to be sanctioned and they need to foot the bill for this war or they need to apologize for purposely exacerbating issues better left alone. Shame on the dumb worthless Danish. Fighting with cartoons like kids on a playground. Where are your big balls -ssholes! Put your money where your worthless mouths are.
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by hungry1968 March 20, 2008 5:02 PM PDT
Confirmed by who and how?

Since not one human being has testified that they''''ve seen Bin Laden at any time during the last three years

Logic says he''''s not

Posted by red164 at 04:51 PM : Mar 20, 2008




The CIA confirmed it.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/mhojmhsnidgb/

"Fears that Osama bin Laden may try to stage fresh al-Qaida atrocities in Europe grew tonight after he accused the pope of heading an anti-Muslim crusade.

In an audio tape released yesterday and verified as genuine by CIA sources, bin Laden also tried to reignite the row over newspaper cartoons seen by some Muslims as insulting the prophet Mohammed."
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by democrat2u March 20, 2008 5:04 PM PDT
Who made the recording? the CIA.
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by red164 March 20, 2008 5:04 PM PDT
The CIA confirmed it.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/
mhojmhsnidgb/

"Fears that Osama bin Laden may try to stage fresh al-Qaida atrocities in Europe grew tonight after he accused the pope of heading an anti-Muslim crusade.

In an audio tape released yesterday and verified as genuine by CIA sources, bin Laden also tried to reignite the row over newspaper cartoons seen by some Muslims as insulting the prophet Mohammed."



Posted by hungry1968 at 05:02 PM : Mar 20, 2008


You trust the CIA

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by hungry1968 March 20, 2008 5:08 PM PDT
You trust the CIA


Posted by red164 at 05:04 PM : Mar 20, 2008





More than I trust the speculation of yourself and tylenol6?

um, yeah.
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by liberalme March 20, 2008 5:10 PM PDT
The CIA confirmed it.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/
mhojmhsnidgb/

"Fears that Osama bin Laden may try to stage fresh al-Qaida atrocities in Europe grew tonight after he accused the pope of heading an anti-Muslim crusade.

In an audio tape released yesterday and verified as genuine by CIA sources, bin Laden also tried to reignite the row over newspaper cartoons seen by some Muslims as insulting the prophet Mohammed."

Posted by hungry1968 at 05:02 PM : Mar 20, 2008

And like all these new "threats" weren''t expected sometime before election!

Guaranteed "something" will happen--Bush/Cheney want it that way--they need a rew more years to rape and kill Americans.
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by red164 March 20, 2008 5:13 PM PDT
More than I trust the speculation of yourself and tylenol6?

um, yeah.


Posted by hungry1968 at 05:08 PM : Mar 20, 2008

1979

Afghanistan %u2014 The Soviets invade Afghanistan. The CIA immediately begins supplying arms to any faction willing to fight the occupying Soviets. Such indiscriminate arming means that when the Soviets leave Afghanistan, civil war will erupt. Also, fanatical Muslim extremists now possess state-of-the-art weaponry. One of these is Sheik Abdel Rahman, who will become involved in the World Trade Center bombing in New York.



You need to read up

A Timeline of CIA Atrocities

By Steve Kangas

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by red164 March 20, 2008 5:13 PM PDT
More than I trust the speculation of yourself and tylenol6?

um, yeah.


Posted by hungry1968 at 05:08 PM : Mar 20, 2008

1979

Afghanistan %u2014 The Soviets invade Afghanistan. The CIA immediately begins supplying arms to any faction willing to fight the occupying Soviets. Such indiscriminate arming means that when the Soviets leave Afghanistan, civil war will erupt. Also, fanatical Muslim extremists now possess state-of-the-art weaponry. One of these is Sheik Abdel Rahman, who will become involved in the World Trade Center bombing in New York.



You need to read up

A Timeline of CIA Atrocities

By Steve Kangas

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by tbweb March 20, 2008 5:13 PM PDT
You can''t trust or believe anything Osama bin Laden says. Osama bin Laden directing public attention to Europe is a decoy! Osama bin Laden is focused and directing his attention on acquiring Pakistan''s nuclear weapons either personally or installing someone in a position of power to control them! The World needs to stay focused on Pakistan, Europe can take care of itself.
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by mudrose-2009 March 20, 2008 5:14 PM PDT
I''''''''m not impressed.

Posted by mudrose at 04:39 PM : Mar 20, 2008

All trees have bark.
All dogs bark.
Therefore, all dogs are trees.

Wrong

Posted by red164

You aren''t good at syllogisms either. All birds have feathers, penguins are birds, therefore penguins have feathers. In your case all birds have feathers, any one that doesn''t agree with you is psychologically analyzed, therefore you are one flew over the cookoos nest. Hahahaha.
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by mudrose-2009 March 20, 2008 5:16 PM PDT
Osama wants to really make it personal. He attacks the Pope thereby really kicking it up a notch. Now he really wants to go back in time to the crusades. Osama and the Pope. Like he just made himself Mooohamad!
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by red164 March 20, 2008 5:18 PM PDT
any one that doesn''''t agree with you is psychologically analyzed, therefore you are one flew over the cookoos nest. Hahahaha.



Posted by mudrose at 05:14 PM : Mar 20, 2008

You did it again


Argument By Emotive Language (Appeal To The People):
using emotionally loaded words to sway the audience''s sentiments instead of their minds. Many emotions can be useful: anger, spite, condescension, and so on.
For example, argument by condescension: "Support the ERA? Sure, when the women start paying for the drinks! Hah! Hah!"


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by mudrose-2009 March 20, 2008 5:19 PM PDT
You need to read up

A Timeline of CIA Atrocities

By Steve Kangas

Posted by red164

Or go see Charlie Wilson''s War. It was much more informative.
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