"Al-Quaeda must be eliminated"

[librechik]

So, it's been a few years. Why haven't they done it? Supposedly they had a much better plan than Clinton. Why hasn't it worked? And what is it? Condi, why haven't we nuked Al-Quaeda?

[Sparkly]

1. I was just thinking about that!

It's clear they all got the same script, because they're using the *exact* same words: "roll back" vs. "eliminated."

They say bombing the training camps wouldn't have worked. Getting bin Laden wouldn't have worked. This that and the other thing wouldn't have worked, because we needed to *eliminate* Al Qaeda. So even if all that is true, what the heck are they saying WOULD have worked? What was their plan, and if it would have worked, why isn't it now that we've got most of the world on board to help implement it?

[MadProphetMargin]

2. If you want an excuse, you'll find one. The GOP: The party of

excuses.

[librechik]

3. love the graphic in your sig n/t

mind if I borrow it sometime?

[MadProphetMargin]

4. Go ahead...I swiped it from someone else here.

[mulethree]

7. Roll Back

If you make a change to a computer system, and its not working out for some reason, you "roll back" the change to an earlier version.

If your database server crashes, then - when it re-starts - it will read it's logs, find any partially completed work that hasn't been committed, and "roll back" the uncommitted changes to their status before the uncommitted work was started.

If you put in a tax-cut and then decide to rescind it, you "roll back" the tax cut.

If you are doing a complicated multi-part financial transaction, and decide you can't complete it, then you "roll back", or undo any portions that have been completed or partially done - also "unwind".

So, to me, "roll back" is trying to undo something that you started that isn't working out. So, when I hear it applied to al-Qaeda it always sounds like an admission that we in fact started al-Qaeda up, have decided it was a bad idea, and want to un-do what we started.

Could it be, that when we riled up the Muslims to form the mujahedin back in the early 1980's, and preached islamic fundamentalism to them to rile them up to fight our biggest enemy for us, trained them in terrorist ... oops er guerrilla tactics, and funded them over $3,000,000,000 - that we oops accidentally did a bad thing that is now not working out and needs to be "rolled back"?

[Unknown Known]

5. Because Al-Qaeda is largely financed by Saudis

That's why they won't go after them.

http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp504.htm

[Skittles]

6. I think their plan was tax cuts

:o

[guitar man]

8. That's easy,priorities

"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."
- G.W. Bush, 9/13/01

"I want justice...There's an old poster out West, as I recall, that said, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive,'"
- G.W. Bush, 9/17/01, UPI


<6 months later>

"I don't know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
- G.W. Bush, 3/13/02

"I am truly not that concerned about him."
- G.W. Bush, repsonding to a question about bin Laden's whereabouts,
3/13/02 (The New American, 4/8/02)

I reckon if 6 months after 9-11 Al-Q's leader wasn't a priority any more,elimination of the rest of the organization couldn't have been that important. But what was important?....oh yeah,I forgot. LOOTING IRAQ! That's what's really important to these clowns :mad: