So why's no one talking about the bombings in Egypt?

[ObaMania]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=1&u=/nm/20050723/ts_nm/egypt_explosions_dc

[mike_c]

1. I'm still waiting for more information, but one thing is clear....

The "war on terror" is a smashing success. It looks like we have the "terrorists" right where we want them. :sarcasm:

What's the chance that this will actually wake some of the sheep up in this country and make them realize that the only way to fight terrorism is to work for international justice? We are doing just the opposite, and we're fostering others doing the same-- the results are rather predictable.

[barb162]

2. How do we know this is not about radical Islamic types who just

want Egypt to be way less secular. We know nothing yet about the group that did this , do we?

[dweller]

3. "Egypt is the prize"

does this phrase ring a bell with anyone?


dp

[loudsue]

6. Bingo! Stay tuned for more information!

:kick:

[dweller]

8. hey L Sue

In July of 2002, the Defense Policy Board - a powerful group at the ear of the
Bush administration which is chaired by former Reagan Defense Department
official Richard Perle - listened with great interest to a briefing delivered by
emissaries from a Rand Corporation think tank. The thrust of the briefing was
that Iraq should be considered only the beginning of a protracted campaign to
bring "regime change" throughout the Middle East. The final Powerpoint slide
of this presentation described "Iraq as the tactical pivot, Saudi Arabia as the
strategic pivot, (and) Egypt as the prize."

Though the administration publicly distanced itself from this briefing once it
was exposed on the pages of the Washington Post, going so far as to have
Bush abase himself before visiting Saudi royalty, the substance of that talk
surely resonated within the men calling the shots in D.C. Richard Perle is a
famously hawkish neo-conservative who springs from the same think-tank
environment as those who gave the briefing. The same goes for Secretary of
Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and his assistant Paul Wolfowitz. These three men,
along with the like-minded Vice President Cheney, are fully in control of both
American foreign policy and the War on Terror. A plan for region-wide
regime change in the Middle East suits them right down to the ground.

Noted MIT professor Noam Chomsky, writing earlier this week in the
Guardian, described the invitation for more terrorism on American shores
should we attack Iraq. "No one," wrote Chomsky, "including Donald
Rumsfeld, can realistically guess the possible costs and consequences. Radical
Islamist extremists surely hope that an attack on Iraq will kill many people and
destroy much of the country, providing recruits for terrorist actions." The
inference is clear: Any war in that region will spawn a new and terrible wave
of attacks against this country. Any war in that region is exactly what the
terrorists are hoping for. Fresh recruits, soaked in rage, will flood into their
open arms.

The unfolding scenario becomes all too clear. If Bush is pressed into a conflict
with Iraq by the hawkish, neo-conservative platoon of Perle, Rumsfeld,
Wolfowitz and Cheney, America will once again suffer a catastrophic terrorist
attack. The result will be the complete militarization of America, complete with
martial law and the suspension of all basic civil rights. Bush administration
officials have already admitted as much when asked in the last year what the
result of another attack would be. In the aftermath, the Bush administration
will assuredly push for that region-wide regime change in the Middle East, but
will be unable to do so without forced conscriptions, because the military is
currently stretched too thin. Thus, the draft.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0209/S00071.htm

and here: http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/09.01A.wrp.am.drm.htm
here: http://www.redrat.net/BUSH_WAR/pitt.htm
or here: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1665.htm


i just remembered the phrase was 'found' on a floppy disk on the streets of DC, purportedly from a R-wing powerpoint program...

dp

[loudsue]

9. Yep...it's also part of the Project for the New American Century

PNAC, as you might recall. It's in there in black & white. These guys are insane!!!

:kick:

[linazelle]

4. They're brown. Plus we don't have any pyramids to guard.

:eyes: :sarcasm:

[Swamp Rat]

5. What about Darfur?

... and they have oil.

[barb162]

7. and there's no oil there