Zawahiri Didn't Say Anything that many Left Wing Americans haven't said already.
By ParaTed2k
@ParaTed2k (22940)
Sheboygan, Wisconsin
November 21, 2008 6:17am CST
People in America are up in arms about statements made by Al Qeada #2 man, Ayman al-Zawahiri against Barack Obama. But how is this statment
"You have climbed the rungs of the presidency to take over the leadership of the greatest criminal force in the history of mankind, and the leadership of the most violent Crusade ever against the Muslims,"
any different than Rep. Cynthia McKinney, Ron Paul and all the "truthers" who claim that the the attacks on 9/11 were either "an inside job" or something that the Bush administration knew about, but let happen for political reasons?
Zawahiri also called Barack Obama, Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell "house negroes", but where was the outrage when left wing Americans were calling Rice and Powell the same thing?
Were Zawahiri's words offensive to the left? Or was it just that he offended Obama?
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@murderistic (2278)
• United States
21 Nov 08
LOL I didn't know that Ron Paul was a left wing American. But that does make a point. It wasn't only "left-wing" Americans that made those claims. And I would really need some more info on why you think the "left wing" has called Powell and Rice that. That all being said, I really don't think that the majority of the left wing think that 9/11 was an inside job. I think it may be a question in people from the entire political spectrums minds whether it was an inside job or whether it was preventable or not. But calling the war in Iraq a crusade is wrong, relating it to a Crusade is one thing, but it is unlike the Crusades in many ways. So I can see how it is offensive, and I wonder why you think that Americans shouldn't take offense to it, as if you are a tyrant for being a liberal or something.
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@xfahctor (14113)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
21 Nov 08
actualy Ted, I have another correction for ya, lol. Ron Paul himself isn't a truther. He did have a mass following of them though. He hasd repeatedly denounced the notion that 9/11 was an inside job. I'm pretty convinced that the truth movement that latched on to Paul was what killed him in the primaries. I'm still pretty mad at them for that.
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@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
21 Nov 08
True Ron Paul isn't a "truther" as far as saying it was an inside job. He has said though that he thinks the Bush administration knew what was going to happen and let it happen anyway.
I feel bad that this article wasn't as well written as people are used to from me. I'll have to work on that in the future.
@irisheyes (4370)
• United States
21 Nov 08
I don't get it. At first all the conservatives are up in arms because Obama is allegedly a Muslim and in cahoots with the enemy. Now when that same enemy denigrates him, it's okay for the enemy to offend the president elect and nobody should say anything about it. Doesn't the fact that they are saying these things kind of mess up the right wing theory that he was somehow one of them? Why should the left be upset because the enemy doesn't like the president elect? We knew all along that he was not one of them.
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@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
21 Nov 08
First of all, I never said that about Obama. Next, I never said it wasn't offensive for Zawarhiri to say it. I just wondered why people who said the same thing about Rice and Powell are now whining in their smelly diapers just because Obama was insulted.
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@irisheyes (4370)
• United States
21 Nov 08
Ah but Ted, you did not say "people who said the same thing", you said "the Left". I am on the left and just as you did not say that about Obama, I did not say that Rice and Powell were "house negroes". In fact, I never even knew that was said by anyone until I read it here.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
21 Nov 08
Oh it was just that he offended Obama. You must not insult the far left and the media's demigod! I thought Ron Paul was sort of moderate, not to the left.
@ParaTed2k (22940)
• Sheboygan, Wisconsin
21 Nov 08
No Ron Paul isn't moderate at all, he's as far right as Obama is far left. I was including him as a way of showing that it's not all the far left that thinks the Bush administration was at least partially at fault.
Re-reading it, and taking criticism from you and others, I feel bad that this wasn't as well written as people have come to expect from me.
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@xfahctor (14113)
• Lancaster, New Hampshire
21 Nov 08
Well, ted, I am a right winder who was offended. Why? For the same reason that I was offended when Hugo Chavez stood in the U.N. and insulted Bush. I am eualy appalled at left wingers who insulted Powel and Rice, 2 people I greatly admire and respect. It offends me as an American to have a foriegner insult my elected servants and it embarrases me as an american to hear my own coutrymen use horendous insults and racial slurs againts them as well.
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