eleny
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Thu Jul-28-05 12:50 AM
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One definition of "jihad" is "struggle" |
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Someone just called in to the Mike Webb radio show and talked about this. So I looked it up. I guess W has now taken us into jihad. Sheesh. http://www.answers.com/topic/jihad Apologies if this was already discussed.
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Thu Jul-28-05 12:55 AM
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1. I'm struggling to reach 4500 posts tonight |
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Thu Jul-28-05 01:02 AM
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3. It's a Jihad for me to get up in the morning |
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or to go to bed at night.
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Thu Jul-28-05 01:10 AM
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Thu Jul-28-05 01:29 AM
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Erika
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Thu Jul-28-05 01:00 AM
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2. Yeah. Bush says we are no longer in a war on terrorism |
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Edited on Thu Jul-28-05 01:02 AM by Erika
We are in a struggle against extremists. Our poor troops. What a mind game he is playing on them.
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Thu Jul-28-05 01:07 AM
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4. our poor troops period... |
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we obviously have no business being in Iraq. We should be in Afghanistan where that one guy who killed 3000 Americans 4 years ago is hiding out, but we make no attmept to get him at all...
What was his name again...
oh yeah OSAMA BIN LADEN!
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eleny
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Thu Jul-28-05 01:09 AM
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5. Yeah, I wonder what the pay is for making jihad? |
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Thu Jul-28-05 01:26 AM
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15. Now we REALLY have a lot of wars to fight. |
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I guess Randall Terry is going to jail, along with a lot of fundies.
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Thu Jul-28-05 01:09 AM
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6. Heard Randi talk about this today (& posted earlier) |
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Edited on Thu Jul-28-05 01:12 AM by gumby
struggle = jihad in Arabic struggle = kampf in German; as in My Struggle = 'Mein Kamph'
So Commander Bunnypants' has gone from a "Crusade" to a Jihad in 'His Struggle' to take over the world.
As Rush sez, "Words mean things." :scared: :grr:
edit: since it's not a 'war' but a 'struggle,' then there's no war crimes, right? Struggles are hard work, but they aren't wars. Struggles last for a long time, and cost lots and lots of money, but they aren't nasty wars. Besides 'struggle' polls better than 'war.'
How about the "Struggle on Drugs"?
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Thu Jul-28-05 01:13 AM
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9. Politically, the only thing that keeps me going is that |
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Bush is one day closer to getting out of office and taking his country club elitists with him.
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Erika
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Thu Jul-28-05 01:15 AM
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11. Yeah, Bush says we are no longer in a war against terror |
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Want to throw that on our troops that they are now in a struggle against extremists?
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Thu Jul-28-05 01:24 AM
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13. But nobody at the Hague will respect... |
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the war in Iraq as a "struggle". At best for Bush, that was a war within a struggle. An illegal naked war of aggression within a struggle. An illegal naked war of aggression that turned out to have nothing to do with that struggle.
Man, even if Bush isn't brought down for all this, history will fry his arse.
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Thu Jul-28-05 01:11 AM
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8. So is "Kampf," right? nt |
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Thu Jul-28-05 01:16 AM
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...His Nazi publisher, Max Amann, decided this title was too complicated and had it shortened to Mein Kampf (simply "My Struggle", or "My Battle"). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf
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Thu Jul-28-05 01:14 AM
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10. i like the photo.. Dubya will chase anything in a skirt.. |
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Thu Jul-28-05 01:26 AM
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14. look close - they're both him |
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Thu Jul-28-05 07:09 AM
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17. So * is now a "Jihad president" n/t |
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