Barack Hussein Obama wins Iowa (97% Whites)

[The Zack]

^ So is McCain better? Who do u suggest we vote for?

[Libaax-Sankataabte]

A little Obamamania in Berlin today. 200K showed up!

 

 

 

Uchstad Feistenhem Sietgetz

[RedSea]

WOOOW. I can't believe this.

[Koora-Tuunshe]

Why is Iran’s nuclear issue and the Palestine Land be of concern to you? Palestinians receive annual aid package from the West thousand times much better than Somalia . What we need is a Paradigm Shift in grasping the essentials of statecraft when the tidal wave is against us. We need to understand and expose the Arab countries that use Somalia as their Proxy economic wars like Egypt and Saudi Arabia and their search for a horizon time solution to potential water and oil crisis – a very likely scenario. We need to forge sustainable pact with our neighbors and give them assurances of their security concerns.

 

Many ill-informed Somalis extremely sympathize with Arabs and all we get in return is to be Deprived of our rights to be an independent state and therefore live a better life. Look at how Obama's remarks of Palestine drew angry backlash from Somalis.

[N.O.R.F]

The guy needs a few lessons in speech writing and delivery. Its all wishy washy stuff at the moment.

[me]

I saw it on news night xalay, wow! Who cares about substance, this guy moves people......I heard he is coming to london?

[Fabregas]

Originally posted by Koora-Tuunshe:

We need to understand and expose the Arab countries that use Somalia as their Proxy economic wars like Egypt and Saudi Arabia and their search for a horizon time solution to potential water and oil crisis – a very likely scenario.

[Fabregas]

Originally posted by Koora-Tuunshe:

Why is Iran’s nuclear issue and the Palestine Land be of concern to you?

 

GJ:Because Palestine Land issue should be of great concern to every MUSLIM, it is the third most sacred site in Islam and there numerous ahadiths and even Quranic Ayas on the virtues of this blessed land.

 

 

 

Originally posted by Koora-Tuunshe:

[QBPalestinians also receive bombs and missiles through Israeli AID!

 

GJ: And they also get generous aid through economic sanctions, blockades, Missiles and mass humans rights abuses, thank you UNCLE SAM!

 

Originally posted by Koora-Tuunshe:

[QBWe need to forge sustainable pact with our neighbors and give them assurances of their security concerns.

 

GJ:Give them assurance? How? By prostituting Somali to Ethiopia for the the tribal wishes of warlords like Abdullahi Yusuf? Sustainable Pact? Ethiopian and other foreign troops on Somali Cities?

 

 

Originally posted by Koora-Tuunshe:

[QB]Many ill-informed Somalis extremely sympathize with Arabs and all we get in return is to be Deprived of our rights to be an independent state and therefore live a better life.

 

 

GJ:Somalis and other Muslims do not sympathise with Arabs! It is the work of Arab Nationalists, Secularists and Westerners to turn the Palestine issue into an Arab struggle, when this was not the case, going back all the way to Salhudiin, who was a Muslim kurd. They sympathise with oppressed Muslims, who happen to be living in place which can be considered one of the phsyical symbols of the Islamic faith. Perhaps, you are "ill-informed"?

 

 

Originally posted by Koora-Tuunshe:

[QB] Look at how Obama's remarks of Palestine drew angry backlash from Somalis.

GJ:Because what HE said has never been uttered by any American president, even the most conservative Republicans. Therefore, it is an insult to any MUSLIM, who understands the importance of the Alqsa to the history and future of Islam. Obama was a man who many Muslim hoped would offer a different approach to the Muslim and be slightly more diplomatic in the words and actions takes. Sadly, that has not been the case, although some will follow him blindly, even though he has insulted Muslims, because they see the Palestine struggle as just another, " Arab land issue!!

[Pujah]

McCain's embarrassing assertions on the Iraq surge

 

Even military leaders involved in last year's troop escalation agree that the prospect of U.S. withdrawal is the main reason violence has ebbed.

 

By Joe Conason

 

July 25, 2008 | "The surge worked."

 

So insistently do the media's mainstream and conservative commentators repeat the Iraq success meme -- echoing the mantra of George W. Bush and John McCain -- that to probe its premises and assumptions is not permitted. To question the success of last year's troop escalation supposedly implies a negative assessment of the performance of American soldiers and Marines and may even imperil their morale, creating a frame that stifles dissent. But now McCain himself has inadvertently reopened real debate on the subject by claiming that strategies and tactics used to quell the Sunni insurgency long before the surge troops arrived in Iraq should nevertheless be attributed to the surge. Indeed, the surge is so brilliant and so powerful, according to McCain, that it makes things happen in the past as well as in the present and the future.

 

That must be what passes for "maverick" thinking, although there are certainly other names for it. For those of us who remain tethered to reality, however, the success of the surge must be measured in a context that accounts for many other factors -- as must the simple assertion that we are winning the war in Iraq as a result of the escalation.

 

The rebuttals of McCain's embarrassing assertion that the Sunni insurgency's turn toward the U.S. and away from al-Qaida came because of the surge have been ample and devastating. His badly skewed sense of time and events has raised fresh doubts about his fitness for the presidency, since he was either incapable of comprehending contemporary facts or intentionally misleading the public when he told CBS anchor Katie Couric that the Anbar awakening "began" during the surge (and that troop escalation enabled the U.S. to protect a Sunni sheik who was actually assassinated during that period).

 

But aside from that moment of untruth, there are deeper problems in all the airy assertions about the triumph of the surge.

 

First there is the matter of that shift by the Sunni insurgents, which had nothing to do with the escalation. What changed the minds of the Sunni rebels in Anbar province and elsewhere was a revamped counterinsurgency doctrine that emphasized careful bribery over indiscriminate reprisals -- and that seized upon the growing alienation of the Sunnis from the bullying, murderous leadership of al-Qaida in Iraq. The American military officers who oversaw and implemented that strategy, including Gen. David Petraeus, deserve full credit. Even Petraeus, a strong supporter of the surge, makes very limited claims about its role in bolstering the Sunni turn, however.

 

In fact, it was the prospect of an early U.S. withdrawal, not the surge, that prompted the Sunni insurgents to change sides, according to the American officers who worked with their leaders. A fascinating article in the current issue of Foreign Affairs by Georgetown professor Colin Kahl and retired Gen. William Odom quotes Marine Maj. Gen. John Allen, who ran the tribal engagement operations in Anbar during 2007, saying that the Democratic sweep in the 2006 midterm elections and the increasing demand for withdrawal by the American public "did not go unnoticed" among the province's Sunni sheiks. "They talked about it all the time." Allen also told Kahl that the Marines exploited those concerns by telling the sheiks: "We are leaving ... We don't know when we are leaving, but we don't have much time, so you [the Anbaris] better get after this." Kahl and Odom write that "the risk that U.S. forces would leave pushed the Sunnis to cut a deal to protect their interests while they still could." They also quote Maj. Niel Smith, the operations officer at the U.S. Army and Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Center, and Col. Sean MacFarland, commander of U.S. forces in Ramadi during that crucial period, who wrote a long article on the Anbar awakening in the journal Military Review. "A growing concern that the U.S. would leave Iraq and leave the Sunnis defenseless against Al-Qaeda and Iranian-supported militias," they recalled, "made these younger [tribal] leaders [who led the awakening] open to our overtures."

 

There is no doubt that the surge has coincided with diminishing violence in Iraq, although kidnappings and bombings continue daily. As many critics have pointed out, surge proponents always compare the present period with the worst months of 2006 and 2007 -- and the arrival of 30,000 troops is not necessarily why the killing has ebbed.

 

Perhaps the most plausible reason is that there are many fewer Iraqis to kill in the places where the worst violence occurred, because so many of them have abandoned their homes or left the country altogether. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that roughly 5 million Iraqis have fled, with nearly half of them now living in Syria, Jordan or other neighboring states. Others belong to the cohort known as the "internally displaced," who have sought refuge from the militias "cleansing" Baghdad in either the northern or southern provinces. When there isn't anybody left to kill, the murder statistics tend to improve.

 

Another fortunate coincidence was the decision of Muqtada al-Sadr, the rebel Shiite leader, to order his militia leaders to stand down in August 2007, just as the surge troops were arriving. That cease-fire broke down last spring in southern Iraq but was then reinstated, in part at the instigation of Iran and in part because of Sadr's own political ambitions.

 

Why conditions became better in Iraq is a crucial issue not only because it may affect the outcome of the U.S. presidential election but, more important, because it indicates the best way out. For McCain and Bush, proving the success of the surge is important because that means the occupation must continue. For the overwhelming majority of Americans, including Barack Obama, that is an unsustainable option.

 

What we should learn from the history of the surge is that only the prod of withdrawal, rather than indefinite escalation, can persuade the Iraqis to defend themselves as a sovereign state.

[Pujah]

Ludacris - Obama is here

 

Ps I am sure the Obama camp would pay anything to have the media ignore this song.

[Libaax-Sankataabte]

I remember the night I created this thread. After 8 long months, history is made again. Well done my skinny African. Let us get McSame now!

 

[xiinfaniin]

It was a well crafted and masterpiece speech...

 

Just like the somali poet, Obama seems to have said last night:

 

Gobonimo haddii loo tartamo tiigso ma iraahdo

Hayeeshee haddii loo tirsado meel xun ma istaago

Warmahayga inaan dhiig ka tiro uma tumaalaysan

Hayeeshee nimaan ii turayn taagtay kama iisho

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Ku dur duri, i say!

[Libaax-Sankataabte]

McCain Picks Sarah as his VP

 

 

This is what I call pandering.

[xiinfaniin]

^^Hillary will take care of this one!

[Aaliyyah]

we knew that he will most likely pick a woman as his VP if he wanted to relate to Hillary's supporters.

 

But, am not worried Obama delivered such a great speech yesterday.