Discussion: Islamic State Threatens To Attack Washington D.C. In New Video

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Washington, DC? Doesn’t ISIL know that our government is in a gridlock and unable to function cohesively since the election of the TeaLinquents?

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After every military success we have against ISIS–just now Sinjar and the obliteration of that human stain, Jihadi John–ISIS will mount a spectacular and vicious attack on citizens of Western nations (and in Beirut, on Hezbollah areas).

OK. So what’s the plan? Either we wipe them out completely militarily–seems like it might be possible if we go after their oil resources–but their loyalists around the world will keep attacking.

Or we empower a strong peaceful resolution on Syria and get the Arab nations who are not supporting ISIS (clandestinely, and I’m looking at you Saudi Arabia) must work in concert to eliminate them and the ridiculous schism between Shia and Sunni at the root of all this strife.

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Islamic State Threatens To Attack Washington D.C.

Osama bin Laden determined to attack United States.

Think they’ll believe it this time and all head out of DC?

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Unleash the Kraken*!

  • Kraken: intense right-wing criticism of Obama
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An Islamic reformation is a pretty tall order. My question, and one I don’t think sufficiently addressed, involves their funding. How is it they can afford to cloth, feed, pay, and arm their forces? I don’t believe for a minute that the fungibility of oil explains their access to funding. Follow the money.

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Have no fear…Ratman’ and Bobbin’ are here! You’re safe D.C.!

http://dixienet.org/rebellion/images/Ratman.jpg

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Hopefully, pundits have turned their once trendy home studios into bunkers…

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I see two outcomes for the IS/Daesh cult. They either get wiped out or turn tail and say, “Fuck this. I’m outta here.”

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Yeah, eliminating religious schisms is pretty easy business. History has shown us repeatedly that it merely takes a strongly worded letter posted on a church door…oh wait. That went the other way, didn’t it?

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I will bet everyone in the world a million billion kajillion dollars to their nickel that if some Daesh freaks manage to stage an attack here and kill some people, Jeb will not respond by saying “Stuff happens.”

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Time to deploy the First and Second Rainbow Unicorn Mounted Cavalry Divisions and the Magic Pixie Spec. Ops. units. I don’t know what we’ve been waiting for.

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Its a bit like fighting the mythical Hydra. Sure, we can pound the crap out of ISIL and seize the land they now claim…but the people fighting for them will just fade into the scenery and pop up again somewhere else, usually multiple somewhere elses. And each new iteration is a bit more violent and virulent.

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What on Earth do you mean?

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Yea they better be careful, an attack might wake them up and cause them to actually work together to put an end to ISIS.

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Were George W. Bush still president, he’d respond to this by preemptively attacking New Zealand.

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I think I’ll make weekend reservations a ta nice French Bistro in G-town this weekend. Scum.

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“We say to the states that take part in the crusader campaign that, by God, you will have a day, God willing, like France’s and by God, as we struck France in the center of its abode in Paris”

I feel like I’ve heard this type of ranting before…

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Jebba would Nuge his drawers…

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The World: "Mr. Trump, as Republican frontrunner for the presidency of the United States, how would YOU deal with ISIS?

Trump: “First, I wouldn’t do what Obama is doing. I’d be so good at dealing with ISIS you just wouldn’t believe it. I’d be the best and get rid of it so fast you would be amazed. I’d end ISIS so fast it would make your head spin. I’d bring in the best people and it would be over. I am the best person to do the job and everyone knows it.”

The World: “Specifically…very specifically now, what would you do so differently than is being done now?”

Trump: " Thank you for the question. Specifically, first, I wouldn’t do what Obama is doing. I’d be so good at dealing with ISIS you just wouldn’t believe it. I’d be the best and get rid of it so fast you would be amazed. I’d end ISIS so fast it would make your head spin. I’d bring in the best people and it would be over. I am the best person to do the job and everyone knows it."

And the Baggers, Cons and assorted Wingnuts of the GOP would cheer and applaud, because THAT is what passes for political ‘debate’ in the Republican Party today. Anything asked more forcefully is considered an attack, a gotcha’ question, an attempt to destroy the poor darlings by the liberal media…and the MSM cowers in fear and tries to stroke their egos.
Let these GOP bastards speak up specifically on what they would do if they are so dissatisfied with the responses of the White House. Damned if Lindsey Graham, with GrandPa McCain by his side, isn’t the only one who will, even as he beats the war drums. At least the public has an inkling of what actions he would proposed. The rest begin with the usual and exasperating, “I’ll tell you what I WOULDN’T do! The President has…blah, blah, blah.”

Additionally, the false equivalency (a procedure which has become an art form in the Republican Party) that the Cons and Repigs and FOXbot pundits are peddling that the president had information that may have prevented the attacks in Paris and therefore is the same thing as Dubya’ ignoring intel that bin Laden intended to strike in the U.S. is infuriating and shows how loathsome and bankrupt their cult really is. There is, of course, NO damned evidence of that whatsoever and their loony speculations, made only for some ideological or political gain, are not helpful and show them to be ethically, morally and philosophically bankrupt, by any standard the lowest of the low.

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