1 Sorry Rusty, but you're dead wrong on this one. Bin Laden is in Afghanistan. There are no al Qaeda members in Iraq. Wrong war. Distraction. Eyes off the ball. Etc. I heard this on the news, so it must be true.

2 this will hit some nerves... Arabs no longer want "devil they know" Mon 25 October, 2004 15:12 By Jonathan Wright CAIRO (Reuters) - In U.S. presidential elections Arab leaders usually prefer the devil they know over any candidate challenging the man in the White House, however much they view the incumbent as an overbearing partner. But as Americans choose between U.S. President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry on November 2, analysts say many Arabs wonder whether anyone could be worse than a U.S. president who occupied Iraq, aligned himself with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and turned his back on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Bush, they say, has also blotted his copybook by repeatedly ignoring Arab opinion and advice on foreign policy and launching a heavy-handed campaign for reform which has earned him credit only with a tiny number of middle-class liberals. "I don't believe that anyone worse could possibly come," said Mohamed Habib, deputy leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, one of the Arab world's most influential Islamist groups. "The only difference that might tilt the Arabs towards the Democratic candidate is... that there is a belief that it really can't be worse," added Walid Kazziha, professor of political science at the American University in Cairo. "Bush is a lost cause for most Arabs... Kerry might do better, especially if he does disengage from Iraq," said Mustafa Alani, senior adviser at the Dubai-based Gulf Research Center. A section of Arab public opinion either says "a pox on both your houses" or prays that the U.S. electorate will give Bush a public humiliation. But some Arab analysts say a Kerry presidency really could be better than the last four years. They do not believe the Democratic candidate will instantly withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq, recognise that grievances lie behind much Middle East violence or try to impose a two-state peace settlement on Israelis and Palestinians. In fact many of them say that Kerry's few remarks on the Middle East are disappointing indicators that he would continue many of the pro-Israeli attitudes which have alienated so many Arabs and Muslims from the Bush administration. He favours the U.S. boycott of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, supports the barrier Israel is building in the West Bank and says that "Israel's cause must be America's cause". IMAGE PROBLEM

3 Leo, Zarqawi is a known Al Qaeda who trained in the camps run by Bin Laden. True, he's Jordanian, but he's in Iraq NOW and that is why we need to get him and the others. How do you know OBL is still in Afghanistan anyway? He could be anywhere by now.

4 Proof by their our addmisson that Islamics are not only killers but thieves also. They also bugger camels.

5 Laura: I was mocking John Kerry. This is all one war -- unfortunately the person who least gets this is the Democrat candidate for president.

6 Leopold: I got it. And it was funny. IRAQ: Now we're using what muslim clerics say to decide what Christian president we elect during a war of RELIGIONS?