The breaking point is often something small

troublemaker

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Thu May-13-04 03:46 PM
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The breaking point is often something small

Edited on Thu May-13-04 03:47 PM by troublemaker

This is a minor instance of our government's misbehavior, but it really grinds me as an example of the most unlovely element of the Republican management style: convenient incompetence It seems the statement from the men who killed Nick Berg doesn't mention al Qeada at all.

CNN: You did a very careful translation of your own, of the statement. And in it, you see no reference to al Qaeda. And yet the official U.S. government translation does. Explain how that happened.

NASR: Oh, I find it very interesting, because out of the blue, there is a mention of al Qaeda on the U.S. government translation. It says: "Does al Qaeda need any further excuses?" Any speaker of the Arabic language is going to notice a difference between the word al Qaeda, which means "the base," and al qaed, which means "the one sitting, doing nothing." My translation says: "Is there any excuse for the one who sits down and does nothing?"

http://suburbanguerrilla.blogspot.com/2004/05/little-extra-somethingthis-is.html

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SpiralHawk

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Thu May-13-04 03:51 PM
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1. Mr. Bush

Before you race off to the ranch in Crawford, TX for another extended month-long vacation, could you please answer this question:

"Is there any excuse for the one who sits down and does nothing?"

You know, like the morning of 9/11 when the whole country had already realized that we were under attack, and you -- Commander in Chief -- sat there reading The Pet Goat in a Florida classroom. You did nothing. Nothing. Nothing to defend America, it's Capitol, and it's Pentagon. You did not even muster a pea shooter or a whimper. You sat there and did nothing.

"Is there any excuse...?"

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nadinbrzezinski

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Thu May-13-04 03:52 PM
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2. Those are the kinds of details that

slowly build up to something ... where nobody can deny any longer, it stinks

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nadinbrzezinski

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Thu May-13-04 03:52 PM
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3. Those are the kinds of details that

slowly build up to something ... where nobody can deny any longer, it stinks

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Trillo

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Thu May-13-04 03:55 PM
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4. Have any other governments' intelligence services analyzed the video?

Or do they follow lockstep behind the CIA analysis?

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