There'd have been "Change."
Posted on 10/28/2008 5:02:16 PM PDT by Chet 99
Possibility of McCain victory Alarms Middle East
Last update: 6:58 p.m. EDT Oct. 28, 2008
DOHA, Qatar, Oct 28, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- A unique Middle East debating forum has conclusively warned America that a victory by John McCain in the US Presidential election would seriously undermine already damaged relations with the Middle East. In the largest voting margin yet recorded in the Doha Debates, now in their fifth year, an audience of more than 350 people voted 87%-13% against a motion suggesting that the Middle East would be better off with McCain as President.
Hafez al-Mirazi, the former host of Al-Jazeera's Arabic weekly television show From Washington said that just as President George W Bush had made the Middle East "worse than it was eight years ago" so his "hawkish Republican mate" would do the same.
He suggested McCain was eager to "fight and engage in wars" against Iran, Syria "and anyone who would oppose America."
"Like Bush he wouldn't talk to his opponents and like Bush he shoots first and talks later."
In an opening statement that drew loud applause from the packed audience, Mr al-Mirazi warned that Sarah Palin, McCain's running mate, was from the same warmongering mould as Dick Cheney, Bush's vice-president "who happens to be a quail hunter."
Mr al-Mirazi asked the audience at the debate, to be broadcast by BBC World News on November 1 and 2, whether it could "imagine what would happen if Palin, a moose hunter, reached the White House? It would be the same thing.
"What did Palin do when she visited Kuwait on her only trip to the Middle East? She practiced shooting," Mr al-Mirazi said in reference to a visit by Palin to US troops stationed there.
"A McCain-Palin victory would do to this fragile relationship what Lehman Brothers did to the markets." Dr Michael Signer, foreign policy adviser to Democratic Senator John Edwards' presidential campaign in 2007-2008 and a highly respected foreign policy expert, also attacked the motion and the dangers a McCain victory would present.
Describing Barak Obama, the Democrat nominee, as "thoughtful and deliberate" he said such qualities were of paramount importance during the present troubled times.
"It is time we had a president who thinks before he acts rather than acts before he thinks."
He said Mr Obama was an African-American who spent his formative years in Indonesia, a Muslim nation, and would be a president "who wants to understand and listen, rather than just talk."
Danielle Pletka, Vice President for Foreign and Defence Policy Studies at the American Institute for Public Policy Research, supported the motion, suggesting that Senator McCain was the only Presidential candidate who would not "walk away" from Iraq leaving the region to return to sectarian violence.
She said Obama was constantly changing his opinions and had even offered to negotiate "unconditionally" with Iran.
Dr Saad al-Ajmi, former Kuwaiti Minister for Information and Culture, said he supported the motion largely because he feared that Mr Obama would pull US troops out of Iraq prematurely "before they had cleared up the mess they created".
About the Doha Debates:
The Doha Debates are a unique forum for free speech in the Arab world. Chaired by Tim Sebastian, the internationally renowned award winning broadcaster, the series has been broadcast on BBC World since January 2005. BBC World reaches nearly 300 million people in more than 200 countries.
The Doha Debates are hosted and funded by the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development. The Foundation is a private, chartered, nonprofit organization committed to the belief that a nation's true wealth is in the potential of its people. Chaired by Her Highness Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser al Missned, the wife of the Emir, it seeks to develop that potential through a network of centres devoted to education, public health and research. SOURCE The Doha Debates
Radical Islam has already damaged relations you morons.
They could make an ad out of this story. One damn good reason to vote for McCain.
Good!
So the terrorist enablers want Barry? I’m shocked I tell you.
And this is supposed to be bad? Gives people a reason to vote for McCain IMHO!
to the Doha Debates, sorry, wa,wa, because McCain WILL WIN
There'd have been "Change."
Oh no! They’re going to hate us even more?
Is that possible?
Good.
“Vote Obama or I kill you!” - Achmed the dead terorist
It damages our relations with the Middle East when they bomb us and stuff, too.
THREATSWATCH.org - blog: "ENTERING A NEW ERA" by Jay Fraser (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "However, to consider that the War on Terrorism and its battles are over simply because the United States has not had to withstand another direct attack on our soil would be naive.) (October 28, 2008, 6:19 pm)
NEWSMAX.com: "EXPECT FEWER LIBERTIES IF OBAMA WINS" by David Limbaugh (COMMENTARY SNIPPET: "I am sincerely worried that if Obama wins, the checks and balances incorporated into our Constitution may not be enough to prevent a radical and irreversible diminution of our individual liberties because a confluence of factors has emerged to create a climate conducive to fundamental change. These are the factors:") (October 28, 2008, 8:40 am)
DANIEL PIPES.org (HUDSON INSTITUTE): "PLO ACKNOWLEDGES: STILL AT WAR WITH ISRAEL" by Daniel Pipes (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Yasir Arafat may have shaken Yitzhak Rabin's hand in 1993 and signed solemn declarations about ending the war to eliminate Israel, but late last month, in a New York City courtroom, the Palestine Liberation Organization formally confirmed that it still sees terrorism against Israelis as legitimate acts of war.") (October 28, 2008)
FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS.org: "BARACK OBAMA'S ANTI-ISRAEL ALLIANCES" by Rachel Neuwirth (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Rashid Khalidi was the director of the PLO's press agency WAFA from 1976 to 1982, at a time when the PLO was conducting a massacre of 37 Israeli civilians in a bus on Israel's coastal road, the brutal murder of a four-year-old Israeli girl in Nahariya, and numerous other terrorist killings of Israeli civilians. The PLO was also waging a brutal war against the Lebanese Christian community during this period, and carried out numerous massacres of Lebanese Christians; the worst of these was the killing of about 500 people in the village of Damour.") (October 24, 2008)
While Obama is busy talking with their “representatives”, Al Qaeda will be busy blowing up marketplaces, busy streets, and elementary schools. When bombs are not available, they will be shooting and decapitating thousands of men, women, and children. Obama talks on...
Everyone needs to get prepared. Obama WILL get elected. There is just enough evil and stupidity in this country to make it happen.
This latest bs poll ties in with my recent tagline.
brought to us by.....
“America Haters for Obama”
Everyone who wants a weaker America wants Obama.
Everyone who wants a stronger America wants McCain.
I’ll bet there are virtually no exceptions to those statements, anywhere, at home or abroad, no matter what liberals may pretend during an electoral campaign.
I didn't need to read any further than there.
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