NakedSavage
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I LOVE Ron Paul (RUDEy should read up, Dr. Paul is correct) - I guess Rudy Giuliani was too busy increasing adoptions in 1996 to read of Osama Bin Laden's declaration of war.
The following text is a fatwa, or declaration of war, by Osama bin Laden first published in Al Quds Al Arabi, a London-based newspaper, in August, 1996. The fatwa is entitled "Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places."
With all the applause from the audience, I think we should pass this along to our friends and family to enlighten them on exactly why Ron Paul was correct and Rudy Giuliani shouldn't be President.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/terrorism/international/fatwa_1996.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowback_%28intelligence%29
Blowback (intelligence)
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Blowback is a term now broadly used in espionage to describe the unintended consequences of covert operations. Blowback typically appears as a surprise, apparently random and without cause, because the public generally is unaware of the secret operations that caused it.
In its strictest terms, blowback was originally informational only and referred to consequences that resulted when an intelligence agency participated in foreign media manipulation, which was then reported by domestic news sources in other countries as accepted facts. In looser terms, it can encompass all operational aspects. In this context, it can thus mean retaliation as the result of actions undertaken by nations. The phrase is believed to have been coined by the CIA, in reference to the shrapnel that often flies back when shooting an automatic firearm.
In the 1980s, blowback became a central focus of the debate over the Reagan Doctrine, which advocated militarily supporting resistance movements opposing Soviet-supported, communist governments. In one case, covert funding of the Contras in Nicaragua would lead to the Iran-Contra Affair, while overt support led to a World Court ruling against the United States in Nicaragua v. United States.
Critics of the Reagan Doctrine argued that blowback was unavoidable, and that, through the doctrine, the United States was inflaming wars in the Third World. Doctrine advocates, principally at the conservative Heritage Foundation, responded that support for anti-communist resistance movements would lead to a "correlation of forces," which would topple communist regimes without significant retaliatory consequence to the United States, while simultaneously altering the global balance of power in the Cold War.
Manchurian blowback
Manchurian blowback is a term coined after the events of 9/11 to refer to blowback that occurs many years after the actions that led to the blowback. In the case of 9/11, the attacks are seen as blowback from the United States alleged support of the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan in the 1980s, which led to the rise of Osama bin Laden, and also the 500,000 deaths of Iraqis attributable to UN sanctions against that nation. 2008 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul cited this example of blowback in the May 15 Republican Presidential Debate.
The concept takes its name from the 1959 novel The Manchurian Candidate, which features a brainwashed soldier being prompted to take violent action many years after his abduction by hostile forces.
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Republican Debate in S. Carolina tonight. - 
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