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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

 

The Ugly American: Mitt Romney's Disastrous Overseas Excursion

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/31/the-ugly-american-mitt-romney-s-disastrous-overseas-excursion2.html


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And nobody twisted his words and made a word game out of it for a campaign either. He even pissed the Olympic people off talking about the security. They were on TV trying to straighten out what he had said.
This is all trumped up garbage from the leftwing loon media to get the "You didn't build that - somebody else made that happen" gaffe/story to go away but it ain't gonna work.
He's having a great trip and picking up great endorsements and the whole nine yards.
And unlike Obozo, he's willing to say out loud where Israel's Capital is.
Heh,heh,heh,heh,heh...

What you don't understand janjan is that it doesn't matter what the media says about any Republican at anytime, anywhere, here or overseas.
They're all in the tank for Obama and everybody knows it.
Once you understand that, you'll give their "news" all the weight it's due - none.
Most people already know that.
Try to keep up.
endorsed by the muslims you say rdgrnr.he will come back and screw things up at home soon!
The PLO has already endorsed Obama, dorkio. So has Hamas, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood and Hugo Chavez.
You must be so proud.
Look and compare, he was comparing cultures. First of all, women take note, in one culture women are treated as second class citizens, the other they are not. The more successful culture fosters life and equality, the other launches rockets into neighborhoods. I will post an aerial photo of Israel and Gaza along the border.

It happens everywhere, for eg. the difference in culture between California and Texas, Cali is bad shape Texas is thriving, it ain't race, you racists.
Here is some more cultural differences: from the nyt.

slamists in North Mali Stone Couple to Death
By ADAM NOSSITER
Published: July 30, 2012

BAMAKO, Mali — Islamists in control of a town in northern Mali stoned a couple to death after accusing them of having children outside of marriage, a local official who was one of several hundred witnesses to the killings said Monday.
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The official said the bearded Islamists, armed with Kalashnikov rifles, brought the couple into the center of the town of Aguelhok from about 12 miles away in the countryside. The young man and woman were forced into holes about four feet deep, with their heads protruding, and then stoned to death at about 5 a.m. Sunday, the official said.

“They put them into the holes, and then they started throwing big rocks, until they were dead,” the official said, speaking by satellite phone from the remote desert town near the Algerian border.

“It was horrible,” he said, noting that the woman had moaned and cried out and that her partner had yelled something indistinct during the attack. “It was inhuman. They killed them like they were animals.”

The official insisted that he not to be identified because he said “our lives are in danger here.” The official said many of the 2,000 people in Aguelhok had already begun leaving, crossing the border into Algeria, as a result of Sunday’s stoning.

The stoning was the Islamists’ most brutal reported act of repression so far. Refugees from the north have given numerous accounts of public whippings and beatings for alleged violations of Shariah law in the main towns of Timbuktu and Gao.

All of northern Mali, a vast area larger than France, most of it desert, is in the hands of Islamists linked to Al Qaeda, after a rebellion against the Malian government that began in January. The rebellion began as a new iteration of a decades-long struggle by a nomadic ethnic group, the Tuaregs, to gain autonomy from a central government based in the south that it had long accused of neglect and persecution.

But the Tuaregs were soon overtaken by their de facto allies, a local Islamist movement, the Ansar Dine, or Defenders of the Faith, which itself was allied with Al Qaeda. Ansar Dine now controls the region, in alliance with another radical Islamist splinter group, the Mujao, or the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa. The groups share the goal of imposing an extreme form of Shariah law on the people of northern Mali.

The official in Aguelhok said the rural couple were heard to protest, faintly, that the children — the youngest a baby of 6 months — were not even theirs. But the men who executed them said the couple had been guilty of a serious crime, and deserved punishment.

“All they said was, it was the law of Shariah that prescribed it, that God willed it,” the official recalled. He said the execution had lasted about 15 minutes, but the woman died quickly, after crying out.

In silence, more than 300 people from the town watched. “The people protested, that no law could possibly prescribe such a thing,” the official said. “On the slightest pretext, they execute people.”

Aguelhok drew notoriety early in the rebellion, in January, as the place where dozens of Malian Army soldiers were apparently summarily executed, according to human rights groups. Some had their hands tied behind their backs and their throats cut.

A protest over the executions by angry soldiers’ wives in the capital, Bamako, in early February was an early sign that the government was in trouble. The government was later brought down by a military junta in a coup d’état at the end of March, allowing the Tuaregs and Islamists to overrun the north.

The south is still in disorder, with the junta still active behind an appointed civilian government whose powers remain uncertain. On Friday, the interim president, Dioncounda Traoré, returned to Bamako from Paris after an absence of over two months following an attack by a mob — some said orchestrated by elements in the military — that left him seriously injured.
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