Terrorist Attack in Nice on Bastille Day - Truck attack kills 73

How do you supposed MSNBC described this attack?

-- "A truck crash."


How do you suppose the NYT described this attacker?

-- a “Frenchman Of Tunisian Origin”

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Hillary finally identifies our enemy:

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/h...se-to-nice-france-bastille-day-attacks-2016-7

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper interjected, asking the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, “When you say we’re at war … who are we at war with? Are we at worth with radical jihadists? Radical Islam? Who are we at war against?”

Clinton responded:

“We are at war against radical jihadists who use Islam to recruit and radicalize others in order to pursue their evil agenda.”
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iatrogenic said:
Damn, now Tunisian-French are acting like Muslims. What is the next group to join this outrageous, anti-human, hate-filled group?
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Here is alittle more on France's unique vulnerabilities --

http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2016/07/15/why-islamic-state-hates-france/

"..... More than 10,000 French soldiers are fighting in conflicts against Muslim fundamentalists.

“The French must die by the thousands,” Islamic State propaganda has previously declared.

The country has a large and aggrieved Muslim population numbering more than six million. Historically it has treated much of Muslim North Africa as its own backyard, colonising Algeria in 1830 and taking control of Lebanon and Syria after World War One

The France of today is extremely vulnerable to suicide attacks, with French authorities acknowledging they are overwhelmed.

Dr Tobias Feakin, national security director at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, told The New Daily the fact that France was one of the main countries fighting jihadists in Northern and Western Africa, Iraq and Syia made it a target.

“France has a very, very large Muslim community which feels that policy is being made against Muslims,” Dr Feakin said.

“There is anger over banning the wearing of the burqa. There is no doubting that there are serious tensions between Muslim population in France and the broader society.

“It is also far easier than Australia to obtain explosives or high calibre machine guns. There has been a flow of weaponry from Libya and the Balkans flowing into Europe and into France.”

Mr Feakin said the Islamic State did not need to secret themselves amongst the refugees flooding into Europe. Many were born in France and had French passports....."
 
I know many Americans don't have the stomach for war. But this is what happens when you speak loudly and carry a little stick. We have been at war for a while now and our current President thinks we're brushing off the JV team. They are spreading like cancer and it's way past time that we go and destroy them. We have to do whatever it takes.
 
Ah I35
As Husker and others will point out we have been assured our gov't vettes them completely:rolleyes1:
so to temporarily halt bringing them in is " not who we are"

I read an article not long ago detailing how BO is actually accelerating bringing in refugees from the ME and settling them in towns that are not able to handle them and do not want them. maybe 100K ?
 
The easiest and most effective action is to stop immigration, and tighten controls and limits on green cards and visas.

This affects the Democrats' voting base, however, so instead of doing that, they will want a "commission " formed to "have a conversation" about the problem.
 
Joe Fan said:
How do you supposed MSNBC described this attack?
-- "A truck crash."
How do you suppose the NYT described this attacker?
-- a “Frenchman Of Tunisian Origin”
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The WAPO chimed on on this theme
How do you suppose they decided to describe this guy?

He, of course, is a "... Tunisian-born man."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...ory.html?postshare=5911468593536093&tid=ss_tw


I do wish someone would secretly record one of these editorial meetings where they discuss this exact topic. You know they all do it. I would really like to hear one of them. Hackers hack just about everything else - I want this.

There used to be a .gif maker who you could just post a ".gif me this" and he would make it happen, almost magically. I want a .HackMeThis person
 
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The truck used in the attack was rented Monday from the Via Location rental agency just outside Nice, according to a woman at the agency who answered the phone Friday but said she was not authorized to give her name. She said the French Interior Ministry had asked the agency not to share further information with the investigation underway.
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Waiting period for truck rentals?
 
I35 said:
SH, I have to ask you a question. Do you still believe that we should be taking in the Muslim refugees here in America?
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Do I think it's possible to vet a subset of Muslim refugees and play a part in the humanitarian crisis unfolding in the Middle East by bringing them here? Yes. I've stated multiple times previously I'd focus immigration on the women, children and elderly. The humanitarian crisis of million(s) sitting in refugee camps exacerbates the radicalism challenge.
 
some of the carnage here
warning - graphic
if you do look, you may later wish you had not

 
Nice to date --
84 dead (10 children)
202 wounded
25 on life support
52 in critical condition
 
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An interesting look back to April 2013 --

"Syria's Bashar Assad warns 'terrorism' will come back to West"
President Bashar Assad says the U.S. and Europe are supporting his Islamist opponents, which will come back to haunt them
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/17/world/la-fg-syria-assad-20130418

",,,,,, Assad charged that the United States and Europe were supporting his Islamist opponents. He said the alleged support was cynical and would come back to haunt them. The United States and its European allies have given limited support to Syrian rebels, but have been wary of providing aid, especially arms, that could fall into the hands of Islamist extremists.

"The West uses any element, even if it is against them elsewhere," Assad said. "They fight Al Qaeda in Mali and they support it in Syria and in Libya, but the West doesn't know — or perhaps it knows but is not now aware — that this terrorism will return to it and they will pay the price later in Europe and the United States."

His warning was in line with previous public statements in which he described the armed opposition as terrorists and Islamic extremists.,,,,"
 
Husker
You do know that if we bring in women and children ( how young BTW, we have had 30 yo saying they are 17 and we have seen vids of "cubs" shooting and beheading)
if we bring any in they are automatically entitled to bring in family after a certain number of years
Women like the murdering ***** in San Bernardino?
 
Joe Fan said:
An interesting look back to April 2013 --

"Syria's Bashar Assad warns 'terrorism' will come back to West"
President Bashar Assad says the U.S. and Europe are supporting his Islamist opponents, which will come back to haunt them
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/17/world/la-fg-syria-assad-20130418

",,,,,, Assad charged that the United States and Europe were supporting his Islamist opponents. He said the alleged support was cynical and would come back to haunt them. The United States and its European allies have given limited support to Syrian rebels, but have been wary of providing aid, especially arms, that could fall into the hands of Islamist extremists.

"The West uses any element, even if it is against them elsewhere," Assad said. "They fight Al Qaeda in Mali and they support it in Syria and in Libya, but the West doesn't know — or perhaps it knows but is not now aware — that this terrorism will return to it and they will pay the price later in Europe and the United States."

His warning was in line with previous public statements in which he described the armed opposition as terrorists and Islamic extremists.,,,,"
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Hilary's decision making ability and foreign policy decisions are abundantly evident.
 
A large part of the blame can be laid directly at Obama's feet. His M.E. foreign policy blunders have contributed immensely to this mess. Maybe that's why he feels bringing in some of the refugees he helped to create is the least he can do.

He pulled the troops out of Iraq way too soon and created a power vacuum which ISIS quickly filled. He assured the world that ISIS was just the JV and did nothing about them, which gave them plenty of time to recruit and grow strong.

He and Hillary helped topple Gaddafi in Libya without any plans to replace him, creating a second terrorism vacuum.

He drew his famous redline in Syria, which didn't amount to squat, further emboldening the enemy. He spent hundreds of millions of dollars training a few hundred "rebels" (i.e. terrorists), which have accomplished nothing, and worse, will probably use their shiny new weapons against us at some point.

All the while, when he should have been paying attention to what his policies were causing overseas, he's over here doing his damndest to stir up racial strife. Unbelievable!
 
Clean said:
A large part of the blame can be laid directly at Obama's feet. His M.E. foreign policy blunders have contributed immensely to this mess. Maybe that's why he feels bringing in some of the refugees he helped to create is the least he can do.

He pulled the troops out of Iraq way too soon and created a power vacuum which ISIS quickly filled. He assured the world that ISIS was just the JV and did nothing about them, which gave them plenty of time to recruit and grow strong.

He and Hillary helped topple Gaddafi in Libya without any plans to replace him, creating a second terrorism vacuum.

He drew his famous redline in Syria, which didn't amount to squat, further emboldening the enemy. He spent hundreds of millions of dollars training a few hundred "rebels" (i.e. terrorists), which have accomplished nothing, and worse, will probably use their shiny new weapons against us at some point.

All the while, when he should have been paying attention to what his policies were causing overseas, he's over here doing his damndest to stir up racial strife. Unbelievable!
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Regardless of fault, it is once again terrible that Islam has raised its extremely ugly head in our world again. This is a situation that can no longer be addressed with half measures and useless political rhetoric.

The terrorists actions clearly show the power of psy ops as practiced by Muslims. If it can work to cause this problem, it can work to stop it.
 
iatrogenic said:
Hopefully, all the liberals read that article.
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sadly, they will choose instead to question the source instead of the issues being addressed BY the source. Same thing happened the other day when pointing out the idiot who called the Dallas shooter a 'martyr.'
 
Clean said:
A large part of the blame can be laid directly at Obama's feet. His M.E. foreign policy blunders have contributed immensely to this mess. Maybe that's why he feels bringing in some of the refugees he helped to create is the least he can do.

He pulled the troops out of Iraq way too soon and created a power vacuum which ISIS quickly filled. He assured the world that ISIS was just the JV and did nothing about them, which gave them plenty of time to recruit and grow strong.

He and Hillary helped topple Gaddafi in Libya without any plans to replace him, creating a second terrorism vacuum.

He drew his famous redline in Syria, which didn't amount to squat, further emboldening the enemy. He spent hundreds of millions of dollars training a few hundred "rebels" (i.e. terrorists), which have accomplished nothing, and worse, will probably use their shiny new weapons against us at some point.

All the while, when he should have been paying attention to what his policies were causing overseas, he's over here doing his damndest to stir up racial strife. Unbelievable!
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For the most part your summation is pretty accurate. It's a good thing Obama backed down from his red-line because it was just a trumped up charge against Assad which was intended as a rationale to bomb the Syrian government. Had Obama followed up on his his threat, Syria would have ended up like Libya. Currently there is at least a small bit of stability left.

You can see that there is no cogent, unified policy at the present time. On the one hand, the acquiescence to Iran, easing of sanctions, indicated a movement toward reconciliation and perhaps even cooperation against the jihadists. On the other hand, Israel fears and hates Iran more than ISIS and advocates support for any opposition to Assad no matter the affiliation. Hillary and elements of the State Department are vehemently opposed to Iran and solidly with the Saudis and the failed policies used in Libya and Syria (recall the petition signed by 50 or so State Department "diplomats" just a few weeks ago). Obama seems to vacillate back in forth and refuses to state a clear policy and exhibit leadership. US foreign policy is a clusterxxxx.
 
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