US Ambassador To UN Says Middle East War Has "Potential To Engulf The World"

Reuters   |   August 27, 2007 09:57 PM


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"Europe was just as dysfunctional for a while. And some of its wars became world wars. Now the problems of the Middle East and Islamic civilization have the same potential to engulf the world," he was quoted as saying.

Khalilzad, interviewed by Die Presse while attending a foreign policy seminar in the Austrian Alps, said the Islamic world would eventually join the international mainstream but this would take some time.

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- larry278 See Profile I'm a Fan of larry278 permalink

Regardless of who said what, this one will be bigger than WW II. There will be no place to escape the maiming, disease & destruction as the human race destroys itself courtesy of a most advanced technology being used by the usual gang of idiots [stolen from MAD magazine] to enslave &/or destroy other humans.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:27 PM on 08/28/2007
- paixa3 See Profile I'm a Fan of paixa3 permalink

Thank you resident EVIL in the white house, you dishonest fucker.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:04 PM on 08/28/2007
- getoffmedz See Profile I'm a Fan of getoffmedz permalink

If you take into consideration the planned attack on Iran by the insane, desperate Bush/Cheney swine herd, the ambassador is most likely correct.

Bear in mind, this vile administration's ONLY hold to power is through CONTINUOUS WAR. And if anyone thinks those behind Bush/Cheney will go away quietly, you are sadly mistaken.

Those handling this stupid administration do not live in the U.S. They can hide in numerous places, worldwide. Like Mariscal Estigarribia, Paraguay, for example.

A word to the wise.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:39 PM on 08/28/2007
- TJTelecaster See Profile I'm a Fan of TJTelecaster permalink

Absolutely our coming attack upon Iran will ignite a huge wasteful war and with many other nations involved and many many of them all against the United States and maybe even bring about the collapse and end of NATO..!

It's Bush's destiny to destroy the United States it's army, security, world stability and it's Republic and democracy..forever..

You'll see..!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:26 PM on 08/28/2007
- fact finder See Profile I'm a Fan of fact finder permalink

Won't happen if the corporate whores and their boss's get their dumb ass's out of the middle East and let these people solve their own problems like they and every one else has for hundreds of years. There is NO MANIFEST DESTINY. NOW OR EVER.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:48 AM on 08/28/2007
- SmellyOne See Profile I'm a Fan of SmellyOne permalink

I guess "winning the war" really WASN'T all that important, like the Democratics have said all along.

It's a good thing we had a fuck-up Commander in Chief, and a nay-saying oppostion party to ensure that we would fail.

Now, EVERYONE gets to have fun shootin' their guns and droppin' their bombs.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:46 AM on 08/28/2007
- avergejoe See Profile I'm a Fan of avergejoe permalink

Now! they realize this.
Beautiful.

And yet another story on the crisis in the ME without mention of the isrealis and their contributions. As if they are innocent bystanders, or victims even.

Does MSM have ANY integrity!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:31 AM on 08/28/2007
- mrcontinental See Profile I'm a Fan of mrcontinental permalink

USA vs Islam. 300 million vs 5 billion.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:28 AM on 08/28/2007
- ownsthepodium See Profile I'm a Fan of ownsthepodium permalink

300 million minus the 18% domestic insurgents.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:40 AM on 08/28/2007
- Thalia See Profile I'm a Fan of Thalia permalink

Is Ammobob a satirist?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:05 AM on 08/28/2007
- LeftVetPatriot See Profile I'm a Fan of LeftVetPatriot permalink

No. He's a flatulist.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:11 PM on 08/28/2007
- Thalia See Profile I'm a Fan of Thalia permalink

Gee, WWIII begun by George W. Bush.

Now, who could have predicted such a thing?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:01 AM on 08/28/2007
- getoffmedz See Profile I'm a Fan of getoffmedz permalink

Hmmm? I see the "Liar Trolls on Meth" have been on here all night.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:34 AM on 08/28/2007
- unclebucky See Profile I'm a Fan of unclebucky permalink

Boys and Girls.

Time to rent a DVD.

Regardless of the faulty science, see "On the Beach". That should curl your hair.

The slow spiral of radiation purported in the novel and the two movies is wrong, but let's say that this twist was used to dramatically extend the time and interactions as people put their cars up on blocks, cleaned house for the last time, took a last vacation and flipped the circuit breakers on their house as they took the CYANIDE pills with a lovely glass of red to take their lives before suffering the horrific effects of radiation poisoning. And the entire world snuffs itself because world leaders had not preemptively cut off their own balls to prevent testosterone poisoning.

No, it won't be like "On the Beach." That is too calm and tranquil a death. It will be horrific, with poisoned water, bloated bodies, desertification that makes the Sahel feel like a tourist beach. Drowned coastal cities and rationed food and water.

No, it will be rather like a remake of Soylent Green, another DVD you should contemplate. Where we will be eating each other.

Time to stop this crap. Meditate on the parents and child, and how they carefully nurture it. And then imagine what war, poisoned air, poisoned water, and radiation does to that.

Ugh.

--UB.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:34 AM on 08/28/2007
- chronic See Profile I'm a Fan of chronic permalink

Thank you George Freakin Bush for the biggest f*ck up in modern history!


Thank you Red State idiots! You deserve what you get!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:32 AM on 08/28/2007
- SmellyOne See Profile I'm a Fan of SmellyOne permalink

Thanks Democratic party for pushing for and ensuring defeat to make sure that vacuum existed for Iran to move into!!!

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8RA2P9O1&show_article=1

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:52 AM on 08/28/2007
- Thalia See Profile I'm a Fan of Thalia permalink

But he

talks like them and he doesn't have a girlfriend.

All worth it, dammit!

Of course, one does wonder, what with all these Republicans getting caught with their pants around their ankles in public restrooms - and I don't mean to pee - what those morons who bought the GOP's morality CRAP are thinking now? They elected this incompetent fool because Clinton got a BJ and lied to them about it, and it wasn't even Clinton running! Indeed Gore has a MUCH more "moral" history with women and his family than does Bush.

The stupidity of those people is breathtaking in its scope.

This country has gone mad.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:04 AM on 08/28/2007
- richsmith See Profile I'm a Fan of richsmith permalink

Quit a few comments in this blog are completely missing the signifigance of what Khalilzad is saying. All seem to forget that this man is a mouthpiece of the psychopathic US administration.

First, there is little to compare here except the scope of the conflict and fundimentalist brutality vis a vis the brutality with which the Wehrmacht treated civilians and the allies in turn treated the German civilian population. London, Leningrad, Dresden, Nagasaki and Hiroshima were collectively more terrorizing than anything that islamist fanatics will be able to visit upon the world.

And most of insergents during WW II were idologically driven but secularists; they were Communists. This guy Khalilzad is also helping the softening up for Iran.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:20 AM on 08/28/2007
- Ammobob See Profile I'm a Fan of Ammobob permalink

On a related not, I see French Pres Sarkozy is warming up to Iran's potential threat and taking a 'cowboy' role in European Union matters. Do we have a GW 2?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:12 AM on 08/28/2007
- RanTalbott See Profile I'm a Fan of RanTalbott permalink

"taking a 'cowboy' role"?!!?

You should have read the actual story about his comments on attacking Iran, instead of relying on neandercon interpretations of it:

"Addressing France"s ambassadorial corps, Mr. Sarkozy stressed that such an outcome would be a disaster."

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:25 AM on 08/28/2007
- Macready See Profile I'm a Fan of Macready permalink

I hope not . . . thinking about it . . . I doubt the French will let him get away with it . . .

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:38 AM on 08/28/2007
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