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<p>Well, we all know how imperfect those translations are (heh, I like how we have a parliament), but best I can tell, there was very little in the way of “hailing” the great victory. It was just a very dry report of what happened.</p>
<p>Man people are stupid.</p>
<p>Translation thanks to Google is below. As anyone can tell, it’s just an ordinary news story.</p>
<p>The White House acknowledges the Republicans lost the parliamentary elections.The American President George W. Bush will hold a press conference at noon today, Wednesday, and Washington, talking about the parliamentary elections. The American administration acknowledged the victory of the Democrats, and enable them to wrest control of Congress from the Republican Party.</p>
<p>Hyperbole much, Citation? Good grief.</p>
<p>Actually, google translations are very imprecise, and Arabic is tricky in transliteration anyway. </p>
<p>Arabic has no vowels, and some of the characters are not actually sounds, but rather pauses in conversation. Therefore the pre-packaged google translation has little meaning, except it verifies that the article addresses the U.S. elections, as opposed to, say, the weather, or sports. </p>
<p>It requires someone reasonably literate in Arabic to tell us what this article really says, and what it implies.</p>
<p>However, the fact that it’s headlining lends some credibility to Citation’s assertion that the terrorists are indeed cheering.</p>
<p>You really believe that the fact that the U.S. election is headlining over, say, the weather, or sports means that the terrorists are cheering?</p>
<p>Silly. Silly. Silly.</p>
<p>I have NO doubt the terrorists are cheering. However, nothing that google or any other search engine caches is “evidence” of that one way or another, the challenge being that there are 13 billion cached pages and sites that you can find via google and other engines, but, there are another 700 quintillion (7,000,000,000,000,000,000) collective sites and pages on the internet that are “invisible” to search engines, etc., and that is where one would tend to find inimical chatter from all sorts of shadow groups, including terrorists, but also very benign things like family tree websites, micro businesses, personal blogs, etc., and other very legitimate, law abiding persons and organizations. </p>
<p>Simply put, nothing that Al Jazeera displays or does not display, that google’s spiders index, has very much meaning one way or the other, at least this morning. </p>
<p>Not that we can read it anyway. Arabic alpha reads from right to left but numeric from left to right, the alphabet has no vowels; some of the characters aren’t even actual sounds, etc. Perhaps someone who is literate can come along and tell us what the article actually says, but, at the end of the day it doesn’t really matter.</p>
<p>Currently in the middle east, they just had demonstrations (in Iraq) regarding Saddam’s sentence plus currently a major developing situation with Israel and the PLO issue in reference to an accidental bombing - including massive street demonstrations - plus the Senate outcome is clouding things up a bit</p>
<p>However, the there is no doubt that Pelosi’s victory (added to a Dem Senate victory) will be hailed as victory for terrorists and their allies. She’s is clearly in favor of retreat - no matter what label you tag it with, and Al Qaeda and spin-off groups w/o any doubt is one of the major groups on Iraq fighting americans</p>
<p>If were such a non-issue, it wouldn’t be the top of the news</p>
<p>We need to see the Al Jezeera broadcasts over the next few days, and if you catch them - no doubt they will be fanning the flames in their usual hate Bush/hate America/hate Israel mode -and they will use the Pelosi victory to work this message. Pelosi will become the visual to represent america’s weakness and (hoped for) upcoming defeat </p>
<p>The left in America needs to connect to reality and stop living in a Sept 10th world</p>
<p>Iraq clearly is not just about Iraq</p>
<p>America has spoken, Citation, and her voters have woken up from their long fear-induced nap.</p>
<p>Pelosi’s victory is exactly in line with what Osama himself predicted -that americans would eventually begin to lose resolve and retreat -so it will w/o any doubt become part of their rallying cry and a recruiting too to encourage “God Willling” continued efforts to defeat the Great Satan and lead to the ultimate defeat of America</p>
<p>Of couse since so many on the Left see Al Qaeda as largely a non-issue - this means nothing anyways</p>
<p>Osama’s next pronouncement will no doubt allude to this Dem victory in some manner</p>
<p>Who naps when they are fearful? I’m more afraid now, that’s for sure.</p>
<p>What’s the beef, SS? The American public has grown tired of endless war, young men and women dying for no reason.</p>
<p>They would have pushed for gradual withdrawal from Iraq, no matter what happened in the election. It was inevitable.</p>
<p>It’s all good! Democracy at work (finally!).</p>
<p>At least, unlike Sunnis & Shias, Hamas & Fatah, our parties don’t go around killing each other.</p>
<p>Yay for Democracy. </p>
<p>Citation–you think if you mention “Sept. 10 world” we’ll all stop thinking and fall in line behind you? Those attackers were Saudi, so we invaded Iraq. Um, right.</p>
<p>And in the last few days of campaigning, Bush began warning about “oil falling into the hands of terrorists.” Now the truth is coming out.</p>
<p>Don’t get me started.</p>
<p>What rot!!!</p>
<p>Is this even remotely about college or education? I don’t think so. Intelligence versus idiocy, maybe. I thought this was what the Parents Cafe was for.</p>
<p>We gave power to Al Quaeda by fighting the wrong kind of war in the wrong place. Remember, they weren’t in Iraq.</p>
<p>All wars don’t end up like a football game, with a winner and a loser.</p>
<p>The astonishing irony in your post. Allmusic, is that democracy was able to happen yesterday (such as it was) precisely BECAUSE our military is working so hard on your behalf, in Iraq and other places around the world, and even here at home. And, yes, sometimes they die in the process of doing their work.</p>
<p>they are dying more than they should because the President’s people are doing a lowsy Job and Bush just ignores it</p>
<p>when you have 4 military papers, Generals, and 60 percent of the people sayng Bush is doing a bad job, I guess according to some, we should just keep doing a bad job just because</p>
<p>as for Iraq we were in no danger from them…yes he was a horrid man, but they did not do 9-11 while afghanstan is slipping away</p>