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Elisabeth: Let me tell you something- wait a minute, wait a minute- he is saying okay because of our policy, because of our American policy of having people stationed all over the world and sticking our noses in supposedly other people’s business that is why these attacks have happened
Joy: No, no they don’t care if
Elisabeth: these are Islamic fundamentalist extremists who have this in their hearts from the time they could hear a word
Joy: He doesn’t see it that way
Elisabeth: They want Americans and Jews killed and if they have to die with us they will die with us because that is better
Joy: But he says it is not because of our lifestyles that they hate us it is because of our policies

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Then they all talk over each other and it is unintelligible.

Elisabeth: What about the policy of the Jewish population is so awful
Joy: Don’t bring that in now- that’s a canard
Elisabeth: They equate the two. They want both Jews and Americans to die- that simple
Rosie: Who is they?
Elisabeth: Terrorists
Rosie: Again it’s the word terrorists

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Joy doesn’t want to talk about the fanatical views held by leaders in the Middle East towards Israel. Of course she doesn’t. How can she defend the President of Iran, who has stated repeatedly, in many different ways, at many different times his hope to “wipe Israel off the face of the earth”? Yeah, we don’t want to talk about that.

We don’t want to talk about the Mickey Mouse type character used to teach young Middle Eastern children to hate the infidels. We don’t want to talk about the twelve year old boy who beheaded a journalist recently. There are so many things we don’t want to talk about.

Thank goodness we have Rosie to step in to moderate all the talking over each other because Barbara is going to be upset. It didn’t work- they continue to talk over each other with Joy arguing about Elisabeth using the word terrorist.

Rosie then takes the stage to set everyone straight:

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Rosie: Can I ask you a question? No Joy- I haven’t said anything- I just want to say something. 655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists?
Elisabeth (dumbstruck): Who are the terrorists?
Rosie: 655,000 Iraqis. I’m saying you have to look from- we invaded
Elisabeth: Who are you calling terrorists?
Rosie: I’m saying that if you were in Iraq and another country- The United States, the richest in the world, invaded your country and killed 655,000 of your citizens what would you call us?
Elisabeth: Are we killing their citizens or are their people also killing their citizens?
Rosie: We are invading a sovereign nation and occupying a country against the U.N.

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It is times like this when I wonder how her partner, Kelly, can watch the delusion- when Rosie makes these statements on national television does Kelly shake her head? Does she laugh? Does she just ignore it to stay on the gravy train? Rosie clearly goes down paths only the most extreme thinking people are willing to explore. Is this the kind of thinking she teaches their children? Do her children get exposed to this sort of paranoia at home or is she more extreme on television to push buttons? I don’t get it. I don’t get her.

We are occupying a country against the U.N. We need to stop pretending the U.N. has any merit.  One of the main reasons we are in the situation we are in is that Saddam had NO respect for the U.N.  The U.N. is corrupt. The U.N. creates a forum for terroristic, dictatorial leaders to pretend their governments are legitimate. We should cease funding this joke of an organization.

If the U.S. wants to support an international organization, we should create a new entity comprised only of countries that allow for free elections, free practice of religious beliefs, dissemination of information without consequence and a fair system of justice for people accused of criminal activity. 

The women go on and on in circles. Joy wants us to reevaluate our policy. What that means, nobody knows. By the way, what policy approaches has Ron Paul introduced in Congress?

Rosie thinks all governments sponsor terrorism, including the United States. Rosie absolutely blames the United States for the deaths of Iraqi citizens even though the vast majority of the deaths are the result of attacks by insurgent groups trying to undermine the progress being made by a democratically elected government.

Rosie equates our government’s actions with the actions of the terrorists. She clearly believes that the deaths of thousands of Americans at the hands of terrorists (and I won’t hesitate to use that word) do not merit a retaliatory act unless we can be sure that the loss on the other side will be less than or equal to America’s loss. She views every life as equally valuable.

The fact that Rosie considers our government to be comparable to a terrorist regime is unbelievable. Her arguments are anti-American. She likes to describe herself as a patriot. Really?

Elisabeth is going to need to go on bedrest if this keeps up.