Media Monitors Network (MMN)

"Arab-Americans should be wary of any illusions that the Republicans and Democrats will stop shunning us anytime soon. They have cast us aside and made us feel like stepchildren in our own country. We have been defamed in public and labeled unworthy of full civil rights. Both Democrats and Republicans meet our concerns and our aspirations with disdain."

"After the 2004 election, no matter who wins, the American policy will not repudiate the current one, and will not reflect in any way, shape or form the demands made by Osama Bin Laden as requirements needed for him to stop his retaliations against America."

"If the vote is close in any of the key battleground states and no candidate clearly and decisively wins enough states to assure him the 270 electoral votes needed to be declared President, court challenges like Florida 2000 many once again shape the post-election period. In fact, a recent poll shows that fully one-half of all US voters actually expect this to occur."

"The Iraqi population has little tolerance for this level of terror and mass murder while under occupation. That is why they are engaged in legitimate resistance. Would Americans react any differently if they were forced to live under similar conditions?"

"Richard Perle and his neo-con cabal along with the US government are in a quest to rebuild the Islamic world in their image. The only obstacles are the "fundamentalists," i.e. those who actually resisting the West."

"...if the USA's population suffered the proportional equivalent of 130,000 Iraqi civilian deaths, there would be 1,608,750 American civilian deaths. What if the entire population of a city the size of San Diego had been slaughtered over nineteen months after some hostile nation invaded US soil?"

"If Bush wins, he will claim that his hawkish policies have been endorsed by the American people, and so feel justified in attacking more countries, thereby intensifying hatred for Americans worldwide. Kerry is even more dangerous; he will do exactly what Bush has been doing, but with smiling face."

"The fact remains that aerial bombardment is a crude weapon that always kills many more civilians than soldiers. The Pentagon favors it because pilots do not see the details of the terrible things they do and because many more ground troops would themselves be killed if it weren't for death from the skies."

"Al Jazeera cut off transmission after Osama turned his verbal assault on dictatorial Arab leaders and how they fleece their nations with the able assistance of GWB’s daddy. It is worth noting that Al Jazeera then continued with its regular programming after airing only seven minutes of the Al Qaida tape. After nearly two years of OBL’s absence from the public eye, one is left to speculate why Al Jazeera didn’t have time to air the last eleven minutes. Did they worry that their audience would switch the channel or did the Saudis and the State Department pull the plug?"

"For 45 years now, Arafat has lived in the shadow of death. There was not a moment when a plot to kill him was not being hatched somewhere or other."

"More than any other American reformer of the last half-century, Nader kept showing that the emperor had no clothes. Now, at a crucial moment in history, Nader has become a de facto ally of the current emperor."

"The key states to watch throughout the evening will be the so-called "battleground" states. The candidate who wins the majority of those states will likely win the election."

"A simple example from UNICEF data reveals the horrendous magnitude of the human cost in Iraq and Afghanistan of what has been described by a noted proponent of the US- and UK-led Coalitions as "democratic imperialism" (I would prefer the more precise term of "democratic Nazism")."

"The simple truth is that the Iraqi insurgency is a reaction to the occupation. Yet, the DLC’s foreign policy ‘experts’ don’t seem to have a clue about what is essentially a conventional and brutal liberation struggle. Because of their neo-con backgrounds, it is entirely possible that these policy wonks are deliberately misleading the same gullible public that swallowed whole the canards about WMDs."

"Bin Laden knows that the Cheney/Bush Administration's absolute dedication to securing control over Iraq's oil will keep Bush tied down in the desert for years to come, and will make it impossible for him to go after the Movement as it grows to threaten other free nations around the world."

"Job outsourcing to foreign workers is a direct product of greed by corporations. The only reason this phenomenon occurs is because companies wish to enhance profits by exploiting workers in low-wage areas of the world."

"It cannot be an act of “anti-Israel bias” for Canada to condemn the invasion and destruction of refugee camps, the murder of children, the demolition of homes, or the continued theft of Arab land. Yet the Little Knesset would have the government acquiesce in a crime against humanity."

"There are many problems between India and Pakistan but none as intractable as Kashmir, that is the core dispute."

"The shameful actions of the Democrats leave them together with the Republicans far, far below the high ground, and down in the quagmire of mud, from which all their mudslinging originates."

"After several years hesitation there began a movement of settlement in these liberated territories. True, to put it mildly, the settlers were not welcomed by the Arabs. But that does and cannot make this a "South African situation.""