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The Terrorist Muslim Brotherhood are Taking over Egypt

We come in peace
 
By: Jailan Zayan

November 30, 2011

Egypt’s powerful Muslim Brotherhood has claimed the lead in the first stage of the country’s first parliamentary elections since Hosni Mubarak’s fall.

The movement’s Freedom and Justice Party said initial results showed its coalition ahead, followed by parties belonging to the hardline Islamist Salafi movements, then a coalition of secular movements in third.

On Monday and Tuesday, millions filed into polling stations in the capitalCairoand second cityAlexandriaas Egyptians embraced new freedoms won by the toppling of autocrat Hosni Mubarak in February.

“The people have passed the democracy test,” headlined the independent newspaper Al-Shorouk on Tuesday, while the interim ruling military leaders expressed their “happiness” at proceedings.

“The election has been a huge success,” declared Ahmed Nashaat, a 29-year-old member of the leading Islamist party the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) as night fell inCairoat the end of the voting.

Turnout had been high, he said, security well controlled by the army and police, while there was “no vote rigging worth mentioning” – a stark contrast with the 30-year Mubarak era when abuses were widespread.

Analysts warned, however, that the country faced huge challenges ahead in its long, complicated and uncertain transition to democracy that is scheduled to finish only in June next year under the current timetable.

The vote on Monday and Tuesday inCairo,Alexandriaand other areas was the first of three stages of an election for a new lower house of parliament. The rest of the country follows next month and in January.

The FJP, the party of the formerly banned Muslim Brotherhood, a moderate Islamist group, is expected to emerge as the largest power in the new lower parliament when final results are published on January 13.

The backdrop to the vote had been ominous after a week of protests calling for the resignation of the interim military rulers who stepped in at the end of Mubarak’s rule. Forty-two people were killed and more than 3000 injured.

Egypt’s stock market closed up 5.48 per cent on Tuesday as investors welcomed the stability after weeks of falls caused by the political upheaval and unrest.

The successful first stage of the election was a boost for army leader Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, who insisted voting should go ahead despite the unrest last week.

The army “played the election card to stabilise the country in the face of pressure from the street”, said Tewfik Aclimandos, an expert at the College de France, a leading academic institute.

Tantawi “expressed his happiness at the way the process was carried out and the high turnout, especially among women and the young”, said Ismail Etman, a member of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF).

Protesters last week had again occupiedTahrir SquareinCairo, the epicentre of protests against Mubarak, but this time they were calling for the resignation of Tantawi and his fellow generals.

The demonstrations stemmed from fears that the junta, initially welcomed as a source of stability after Mubarak’s fall, was looking to consolidate its power and was mishandling the transition period.

Figures for the turnout for Monday and Tuesday have not been officially given, but Etman from the SCAF estimated it could reach up to 70 per cent – unprecedented in the Mubarak era.

Once final results are published on January 13, the country will then head into another three rounds of voting to elect an upper house, in a process widely criticised for its complexity.

 http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/islamists-claim-lead-in-egypts-elections-20111130-1o5nc.html

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Muslim Terrorists want to kill the Infidel, and began World War III

We only kill none Muslims

 

New world war has begun, says new Jewish group head

By GIL SHEFLER

 “World War III has begun,” according to the newly elected president of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) Vadim Shulman.

The affluent businessman who holds Israeli, Ukrainian and Russian citizenship was voted in unanimously to helm the Jewish advocacy group by its General Council in Jerusalem on Thursday.

During the meeting, a documentary he co-created called The Mosque of Notre Dame of Paris was screened.

The film shows images of 9/11, the Beslan school terror attack and Hamas militants spliced with interviews of commentators speaking alarmingly about the peril of radical Islam. One of the animations in the film shows the spires of the famous Notre Dame cathedral in Parisreplaced with minarets, another has a mosque built on the site of the former WorldTradeCenterin New York City.

“The European countries are shaken by radicalism – not Islam the religion – and it is distorting countries,” Shulman told the council via satellite afterward.

Shulman, who could not attend in person because he was observing the shiva mourning period for his mother, said the opening of Europe’s borders to immigrants resulted in it being forced to “abandon its traditions of thousands of years.”

Vladimir Sinelnikov, the documentary’s co-creator, also spoke about the dystopia depicted in the film.

“It was important that Shulman participate,” said Vladimir Sinelnikov. He was not only a pocket but a coauthor and his heart is aching what is happening in the world today.”

The Euro-Asian Jewish Congress is an affiliate of the World Jewish Congress. Billionaire Alexander Machkevitch, who officially stepped down earlier this month, founded the body 10 years ago.

After the meeting EAJC Secretary General Michael Chlenov distanced the organization from the movie screened at its council’s meeting.

“We should distinguish between the EAJC and the movie,” he said. “One is the work of the head and another of the heart. What was demonstrated is the latter.”

He added: “If you ask me, WWIII has not broken out, but the potential is there.”

Earlier in the day Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu sent a letter welcoming members of the EAJC to Jerusalem.

“I’ve been impressed by the congress’s bolstering of Jewish identity among Jewish communities in Eastern Europe and Asia,” the Prime Minister’s Office said. “You’ve managed to tie these communities to Israel in a praise worthy manner.”

Shulman was unanimously elected by the delegates from the FSU. His only opposing candidate, Vladimir Herzberg, a retired physicist from Beersheba who has launched several unsuccessful bids to head the Jewish organizations, received no votes.

“To me, democracy is incompatible with money,” Herzberg told the council. “I didn’t pay anything to take part in these elections and even had I paid anything I wouldn’t get anything. If I were the best president I would do a better job.”

http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=246953&R=R5

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US Tax Dollars are paying Palestinian Terrorist

The Money is for Our People

Whatever Happen To Common Sense?

By: LAHAV HARKOV

Move follows MK Matalon letters to US House, Senate, detailing PA president’s policy to pay convicted terrorists released byIsrael.

 Florida Democratic Congressman Ted Deutsch and New York Democratic Congressman Steve Israel have asked US Comptroller-General Gene Dodaro to investigate the Palestinian Authority’s use of American funding.

The request this week came three weeks after MK Moshe Matalon (Israel Beiteinu) had sent a letter to the budget committees of the US Senate and House of Representatives, informing them of PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s policy of paying freed Palestinian prisoners who had been convicted of murder $5,000 and building them new homes.

Matalon received a copy of the congressmen’s letter on Thursday.

“Many of the released prisoners were convicted of orchestrating and carrying out Hamas-sponsored terrorist attacks in Israel, including the bombing of a Tel Aviv nightclub that killed 21 people, the attack on a Netanya hotel that killed 29 people, and the bombing of a Sbarro Pizzeria that killed 15 people,” Deutsch and Israel wrote.

The two congressmen explained to Dodaro that they “are troubled by reports of President Abbas’ use of Palestinian Investment Fund (PIF) funds to provide housing for these convicted terrorists.”

According to the letter, the US contributed to the PIF after PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad founded it in 2002 “under a framework of transparency and accountability.” However, recently there has been “ambiguity surrounding the amount of US taxpayer dollars contributed to the PIF,” Deutsch and Israel wrote.

Aside from the issue of Abbas building houses for convicted terrorists, Deutsch and Israel “are concerned about the increasing lack of transparency for the PIF as well as reports that Prime Minister Fayyad is no longer overseeing the fund and that Hamas has taken control of PIF assets in Gaza.”

The letter also requested that the US Government Accountability Office, which Dodaro heads, investigate whether US Economic Support Funds (ESF) given to the PA were used to fund Abbas’s trips around the world “on his misguided attempt to unilaterally declare statehood at the United Nations… efforts that are in direct contravention of US policy.”

The congressmen said US ESF should not be used “to fund Mr. Abbas’ extensive lobbying to achieve a Palestinian state by any means other than direct negotiations with Israel.”

They added that “the US must be unequivocally committed to ensuring that American taxpayer dollars are used to serve the interests of the US and our allies around the world.”

In his letter three weeks ago, Matalon had written that Abbas was rewarding “unrepentant terrorists.”

“At the ceremony Abbas held [in honor of released prisoners] in Ramallah, he is reported as having praised these individuals for their ‘courage and sacrifice,’” the Israel Beiteinu MK wrote. “The atrocities referred to by Abbas as acts of ‘courage’… include the murders of scores of innocents, including women and children.”

He continued: “I feel it incumbent upon myself to present these facts to you, as a fellow parliamentarian, not as interference in your parliamentary activities, but rather in order to ensure that the full facts are before you, as you deliberate on whether to continue extending financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority.”

 http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=246918

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Common Sense

Excerpt From Book: Whatever Happen To Common Sense?

By: Elmer Williams

We can bring back the lost art of thinking clearly by inviting common sense, that woman of virtue we were once familiar with, into our lives. Show her the kindness, adoration, and proper respect she once received. Romance Mrs. Common Sense and acknowledge her worth in our society. We will soon see a decrease in the crime rate and witness fewer broken homes and less unemployment. Common sense has such intrinsic worth when it is respected and loved. I implore you to invite this lovely lady back into your life,America, if you have not seen her in a while. See that she is sweet to the taste buds.

 

We must put our finger on the sore, so to speak. We must put our finger on political correctness. We must put our finger on tolerance and going along to get along. We must squeeze the contamination out.

 

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Was Governor Corbett in on the Corruption in the Penn State Child Molestation case

By John L. Micek / The Morning Call (Allentown,Pa)

 

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Tom Corbett stopped, took a breath, folded his hands and stared hard at the top of the podium in front of him, as if it were going to yield the answer to a question a reporter has just asked him about the sexual abuse scandal that has engulfed Penn State University.

When he finally spoke, his voice was hard, low and even.

“I am personally disappointed in the lack of action,” he said. “And I had to contain that for the last two years.”

He spat out the words. It wasn’t the politician in him answering, but the former federal prosecutor, and later, state attorney general, who had spent years prosecuting crimes against children. He underlined the anger a few minutes later.

“He who preys on a child is the worst type of person in the world as far as I’m concerned,” said Corbett, who, while attorney general, began investigating the alleged crimes of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky in 2009.

And that’s the side of Corbett that national television audiences have seen as well: the confident former prosecutor who exuded steely calm in the face of not only the controversy at Penn State but also during the floods and storms that devastated parts of Pennsylvaniain September.

But that side of Corbett stands in marked contrast to the freshman governor who still seems far less at ease negotiating the choppy waters of policymaking.

“He excels at these big moments and critical junctures. It’s an area where he has tremendous experience,” said G. Terry Madonna, a political science professor and pollster at Franklin & Marshall Collegein Lancaster. “He is much less comfortable when he’s dealing with individual issues like (school) choice and Marcellus Shale.”

Despite that seeming decisiveness, Corbett has also faced criticism for the two years that elapsed between the beginning of the Sandusky probe on his watch in 2009 and the decision to press charges against Sandusky, who was once considered Paterno’s heir apparent.

Corbett has defended the way the investigation was conducted, arguing that it takes time to develop leads and encourage reluctant witnesses to come forward. The Sandusky probe went “as quickly as it could,” Corbett has said more than once in the nearly two weeks since the investigation became public.

Two incidents from Corbett’s administration demonstrate the split in his leadership style.

Last spring, the Republican’s efforts to pass a school-choice package that included taxpayer-funded vouchers ground to a halt after the administration abruptly withdrew its support for a package sponsored by Senate Education Committee Chairman Jeffrey Piccola, R-Dauphin.

The issue remained stalled for months and it hamstrung Corbett’s relationship with the majority Republican state Senate. Even this fall, GOP lawmakers said they were shying away from moving major pieces of the administration’s agenda until they were certain that Corbett would support those efforts.

Corbett did that work for them on school choice, rolling out a proposal that included taxpayer-funded vouchers, charter school fixes and the expansion of a popular program that gives tax credits to businesses that make donations to private scholarship organizations. The proposal cleared the Senate earlier this fall and awaits a vote by the House.

There was no such bobbling during the September floods, sparked by the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee, which caused the Susquehanna River to overflow its banks in central and northeasternPennsylvania.

There, a calm and reassuring Corbett was a constant presence on television. He flew to northeasternPennsylvaniato meet with local officials and homeowners and was the face of the cleanup effort.

The effort paid dividends politically. A Quinnipiac University poll released days after the floodwaters receded found 48 percent of the region’s historically Democratic voters approved of Corbett, compared with 30 percent who did not. In a Quinnipiac poll released a month earlier, Aug. 3, 48 percent of northeastern Pennsylvanians disapproved of the first-term governor, compared with 30 percent who approved.

In an interview at the time, Quinnipiac pollster Tim Malloy concluded that “anybody with family in that area has to have come away with impression that the state and the governor did a good job. And his numbers had had a significant jump in that area.”

The early fumbles on vouchers and the success on the floods and thePennStatecrisis involve two different sets of muscles. And as is the case with any new skill, it’s likely that Corbett will improve with time, observers say.

“Dealing with the negotiations involved in the legislative process requires a different skill set than managing a crisis or leading an investigation,” said Christopher Borick, a political science professor at Muhlenberg Collegein Allentown. “Corbett may get better in the elements of working with a Legislature with experience, but he has already had considerable experience and expertise in working in situations where he must stay cool and in control.”

Republican consultant Charlie Gerow, an admitted Corbett partisan, said he believes Corbett will increasingly grow into his role as the state’s chief executive – as is the case with any new governor.

“He is clearly growing – his polling shows that,” Gerow said.

Corbett does appear to have learned his lesson about the importance of the gubernatorial imprimatur: He’s appeared at two school choice rallies this past week and energetically called on lawmakers to send him a bill. But voters still need to catch up.

In that September Quinnipiac University poll, half of state voters said they approved of Corbett’s job performance, compared with 32 percent who did not. That’s a marked increase from the 44 percent of voters who approved of Corbett in an August poll by the Connecticut university. And it’s a leap from the 39 percent approval rating Corbett had during the heat of the 2011-12 budget debate in June.

Nonetheless, Corbett is still struggling to sell voters on his skills as a policymaker. Just 42 percent of respondents to that Quinnipiac poll said they approved of Corbett’s policies, compared with 37 percent who disapproved. In August and June, 43 percent of state voters said they disapproved of his policies, compared (respectively) with the 40 percent and 38 percent who approved.

“I do think that Corbett feels very comfortable in crisis mode and much less at home in policy debates,” Muhlenberg’s Borick said. “Public safety and legal crises are clearly areas where the governor looks in his element as opposed to a fairly clumsy appearance when navigating policy matters.”

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/national/northeast/view.bg?articleid=1382538&format=&page=2&listingType=natne#articleFull

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Newt's amnesty for illegal immigrants

By David Gardner and Thomas Durante

Frontrunner Newt Gingrich came under fire at the Republican presidential nomination debate tonight after he was accused of proposing an amnesty for illegal immigrants.

The former House Speaker’s rivals pounced after he said he supported finding a way to allow longtime illegal immigrants to stay in America legally.

‘I’m prepared to take the heat for saying let’s be humane about enforcing the law,’ said Mr Gingrich, clearly anticipating a backlash from grass roots conservatives angry over the 12 million immigrants living illegally in the US.

 

Michele Bachmann immediately claimed: ‘If I understand correctly, that would make eleven million people here illegally be legal.’

Mitt Romney, sitting just behind Mr Gingrich in the latest polls, added: ‘Amnesty is a magnet. There is no question that we are going to say to people who came here illegally that they are going to stay and become permanent residents of the United States.

‘This is a party that loves legal immigration. But we have to stop illegal immigration. People respond to incentives. If people can become permanent resident of the United States by coming here illegally, that’s what they will do,’ he added.

 

Until immigration was broached, none of the other candidates had dared to challenge Mr Gingrich, fearing his sharp tongue and vaunted debating skills.

He stole a march on his rivals by producing confident responses to key foreign policy questions.

Mr Gingrich produced his strongest words for the Middle East, claiming the west ‘could break Iran within a year if governments worked together’.

 

He said that ending gasoline sales to Iran and sabotaging its refineries would lead to the collapse of the Iranian government and end its nuclear ambitions.

Bombing Iran would only be a last resort and would come with a goal of bringing about the downfall of the government, he added.

When the first jab came, it was predictable that it would come from the combative Mrs Bachmann, who has made a point of attacking the favourite-of-the-week in most of the first 10 GOP showdowns.

It was equally predictable that the veteran politician wouldn’t back down.

He claimed that if foreigners came to the U.S. recently they should be kicked out.

But he insisted: ‘I don’t see any reason to punish someone who came here at three years of age and wants to serve the United States of America.’

‘I do not believe that the people of the United States are going to take people who have been here for a quarter of a century and who have children and grandchildren and who are members of the community who might have done something 25 years ago and split them up from their families and expel them,’ he added.

He said he cannot believe that ‘the party that says it’s the party of the family is going to adopt a policy that destroys families that have been here a quarter century.’

Unwilling to concede the point, Mr Romney said: ‘I am not going to start drawing the line here about who gets to stay and who gets to go.

‘The point is that we are not going to have an amnesty system that says that people should come here illegally and stay here legally.’

The row was the chief sticking point in CNN’s ‘National Security Debate’ screened live from ‘Constitution Hall’ in Washington, just steps from the White House.

As expected, President Obama was the chief target of all eight presidential hopefuls.

But there was little of the bickering – or gaffes – that have characterized some of the past showdowns.

Other than perhaps the ex-Speaker’s controversial stand on immigration, there was nothing that was likely to alter the basic contours of the race so far.

Mr. Gingrich, fresh from a spurt in the polls, was otherwise sure-footed on subjects like foreign policy that played to his strengths.

He conceded he would support an Israeli strike against Iran, but only as ‘a last recourse’ and if it brought about regime change in Tehran.

THE DEBATE’S WINNERS

NEWT GINGRICH: The former House speaker and presidential frontrunner took an ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ mentality as he cruised through another debate.

MITT ROMNEY: Though he didn’t have the same lustre, even Newt Gingrich admitted after the debate that Romney will be one of the last two Republicans standing.

MICHELE BACHMANN: Serving on the House Intelligence Committee has served her well, as she seemed to have the best answers on dealing with Pakistan.

JON HUNTSMAN: He’s got a lot to say when the other candidates let him speak, and was much more aggressive, not backing down on U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan when challenged by Romney.

THE DEBATE’S LOSERS

HERMAN CAIN: The former Godfather’s Pizza CEO struggled through this one, proving that he may be able to spin a good ‘9-9-9’ plan, but foreign policy’s not his strong suit.

RON PAUL: Though a Libertarian favorite, he was shamed by Newt Gingrich after offering that the U.S. caught Timothy McVeigh without the Patriot Act – AFTER the terrorist had killed 168 people, including dozens of children.

RICK PERRY: Though he made leaps and bounds from his cringe-worthy ‘oops’ catastrophe two weeks ago, there was nothing unforgettable about his performance.

RICK SANTORUM: This guy should leave many to believe that he introduces himself before vacating the stage and leaving a Rick Santorum cardboard cutout in his place.

Texas Governor Rick Perry also regained his strut following his ‘oops’ moment when he forgot his own economic plan. He proposed a no-fly zone over Syria and repeated his demands for more border security with Mexico.

There was a spat between Mr. Romney and former U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman who claimed US troops in Afghanistan should be slashed from 100,000 to about 10,000 to 15,000.

The former Massachusetts governor shot back: ‘This is not a time for America to cut and run.’

Although the debate was dominated by security questions, there was no avoiding the spectre of the so-called Washington super committee’s failure to agree on ways to slash $1.2 trillion from the country’s ballooning deficit.

But the candidates were too wary to fall into the trap laid by monitor Wolf Blitzer’s question over whether any of them were prepared to compromise on their pledges not to raise taxes in order to reach a deal.

They argued over cuts to the military, with the very anti-war Ron Paul making his position amply clear to the right-leaning audience.

Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum controversially said he was in favour of religious profiling at airports, specifically mentioning Muslims should be singled out.

Had Mr Gingrich or Mr Romney suggested something similar it would have certainly roused more debate, but few credit Mr Santorum with any real chance of securing the nomination.

Several heated discussions broke out almost from the get-go, as Mr Gingrich and Mr Ron Paul sparred over the Patriot Act as the Washington debate, hosted by CNN kicked off.

Gingrich said he supports the anti-terrorism law that civil liberty activists object to for its powers.

The former House speaker said that the United States needs to use every power at its disposal to protect the country from another attack, such as a nuclear weapon.

Paul, a favorite of his party’s libertarian wing, said that police could prevent wife and child beating by putting an officer in every home, and said that’s the same level of intrusion as the Patriot Act.

Paul made that point, and said other investigative techniques captured Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

Gingrich jumped at that. ‘Timothy McVeigh succeeded. That’s the whole point. Timothy McVeigh killed a lot of Americans,” the former House speaker said.

‘I don’t want a law that says after we lose an entire American city we’re going to find you.’

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The other candidates, with the exception of Ron Paul agreed that the Patriot Act needs to be strengthened.

Mrs Bachmann and Mr Perry clashed over whether the United States should continue to provide more than $1 billion in aid to Pakistan.

The Texas governor said Pakistan has shown ‘time after time’ that it cannot be trusted and that he would not send the country ‘one penny – period.’

But Bachmann called Perry’s approach is ‘naive,’ arguing that the U.S. needs to have a presence in the region to protect its national security.

She called Pakistan a ‘violent, unstable nation’ with more than a dozen nuclear sites that could be penetrated.

The conversation also got heated between former Utah Gov Jon Huntsman and former Massachusetts Gov Mitt Romney over the war in Afghanistan.

Huntsman said he stands by a reducing troop levels in the country, saying ‘We have 100,000 troops nation building in Afghanistan when this nation so desperately needs to be built.’

Romney asked Huntsman if he was talking about a withdrawal beginning immediately, chiding Huntsman for a view that puts American advances in Afghanistan ‘at risk.’

‘Did you hear what I said?’ Huntsman asked across the stage, noting that under the Constitution the president is commander in chief.

A few moments later, referring to Vietnam, he said a president had listened to the generals in 1967, and the outcome was not in the interests of the United States.

On immigration, Gingrich said he wouldn’t ‘expel’ those who have come illegally but have made lives in the U.S.

He added that the GOP cannot call itself a party for family when it separates parents from their children born in the U.S.

Bachmann charged that allowing illegal immigrants to stay is a form of amnesty. She and Romney said benefits for illegal immigrants attract others.

But Romney added that he wants to encourage immigration, especially among those educated at U.S. colleges.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry argued that the priority should be securing the border.

Some of the candidates agreed that the effects of plans to cut the defense budget could be devastating.

Romney said the cuts are undermining troop capacity, delaying the building of aircraft carriers and cutting the capacity of the U.S. to defend itself.

Perry argued that even Defense Secretary Leon Panetta opposes the cuts, and said that if Panetta is ‘an honorable man,’ he should resign in protest.

The Pentagon is already facing $450billion in cuts to projected spending over the next 10 years, an amount that could more than double beginning in 2013 under automatic cuts established by the failure of the deficit-reduction supercommittee.

But Gingrich and Paul, refused to say defense spending would be off-limits to budget cuts.

‘DID YOU HEAR WHAT I JUST SAID?’: MEMORABLE QUOTES FROM DEBATE

Ron Paul (on the Patriot Act): ‘I think the patriot act is unpatriotic because it undermines liberty… Don’t be willing to sacrifice liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights.’

Ron Paul: ‘[Timothy] McVeigh was a vicious terrorist. He was arrested. Terrorism still on the books, internationally and nationally, is a criminal – it’s a crime, and we should deal with it. We dealt with it rather well with Timothy McVeigh.’
Newt Gingrich: ‘McVeigh succeeded. That’s the whole point.’

Mitt Romney: ‘Are you suggesting, governor, that we just take all our troops out next week?’
Jon Huntsman: ‘Did you hear what I just said? I said we should draw down from 100,000. We don’t need 100,000 troops.’

Debate moderator Wolf Blitzer: ‘Is it ok for Muslim Americans to get more intensive pat downs or security when they go through airports than Christian Americans or Jewish Americans?’
Herman Cain: ‘No Blitz, that’s oversimplifying it. I happen to believe that if you allow our intelligence agencies to do their job, they can come up with an approach – I’m sorry Blitz, I meant Wolf, OK? Blitz, Wolf – Since we’re on a blitz debate, I apologize.’

Rick Perry (on the Super Committee’s failure): ‘The president was an absolute failure when it came to this budget process.’

Jon Huntsman: ‘As we talk about forging policy, we need a Washington that works. Today we have a president who can’t lead. We have a congress that can’t make a decision.’

Newt Gingrich: I’m happy to play by the rules – I just don’t really know what they are.

Rick Santorum (on profiling at airports): ‘We should be trying to find the bomber

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2065002/Republican-debate-Candidates-come-swinging-GOP-national-security-debate-stage-event-begins-fireworks.html#ixzz1eaJ8cwJQ