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Mount Airy, MD | Irresponsible Whoever allowed for this at the FBI should be tarred, feathered, fired and permanently disallowed from ever working for us ever again. It is precisely this kind of incompetence and laziness that makes the whole War on Terror look like a complete joke.
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Davenport, FL | said by pnh102:Whoever allowed for this at the FBI should be tarred, feathered, fired and permanently disallowed from ever working for us ever again. It is precisely this kind of incompetence and laziness that makes the whole War on Terror look like a complete joke. You mean it already isn't? 
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Mount Airy, MD | said by C0deZer0:the War on Terror is already like the War on Drugs of this generation. I totally agree with you on the War on Drugs. That is a sick joke.
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said by C0deZer0:said by pnh102:. . . makes the whole War on Terror look like a complete joke. Yeah, all of those terror attacks on US soil since 9/11/01 really prove that point. |
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1 edit | As if the US ever had as much as Israel before 9/11/01. No attacks since 9/11 means nothing as there is no way to all prevent attacks - it WILL happen again and now it is even harder for the govt agencies to really work together since there are now more than 80 new agencies/committes working to the same 'goal' (that truly is not achievable). Nor can the govt come up with actual stats for how many acts the illegal (again - against the US constitution they are supposed to uphold) wiretaps has prevented any attack.
Of course the govt backing of terrorist leaders does not help as well (Hussein/The Shah of Iran/Marcos etc... anyone?). |
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Mount Airy, MD | said by CylonRed:Of course the govt backing of terrorist leaders does not help as well (Hussein/The Shah of Iran/Marcos etc... anyone?). Uhhh... If you think us backing the Shah of Iran was bad... you might want to look at what happened to that country after we stopped backing him.
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said by CylonRed:. . . No attacks since 9/11 means nothing as there is no way to all prevent attacks . . . I think one must go through some mental gymnastics to disprove the association: We agressively persued terrorists on their own turf (Afganistan & probably covertly in Pakistan) and they haven't attacked us her in 6+ years.
You're right, it can happen again and probably will someday. As a free society we're always somewhat vulnerable to a handful of people that want to plan violence. However, given their stated motivation to destroy western society and especially us, the rational conclusion is that their attacks were either foiled or prevented by disrupting their ability to plan & iniatiate such attacks, at least for the time-being. And as a resident of the DC-metro area, I hope the current trends continue. |
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Acworth, GA | reply to pnh102
said by pnh102:said by C0deZer0:the War on Terror is already like the War on Drugs of this generation. I totally agree with you on the War on Drugs. That is a sick joke. Republicans/conservatives always need to invent a "war" on something...it's how they unite their base and win elections. |
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Mount Airy, MD | said by ackman:Republicans/conservatives always need to invent a "war" on something...it's how they unite their base and win elections. Both major political parties are guilty of this. You could say that the "War on Drugs" began either under Nixon with his proclamation, or under FDR when he outlawed marijuana in 1937.
The "War on Poverty" was brought to us by LBJ. We're still fighting that with no appreciable results.
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Westminster, CA | reply to pnh102
said by pnh102:Whoever allowed for this at the FBI should be tarred, feathered, fired and permanently disallowed from ever working for us ever again. It is precisely this kind of incompetence and laziness that makes the whole War on Terror look like a complete joke. UK to officially drop the term 'war on terror'
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Mount Airy, MD | said by BIGMIKE:UK to officially drop the term 'war on terror' Funny, we weren't calling it the War on Terror until 2001, even though we had been attacked by this enemy repeatedly since 1785 (no, 1785 is not a typo).
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Duluth, GA | reply to pnh102
said by pnh102:The "War on Poverty" was brought to us by LBJ. We're still fighting that with no appreciable results. No we aren't, Bush pulled out of that war 7 years ago.
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1 edit | said by ieolus:No we aren't, Bush pulled out of that war 7 years ago. I wish you were right. This President Bush expanded the welfare state in the USA more than any president ever.
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said by C0deZer0:the War on Terror is already like the War on Drugs of this generation. With a catastrophically diminishing ozone hole right in between. Relax. Global warming will eventually quench the war on terror. |
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10,343 attacks in the world, but none here.
I guess we were just lucky, eh? 
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said by pnh102:said by ieolus:No we aren't, Bush pulled out of that war 7 years ago. I wish you were right. This President Bush expanded the welfare state in the USA more than any president ever. A further clarification on your point, he expanded the CORPORATE welfare more than any president ever. If it's not obvious, I'm not a corporatist...I firmly don't believe in handouts to corporations, it's no better than giving welfare checks to someone sitting at home doing nothing who is capable of working. I would also like us to reinstate the Sherman anti-trust act that Reagan killed, the tax rates pre-Reagan, and the energy policy Carter implemented, which Reagan also killed. |
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Mount Airy, MD | said by ackman:I would also like us to reinstate the Sherman anti-trust act that Reagan killed, the tax rates pre-Reagan, and the energy policy Carter implemented, which Reagan also killed. At least we get jobs in exchange for corporate welfare.
And do you really want to go back to the bad old days of 78% marginal income tax rates and 20%+ interest rates?
I really wish you were right about Reagan killing Carter's energy "policy." We'd have more nuclear reactors, more oil refineries, more oil exploration. Certainly not the BS we have to deal with now. Do you own stock in sweater companies by any chance?
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*laughs* That site's pretty funny, basically counting a terrorist attack every time the odd middle-easterner looks at someone funny.
Too bad self-inflicted governmental maladies don't count as attacks. Then we'd get a real perspective of our "security" since 9-11. |
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| said by Thaler:*laughs* That site's pretty funny, basically counting a terrorist attack every time the odd middle-easterner looks at someone funny. ........................snip....................... Hmmm.... It looks like since the start of the year, lots of odd middle-easterners are sure looking at someone funny. Seems like after they look at them funny they get killed.
1/10/2008 Pakistan Lahore 24 80 A suicide bomber attacks a police post, killing two dozen police and civilians alike.
1/10/2008 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 A Buddhist villager is murdered by Muslim gunmen in an unprovked attack.
1/10/2008 Thailand Yala 3 7 Three men are shot to death by Muslim terrorists in three separate attacks.
1/10/2008 Yemen Sa'ada 6 6 Six local soldiers are killed in an ambush by Shiite radicals.
1/10/2008 Iraq Baghdad 5 13 A pair of Jihad bombings leave five Iraqis dead.
1/9/2008 Philippines Jolo 2 0 Two off-duty cops are shot to death by suspected Islamic extremists, while jogging along a road.
1/9/2008 Thailand Yala 1 0 A 34-year-old man riding his motorcycle is murderd by Islamist gunmen.
1/9/2008 Algeria Ait Yahia 4 2 Islamic fundamentalists kill four local soldiers in a landmine attack.
1/9/2008 Yemen Haidan 1 0 Shiite militants kill a tribal elder.
1/8/2008 Somalia Dibiyada 4 7 Four civilians are killed during an ambush by Islamic militants.
1/8/2008 Iraq Madaen 2 5 A Fedayeen suicide bomber takes out two Iraqi policemen.
1/7/2008 Pakistan Chugmalai 1 3 Islamic militants attack a security post, killing a local soldier.
1/7/2008 Iraq Hawija 3 0 A married couple and their young son are shot to death by Islamic terrorists.
1/7/2008 Iraq Baghdad 18 63 Eighteen innocents are are killed in two separate bombings, one a Fedayeen attack
1/7/2008 Iraq Khanaqeen 6 0 Radical Sunnis abduct, bind and then murder five men. A carpenter is gunned down in a separate attack.
1/7/2008 Afghanistan Spin Boldak 1 4 A suicide bomber on a motorcycle kills a local border guard.
1/7/2008 Afghanistan Helmand 4 4 Taliban militants kill four Afghans with a roadside bombing.
1/6/2008 Iraq Baghdad 11 17 A Fedayeen suicide bomber attacks an Iraqi celebration of national unity, killing eleven innocent people.
1/6/2008 Pakistan Peshawar 1 0 Fundamentalists bomb a video shop, killing a security guard.
1/6/2008 Pakistan Wana 9 8 Nine tribal leaders are killed in two separate shooting attacks by Uzbeki Islamic extremists.
1/6/2008 Iraq Muqdadiya 4 0 Islamic radicals kidnap and behead four people, tossing their heads out on a highway.
1/6/2008 Iraq Baghdad 3 16 A Jihad car bombing kills three people and injrues sixteen others.
1/5/2008 Iraq Muqdadiyah 6 3 Jihadis bomb a minibus, killing six civilians including women and children.
1/4/2008 Pakistan Kurram 3 0 Fighting between Sunni and Shia leaves three people dead.
1/4/2008 Thailand Yala 1 2 A 43-year-old villager is shot to death by Muslim militants.
1/3/2008 Pakistan Kurram 6 11 Six people are killed in violence between Sunni and Shia.
1/3/2008 Iraq Baghdad 6 11 Six civilians are killed in two separate Jihad attacks.
1/3/2008 Iraq Khalis 6 3 Six Iraqi soldiers are killed inside a home by a bomb set by radical Sunnis.
1/3/2008 Iraq Basra 1 0 A woman is shot to death by fundamentalists for unIslamic activities.
1/3/2008 Thailand Yala 1 0 Islamists gun down a 57-year-old civilian in the street.
1/3/2008 Thailand Yala 1 0 A 44-year-old Buddhist rubber tapper is murdered by Muslim extremists.
1/3/2008 India Shopian 1 0 The Mujahideen abduct and execute a civilian.
1/3/2008 Afghanistan Nimroz 7 12 A Fedayeen suicide bomber detonates in the middle of road construction crew, killing seven workers and their guards.
1/3/2008 Thailand Pattani 1 3 A local soldier dies from inuries suffered in a roadside bombing by militant Muslims.
1/2/2008 Afghanistan Helmand 1 1 Taliban militants shoot a local soldier to death.
1/2/2008 Algeria Naciria 5 7 Islamic fundamentalists bomb a police station, killing at least five people, including a 10-year-old girl.
1/2/2008 Iraq Muqdadiyah 6 3 Sunni radicals gun down six civilians in a drive-by attack.
1/2/2008 Afghanistan Kandahar 2 0 Two border guards are murdered by Islamic extremists.
1/2/2008 Iraq Baghdad 6 0 Freedom Fighters shoot five children and their father to death in a minivan at point-blank range.
1/2/2008 Iraq Baqubah 10 28 A female suicide bomber sends ten Iraqis to Allah.
1/2/2008 Somalia Mogadishu 1 0 Suspected Islamists storm an aid office, killing a local guard.
1/2/2008 Somalia Afgoye 3 24 Islamists bomb a local market, killing three civilians.
1/2/2008 Pakistan Kurram 11 13 Eleven people are killed in a sectarian clash between Sunni and Shia.
1/1/2008 Sudan Khartoum 2 0 A US diplomat and his driver are killed in a shooting claimed by Islamic militants.
1/1/2008 Iraq Tahwelah 2 0 Radical Sunnis gun down a Shia man and his 16-year-old son.
1/1/2008 Iraq Jalawla 5 0 Freedom Fighters abduct and murder an Iraqi policeman and four members of his family.
1/1/2008 India Rampur 7 3 Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists carry out an attack on a security base, killing at least seven people.
1/1/2008 Pakistan Kurram 2 5 Two people are killed in fighting between rival Muslim groups.
1/1/2008 Pakistan Kahna 2 0 A young couple in their 20's is gunned down by family members for having sex.
1/1/2008 Iraq Baghdad 36 38 A Fedayeen suicide bomber wades into a funeral and detonates, killing thirty-six people.
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said by pnh102:said by ackman:I would also like us to reinstate the Sherman anti-trust act that Reagan killed, the tax rates pre-Reagan, and the energy policy Carter implemented, which Reagan also killed. At least we get jobs in exchange for corporate welfare. And do you really want to go back to the bad old days of 78% marginal income tax rates and 20%+ interest rates? I really wish you were right about Reagan killing Carter's energy "policy." We'd have more nuclear reactors, more oil refineries, more oil exploration. Certainly not the BS we have to deal with now. Do you own stock in sweater companies by any chance? I'll gladly restore the 78% tax bracket for the ultra wealthy. They've been able to amass their fortunes on the backs of American regulated infrastructure, so they should carry more of the load for being allowed to garner such wealth. Reagan killed "good government" as we knew it.
Do you honestly believe that CEOs are taking all their tax breaks so they can create jobs in America? Have you heard of Microsoft, Accenture, Oracle, etc? Do you think they have any desire to create jobs in America, other than front-end sales jobs?
You want more nuclear reactors? Can we dispose of the waste in your back yard?
Republican econmic policy has driven corporate consolidation, which has resulted in fewer gas refineries as big oil merges into just a few behemoths. How many billions in profits are enough? How fair is it that they conspired to limit refinery output to keep prices higher at the pump?
Do a little more reading, and a little less Faux News Channel. You'll find how Reagan ripped the solar panels off the White House that Carter installed to power the water heaters. Carter declared the oil crisis of the 70's to be a "clear and present danger" for the United States, and he set about on an aggressive energy policy to reduce our dependence on arab oil. It's all out there, you just need to be a little more curious of nature and do some reading. Learning isn't such a bad thing, conservatives are capable if they set their mind to it. |
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