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2006-09-12 Terror Networks

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Posted by ryuge 2006-09-12 08:08|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 We may BE safer than we were on 9/10/01 but there's no way we FEEL safer now than we FELT then. And as you know, it's all about 'feelings' (sarc).

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-09-12 09:59|| 2006-09-12 09:59|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm not particularly worried about my safety. I'm more concerned that we are not causing enough of those murderous bastards in the middle east to worry about THEIR SAFETY!

Posted by Besoeker 2006-09-12 10:26|| 2006-09-12 10:26|| Front Page Top

#3 This question of whether or not we are safer after 911 is like asking for apples and getting oranges.

Pre 911, I'm willing to bet that like me, 99% of Americans had absolutely no concern about Islamists, terrorists, or even all the bombings they were doing to us. We even wrote off the Cole. I considered myself a "news junkie" but will admit, the name bin Laden meant nothing to me. Can't say I had ever heard of his name.

Oh, I knew about Mogadishu, the embassy bombings, Kobor Towers, cause they all got at least a day's coverage. But I remained one of those 99% Americans, that went on about my daily life, not considering that any of this was about me. Did grumble some about wanting Clinton to do something -- but still, never fear. Why should I have felt unsafe?

So yes, I was safer before 911, in my mind at least. As my 88 years old Mother has been known to say, "I didn't know no better."

Posted by Sherry 2006-09-12 11:11|| 2006-09-12 11:11|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm not particularly worried about my safety. I'm more concerned that we are not causing enough of those murderous bastards in the middle east to worry about THEIR SAFETY!

Amen. Who cares if we're safer? I'd rather be free than safe. Safety is an illusion, anyway. Of course the government should take prudent steps to defend the homeland, and to protect it's citizenry. But many are deluding themselves into thinking we can be made safe. If someone wants to get to you badly enough, they will. The key is to stop them before they get the chance. But let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, for a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty, nor Safety." ----Ben Franklin

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-09-12 12:28|| 2006-09-12 12:28|| Front Page Top

#5 If someone wants to get to you badly enough, they will. The key is to stop them before they get the chance. But let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

So, America, never entertain for one moment, that pathetic and stupid pacifist LLL line of, "Why do they hate us?", ever again. They cannot be appeased. You have to defeat 'em. Humiliating evil is necessary.

Posted by Duh! 2006-09-12 13:15|| 2006-09-12 13:15|| Front Page Top

#6 These simple turds believe having a nuclear bomb of any sort makes them a big player on the world stage. They don't comprehend the power of weapons currently in our arsenal now. Makes the Nagasaki weapon look like a firecracker. They also can't realize the awful scenario of coordinated blasts delivered by the MIRV's which would create real armageddon over hundreds of square miles. Really, nothing would survive. May live for a few days, but the radiation levels would make life impossible. Knowing this, we have been restrained, but as we all have said here, if there is a follow on attack here in the homeland, this restraint may evaporate over night.

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-09-12 13:23|| 2006-09-12 13:23|| Front Page Top

#7 We should make public knowledge our targeting of Iran in the event of the non-test related discharge of a nuclear device anywhere in the world. We should present the whole migillah to the UN, let them know this is the Iranian portion of the plan only and that there will be aditional areas targeted that will remain secret and send the USAF over Iran to leaflet target areas to inform residents of their status as a target together with the target map for all of Iran. We should provide information on their chances of survival, instructions for building a Great Leap Forward bomb shelter, goods they may wish to store in the unlikely event they survive, iodine pills, and pictures of Ali Khameni, with his cell phone number and e-mail address.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-09-12 13:51|| 2006-09-12 13:51|| Front Page Top

#8 The UN as a terminal PC disease is now being challenged(Five years after 9/11 the UN is still unable to define terrorism!)

Darn good!

Posted by Duh! 2006-09-12 15:39|| 2006-09-12 15:39|| Front Page Top

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