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Free Republic -
First of all, this is what Koch heard Moore say and therefore it is hearsay: “I don’t know why we are making so much of an act of terror. It is three times more likely that you will be struck by lightening than die from an act
of terror.” Then, based on hearsay, Koch stretched the comment into the Koch-interpreted precedent that "it shows where he was coming from long before he produced “Fahrenheit 9/11” and "Moore's point, however, was willfully oblivious to the fact that al Qaeda did not intend 9/11 to be the last word; the organization was working on additional attacks, and if the organization obtained the right weapons, millions of people might be killed".
This is a common and quite annoying deception by arrogant Republicans - the innuendo via hearsay that Democrats and liberals do not take the War on
Terrorism seriously and are weak on counterterrorism measures. The problem that Free Republic has with me - a Democrat and liberal - is that I do
counterterrorism research. I have had the last word in two discussions here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1134467/posts?q=1&&page=54
and
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1163918/posts.
I will tell you - the counterterrorism researchers that I know procede from the caveat that arrogant Republicans and angry Democrats will not share critical information in this election year and that both will be blamed for security gaps that lead to an attack. In other words, counterterrorism research will be ignored in favor of the substandard intellectualism of hearsay and innuendo
This is my hypothesis -
IMO, the plans for the Iraq go back to 1991 with Paul Wolfowitz's and Dick Cheney's anger that Bush Sr did not finish off Saddam. Richard Clarke suggests an overexpenditure perhaps even an obsession with Iraq by the Bush Administration that appears to be more of a deviation from the War on Terrorism than a contribution. Again, the 9/11 Commission does not go back far enough ie a '2/26 [1993] Commission' would have come to the same conclusions as the 9/11 Commission with regard to Al Qaeda Cult
ideology/threat assessment and actionable intelligence/security gaps.