Nothing to see here. Move on.
Posted on 08/05/2004 10:36:58 AM PDT by ejdrapes
Amen.
No s***, Sherlock, but that doesn't do a thing about the millions of crazed, murderous Islamicists that are bent on killing us and imposing their intolerant, backward, 8th-Century hate-filled "religion" on us!
So the author supports President Bush and agrees with him that his decisive military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq have indeed made us safer?!?!?
I would venture a confident no.
Hey, Muhammed...if you're looking for a target that will get a lot of attention, there's a building in NYC made of black rock that has a big eye on the front.
Talk about 09/10 mentality!!! This is what the dems want us to believe too. That all is well, nothing to see here folks, 09/11 was just a fluke. Just like 1993 WTC, Kenya embassy, etc... If we just act like it never happened, we won't have to deal with it.
Tell that to the three thousand people that died. This guy has seriously got weenie written on his face.
I e-mailed Dick and he e-mailed me back!
-----Original Message-----
From: finnman69
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 1:43 PM
To: Against the Grain Subject:
Re: "We Are Not 'A Nation In Danger"
Hey Dick!
This is the lead story on CBS news. 2 Nabbed In Alleged Missile Plot Two leaders of an upstate New York mosque were snared in a sting operation by a federal agent posing as a terrorist trying to buy a shoulder-fired missile, officials say. More...
Think about that next time you fly out of LaGuardia or Reagan National.
Finnman69
Well, Dick, how many crowburgers will you be ordering to go with those lies?
There are five nations on the Earth who, using their nuclear stock-piles, could reduce every city in the United States to a smoking ruin. This has not changed.
Yes, indeedy-
The Declining Terrorist Threat by Larry C. Johnson (July 10, 2001 NYTimes:
"Judging from news reports and the portrayal of villains in our popular entertainment, Americans are bedeviled by fantasies about terrorism. They seem to believe that terrorism is the greatest threat to the United States and that it is becoming more widespread and lethal. They are likely to think tht the United States is the most popular target of terrorists. And they almost certainly have the impression that extremist Islamic groups cause most terrorism. None of these beliefs are based in fact..."
However, these folks ... and I think they're sincere even if I don't agree with them, I don't think it's all political or all about Bush ... truly believe that 9/11 was horrible, but that things shouldn't change because of it and that a susceptibility to terrorist attacks is part of the price we'll have to pay to continue to live in a free and open society. Pinning them down a bit, they certainly favor taking precautions and aren't just going to wait around until al-Qaida lobs one into the Capitol rotunda, but they don't think it's possible with metaphysical certititude to steal a line from Mr. McLaughlin to prevent a terrorist attack and don't want to make the U.S. less free and open in an drastic effort to achieve that which is unachievable, and think that we ought to just live our lives and go about our business and stop worrying so much.
Again, I'm at polar opposites to this, my point is that Mr. Meyer is not alone in believing this.
The freaking leftists need to have a conference call or something and make up their damn minds -- either the terrorist threat is "exaggerated" and we are "not in danger" OR Bush's warmongering has increased terrorist recruiting and made us less safe than ever before.
They can't have it both ways.
Oh wait, I forgot -- they're Democrats, so they can.
And ironically, that same idiot also helped promote the lame effort by MoveOn to impeach Bush for misleading us.
Oh, Larry C. Johnson was a former CIA and State Department counterterrorism specialist when he wrote his article for the NYTimes! He became an associate at the Business Exposure Reduction Group (BERG) LLC.
helllooooo???? are you an IDIOT? or simply another DISCONNECTED so-called journalist!
not to MENTION that ALL these people have such great HINDSIGHT, it makes me sick!!!
Nothing to see here. Move on.
We don’t need to declare ourselves "a nation in danger" ...
So if I understand this correctly, King Meyer rules by fiat.
Very comforting inded.
This guy is an idiot!
"No other country on earth has military might even close to ours. Has such a global monopoly on armed power ever existed? Has any nation had less to fear from its neighbors and foreign armies?"
Islamic terrorists are not a classifiable order of battle army, they are a loose knit bunch of clowns driven by perverted ideology. This makes them more dangerous to America than a quantifiable enemy.
"Modern America does know real danger. The nuclear duel of the Cold War was real danger. America is safer than it was when the Soviet Union existed. The threat of nuclear proliferation, of a nuclear attack from a small state or terrorists, existed then, too. The country is probably better prepared to prevent that now."
Yeah, right. Mutually assured destruction kept us safe during the Cold War because the Russians don't subcribe to an ideology that prefers death over life. The Wahhabis don't care if they get killed. This makes it more dangerous to us.
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