Posted on 09/04/2004 4:14:13 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
What is it going to take?
When will our detractors acknowledge the evil we are up against?
I don't have the words to convey what is going on through my mind.
What to do?
Keep attention on the big picture; resist the urge to focus all attention on retaliating in small-scale ways, tit for tat. Take on and eliminate Iran's regime as a threat, and the regimes in other countries which are the real source of the terrorist problem.
solemn bump
Fox News just quoted a Russian offficial report that said the terrorists had stored weapons in the school ahead of time. They had so much that there was no way they could have brought it all in when they took over the school.
I know this, if that was my bloodied child or dead wife in one of those photo's, there would be be ANY and MANY muslims having to deal with the business end of a FN rifle. I would'nt care what the authorities did with me.
GREENVILLE, S.C. Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts said during last night's Democratic presidential debate that the threat of terrorism has been exaggerated.
"I think there has been an exaggeration," Mr. Kerry said when asked whether President Bush has overstated the threat of terrorism. "They are misleading all Americans in a profound way."
The front-runner for the Democratic nomination said he would engage other nations in a more cooperative fashion to quell terrorism.
1/29/2004 - THE WASHINGTON TIMES
You'd have plenty of company, that's for sure!!!
Let this event be the conclusive signal that there is nothing these Muslim terrorists won't do to promote they sick agenda. There are only two ways this savagery will end. We kill all of them, or they give up. If anyone doubts what they would do if they got their hands on a nuclear weapon, just remember this event.
It is reported 460 killed and 600 wounded
http://www.gazeta.ru/2004/09/04/oa_132350.shtml
460??? Oh Dear God!!!!! Just when I thought my anger levels were at a maximum all time high!!!
TIMELINE Beyond Chechnya
Actions outside of Chechnya linked to the conflict.
June 14, 1995
Chechen gunmen take 2,000 hostages at a hospital in southern Russian town of Budyonnovsk, near Chechnya. After failed attempts at force, Russia negotiates the hostages' release in exchange for the gunmen's escape. More than 100 die.
Jan. 9, 1996
Chechen militants seize 3,000 hostages at a hospital in southern Russian town of Kizlyar. Rebels release most, then head for Chechnya with about 100 hostages. Rebels are stopped in a village and attacked by Russian troops. At least 78 die in weeklong fight.
Jan. 16, 1996
Six Turks and three Chechens hold 255 hostages on ferry in Black Sea, threatening to blow up ship if Russia doesn't halt battles in southern Russia. The rebels surrender after three days.
March 9, 1996
Turkish sympathizer hijacks jetliner flying out of Cyprus to draw attention to situation in Chechnya. The sympathizer surrenders after plane lands in Munich, Germany.
Sept. 4, 1999
Bomb destroys a building housing Russian military officers and families in Buinaksk in Russia's Dagestan region. Sixty-four die. Russian officials blame Chechen rebels, but never prove their involvement.
Sept. 9, 1999
Explosion wrecks a nine-story apartment building in southeast Moscow, killing almost 100. Authorities suspect a Chechen bomb, although no evidence is ever provided to support the claim.
Sept. 13, 1999
A bomb destroys an apartment building in southern Moscow, killing 70. Officials blame Chechens, but nobody is ever charged in the attack.
Sept. 16, 1999
Bombs shear off the front of a nine-story apartment building in Volgodonsk, 500 miles south of Moscow. Nearly 20 are killed. Authorities again blame Chechens rebels, but nobody is charged.
March 16, 2001
Three Chechens hijack a Russian airliner leaving Istanbul and divert it to Saudi Arabia. Saudi forces storm plane, killing one hijacker and two hostages.
April 22, 2001
Some 20 gunmen hold about 120 people for 12 hours at a hotel in Istanbul, Turkey, to protest Russian actions in Chechnya. The rebels later surrender to police and release the hostages.
May 4, 2002
Lone gunman holds 13 people hostage at a hotel in Istanbul to protest situation in Chechnya. The gunman surrenders after an hour.
Oct. 24, 2002
Chechen rebels seize 800 people in a Moscow theater. After a three-day standoff, Russian authorities launch a rescue attempt in which all 41 attackers are killed along with 127 hostages who succumb to a knockout gas used to incapacitate the assailants.
July 5, 2003
Double suicide bombing at a Moscow rock concert kills the female attackers and 15 other people.
July 10, 2003
A Russian security agent dies in Moscow while trying to defuse a bomb a woman had tried to carry into a cafe on central Moscows main street.
Aug. 1, 2003
50 people are killed in Mozdok, North Ossetia, when a truck bomb smashes through the gates of a hospital where Russian soldiers injured in Chechnya are treated.
Sept. 16, 2003
Two suicide bombers drive a truck laden with explosives into a government security services building near Chechnya, killing three people and injuring 25.
Dec. 5, 2003
Suicide bombing on commuter train in southern Russia kills 44 people. President Vladimir Putin condemns attack as bid to destabilize the country two days before parliamentary elections. Six people were killed in two blasts on the same railway line in September.
Dec. 9, 2003
Female suicide bomber blows herself up outside Moscows National Hotel, across from the Kremlin and Red Square, killing five bystanders.
Feb. 6, 2004
An explosion rips through a subway car in the Moscow metro during rush hour, killing 41 people.
June 21- 22, 2004
Chechen rebels kill at least 92 people, mostly law-enforcement officers and officials, while setting fire to police and government buildings around Nazran, the main city of the neighboring republic of Ingushetia.
Aug. 25, 2004
Chechen suicide bombers blamed for explosions that kill 90 people on board two Russian planes.
What is it about these cowardly bastards that they do not go after military targets? Why do they not fight like men?
I consider conducting guerrilla warfare to be an honorable method of engagings one's enemies. But this continual targeting of innocent non-combatants lacks decency, lacks honor, lacks courage, and shows that thier highest duty is to death, and not any principled cause.
We are going to have to deal with these people sooner or later. I am for sooner.
Hey Ragheads, what's in the box?
Better find out, because its not going to be there much longer.
WE can only hope.
The ones who will vote for him think it is the mean old America's fault. I do not comprehend how they can think that.
You answered your own question. Cowardly bastards. So - let's take the fight to them.
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