Posted on 01/20/2005 8:37:30 AM PST by kona coffee
WASHINGTON - On this snow-draped Inauguration Day in Washington, a few people on Capitol Hill were thinking about the worst: a catastrophic attack that could kill or incapacitate most members of Congress, the president, the vice president and the cabinet.
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The unseen presence at this first inauguration since Sept. 11, 2001, is al-Qaida, whose terrorists showed three years ago how capable they were of killing thousands of Americans in one place at one time.
At 9:30 on inauguration morning, in his office in the Longworth Building, a short walk from where the president would soon take his oath, Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., said, It is very clear that al-Qaida wishes to do only things that are destabilizing to the United States. More modest terrorists would have blown up an apartment building in the last three years. But al-Qaida is not dead and they dont think small. They think in terms of the power of the United States and how do you symbolically destroy, physically destroy, that power.
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Well, Kona was probably over at MSNBC enjoying his daily reading of Eric Alterman, when he came across this article that gave him hope of recovering from his post election depression syndrome....
I have worried about this kind of thing at each 'State of the Union' speech. SO9
Not a problem. Everyone must be on that thread, which is why it seems slow elswhere. Hard to keep up with all the posts!
I'm sorry to say it, but this sounds like "wishful thinking" to me.
What a sorry comentary on MSNBC and Tom Curry.
About as interesting as the label on a disposable lighter.
But I thought the threat of terrorism was either:
a) greatly exagerated, or
b) non-existent.
What was your name then?
Democrats do that all the time.. Thats why the democrat party is in the shape its in.. Thinking the unthinkable leads unanswerable solutions.. Its a "liberal" disease really.. Being a democrat is really a mental problem not a political party.. Mob rule(democracy) operates on unthinkable solutions, thats why it generates confusion and chaos.. as a normal polarizing operating enviorment..
I seem to recall a kona coffee from last year.
PMSNBC lost any semblance of objectivity long ago.
This article serves only to cause alarm, and to whip the Bush-haters and 'Rats into an orgasmic frenzy.
Yeah, it's "interesting" alright.
I don't remember one. But then again I don't remember much.
Oh, you mean like the Grand Wizard himself?
OK, scrub that one from the list.
If "they" think that attacking our center of power is a good idea, they don't know us too well. When the command structure got back up to speed, "they" would need no coffins to be buried in, and there may be more than depleted uranium rounds making background radiation.
If I am inclined to think the unthinkable, because I have mental problems (other than official services, no one has a "need" to do this), I am going to think BIG!
3000 mi. diameter asteroid to strike earth head-on next Tuesday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! < lots of exclamation points means I really care!
Not possible. Freedom and liberty are concepts which reside in the mind. That is the source of our power. Once tasted, it cannot be vanquished. We the people are under self-rule -- a concept that is difficult to grasp by those enslaved by their passions -- those who are motivated by a belief in a paradisical cluster phck.
Terrorists Beware! Destroy our family and friends we hire and elect to protect our nation and our people and we break you face big time. Look up and see the Damoclesian consequence you installed on 9/11. It exists.
I thought the libs/media (same thing, I know) was telling us the threat was exaggerated?
I'm getting a cabinet together now and am writing an inaugural speech. Hey, if Kerry can do it I can do it.
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Retread?
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