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Time to think the unthinkable
MSNBC ^
| 1/20/2005
| Tom Curry
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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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: contstitution; doomsdayscenario; w2; wot
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To: Conspiracy Guy
That was gonna be my question, too. No reply from the newbie yet, I see.
41
posted on
01/20/2005 10:08:34 AM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
To: MeekOneGOP; kona coffee
Let's get a better look at you....Hmmmm...there seems to be a lot of
electrical activity around the vicinity of this post regarding you...
We don't
LIKE F.U.D.
42
posted on
01/20/2005 10:11:05 AM PST
by
hiredhand
(Pudge the Indestructible Kitty lives at http://www.justonemorefarm.com)
To: kona coffee
Go to he**. Let us have our day.
43
posted on
01/20/2005 10:11:59 AM PST
by
RushCrush
(Newbies are people too!)
To: backinthefold
Possible troll here too. They are coming out of the DUmmie woods to disrupt us.
44
posted on
01/20/2005 10:12:37 AM PST
by
Arrowhead1952
(Jan. 20, 2005 - - The Inauguration of President Bush and biggest nightmare for the MSM and DU.)
To: kona coffee
Who were you long ago?
45
posted on
01/20/2005 10:13:57 AM PST
by
b4its2late
(You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you.)
To: kona coffee
Hmmmmmmmmmmm anagram kona coffee---FAKE CON FOE????
46
posted on
01/20/2005 10:14:18 AM PST
by
AirForceMom
(God Bless America! What a wonderful day.)
To: mhking; kona coffee
hey, I myself am a retread, so that's not sufficient >er< grounds for me to go after kona coffee.
otoh... "I lost my password"???
riiiiiight. surrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre.
47
posted on
01/20/2005 10:14:32 AM PST
by
King Prout
(trolls survive through a form of gastroenterotic oroborosity, a brownian "perpepetual movement")
To: kona coffee; Bloody Sam Roberts
48
posted on
01/20/2005 10:14:58 AM PST
by
Grampa Dave
( The MSM has been a weapon of mass disinformation for the Rats for at least 4 decades.)
To: MeekOneGOP
"Let's go, partner. They're playing our song."
49
posted on
01/20/2005 10:15:40 AM PST
by
Slings and Arrows
("ThE mAsTeR wOuLd NoT aPpRoVe...")
To: kona coffee
Interesting that you haven't replied to anyone. Did you implode when our President was sworn in?
50
posted on
01/20/2005 10:17:27 AM PST
by
AirForceMom
(God Bless America! What a wonderful day.)
To: kona coffee
Start with the MSNBC headquarters, next go to cBS and than hit CNN's office building.
To: MeekOneGOP
52
posted on
01/20/2005 10:18:56 AM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Happy Inauguration Day, George W. Bush . Four more years ! Hail to the Chief !)
To: kona coffee
53
posted on
01/20/2005 10:19:19 AM PST
by
IllumiNaughtyByNature
(If Islam is a religion of peace they better fire their PR guy!)
To: kona coffee
You know what happens when you have too much Kona Coffee?
54
posted on
01/20/2005 10:22:43 AM PST
by
Dashing Dasher
(Because I fly, I envy no (wo)man on earth. - Anon)
To: MeekOneGOP
Fuzzette, returning after a bracing vacation in Montana, gallops upon the scene in response to the VK alert.
55
posted on
01/20/2005 10:25:33 AM PST
by
fastattacksailor
(The US without the UN is like not having your mother-in-law with you on your honeymoon)
To: Conspiracy Guy
I don't remember one. But then again I don't remember much.I have a photographic memory....
But nothing ever develops..... :-)
56
posted on
01/20/2005 10:26:29 AM PST
by
b4its2late
(If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.)
To: kona coffee
Need I remind your trollness that Fuzzette gets mighty cranky when her lunch is disturbed?
57
posted on
01/20/2005 10:28:04 AM PST
by
fastattacksailor
(The US without the UN is like not having your mother-in-law with you on your honeymoon)
To: b4its2late
I have a photographic memory too, but it is overexposed.
58
posted on
01/20/2005 10:31:08 AM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Happy Inauguration Day, George W. Bush . Four more years ! Hail to the Chief !)
To: Conspiracy Guy
59
posted on
01/20/2005 10:32:36 AM PST
by
fastattacksailor
(The US without the UN is like not having your mother-in-law with you on your honeymoon)
To: MeekOneGOP
60
posted on
01/20/2005 10:36:13 AM PST
by
Hi Heels
(Proud to be a Pajamarazzi-Leef lang de Katjes van Viking)
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