The majority were in favor of decisive, overwhelming violent action.
A few, like John Kerry, were more philosophical, believing such attacks were inevitable, something we would just have to learn to tolerate.
That doesn't mean he thought the ringleaders should go unpunished. No, he wanted them to hunted down and arrested by an international police force so they might face the possibility of 15-20 years in a Dutch prison just outside of Den Haag.
Which, apparently, is a sentiment shared by certain FReepers.
I will be the first one to admit thinking about that very thing right after 9/11. {This could be a reason I'm not in politics} I think we have proved to the islamic world that we aint putting up with any more crap {We have invaded two of their nasty little counties}. What gets me is the Muslims that live here, where are the protests about the bombings in London,Spain? And even more troubling are they on our side or not?
He was talking about retaliation, but he knows how this is going to be spun, lucky for him, this is a dead story.
I just don't want to see him tagged the wrong way before he serves his purpose in the primary, its better that he be maintained so he can do the job needed of him in the house and in the 2008 primary when the time comes.
They don't have to, most Americans know this to be true. The reason they won't is because it will put an end to the Democrat party, because the media and the Democrat party are on the wrong side of the war on terror.