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To: LtdGovt
Baloney. The "war on terror" isn't even a real war -- since it has deliberately assigned a nebulous, non-specific name for the sole purpose of incorporating anything and everything that anyone wants it to be.

That's how we end up with a stupid nation-building exercise for "freedom and democracy" in Iraq, while supporting totalitarian regime in Pakistan, while supporting a royal family of Wahabbists (and major financiers global terrorism) in Saudi Arabia.

It's also why this nation-building crap in Iraq has resulted in the creation of a country in which Islam is enshrined as the official state religion -- while we refuse to even suggest that Islamic terrorists are the real enemy.

It's also why we subject elderly people in wheelchairs to intense security measures at airports, while at the same time we decide to grant another 10,000 student visas to people from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, etc. who fit the profile of nearly every terrorist attack this country has faced in the last 15 years (young Islamic males).

I've made the case that Rudy Giuliani has no credibility to wage this "war on terror" (whatever the heck that's supposed to mean) simply because he has long been an unabashed, proud opponent of the most effective means of protection U.S. citizens have against the type of terrorist attacks they are most likely to face in their lives here in the United States.

92 posted on 03/16/2007 6:56:57 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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To: Alberta's Child

Gotta appreciate your lack of appreciation for Rudy.

But your anti war nonsense is just that, nonsense.


94 posted on 03/16/2007 6:59:42 AM PDT by pissant (http://www.gohunter08.com/)
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To: Alberta's Child

I agree with your criticism of measures against racial profling. Are you claiming, in the last paragraph, that Rudy opposes racial profiling?

However, the rest of your post is a little bit misguided, I would say. We support totalitarians in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia because we don't have another option. The alternative to Musharraf in Pakistan is, quite literally, Osama bin Laden or someone like him. Imagine an Osama bin Laden with nuclear weapons. President Bush hopes to achieve an internal revolt in the Muslim world by establishing a democracy in Iraq, and that would make us safer by removing one of the root causes of terrorism: oppression. And maybe Islam, too.

Rudy isn't politically correct. He has not been politically correct and never will be.


99 posted on 03/16/2007 7:09:31 AM PDT by LtdGovt ("Where government moves in, community retreats and civil society disintegrates" -Janice Rogers Brown)
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