Posted on 09/15/2001 6:59:48 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
ROTFLMAO
Won't voice my concerns with the subject of this thread just yet. GWB and the USA have my full support, sacrificing my civil liberties does not. "Sacrificing some freedoms for more security," as I've heard many on TV mention, dishonors the casualties of the 11th and gives a win to the terrorists.
Undeniable truth of life #1: Humanity has been in a perpetual state of war since the first man tried to do it with another man's woman, sometime back when making fire was considered the peak of technology. War is not a product of any one ideology, nor has there ever been a time of peace since the very first threat any man made against another.
And you would be standing in line. You are not alone in your sentiments.
FReegards,
As I said during impeachment, as goes the FR, so goes the US.
We will prevail
So, you're saying that the US is as bad as the terrorists? Because if you are you should pack up and move out ASAP. I'd recommend Canada. It would be a nice safe place to read your pacifist books and they have a history of harboring those that don't have the intestinal fortitude to fight for their country.I hate nazis and bolsheviks and believe that we should have listened to Patton.
Then what is your point? You've done nothing on this thread but insult Americans in general, and several, including myself and Jim Robinson, in particular. You've lost 500? Well, we'll root out and kill the perps for you. I doubt Tony Blair has the steel that Maggie Thatcher did, so we'll probably not get much help from the likes of you. So you'll just have to excuse Jim Robinson when he pulls threads that he feels might hurt our (not your) national security. It's his website and if it had been me, I'd have pulled your ticket 2 seconds after you called him a "book burner".
Thank you, Jim. You and your staff have more wisdom and courage than a lot of folks; hopefully you are blessed with serenity. Thomas Jefferson had this to say about his media -- it hasn't changed in almost 200 years:
"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle."
-- Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, June 11, 1807
Total killed at Pearl Harbor were 2,330.
Total killed or missing in the World Trade Center are 4,763. Total killed or missing at the Pentagon are 190. Total killed on board the four aircraft are 266. Grand total 5,219.
In terms of property damage in constant dollars (that are adjusted for inflation), try to correlate the following losses. At Pearl Harbor, we lost two battleships, one very old battleship that had been converted into a target ship, one oiler and one repair ship. Three more battleships, a cruiser and two destroyers were damaged, but repaired and returned to action. We also lost over 100 aircraft, nearly all of them single-engined.
On Tuesday we lost the World Trade Center's twin towers and six other buildings in lower Manhattan. The Pentagon and several other New York buildings have been damaged but are returning to full operational capacity -- in the case of the Pentagon, they were up and running very quickly but it may take a few months to repair the damage. We also lost four large-capacity intercontinental airliners.
I strongly urge all freepers, and all media reporters lurking on these threads, to KEEP YOUR MOUTHS SHUT about any military or intelligence related activity by America and her allies. Don't assume that the information will never get back to the terrorists. Their sympathizers from around the world are definitely swarming all over this site and many other discussion sites.
Right now, we want to hear about it after the fact ... after they have delivered their ordnance payloads to their targets.
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