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Powell said it, not me. Also the same thing was reported as coming from our side in the British press about a week ago. Also the analogy is correct. War on Drugs is against a few "ringleaders" (i.e. whatever cartel happens to be holding sway now). War on Terrorism is against a few ringleaders (Al Quaeda). It will also be fought domestically in the same exact manner. By reducing your freedoms and implementing ever tighter "security" measures domestically. Tell me where I am wrong (Aside from merely asserting that I am). Ashcroft is even now seeking that very thing. Powell, even now, (and Rumsfeld and Ari Fleischer too) are saying that this is a war against ringleaders (my word). So how is that different in anything other than subject matter than the War on Drugs?

Yep. If it were truly a war against terrorists and those that harbor them.... then the taliban would be a memory right now. We know how to find them. We lack the resolve to do anything about it. We boxed our selves into a corner with the best speech of all time. Now we're begging for a political way out of it.

Thats totally wrong. The war on drugs has a demand side of it, which changes everything, and I don't see Colombian cartels murdering 7000 US citizens. They are two totally different things. The drug trade is so huge that it is able to bribe whole government systems into looking the other way. Terrorism can only frighten people for so long.

The point about there being a demand for drugs and not a demand for terrorism makes the arguments that they are the same collapse like the house of cards.