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What's this, more blackmail and threats? Yeah, yeah, sea of fire, oceans of blood, gouge our eyes out, blah blah blah.

You see what's happening next door, Mr. Khatami? You send one terrorist over here, and you're next.

Well since the Irianians are major supporters of Hezbollah and are hosting AlQueda terrorist, they should know when we are targets.

However I would hasten to point out that they may want to look at what is happening next door and consider making sure their friends leave us alone. The don't want 'the Great Satan' on their butts.

I really don't think it's been made clear enough to all those - and Khatami is certainly one - who have a history of backing terrorism, that it's way too late to threaten us with something that will happen anyway. 9/11 changed everything for them as well as for us. What it did for us was to make it clear that simply sitting back and letting them work themselves into a murderous frenzy wasn't going to help, giving way incrementally wasn't going to help, and that we will and have, if aroused, refuse to restrict ouselves from swinging in futility at shadows and, instead, strap on the guys who are behind the threats. The old niceties that protected and empowered terrorism are now changed rules - incontravertible proof that must be universally accepted - an impossibility, international approval that must be obtained unreservedly - equally an impossibility, and a meticulous dance through the endless hoops of international law when that is used merely as a weapon against us. In short, that little game is over, the world has changed.

There are reportedly Hezbollah operatives in country. All it will take to embroil both Syria and Iran in a fight they don't really want is for these to do exactly what Khatami is threatening. We are not restricted to slogging armored divisions through the desert in order to meet these threats, and we have the money and the technology to find exquisitely disagreeable alternatives. All that was lacking was the resolution, and that is what 9/11 changed. This is NOT the time for threats.

Good Evening All-

"By ALI AKBAR DAREINI

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - President Mohammad Khatami said, "Those who drop bombs and missiles on Iraq will harvest nothing other than destruction and people's hatred."

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Hey Ali Akbar Dareini, next time you're chatting with your buddy Khatami you just tell him 99.44% of Freepers say,

"WE DOUBLE-DOG DARE YOU!"

It's about fr*ggin' time that the terrorists actually consider the United States to be a little "unpredictable" when it comes to our response to their violent attacks.

~ Blue Jays ~