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How then do you explain the terrorist cells who thrived in the US sufficiently long to launch 9/11? Were they ‘hillarious’?

I guess that depends on your sense of humor. Many of the 9/11 hijackers came to the US on a quick-entry visa program established in the early days of the Bush administration. Many Saudis are friends of the US, but many more are NOT. Using 20/20 hindsight, this visa program shouldn't have been implemented, and despite the criticism of Bush's stands on immigration, I don't expect it is a mistake the Republicans will make again (the Democrats? well, you tell me).

Another thing to keep in mind is that several of the hijackers were actually under surveillance prior to 9/11. For reasons that have been highlighted here many, many, times, that information did not reach the people who needed to get it in time to take appropriate action. Want to see that happen again? Let the Democrats take the White House in 2008. I believe that the best way to lose the White House in 2008 is to stay in Iraq.

You can call it "losing" or "surrendering" or whatever you want, but I call it "putting America first." And no, I don't believe that the terrorists will "follow us home." There are two reasons I say this.

If we're talking about insurgents, they don't have any interest in following us home. The only reason they are attacking us is that we've taken the side of a rival faction in an internal conflict.

As far as actual terrorists go, if they had the ability or interest to attack Americans at home, they would have been doing so already. Why focus their efforts on the well-armed, well-trained American soldiers on their turf when they could attack undefended civilians on ours? We haven't had a terror attack here at home in nearly six years; something is stopping them and it doesn't make any sense at all that it's our troops in Iraq. Again, why would they go to Iraq and get their butts kicked when they could attack targets elsewhere?

That's my opinion and I'm stickin' to it. :)

“That’s my opinion and I’m stickin’ to it. :)”

“Many of the 9/11 hijackers came to the US...”

Regardless of your opinion, they were here, they did hatch a plot and it was successful. Evidently, catching terrorists isn’t as easy as you claimed previously.

“As far as actual terrorists go, if they had the ability or interest to attack Americans at home, they would have been doing so already.”

Osama Bin Laden has been quoted as saying on several ocassions that his objective was to lure us into something like what the Soviets experienced in Afghanistan. He wanted to fight us on his soil. In that case, the reason the terrorists haven’t attacked us at home is because it fits their strategy to defeating us in the own lands. Now, you might argue that we are playing into their hands, but the alternative is to accept as many attacks on our soil as they feel is necessary to provoke us into moving into their lands. Just how many repeats of 9/11 would you be willing to suffer?

“I believe that the best way to lose the White House in 2008 is to stay in Iraq.”

Or we could elect Ron Paul and have a republican/libertarian in the White House who is far softer on the WOT than any of the democrats running except Dennis Kuchinic.