“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.
Taking Ron Paul seriously? Let’s not and say we did.