no, its a legitmate question. if "large numbers" means they have 1000 people (for arguments sake) - what are they going to do with 1000 people? where is their financial, target planning, weapons access, and logistical infrastucture in this country to support 1000 terrorists?
Howard Dean supporters? (c8
Maybe 9,980 of them ARE the support structure, and the remaining 20 are the next 9-11 hijackers (or whatever method they decide to use this time). As you said, it doesn't take 1000 of them to terrorize us. But the mere fact that they haven't done anything is NOT a logical argument to this story not being true. When was the first WTC bombing?? How many years did they lay in wait to plan and execute the perfect attack the second time?? They aren't in any hurry. And, heaven forbid, what if (to use your number) 1,000 of them ARE the actual "hijackers" this time around? What if their support structure is 10,000 and this time they will have 1,000 attackers instead of just 19 ? Osama was shown in a video pointing to the tip of his finger and saying that 9-11 was "this big" and the next attack will be "this big" as he pointed to his entire finger. The mere fact they have not YET attacked does not mean they aren't here planning, training, rehearsing, testing, probing, etc. Again, they are in NO hurry.
And did you miss the story in the last couple of days about Al Qaeda in Iraq being funded from outside of Iraq and that their budget is over $1 Billion dollars, with a B ??
You do realize that financing is not a limiting factor, right?
Presumably, if the threat becomes overt, imminent...and from what the acting head of the CIA said the other day, that was the case, feds will conduct sweeps and pick up a thousand or more bad guys. If we have to build prisons to house them, we will. Maybe Guantanamo isn't big enough. But I like the idea of off shore so they can't have lawyers or rights. We should just shoot them dead.