William Cohen just spoke on CNN via telephone and said some scary things

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[libertarian_usa]

I can roughly quote William Cohen from his live interview on CNN within the last 10 minutes: "We are going to have to make some tough decisions in this country. We are going to have to "garbled" when making choices between security and civil liberties."

[jonathonandjennifer]

Was it scarier than watching 10000 people die?

Yours is a very astute remerk. I'd been watching tape of the buildings collapse all day, but your remark made me realize emotionally that there probably were more than 10000 people in them. Thank you.

[higgmeister]

So, what you're saying is that we are justified in killing innocent people, including children, simply because they're
the same race and/or religion as these bastard? Tell me how that is different from the bastards themselves.

This one is easy!  It is called initial use of force!

Think of the Golden Rule that we all learned in school.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"
I'll live my life this way until I die but when others
prove that they don't follow the Golden Rule then
they can't be trusted to live in the family of humanity.

I never said anything about race.  An Arab that
recognizies that Islam is evil such as Salman Rushtie,
I welcome with hugs and kisses back into the human
race.  It is an evil religion that sanctions murder for it's
sake.  If there is a Devil here on this earth it is Islam!

[PatrioticAmerican]

Remember: "Now It's Miller Time"?

[PatrioticAmerican]

Security? Sh*t, the arabs OWN us! We get the majority of our oil from them. We cannot bomb them in any way or else we face losing that precious oil. So much for national sovereignty! We have allowed the commie environazis to scare us out of producing our own oil on our own turf, and instead, we give head to every third world nation with a pipe in the ground! So, don't expect Dubya, or anyone else, to fight back, 'cause we can't.

[higgmeister]

"God Bless America" played prominently during WWII. What, you want "Another One Bites The Dust"? (Just half kidding!)

I meant no disrespect!  I wanted my leaders to present a steely eyed
resolve and an iron will to the rest of the world and the enemy.   Now
is not the time for songs.  Wait a few days into the War for that.

[cinFLA]

I nearly lossed it when Cohen said he warned the country on national TV a few years ago! Like that was the end of his responsibility!

[libertarian_usa]

"We have allowed the commie environazis to scare us out of producing our own oil on our own turf,"

NIMBY was alive before today's environazi's.

[higgmeister]

I do not believe that all Muslims are taught this. Please show me in their holy writings where it says such a thing.

It says that the Religion is the State and the faithful must obey their religious leader or be put to death.
Did you know about this? Pakistan prepares to kill for blasphemy as Musharraf  surrenders grip to the mullahs

It's the psychos who do this, not the REAL religious people.

Wake up the Whole Islamic Religion is Psycho!
 

[StriperSniper]

BUT we MUST be sure we punish the guilty, and not the innocent, and not anyone else just because they're brown and we don't like their politics.

Not the ones who are JUST brown that I disagree with, the ones whose lives are dedicated to destroying ME and MY WAY OF LIFE or give support to such people regardless of age. The kind of people that do or support acts like these are taught and believe that by being killed for their cause they will be rewarded in the afterlife.

I say do them a favor.

[Doc On The Bay]

I have some acquaintances "High up" in the American "Oil Industry" who would be Quite Willing to learn how to "Drill for Oil" through "Radioactive Glass!!"

WE, Americans, "Westerners," have MORE THAN "Paid our Dues" in the "Middle East!" We "Owe" these people NOTHING!

Let's hope "Cooler Heads" prevail here, or we MAY be seeing a TERRIBLE tragedy for ALL these people!

Doc

[Michael2001]

"There is another approach (that dosen't preclude massive retaliation--which I favor, btw). The country's major entities (federal, state, local government, big corporations, etc.) needs to think carefully about the way our institutions are physically configured. In the age of the Internet do people really need to be working in huge urban centers in skyscrapers?"

So instead of fighting back, we cower, do nothing, and change the way we live our lives? No thanks

[DD 214]

Rather than point fingers at each other (fellow countrymen) don't you feel that it is more productive to look forward and quickly define who, what and where this atrocity came from? I'm all for a 'measured' response, i.e., 20-30 megaton airburst @ 65,000 feet. This negates blast effects but neutrons and hard radiation do have a slight 'cooking' effect. Say, somewhere over a known baddy like Afghanistan. We only cook a few thousand and leave enough of them to decide that handing over Osam Bin Laden is a great thing to do before dinner.

[timydnuc]

Cohen is an idiot! He's a Clintoon fool that surfaced in the liberal/socialist media. He speaks for the Toons! Laugh at his rantings and put his sorry butt where it should be.....garbage can!

[timydnuc]

Cohen is an idiot! He's a Clintoon fool that surfaced in the liberal/socialist media. He speaks for the Toons! Laugh at his rantings and put his sorry butt where it should be.....garbage can!

[Michael2001]

"I think the point, which you apparently missed, is that SOME RADICAL FOLLOWERS OF ALL RELIGIONS do abominable things, while 99.44% of the real followers don't."

With Islam those figures would be reversed

[lavaroise]

HE makes me feel guilty of my freedom, isn't it something? I gather some measures must be taken at airports, but what broadsweep he has! Civil Liberties!? THis guy is full of assumptions and weird presumptions. No facts, no specifics, just garbage out to worsen the situation.

So my freedom's at fault, not the oppressive nature of the bastards nations of thugs who are prominent members in the UN who carried out this act.

[ethical]

sCARY TO SACRIFICE LIBERTIES of NON-CITIZEN terrioists THAT THEY NEVER HAD ANYWAY because they were not citizens and were terrorists? No Problem.

[higgmeister]

Pakistan prepares to kill for blasphemy

Here is the previous post of this story.

Islam is Evil!

[higgmeister]

your 147 You're exactly right,WHY WAIT!

[Dick Bachert]

Did you happen to catch CNN’s Judy Woodruff interview Tom Clancy on the evening of 9/11?

Tom brought up the subject of the CLINTON decimation of the US HUMAN INTELLIGENCE capabilities – that going all the way back to Sun Tsu, SPIES are a necessary part of the information gathering process. He mentioned that if we’d had a few spies and spooks out there in this increasingly dangerous world, we MIGHT have gotten one of them close to the perpetrator and been able to interdict the MURDER of perhaps 15,000 Americans in the incredible tragedy we witnessed this morning.

I think it’s safe to say that Clancy knows a bit about the subjects on which he writes.

Tom then tagged CNN by name as one of the news agencies that greeted Clinton’s decimation of the intelligence community with approval, continuing to say that they COULD have spoken out TO OPPOSE HIM but failed to do so. Tom’s rather clear implication was that CNN played a role in today’s catastrophe.

Judy VISIBLY RECOILED – and quickly concluded the interview. Her expression made it clear that she was NOT happy with Tom.

Clancy was RIGHT ON THE MARK and until we DO beef up those assets, it’s gonna happen again – and probably sooner than later.

And do you suppose there is some sinister significance to the fact that this happened on 9-11 (911!)? Are these people THAT sick? Don’t bother responding as that was a rhetorical question.

Let’s all pray – and shed a tear or two -- for the lost firefighters, police officers, innocent citizens and their families. Until this is behind us, we must put aside as many of our partisan differences as our principles will allow.

And we must also pray that our precious Constitution does not become one of the first victims of this SICKENING and senseless act.

THE HORROR! THE H O R R O R!!!!!!!!!!