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To: PatrioticAmerican
National Guard members should be used only as long as it takes to get private security beefed up, and that should be no more than 90 days.

This doesn't pass the common sense test. If the property of the citizens of the state are at risk for more than 90 days from enemies of our country, the soldiers should be sent home? That is absurd.

Besides, the terrorists were perfectly valid passengers, not criminals that could have been caught walking an airport.

To suggest that the terrorists were "perfectly valid passengers" and not criminals is the most moronic thing I have seen here for some time. Unless you are defending them of course. Hell, that could have been uttered by a spokesman for Bin Laden.

48 posted on 10/15/2001 10:30:33 AM PDT by Protagoras
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To: ThomasJefferson
This doesn't pass the common sense test. If the property of the citizens of the state are at risk for more than 90 days from enemies of our country, the soldiers should be sent home?

We have police for that. Besides, as I mentioned above, the threat is not present. No damage has been done by militant groups at airports. No terrorist has committed any crime within any building.

Your assumption that there is a threat needing a martial law state does not make sense. There is no clear and present danger that warrants military presence in our airports, nor could have any of these military stopped the previous attacks.

To suggest that the terrorists were "perfectly valid passengers" and not criminals is the most moronic thing I have seen here for some time.

Are you saying that they hijacked their way onto the aircraft? They had perfectly valid boarding passes and carried nothing on board that was illegal, they made damned sure of that. I never said that they were not criminals, so stop putting words in my mouth. Such a statement is yours, not mine.

To repeat myself as the previous post was lost on you, the military could not have stopped these guys. They have valid boarding passes and did nothing illegal until their acts in flight. No amount of military in our airports could have prevented these attacks. You can run and hide screaming that the sky is falling, but your are no safer.

Before you run around yelling "moron", you might want to understand what you are screaming about.

54 posted on 10/15/2001 12:19:40 PM PDT by PatrioticAmerican
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