[Byron_the_Aussie]

..I think the gov't is just letting the bad guys know that we are serious about retalliation....

No, Bones.

It sends a message to the rest of the world that the US are the bad guys.

[Norm640]

We don't even know the accuracy of such a report. From everywhere there are speculative reports that mean little except drive up anxiety. For example, how many of you actually believe that Washington would have told the Russian military that it plans to invade in February and that it is only going into Iraq for oil (that Hussein is a pretext?)?

Yet that is what Reuters faithfully reported.

It makes us look bad, but that's the media for ya: they have a clear agenda, and it is even more pronounced from the countries that hate us.

[taildragger]

"It sends a message to the rest of the world that the US are the bad guys"

Byron, Sorta of,

Look what it took to take regimes such as Nazi Germany and Japan to give up there lust for power and inhuman treatment of non-combatants, (The Holocaust for example) as well as prisoners of war. We had to Bomb the living shit out of Dresden and use 2 Nukes.

If that whats it takes to wake up the Islamifacist them so be it. It seems the history of mandkind is filled with madmen that bring about horror that it is unconceivable. It takes men of good will who truly hate evil and understand how precious liberty is, to proceed with courage and retaliate with unrelenting force to vanquish these madmen.

[Happy2BMe]

Byron_the_Aussie . . "It sends a message to the rest of the world that the US are the bad guys."

Ya, right - And what message did the awful, awful, evil, wicked United States get on 9/11/01 there buddy?

Does This Ring A Bell?

BTW: When was the last time Sydney's tallest buildings were blown out of the sky and over 3,000 Aussies were killed in one fell-swoop?