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To: KonKilo who wrote (25201)	7/27/2006 7:22:24 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 540820

But the analogy to 911 is not as clear. I wasn't really drawing an analogy to 9/11 but rather to the Cole attack. The Cole attack was an act of war, and sterner measures than us launching a few dozen cruise missiles at empty tents would not have been an act of aggression by the US. Iraq is more of its own situation than a direct response to 9/11. It probably wouldn't have happened without 9/11 and its arguably connected to the larger idea of dealing with the situation that helped cause 9/11 to happen, but Afghanistan was the response to 9/11 as an act of war/major act of terrorism, and a completely legitimate one IMO. Thinking people wondered how bin Laden came to be forgotten Not very sensible of them to wonder about that because it didn't happen.

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