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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (292447)	9/2/2002 4:25:06 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Re: "The enemy knows us well." >>> I hope not. But they may have inadvertently stumbled into some accurate guesses about our potential weaknesses. >>> In the infamous OBL video released after 9-11, he clearly said that the purpose of the attacks was to cause us to restrict, to attack, our own freedoms in over-reaction to the outside threat. >>> In other words, he wanted to goad us into attacking our own Democratic values and Human Rights and Liberties... to attack ourselves. >>> Thus - despite being widely reported as such - the 9-11 attacks were not 'because they were jealous of our freedoms', but rather because they were counting on a knee-jerk reaction within the Democracies to attack and abandon our own fundamental values... and our own fundamental best interests.