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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (176933)	10/23/2003 4:53:53 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574115

Many years of "leaving them alone" sure couldn't prevent 9/11, could it? There is not a place in the world that the US "leaves alone". He has every motive in the world to sell WMD to terrorists, regardless of whether we can find them now or not. Assuming he had any...by the way, our very own intel agencies have said the very opposite. Al

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (176933)	10/23/2003 6:03:03 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574115

Ten, re: What's your solution for preventing another 9/11? There is no "solution", it's like trying to prevent an earthquake. But the terrorism card has been overplayed to the point where our entire policy is based on paranoia. There have been two foregin terrorist acts in the US during this generation, both targeted the same building, both were orchestrated by the same guy (who now lives in a cave). Other than that... zilch, nada, nothing. After 9/11 people were quaking in their fall out shelters, waiting for the "next wave" from the "sleeper cells". What's happened in over two years? Zilch, nada, nothing. I'm not saying that there is no terrorist threat in this country, there is. I'm surprised there hasn't been some terrorist act in the last two years. But the odds of another act on the level of 9/11 are slim to none. A couple of suicide bombers would not surprise me in the least. Bush and his cronies have used and are using 9/11 to reshape policy. To do that, they have to keep the fear fresh and alive, with an active color scheme and constant rhetoric. What would I do to try and prevent another 9/11? Beef up domestic security, beef up intel, get very active in covert operations. What I wouldn't do is spend $Billions attacking Iraq, where there were no terrorists, and where it's just going to piss off a whole bunch of potential terrorists. John