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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (8682)	4/6/2004 9:32:50 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 173976

Parson, and if we did nothing what would happen? Oh yeah Clinton proved that, 9-11

To: bentway who wrote (8682)	4/6/2004 9:40:46 PM
From: mph	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 173976

So you're saying that the Bush Administration should never have mentioned OBL's name and/or should never have mounted the Afghanistan campaign because if we're successful in squashing OBL, that will just make him a martyr and inspire more terrorists? Is that it? Just to recap for a moment. 1. AS says that the Iraq situation is breeding more terrorists, but hasn't really explained how it is that OBL and his merry band of terrorists became so full of hatred that they plotted and executed 9/11 before both the Bush Administration and the invasion of Iraq; 2. Patricia says that the US "created" OBL because the CIA trained him and his band during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, but hasn't yet explained how such training provoked 9/11;; 3. Richard Clarke says that he briefed the Administration about OBL and Al Qaida before 9/11 but that no one took up the mantle, and while following all his advice might not have prevented 9/11, it coulda helped (in other words, he criticized the Bush Administration for not going after OBL BEFORE 9/11 and has been gleefully jpoined in this assessment by Democrats and liberal media outlets): 4. Now you're saying that all this terrorism is Bush's fault because we should have kept mum about OBL, for fear that being successful in hunting him down will make him a martyr and then increase terrorism. The real answer is that these terrorists are fueled by irrational hatred of the United States and just ignoring them won't cut it. It is my personal belief that you can only deal with such people from a position of strength and cannot be perceived as even one bit wimpy about it. That appears to be all they understand. I know there are people who will pipe up and say that they're all victims, it's our fault they're in bad straits, etc. etc. etc. Guess what? The Middle East has been in turmoil for centuries. The root of their problems does not lie in the West.