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To: teevee who wrote (152311)	11/22/2004 2:26:47 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Teevee, here's what I wrote: "There are 6,000,000,000 people on the planet. We can't even locate and kill the most famous terrorist in the world; Osama Bin Ladin, who taunts us with videos and audio tapes even though we know he's likely to be in a few thousand square mile region, and even with a fortune in reward money on his head. Just exactly how are you and Bush going to "kill the terrorists before they kill more Americans and Israelis?" Will you invite them to a party and then poison them? Will you ask them to stand up and announce their intentions so that you can identify them? What is your secret plan and why haven't we so far been able to use our vast military force to find and kill Bin Ladin even though we've spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying?" You replied: " Terrorists are not reasonable people. Its a matter of self defense to kill terrorists before they kill more innocent Israelis and Americans. No quarter must be given. In my opinion, just as the Israelis have done, radical moslem clerics should also be targeted with prejudice as they advocate, encourage and facilitate terrorism and murder. Perhaps Bush should arrange to have Israel secretly send a special forces team to Iraq as they have experience dealing with radical moslem clerics? First, are you conceding that the "first strike and kill the terrorists" strategy is unworkable since we cannot identify, much less locate, the targets? Second, are you suggesting that we can get around the fact that we can't locate or identify, much less kill, the terrorists by targeting Muslim Clerics? Because if you are I suspect you have not thought out that strategy. Ed