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To: Brumar89 who wrote (172402)	10/12/2005 7:54:14 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

1. A mistake? A mistake? NYC spends millions for a mistake? That's ridiculous. NYC has a better terrorist force than the FBI does. They send their guys out to places like Spain and London and get there before the Feds do. If it's a 'mistake' then it's the Feds making something up just for fun. 2. Well I'm glad to see that you no longer buy the lie that Saddam was involved in 911. Which, what, where terrorists and where were they in 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003? 3. My view of Afghanistan is the view of the British Military. Clinton has also taken up this view and I suspect both the British Military and Clinton have better sources than we do. 4. I don't know what the internal workings of jihadists and the governments of SA and Pakistan are. I suspect that the governments are afraid of the jihadists which is why neither of them went after OBL. 5. "When Bush has finished with Iraq, we’ll quickly have a clear idea of where he’s going. It won’t take long to find out if Iran, Saudi Arabia, or Libya will be targets as well. At that point, U.S. policy will be unambiguous. It will be a neo-colonialist policy. If then we look back, we’ll realize that Iraq represented only one problem among many for U.S. policymakers. Today, George W. Bush is trying to convince the U.N. Security Council that a long list of reasons justify the use of force against Baghdad. But if, after having occupied Iraq, he goes after Iran, all the supposedly legitimate motives that Washington has been brandishing will fall of their own weight. No one will believe George W. Bush any longer. People will say to him: “Yesterday, you just talked about Iraq. But today, you’re after Iran. Tomorrow will you try to impose your will on the whole world, one country at a time?” At that moment, things will be clear and the rest of us will be able to face them openly. This neo-colonialism will inevitably trigger a reaction. And that will be the start of a further cycle of conflict."http://www.worldpress.org/Europe/989.cfm Actually, Qaddafi sounded much more rational than Bush plus he obviously knew what Bush was planning before the American Public, or the Congress, knew. 6. NK is a dictatorship. It's a rightwing repressive regime not a communist people's utopia. You can pretend that it's a communist or socialist country but, like a free market, those ideologies are convenient myths. The role of China is much more serious than anything AQ can put together. The more we cede to them, the weaker our position looks. Under Bush, it's not just the situation with NK but it's also the foreign borrowing that is totally out of control. The Chinese are not going to be content being our cheap manufacturing lackey. Their hyper building craze has already siphoned off steel and concrete from the US building craze. Just wait until the thirst for oil becomes even nuttier. 7. I believe that George would sell tactical nukes to Israel since it already sold (or gave, hard to tell) bunker busters to them AND George wants to use tactical nukes for that purpose as well. It doesn't matter, the technological genie comes out of the bottle and it proliferates. These things are not within our control. 8. Saddam destroyed the WMDs along with the UN inspection team...in the 1990s. Bush knew that. They had to make up WMD claims (centrifuge tubes, niger uranium, etc.) because the truth didn't support the war. If they had THE TRUTH behind them, there was no need to go after Wilson or have Powell lie to the UN.