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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (189460)	6/15/2006 9:33:39 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Gee.. if we're such a superpower, then how did 19 fanatics with $500,000 in terrorist "seed capital" manage to attack the US mainland and kill 3,000 people?? Just goes to show you what being a superpower actually means. It's pretty small potatoes. Just in 2005, there were nearly 17,000 homicides in the US. You want to invade Cuba in retaliation? 9/11 should have taught you that we can't hide from Islamo-Fascism anymore. Sorry kid. I was years ahead of you on that one. Quite a few people were. And we're still years ahead of you. You're just futzing around with mud huts. I'd guess that you can't even tell me what winning GWOT means. How will you know when you "win"? jttmab

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (189460)	6/17/2006 11:22:22 AM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"Absolutely.. if we get a 8-10 digit grid on their location, then we kill them, and don't shed a tear if we kill their families as well." Tobacco kills almost 500,000 per year. Have not seen you advocating getting an 8-10 grid(what ever that is) on tobacco executives and their families. At least 8 million is spent per year on tobacco advertisements. $500000/3000 WTC dead X 500000 US tobacco dead = expenditures by WTC terrorists converted to minimum expenditures used by tobacco terrorists. Admitted that $167 per WTC dead is probably far more effective than the tobacco industry's expenditures for lobbying, advertisements, and support of "research" "proving" that tobacco is not bad for you. So maybe Al Qaeda should set up a consulting business to help tobacco companies be more effective(in killing people).