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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (313006)	11/29/2006 7:14:20 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573922

re: I guess to you, 3,000 deaths on 9/11 should just be a "statistic." Not "just", but also. There have only been two foreign terrorist attacks on the continental US in our history, both by the same guy. Now an irrational initial response to 9/11 is to be expected. But after five years rationality begins to creep back, to all but a few. In response to 9/11, we are now fighting two wars at great expense to our soldiers and our treasury, stressing our military to the breaking point. We are looting our treasury and our children's future by saddling them with debt. We've spent our worldwide image as an "enlightened superpower"; we're now considered the most dangerous nation on earth. We've marginalized NATO and the UN. We gutted our traditional freedoms including repealing habeas corpus the very basis of civilized justice for over 800 years. We've written the ability to torture into our laws. And remarkably we've empower and increased in number those that would do another 9/11. 9/11 was a horrific event. The most successful terrorist event in world history. But terrorism, in it's sum, is not a daily threat to our lives. Our irrational reaction to terrorism is far more dangerous than terrorism itself. Thats exactly what the terrorist count on and we didn't disappoint.