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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (375621)	3/31/2008 7:21:41 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1574685

the end justifies the means, their argument would fall apart without that view if Gore had been elected, I bet the WTC attack in 1993 never would have happened either...

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (375621)	3/31/2008 9:25:32 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574685

many people still think 9/11 wouldn't have happened had Gore been elected. Almost everyone -- including those I know who don't support the war effort -- breathed a sigh of relief after 9/11 in realizing that Gore hadn't been elected. Ronald Reagan proved, if nothing else, that you defeat your enemies through strength, not weakness, and that strength needs to be conveyed as overwhelming. This is one source of my irritation with the Left at this point -- To have Obama running a credible race while claiming he'll surrender in the war on terror is tantamount to telling these people we're weak, just hang in there a little longer and you'll be home free. It is incompetent and amounts to treason IMO.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (375621)	4/1/2008 10:29:39 AM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574685

many people still think 9/11 wouldn't have happened had Gore been elected. This includes some of my Ivy-league educated friends They're right - if they would only have been successful in 1993 while Gore was VP - we never would have had 9/11. en.wikipedia.org In the 1993 World Trade Center bombing (February 26, 1993) a car bomb was detonated below Tower One of the World Trade Center in New York City. The 1,500-lb (680 kg) urea nitrate-hydrogen gas enhanced device[1] was intended to knock the North Tower (Tower One) into Tower Two, bringing both towers down and killing thousands of people.[2][3] It failed to do so, but did kill six people and injured 1,042. The attack was planned by a group of conspirators including Ramzi Yousef, Mahmud Abouhalima, Mohammad Salameh, Nidal Ayyad, Abdul Rahman Yasin and Ahmad Ajaj. They received financing from al-Qaeda member[citation needed] Khaled Shaikh Mohammed, Yousef's uncle. In March 1994, four men were convicted of carrying out the bombing: Abouhalima, Ajaj, Ayyad and Salameh. The charges included conspiracy, explosive destruction of property and interstate transportation of explosives. And in November 1997, two more were convicted: Yousef, the mastermind behind the bombings, and Eyad Ismoil, who drove the truck carrying the bomb. The bomb exploded in the underground garage at 12:18 P.M., generating a pressure estimated over one GPa and opening a 30-meter-wide hole through four sublevels of concrete. The detonation velocity of this bomb was about 15,000 ft/s (4.5 km/s). a quote from the claim of responsibility letter written by one of the terrorists, "We are, the Liberation Army fifth battalion, again. Unfortunately, our calculations were not very accurate this time. However, we promise you that next time it will be very precise and World Trade Center will continue to be one [of] our targets unless our demands have been met."