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To: SilentZ who wrote (376552)	4/6/2008 10:43:32 AM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576890

They've got a bunch of guys who live in caves and climb monkey bars on videotape. That's how you describe the guys who carried out the 7/7 attacks in London? This government was more competent before the Republicans took it over. You can't put people who don't believe government can work in charge of government. You felt safer with Bubba and his democrats running Los Alamos? I think your perceptions are wrong, can you cite examples to support them, especially the ones where we are safer under democrats?

To: SilentZ who wrote (376552)	4/6/2008 11:13:58 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576890

Yes, but they had an army of millions, planes, tanks, weapons, and had already overrun China. Al-Qaida doesn't have a single plane or tank, and no military. The Japanese had one more thing that was far more important than their materiel: They had a commitment and belief that the only good American was a dead American. Not coincidentally, this is the same thing these terrorists have. As 9/11 proved, this level of commitment is far more important than any overt means to accomplish their objectives. When the Japanese were out-gunned in the Pacific, e.g., Guadalcanal, it didn't stop them from taking whatever American lives they could take -- while Americans could be mowing them down with machine guns, they would still conduct frontal assaults with nothing but a bayonet on the hopes that just one or two would get through. Many of these pacific island battles were bloodbaths -- but the commitment was deep and effective.