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To: bentway who wrote (441275)	12/18/2008 12:39:50 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574094

You're an idiot. You don't have a clue what you're talking about (it is well documented AQ was well beyond 20,000 when Bush took office; now, there may be more members but they have been neutered by Bush policy, and they haven't been well trained as those from the 90s were). I get really tired of having to respond to posts you make that are just ignorant. If you would spend half the time reading that you spend tripping on acid I think you might not be quite so f*cking stupid. I don't know. Maybe it is just hereditary with you.

To: bentway who wrote (441275)	12/18/2008 1:15:53 PM
From: jlallen	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1574094

lol What a stupid post.... Less than 1500 .......who did the head count? How friccan dumb would you have to be to buy into the crapola you just posted? J.

To: bentway who wrote (441275)	12/18/2008 3:11:31 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574094

AQ was probably bigger in 2001 than now.

To: bentway who wrote (441275)	12/18/2008 3:28:27 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 1574094

Your attributions are poorly conceived. The idea was begun several decades ago in Egypt. Egyptian radicals went to Afghanistan to help repel the Soviet invasion. They recruited and trained others in Afghanistan and Pakistan, including Bin Laudin, who hadn't been radical prior to that. The success in Afghanistan emboldened them. As they returned home and spread the word, the momentum of this began to look unstoppable especially with the rapid organization and success of the Taliban which conquered a region overnight which had been uncontrollable since Alexander the Great. Other parts of the world had already begun to replicate this, and even more were considering it, at the time Bush stepped into office. Had Bush done nothing, it would be a very different world now, a much more radicalized world and it still could become that.