Posted on 12/19/2003 7:47:39 PM PST by FairOpinion
On Friday, ABC News reported, "U.S. intelligence has received information about a credible and imminent threat to New York City." There were no details, nor was the terror alert raised. This story put me in mind of the theory that Al-Qaeda could ramp it up close to the 2004 election, hoping to show Bush as a failure and thus propel Howard Dean into the White House. No question that the terrorists would prefer Dean, but there's another side to this that they can scarcely conceive.
The full breadth and scope of American power has barely been tapped in this war. I'm going to tell you right now, if these people, al-Qaeda or whoever try another 9/11-scale attack, the world is going to be a very different place. We are prosecuting this war in the traditional, civilized American way right now. We're doing it with conventional weapons and with as much cooperation and consultation as we can internationally. If it happens again, you are going to be amazed.
This mighty nation is going to unleash its full strength. Howard Dean and the rest of the Democrats can run around and say whatever they want if that awful time comes. I don't care. If this country is attacked and thus forced to unleash the full scope if its weaponry, the people that said they would never do anything about it and who played politics with the issue by delaying a vote on the Homeland Security Department's creation and such, are not going to stand a prayer at the polls. The president who's trying to stop this, who's the only president in 12 years to seriously engage this threat of radical Islamofascists, will be reelected in a landslide.
Attack Will Be No-Win SItuation for Dean or Any Democrat
If these terrorists try something again, I don't care if it's October next year, you just wait and see what kind of response there will be. I don't think most Americans have any idea of the full scope of American power, as evidenced by their misconception that we "need" France and Germany when those people would literally take hours to put a single fighter in the air. (And even that would be obsolete.) We haven't even begun to project our strength. We are reining ourselves in and tempering what we do for a host of reasons.
I don't mean to be redundant, but I'll say it one more time: If a 9/11-scale atrocity happens again, Democrats may as well concede right then and there. They'll raise Cain about it and do whatever they can, but there will be nothing in the record that any Democrat can call on to say he would have acted differently to stop it. Most Democrats from Wesley Clark to John Kerry are ruing military force, folks. They want to subordinate America to the UN when everybody knows we can't depend on those weak-kneed thugs and appeasers.
Democrats will not be able to point to a track record of saying what they would have done better because they won't do anything. Howard Dean has said he thinks we can reach an understanding with these people and that we should just show them we don't mean them any harm. Some of you might think that Dean has opening with that. I don't think so at all.
I think that if the Democrats had a prayer with their policy of appeasement, that they'd already be leading in the polls and Bush wouldn't stand a chance. They've been out there talking about this for 2 1/2 years, ever since 9/11. It didn't take them long to break with Bush. They went out there and gave lip service to the war on terror, but if you listen to what they say when they're running for high office, they do it exactly different: "Bush doesn't know what he's doing! Bush is incompetent!"
Now, you might think, "Okay, so terrorists launch again and it proves what the Democrats are saying." Again: the American people are not going to want to sit around and do nothing if it happens a second time, and they aren't going to want to sit around and let the United Nations handle it or to okay our self-defense. The president, who's been dealing with it and who has a track record of success to show for it, is going to be standing very tall if something like this happens again - not Howard Dean. I guarantee you not Howard Dean. You can engage in wishful thinking or doom-and-gloom thinking all you want out there, but it just won't be the case.
Mecca
Just that threat will prevent terrorist from even thinking of attacking.
Once that's destroyed the "Religion of Peace" will cease to exist
Doesn't matter. DC- or the Vatican- isn't America.
Wipe DC? We- the real America- will still be here... and in a vengeful mood.
He is a true survivor and knows not to provoke the anger of the US. What I truly fear is that Qhadafi knows that something is up, and he wants to make sure that he is not blamed for it in any way. I have no doubt that he will give up his "WMD" because they are elsewhere but I fear they are about to be used on US!
Well many Arabs are already committed their lives to wiping out D.C. and the Vatican and all other non-muslim sites, I would think if they were able they would have done it already.
Are you prepared for that? Do you think GWB is?
Well if a Nuke goes off in an American city you bet your ŧ§. I and hopefully GWB would gladly put Mecca first on the retaliatory target list.
Agreed, and I further believe that they middle eastern vermin get a wrong headed view of our country from their own komrades who have immigrated to the USS. Living very close to Dearborn, Michigan (West Beirut), I have been in close contact with these people most of my life. I think it is easy for those who live here to portray us as soft and focused on having a good time rather than focused and unafraid. Unfortunately too many Americans have forgotten 9/11; fortunately, a lot of those who forgot don't bother to vote. Additionally, not too much needs to be said about ABC, CNN, NBC, CBullS#hit, etc and their approach to the war on terror.
Many, defined as -- perhaps -- a fraction of a percent of the worldwide Muslim population.
Nuking Mecca would cause more than one billion people worldwide to spend each and every waking moment focused on killing at least one American that day. We would quickly resemble WWII Germany towards the latter stages. Remember, Germany was vastly technically superior to America at the time. They were crushed by numbers.
We would be too. Nuking Mecca is a suicidal folly.
I agree. I think the world would be surprised and horribly shocked at the size of the well armed militia we could call out in a matter of hours. Lock and load.
Rush Limbaugh: Another Terror Strike Won't Help Democrats Excerpt:The full breadth and scope of American power has barely been tapped in this war. I'm going to tell you right now, if these people, al-Qaeda or whoever try another 9/11-scale attack, the world is going to be a very different place. We are prosecuting this war in the traditional, civilized American way right now. We're doing it with conventional weapons and with as much cooperation and consultation as we can internationally. If it happens again, you are going to be amazed.
This mighty nation is going to unleash its full strength. Howard Dean and the rest of the Democrats can run around and say whatever they want if that awful time comes. I don't care. If this country is attacked and thus forced to unleash the full scope if its weaponry, the people that said they would never do anything about it and who played politics with the issue by delaying a vote on the Homeland Security Department's creation and such, are not going to stand a prayer at the polls. The president who's trying to stop this, who's the only president in 12 years to seriously engage this threat of radical Islamofascists, will be reelected in a landslide.
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