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Safety in commercial flights could have been obtained by simply reinforcing cockpit doors, and by strictly enforcing laws against illegal immigrants and visa overstayers. That would have been much cheaper than hiring hundreds of thousands of people to manage a national security bureaucracy, that has cost Americans trillions of dollars. Government bureaucracies often take advantage of tragedies, to increase their budgets, their size, and their power. It is time to rein them in, and give power back to the people.
1 posted on 05/15/2011 9:38:54 AM PDT by pinochet
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Not until we rid ourselves of the Muslim in the White House.


2 posted on 05/15/2011 9:42:57 AM PDT by bmwcyle (It is Satan's fault)
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Should America Declare Victory in the War On Terrorism?

Doing so would be a lie.
3 posted on 05/15/2011 9:42:57 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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Do you think that Al Qaeda is the only terrorist threat? Iran has backed much terror it the world and has threatened to destroy US and Israel. How many muslim countries have declared war on the USA?

You can't give up after one victory.

4 posted on 05/15/2011 9:44:34 AM PDT by mountainlion (America land of the free because of the Brave.)
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“But we do not want to see another endless war”

Do you prefer more planes flying into buildings, nuclear plants attacked, etc...?

There is NO end to the War on Terror, until every last terrorist is dead.

However, I do agree with you that the so-called “safety measures” implemented by our government, such as molesting travelers, is NOT the way to keep us safe. The problem is that the government is NOT using one of the most important available tools: PROFILING.

President Bush and Rumsfeld said at the time that they are prosecuting the War on Terror to kill terrorists “over there, BEFORE they have a chance to come and kill us over here”.


5 posted on 05/15/2011 9:47:07 AM PDT by UniqueViews
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With the death of Osama, it is time for America to declare victory on the War on Terrorism.

What about these groups?

Designated Terrorist Organizations

7 posted on 05/15/2011 9:49:07 AM PDT by rickmichaels
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obama “killed” osama?

Yhe king is dead. Long live the king.


9 posted on 05/15/2011 9:53:51 AM PDT by MestaMachine (If you want to pillage,plunder,destroy, blaspheme,or defile, become a muslim, or name yourself obama)
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You can, I guess, ‘declare the end of the war on terrorism’, if that’s what floats your boat - I’m not so sure the terrorists would agree to go along, though....

Killing Osama, however justified and emotionally satisfying, will have no real effect on AQ, et. al., unless you’re living in a 1930’s “Jungle Jim” movie (shoot the cheif or the medicine man and the tribe quits and runs away...) instead of fighting a sophisticated force which comes complete with modern conveniences like chains-of-command and succession plans...


10 posted on 05/15/2011 10:00:20 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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"That would have been much cheaper than hiring hundreds of thousands of people to manage a national security bureaucracy,"

Not hiring hundreds of thousands of good little Democrats who will vote for Socialist schemes and Marxist candidates? Preposterous!

11 posted on 05/15/2011 10:00:32 AM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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Remove every angry Mussie from our soil.
Then declare victory.


13 posted on 05/15/2011 10:06:56 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Eh ?)
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No doubt. Just look at the mess Bush created. Whole new huge agencies. TSA DHS etc. Awful. I say get the hell out of the ME and root em out here. They are in the Mosques in plain view.


14 posted on 05/15/2011 10:30:13 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (Shut up and eat your Beans!)
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It's probably time to declare victory on round 1 and head home.

We can blow money on Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and you-name-it-stan until our printing presses run dry, but at this rate, those days aren't far off. We're not fighting in a serious manner, and there's no chance we're going. We could fight as we are for another 50 years and not change a thing.

We'll run out of money long before the world runs out of jihad.

17 posted on 05/15/2011 10:39:06 AM PDT by Steel Wolf ("There are moderate Muslims, but Islam itself is not moderate." - Ibn Warraq)
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Yes ...and then give 30 days notice to the TSA jerks at airports


18 posted on 05/15/2011 11:11:40 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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Yes ...and then give 30 days notice to the TSA jerks at airports


19 posted on 05/15/2011 11:11:48 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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Well, let’s pull out of the three countries we are sort of at war with, first. It’s not like we can win, meaning change the hearts and minds of those in the countries.


20 posted on 05/15/2011 11:16:30 AM PDT by unique
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Nice try. Thanks for playing.

Next.

22 posted on 05/15/2011 11:37:39 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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"I declare 'Bankruptcy'!"

There! My debt problems are over!

Ok, actually, we should just end the war on terrorism and declare the authentic war against militant islam, wherever it exists.

23 posted on 05/15/2011 11:41:46 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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We won in Vietnam too...before we lost it.


24 posted on 05/15/2011 11:42:12 AM PDT by onedoug (If)
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And WW2 was just an excuse to make people turn off all their lights every night.


27 posted on 05/15/2011 12:12:40 PM PDT by Gumption
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I like George Bush, but I think he made one big mistake when he defined the War On Terror. It should have been The War On Islam. They are at war with us and were then.


29 posted on 05/15/2011 2:31:42 PM PDT by RoadTest (Organized religion is no substitute for the relationship the living God wants with you.)
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