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To: veronica
Let me see if I have this right. Hamas blows up a bus in Jerusalem so we launch air strikes on the occupied territories. Does that mean that if bin Laden blows up a building in Des Moines that we will expect Israel to launch air strikes in Afganistan?
14 posted on 11/22/2002 9:54:27 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
We declared war of terrorism. Period.
16 posted on 11/22/2002 9:56:12 AM PST by AppyPappy
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To: Non-Sequitur
Let me see if I have this right. Hamas blows up a bus in Jerusalem so we launch air strikes on the occupied territories. Does that mean that if bin Laden blows up a building in Des Moines that we will expect Israel to launch air strikes in Afganistan?

Other than, Non-Sequitur, I completely missed that in the article. I read Bob Graham say

"Against those international terrorists such as Hezbollah and Hamas, we need to be launching attacks on their headquarters and their training camps so that they will not be in a position to provide support for their terrorists that are embedded in the United States or be developing the next generation of terrorists,"

and Richard Shelby saying

"Hezbollah and some others are probably the A team, not the B team or the C team, as far as potential terrorist threats to this country,"

Neither the bombing in Jerusalem nor terrorist activities in Israel seem to have entered the equation as far as Shelby and Graham are concerned. It's about the threat they pose to the US.

I agree with them. Both groups are our enemies, both have carried out attacks against US interests. Both groups have networks in the US. I've no doubt they'd cooperate with Sadaam. I suspect they'd be at the top of his list in terms of transfering chemical or biological weapons for a hit on the US. They're legitimate targets.

You may disagree that they're our enemies, or that they're a threat, but the fact that they bomb Jews in Israel isn't much to base that viewpoint on.

29 posted on 11/22/2002 11:51:27 AM PST by SJackson
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