Posted on 09/24/2001 4:24:58 PM PDT by Rebeckie
No innocent people will get hurt, only icky, bad men, who do not respect the rights of women, will be shot at and not to kill, only to injure (but not painfully). They also promise the bombs won't be overly loud or accidently land on fluffy things.
Truly it will be a war you can invite all your girlfriends to. Don't worry, Honey, there won't even be any swearing or sarcasm, they know how you hate that.
Now go to bed and let the big people take care of all the yucky stuff.
War , ALL WARS , have always managed to kill women and children. It is not what we want ; however, it is what happens. If presidents, kings, emperors , etc. fought in such a way that no civilians ever were hurt or killed, no war would have ever been fought. Good , you say ? Nope, because the " bad" guys NEVER follow the rules and DO kill and harm as many people as they can.
If our CIA and foreign aid programs would quit funding every enemy of the US, drug lord, terrorist and tin-pot munchkin around the globe, we would not have half the enemies we do. China is a case in point.
On to the "hate America" thing. I don't hate America, you know that as does everyone else. I simply look thru these cynical glasses at a people that WANTS to be enslaved as long as they're "safe" from harm. How fortunate for would be dictators! I'm as outraged by this attack on our soil and our people as the next guy, just a little suspicious of all the people that want to "help" and their ultimate goals. That's all.
Regards,
Callahan
I like Harry, and hope he comes on board. I think he will eventually. However, I do feel he should retract his charge against Gov. Ridge. That's over the line, just as people here wanting to carpet bomb Afghanistan, which he bitches about. Yet he does the same thing in essence. Go figure. He'll come on board. He's a patriot. Just a little zealous right now.
It has been so satisfying lately to savor all the different horrors our President is not -- not Al, not Bill, not Hill, not Pat, and yes, not Woodrow!
As always, you are a voice of reason, principle and freedom for our generation.
That's your problem, you keep pretending. You keep pretending it's September 10th, it isn't. Then you pretend the war is over and the democrats are in office. The war isn't over and the democrats aren't in office. Stop pretending and get real. It is September 24th 2001, we are at war and President Bush is our national leader.
"On to the "hate America" thing. I don't hate America, you know that as does everyone else."
I said you hate all things "government", there is a big difference.
"I simply look thru these cynical glasses at a people that WANTS to be enslaved as long as they're "safe" from harm."
You are the one who is enslaved. You are enslaved by your utter and complete hatred of all things government. So much so that you would completely ignore the threats that face this nation.
"How fortunate for would be dictators!"
See...look at this. Junior, nazis, would be dictators. Man you need to drop this paranoid act of seek some professional help.
"I'm as outraged by this attack on our soil and our people as the next guy, just a little suspicious of all the people that want to "help" and their ultimate goals. That's all."
You are really ate up with it.
LOL! Yes, Wilson was a Ph.D. and the former President of Princeton University. To the liberals in academia, he is one of their own, so all his wickedness, racism, tyranny and folly are happily overlooked.
I am amazed that few understand what is required in time of war. Thanks for the flag!
As real as it sounds it is far less likely than a chem/bio threat to our population. We are currently in a lockdown for crop dusters and they are on a heightened alert. And even if they do achieve a laydown on a portion of our very large counrty it's likely it wouldn't affect a great segment of the population. Not to mention that infecting crops is long term attack and one that would take at least one season to affect.
Mad cow, hoof and mouth.
Stay away from the countryside (Foot and Mouth - the management of a pseudo-crisis.)
A checmial agent into a major water supply.
Cholera would be a good choice but you would need tons of the stuff to make it worth it and needless to say the days of Arab looking guys driving dump trucks in to headwaters or resevoirs is unlikely. Fish and Wildlife and BLM have been tasked to deal with it as we speak. And by the time it made it to your tap it would have been filtered and treated away.
How about Small Pox introducted into the air filtration system of a major airport...how quickly would that spread across the nation.
Hard to tell. While highly contagious it does have a lengthy incubation period. Be more afraid of chimera or recombinant agents which are combinations or cocktails of differant viruses like rhinovirus/smallpox/filovirus which would have a fast affect and stealthy symptoms which would set back diagnosis and thus affect health workers. Not to mention any combination being weaponized and as such no vaccine would work. The big question is how would these agents get introduced in to an airport these days?
I'm not saying it's possible but it's getting less possible with each passing day. And that has nothing to do with legislation but more to do with the awareness of the American people.
And by the way did you threaten Demidog in an email when you asked him his home address?
Ridge is a good administrator and will do well at this job. But I have seen some of the most horrendous posts against him because he is not pro-life!
As for bombing, we have even had "so-called" conservative Congressmen calling for nukes. I for one am very thankful that our President is using diplomacy as his first weapon. I've been watching people slam him for not bombing someone...anyone...back to the stone age, and others complaining about him doing just that.
Should we censor the outlandish opinions? I think it is far more sensible to provide reasoned argument against them.
Granted, we are learning a lot and very quickly concerning the recent airliner attacks. But considering how bin Laden isolates one cell from the next, it is very reasonable to suspect that other avenues of attack would be completely independent of those we currently know of. We have no idea how long and what is already in this country.
However, we do know that they use electronic media for communications and the government is asking for the authority to be able to effectively intercept and monitor such communications.
"And by the way did you threaten Demidog in an email when you asked him his home address?"
I've never sent an e-mail to demidog.
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