[Dec31,1999]

Perhaps he got frustrated about the knowledge that SH is ready to unleash sleepers here to kill many millions and paralyze our cities. So he has changed camps deciding that attacking Iraq would be deadly, but can't say so out of fear of panic in the cities? perhaps he saw what they had when he was kicked out in '98 and had a change of heart and strategy shortly thereafter, his sexual proclivities notwithstanding?

There's something very fishy about this whole affair in that noone is talking about what they are going to do to us.

[piasa]

9/11 demonstrated what they are going to do with us even if we do not go after them.

It is a choice between allowing ourselves to be nibbled to death by ducks, in which case the duck will continue to produce more ducks until we are overwhelmed and are destroyed anyway... or fighting to prevent it, and maybe having them try to do it quicker, while their flock is still afraid and small, and their bodies still tender.

We've been nibbled for years and at first lost a few here or there; then later we lost hundreds; and in 2001 we lost thousands because we did nothing, the country did not even rouse itself after the embassy bombings or the USS Cole, and the attempt on the USS The Sullivans. Saddam, by the way, has built a model of a US destroyer in a lake on which his people - or others- may practice. Terrorist supporting states now have nukes, chemical weapons, and/or biological weapons- it is only a matter of time before they kill tens of thousands. Indeed, on 9/11, had those buildings not remained standing for an hour after being struck, the death toll would have been higher. And we knew from the first WTC bombing that they had intended to utterly destroy the WTC from the beginning, knowing that many more thousands were at stake- those buildings can hold 50,000 people.

They clearly have the will.