re: debating

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re: debating

Tom Brosz — 4/14/2004 5:55:31 AM (archived)

I said nothing about action "that would have done any good".

Okay, then let's discuss useless actions or actions that would not have been accepted by Americans, like profiling Middle Easterners at airports, instituting draconian inspections, shutting down the flow of immigration, cutting student visas, or arming pilots. Hey, make up a few ideas of your own.

I leave it to the imagination how these actions, based on the kind of vague intelligence (similar to that which got Bush into so much hot water on Iraq) would have gone over with Americans in general, and Bush's political opponents specifically.

Visualize Ashcroft telling airport personnel to watch Middle Easterners, or to tell people to take off their shoes and give up their nail clippers. Yeah, that would have been a popular move.

Hell, the Left had a cow when they thought the authorities were going to be able to look through library records, and that was after 9/11.

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"Killer Memo" released - Tom Brosz - 4/11/2004 4:36:23 AM
- Everyone would benefit by reading this... - Pete Stanley - 4/12/2004 4:11:31 AM
  - As an education in sophistry? - Odin - 4/12/2004 7:26:30 AM
    - re: As an education in sophistry? - Pete Stanley - 4/12/2004 8:29:28 PM
- This is the memo Rice dismissed as "historical"... - Robert - 4/11/2004 4:50:03 AM
  - re: This is the memo Rice dismissed as "historical"... - gbaikie - 4/11/2004 9:35:59 PM
  - I'm so glad you asked... - Tom Brosz - 4/11/2004 8:58:09 PM
    - I don't expect anything to show that Bush had prior knowledge. - alcaray - 4/12/2004 4:53:33 PM
      - The 9/11 attack was not predicted. - Tom Brosz - 4/13/2004 12:23:58 AM
        
        Not by that memo. And I never claimed it was. - alcaray - 4/13/2004 4:40:32 PM
        
        "Action" again. - Tom Brosz - 4/13/2004 7:38:46 PM
        
        Are you incapable of debating without putting words in my mouth? - alcaray - 4/13/2004 10:19:17 PM
        
        re: debating - Tom Brosz - 4/14/2004 5:55:31 AM
        
        Apparently the answer to my question was no. - alcaray - 4/14/2004 3:22:42 PM
        
        I'm trying to have a discussion here. It isn't easy. - Tom Brosz - 4/14/2004 9:17:49 PM
        
        Pretending to care would be an improvement (n/t) - alcaray - 4/14/2004 10:25:13 PM
        
        So vote for Kerry. He'll do a good job of that. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 4/14/2004 11:56:22 PM
    - That's the way I see it Tom - FrankC - 4/11/2004 10:53:58 PM
    - I knew you would be - Robert - 4/11/2004 9:52:00 PM
      - Two things. - Bowser - 4/12/2004 12:40:08 AM
        
        re: Two things. - Tom Brosz - 4/12/2004 1:08:31 AM
        
        You're trying too hard - Robert - 4/12/2004 2:08:54 AM
      - re: A few comments - Tom Brosz - 4/11/2004 11:40:55 PM
        
        re: A few comments - Robert - 4/12/2004 1:54:22 AM
        
        FBI's hands were tied......... - Lindy - 4/12/2004 6:22:49 AM
        
        Before we drift too far off into the ozone... - Tom Brosz - 4/12/2004 5:17:13 AM
        
        Another example of the Memo Myth - Tom Brosz - 4/12/2004 1:13:21 AM
        
        Thanks for the link... - jms - 4/12/2004 6:04:58 PM
      - Sow's ear. (n/t) - RobVG - 4/11/2004 10:40:27 PM

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