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• What I don't get - LJ - 9/23/2004 4:27:10 PM
  • Probably not very many. Throwing money at a problem seldom works. - David F Mayer - 9/24/2004 4:30:02 AM
  • Conservatives don't REALLY get upset over violent American deaths. - Bowser - 9/23/2004 8:21:21 PM
    • I noticed - LJ - 9/23/2004 10:27:33 PM
      • They are being treated exactly as long standing military protocol directs. (n/t) - ebnelson - 9/23/2004 10:43:13 PM
    • Thanks for the content free post, Bowser. - ebnelson - 9/23/2004 9:26:23 PM
      • Probably belongs on Flame, if anywhere, eb. (n/t) - Bowser - 9/23/2004 9:39:14 PM
    • What you don't understand is that we are not going to sit here and let terrorist attack our country - REB - 9/23/2004 9:12:00 PM
      • Yes Bowser, this probably belongs on Flame - REB - 9/23/2004 9:49:31 PM
  • My point is... - LJ - 9/23/2004 7:28:18 PM
    • "The less you know the better you sleep..." - RobVG - 9/25/2004 2:55:04 AM
    • The 9/11 attacks did about a trillion dollars worth of damage to the US economy... - Larry J - 9/23/2004 8:19:44 PM
      • Much of the economic damage was because of the fear. - Art Martin - 9/23/2004 10:42:27 PM
      • 9-11 was from their point of view brilliant. And Bush has fallen into OBLs trap, big time. (n/t) - Bowser - 9/23/2004 9:09:54 PM
        • Yes, they wanted to lose the country they ran the financial network they had and the mansions they lived in. - ebenlson - 9/23/2004 10:16:42 PM
          • Haven't lost it yet. Seem to be able to leave if they prefer to be elsewhere. (n/t) - alcaray - 9/23/2004 10:44:37 PM
    • re: Fear - Raoul - 9/23/2004 7:58:10 PM
  • Spending - Tom Brosz - 9/23/2004 4:48:06 PM
  • Because terrorism effects much more than just death counts - Scott Evil - 9/23/2004 4:44:59 PM
  • Life has a 100% mortality rate. No one gets out of here alive. - Larry J - 9/23/2004 4:43:47 PM
  • That is why statisticians are not running the world. - ebnelson - 9/23/2004 4:33:03 PM
    • I would think you would be right if....... - Tony - 9/23/2004 4:38:48 PM
      • You might want to read the link in Tom's post below... - Larry J - 9/23/2004 5:16:16 PM
        • Still some good evidence that OBL and Iraq were linked - REB - 9/23/2004 9:21:22 PM
          • One other thing. - REB - 9/23/2004 9:31:08 PM
      • If we want to break up terror, Iraq is the current theatre of operations - ebnelson - 9/23/2004 5:08:50 PM
        • Well duh. - Tony - 9/23/2004 5:21:00 PM
          • Where would the theater of operations be otherwise? - Tom Brosz - 9/24/2004 12:35:13 AM
          • So Saddam was not a major player in terrorism prior to our invasion? - ebnelson - 9/23/2004 6:57:51 PM
            • re: So Saddam was not a major player in terrorism prior to our invasion? - Tony - 9/23/2004 7:07:41 PM
              • My fears of WMDs? - ebnelson - 9/23/2004 7:17:31 PM
                • You can make a case that we should have feared Saddams WMDs and terrorism prior to the war - alcaray - 9/23/2004 9:49:57 PM
            • no yes no? (n/t) - alcaray - 9/23/2004 7:04:50 PM
          • Not only that - alcaray - 9/23/2004 6:48:15 PM
            • Orders of magnitude more Iraqis died from Saddam than are dying now. (n/t) - ebnelson - 9/23/2004 6:58:45 PM
              • I'm sure the families of Iraqis killed by imported terrorists feel much better for that thought (n/t) - Tony - 9/23/2004 7:09:17 PM
              • you may need to remind them of that, over the years (n/t) - alcaray - 9/23/2004 7:03:59 PM
                • It seems, if one were to actually listen to Allawi, that they do. (n/t) - ebnelson - 9/23/2004 7:19:42 PM
                  • Yes, today. Check in 10 years from now and see if they still like us. - alcaray - 9/23/2004 9:51:25 PM
                    • Kind of like France? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 9/24/2004 2:41:09 AM
                      • No. (n/t) - alcaray - 9/24/2004 2:49:10 PM