"If you condone "carpet bombing" of civilian populations, you by extention condone essentially the same to be done to us here in the U.S. In a time when `"anti-insurgent" operations in Iraq are, on a daily basis, killing civilians collateraly, you might want to rethink that position, gb. "

Right, but I didn't condone it. I condone doing things which are in our national interest. I merely pointed out that because a country is responsible for some of it's citizen organizing and executing an operation involing "planes flying into our building"- it isn't "justice" that causes us to spend blood and treasure in order to try to bring about a more peaceful and prosperous state in this country.

And by the way I didn't suggest carpet bombing civilans- miltary targets can be carpet bombed. Btw any in the leadership would be a miltary targets. And we of course would first ask for OBL to be handed over- not just respond by attacking. If you wanted to kill everyone- you nuked it, not carpet bomb. Any I'm not suggesting that is the course we should have taken. I support the course of action that Bush took.