Exclusive: Suicide Bomb Teams Sent to U.S., Europe

The fruits of our evil labors are coming to bear and now innocent civilians will likely pay for the mistakes made by the leadership (or lack thereof) of our country.

Yeah, it is definitely our president’s fault, muslim extremists did not harbor any hatred towards the west before Bush took office. (sarcarsm…) Do some research before posting here.

What are you saying, Noel? You mean there actually were Muslim extremists before Bush took office? Wow. That’s not what St. Cindy Sheehan told me!

Too bad we didn’t go after where the worst terrorists were instead of Iraq. Now we have more in Iraq AND more in Pakistan, etc.

These people have had it out for the US for a long time. This only the begining of a world war 3. The only way they’ll be happy is when the whole world blows up.

Of course there were NO suicide bombers before Bush took office. Don’t be silly. It’s all our fault! Everyone knows that.

I bet you can’t wait for thatday, Jack.

RE: NOEL — “Yeah, it is definitely our president’s fault, muslim extremists did not harbor any hatred towards the west before Bush took office. (sarcarsm…) Do some research before posting here.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

I have always said that we, here in America, have been too lucky for too long to avoid the death squads that we see and hear about in the barbarian world. I truly believe that what happened at 9/11/2001 was only the tip of the iceberg for things to come. Maybe its time to prepare for the future. I mean life after death. Are you ready to meet your maker? The choice is yours. The trip is free to the Heaven but you have to purchase your tickets now. John 3:16.

Just remember to thank the left-wing ACLU and those who hold liberal movie stars’ political stances above our own government and military leaders when these people are able to sneak into our country and kill innocent American citizens because it’s “not nice” to racially profile or tap phones or halt student visas.

Word has it. They have been disguising themselves as Mexicans to sneak across the border.

Anyone who thinks that “we” are responsible for these pathetic death dealing nut jobs, is a person who argues his point with the certainty of a moron. I would suggest that we just bomb them back to the stone age but I honestly think that they are still there. There’s nothing much a civilized people can say about a group of sub humans who will strap bombs on their children and themselves because they think that God would be pleased. But there is something that a civilized people can and should do.

Some of these nut jobs are going to get a hold of some real weapons of mass destruction (maybe even nukes if Iran has anything to say about it) and they WILL smuggle them into the U.S. If they get away with one they will bury it somewhere and keep smuggling them in until they figure they have enough or until they finally get caught, in either case they will then set them all off at once. Think about it, what if they get say 10 nukes into this country or 20….plant them in the 10 to 20 biggest cities……I believe this scenario will happen at some point in our not too distant future and I’m not sure we can do anything about it before it happens. After it happens will be left up to those of us who are still around I guess.

Pakistan Has been fooling west from the begining playing a dual role,they have harboured trained and supported these militiants from the begining,i wonder why doesnt west understands pakistan and its establishment is responsible and will continue to promote islamic extremists.

I thought we were fighting them over there so we won’t fight them over here?
Everything the Bush neo-cons touch turns to lead.

If we would enforce the border we might actually have a chance of catching these people.

Once we start to question our government and the system of power we are all a part of, in my opinion, the terrorists are winning. They hate democracy and what we are, if we don’t have one vision about what to do and stand behind it 100%, they are getting what they want.

I live in San Diego and have ridden the fence on my bike, we can’t keep uneducated peons out with that fence, a trained whacko we be over it and in the malls next week. Good luck all!

Huh??? What about the 2001 Twin Towers, 1997 Fatwa by Osama, 1993 Trade Center attack, hi-jacked planes in the 70′s and 80′s remember Entebbe? The Israeli wars of the 60′s on and on back even before the Palestine riots of 1929 and the massacre of Jews at the wall.
Brian Ross and ABC must be pleased that their propaganda campaign has so fully expunged the historical data banks from the minds of their collective viewer/reader base.
I guess since history and an objective perspective of the facts are not in lockstep with the Ross/ABC agenda it would be best if every body just repeats after me. Terrorist didn’t exist before George W. Bush. No matter what it is it’s W’s fault. Blame Bush, Blame Bush, Blame Bush (come on everybody join in, its fun don’t think or learn your history just join in) Blame Bush, Blame Bush, if anyone disagrees with you bring out the ad hominem attacks and use your pejoratives. Call them a brain dead Fox watcher or a dirty neo-con (it doesn’t matter if you don’t know how to define a neo-con it sounds bad) Blame Bush, Blame Bush…Come on everybody…Blame Bush…

It’s complete crap, why would the Taliban want photos of the prospective bombers published before they carried out their attacks? This is just propaganda.

Blame George Bush? Oh, then why were these monsters in America for the Twin Towers when Bill was still the president? If what George Bush did in Iraq causes this type of thing, then what preceded 9-11? oH YEAH…CLINTON BOMBED IRAQ AND THE SUDAN…..

Wake up America…….Close the USA Border !!!!!!!!
Bush and the Democrat Congress won’t do it !

The reasons we are being attacked my a SEGMENT of the Muslim world are:
1-Blind support of Israel, including the supply of weapons.
2- The presence of American troops in the Middle East.
And yes, if those 2 things were to change, I think there is a strong probability that we would no longer be a target.

This report seems highly suspicious. Who is the supposed Pakistani journalist and is he working for the ISI to instill more faux terror. You believe everything you read? Anyone can stage any kind of photo op. Looks like another Paris Hilton moment. Yawn.

Pffft. These brainwashed, child-killing pyschos will never make it anywhere near our homeland. Why? Becuase Americans are smarter now and can spot these islamofacist maniacs.

Just send Jack Bauer over to Afghanistan, then Pakistan and then Iraq. At the rate that he kills people, it should only take him about 2 years to wipe out most of the extremists. :)

Yes…The Taliban made the decision in 2007. Hey!!! What if we attack America? Abdul? What are you saying? We’ve never thought of that before…what a genius.

I question the timing, of course. This is timed to help the Bush Administration divert attention away from the Nifong disbarment, & NBC’s exclusive interviews with Prince Harry & William. Obviously.
Oh, and…there is no terrorist threat?

Isn’t it interesting that Bush gets no credit what so ever… NONE… for thwarting numerous terror attacks in the US since 9/11… but as soon as (or even before as evidenced here) there is an attack… it will be Bush’s fault. Can somebody explain that to me?

NOW what are the Dems going to do? How can they keep up the ‘hate Bush’ chant with people being blown up in Chicago? Too bad Reed and Pelosi didn’t take any time to plan for this contingency, seems they only have had time to try and undermine an already lame duck. God but these people are morons, putting themselves and their parties before the safty of the citizens who pay them to protect them.

Oh no – the islamokazis are coming to my town!!
Where’s my duct tape?

Everyone forgets that Clinton was in the White when they(terrorist)planted the first bomb and he did nothing. But those terrorist better watch out for the US citizens. Every other household in America has a gun or two.

What does Clarke mean by “slip through the net”. They can just walk across the border and do what they want.

President Bush will eventually be recognized for the selfless leadership he has shown. He never took polls to determine where he should take vacation. He hasn’t used slick political techniques, such as “triangulation”. He is truly a great president who will most likely replace the pretender “JFK” on the half-dollar someday. Those who attack him are simpletons, who are still throwing tantrums for the 2000 election.

Nice going Clinton.

Nice going W.
Posted by: Rick | Jun 18, 2007 5:06:01 PM
The fruits of our evil labors are coming to bear and now innocent civilians will likely pay for the mistakes made by the leadership (or lack thereof) of our country.
Posted by: Brandon | Jun 18, 2007 5:07:48 PM
ME: Are Rick and Brandon insane? Because of our declaring war on those who declared war on us BY THE SAME METHOD on 9/11, we are to blame for any jihadi suicide bombers that come to our lands and slaughter our sisters, brother, husbands wives and fellow citizens? That makes Beslan Russia’s fault, right? Is there no end to the equivocation some will apply to mass-murdering terrorists to justify the unjustifiable?
It takes insane people to run around the labyrinthes of their minds to come to the conclusion that suicide bombers and jihadis are what we deserve as a nation and a people. NO civilized society deserves that! It is the same kind of insanity Islamists use to burn down schools, beat and “honor kill” women, and to strap on explosives and blow up dozens of children, even MUSLIM children, in the name of justice and in the name of their god. And they do it to us, Rick and Brandon say, because we have it coming. We deserve it.
I say lobotomies should make a comeback.

You don’t really believe this crock, do you? LMAO at all you scaredy-cats!

People are proclaiming “the entire world is against us”. Riddle me this then. Why did Germany elect a more conservative, pro-American leader? Why did France elect a more conservative, pro-American leader? Why is Tony Blair’s replacement likely to be even more pro-American? A lot of the everyday people around the world have started to wake up to the fact that Muslim extremists are threatening their way of life.

Rick,
Islamic Terrorists have been blowing people up since the Carter Administration. To blame Bush shows your complete ignorance of history. Yes, Jimmy Carter was a president before he built house. At least he found something he is good @. Go back to commenting on the Paris Hilton.

“I have always said that we, here in America, have been too lucky for too long to avoid the death squads that we see and hear about in the barbarian world”
Luck? I don’t think so. A lot of hard work by people dedicated to protecting their country is more likely. The left whines about how Bush is stomping all over our rights. Well, nobody has stomped on mine or anyone else I know. If we are too stupid or too tied to legal abstractions to keep ourselves alive then perhaps we are “just too dumb to live”. Far as I’m concerned, Bush still has a lot more leeway when it comes to stopping these mass murderers. I just hope that if they do get to us that the victims will be those who worried more about terrorists rights than they did about innocent Americans.

let’s make sure we don’t do any racial profiling though. we wouldn’t want to offend any of the muslim extremsists coming here to kill us.

The war in Iraq has made us less safe: it has created more terrorists, wasted our military in a policing effort, killed thousands of our troops, and drained billions of our tax dollars.

These losers haven’t been able to hit us since 9/11. What a bunch of dolts. Stop wasting our time with these headlines. It’s been 6 years. Notify me when they actually succeed.

Obvious going into Iraq without an adequate post war plan was short sighted. However to imply that Muslim estremists are going to attack us because of it is down right stupid. Don’t you remember that when 9-11 happened the US had not invaded Afghanistan or Iraq. More over if it hadn’t happened, we most likely never would have. The terrorist goal is not to get us out of the Middle East, if it was they never would have attacked us in the first place (the surest way to get America to get involved in your affairs is to attack her, just ask WWII Japan). Their goal is to force us to submit to their beliefs or kill us.

Anyone who believes terrorism against the United States is new, is just plain ignorant. They were coming long before the President took office. Anyone remember the 1993 WTC bombing?, the attack on the USS Cole?, the embasy attacks? All of these went unaswered which proved to these extremists that the US would be weak.
Until the liberals and bleeding hearts who are afraid to hurt an innocent civilian in the protectin of our own wake up and allow the US to fight a war to WIN, then we are all doomed to the fate of the terrorists. They don’t care what you stand for, only that you are not Muslim. So get ready America, and others the worst I fear is yet to come! In the end, the blood of our own citizens will be on the hands of the anti war libs and bleeding hearts.
Read Rolands post, he is right on!

In the words of President Bush: BRING IT ON!
This is our generation’s cause.

Time to lock down our borders and stop all of the BS politics about border security. DEMS and REPS need to get their freaking head out and get something done. (90% of politicians are just greedy and in need of a power trip.) It’s really sad…………..

This country should accept the fact we can’t get in a large scale war right now because 1. Democrats don’t want war and 2. Republicans want war, but many of them don’t want to fight it. (like chicken hawks Wolfowitz, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush)

Can’t blame “W” for these fanatical muslims doing their “God’s” work. How about blaming the suicide bombers for suicide bombing instead of blaming America first.

Look Jack when a country goes to war you are most certainly NOT doing it to make friends! This war is far from over. It will not be over when Bush leaves office or when the next President leaves office. We can cut and run from Iraq if you like but it is certain we will be returning to the region.
If the US completely surrendered to these radical Islamists before or after 9-11 they would still be trying to kill us. Get used to it…

there’s no such thing as scarry boogeymen terrorists

These bombers will likely attack the Western world when Syria/Lebanon/Gaza/Iran attacks Israel this summer.
Stay tuned.

It’s time to make them fear us more than they hate us!

Brian is such an alarmist…But then again, he works for ABC so it’s expected…

They hate us for what we are…believers in Science, liberated women, rational, scientific thought. Bush and Blair are not to blame.

Weakness is a provacation.

TO: brianb
RE: Doesn’t Matter
“They would bomb even if we weren’t in Iraq. So once again, blame it on Bush (who I hate) rears its head. READ the article before commenting.” — brianb
My comment applies no matter where the attack comes from.
Regards,
Chuck(le)

I am sick and tired of people, mostly Liberals, who claim that the world loved the USA before Bush took office or right after 9/11 and that President Bush, with his actions, destroyed this love the world felt for the USA.
Please people, stop being so ignorant. In the 1970s, Jimmy Carter traveled to Venezuela, his Presidential motorcade was spat upon and attacked by Venezuelans. Hmmm….Bush wasn’t around.
Did anyone travel to Europe during the Reagan, Bush I, or Clinton administration years? Europeans hated America then to. I saw huge protests during the Clinton years in France. Europeans love it in the sense that they all want to come here and benefit from it, but they hate it in the sense that they are jelouse at the fact that we are a superpower and their country is not. And let us not forget that for the world hating America, they certainly are desperate to come into the USA and make a living. Now, why would anyone who hates the USA, come here and make every effort, legal and illegal to get their family into the USA and make a decent living.
Furthermore, if ignorant people did some research they would be shocked to find that in European, Asian countries and in Australia pro-American governtments are winning government elections. If the world hated us, this wouldn’t be happening.
Let us not forget that 9/11 was planned FIVE YEARS BEFORE BUSH TOOK OFFICE!!!! please explain how this was Bush’s fault, eh? or how Bush contributed to this hate five years before he took office.
Let us also forget that Muslims have been carrying out terrorist attacks on Americans, on American soil and on American interests long before Bush took office.
I mean do explain, what did Bush do in 1993, when Clinton was President and the first WTC bombing happened. Do tell, those that hate Bush. Or how about in 1998 when Al Qaeda destroyed the two American embassies in Africa, what did Bush do? I seem to remember that in 1998 Clinton was in power, right? or how about the USS Cole, in 2000 who was in power? that’s right Clinton. Or how about in 1996 when Bin Laden declared war on the United States of America, who was in power then? EXACTLY!
so stop blaming Bush and blame the right people, the Islamic fundamentlist wackos, Al Qaeda, Hezzbollah, Hamas, etc. Blame these monsters for their hatred of anyone that is not aligned with their fundamentalist Islamic views.
Let us not forget that Muslims are the number one killers of Muslims.

This story is simply further evidence that the islamist threat persists and our efforts to thwart their evil intentions must continue.

Once again, Chimpie and Cheney are emboldening the terrorists with their spectacular MILITARY FAILURE. God help us all…

If Clinton had not refused to capture, kill or take Bin Laden into custody when he was offered up, 9/11 and things such as this likely would have been headed off early on.
KS

So much for fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here.

There is no dangerous muslim terrorist group out to get you. The only people you have to fear are the CIA. They are the ones who want to kill you.

Bruce you said they hate us because we are “believers in Science, liberated women, rational, scientific thought”
Belief in science and reason are under attack here too from our own people…see Pat Robertson et al

US policies in the Mideast suck and have helped keep repressive dictators in power for decades. We reap what we have sown. Bush is truely evil and people should stop apologizing for him and wake up. Our democracy is in peril.

Don’t worry, US immigration and visa policies will welcome these guys into your country, and will probably provide some kind of economic incentives or assistance, to help them achieve their goals, ie., scholarships or teaching jobs. When these people do finally manage to pull off a major attack, don’t look at Iran, Syria, or any other country for blame. Blame your own government for allowing them to come here and organizations like the ACLU for protecting them from proper scrutiny.

I thought glorious leader dispatched the evil islaminufascist Saddam Bin Laden. Who is left to attack us?????
Ingrate Iraqis! Look at all we have done for them! Why would they want to kill us?

Do no harm? The basic question for all the pro Bushies posting here is this. Are things better or worse in the middle east than they were six years ago-have we made it better or worse. The answer is totally self evident and I won’t go into all the other collateral harm we’ve suffered. Basically these chumps have taken two serious but manageable regional problems and turned them into a global debacle for US interests. Does anyone doubt that the next president, Republican or Democrat, is going to pull the plug on Iraq and do a U turn on US foreign policy. That says it all really.

Another reason defeat the Immigration -Amnesty – Bill !!
How many of these murderous thugs are here illegally?
the Bush Adminstration and his liberal
allies have not secured the border and now we will pay the price !!!!

Steven:
Your points sound very cogent, except for the fact that Muslim extremists also want to take back Spain. Talk about holding a grudge! They’re still ticked-off by Ferdinand and Isabella who took back Spain for the Spaniards just before they sent Columbus off to sea. So does it really matter that the West has had no colonies in the middle east for two generations? No one in his or her right mind should ever feel bad about not winning over hearts and minds like that! We’re dealing with a 14th century mind set, which includes how the maps were drawn way back then. Get real.

And we were supposed to feel sympathy for the “school kids” recently killed in a missile attack on an Al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan? Sounds like their soldiers are getting younger and younger. A few less members of the Future Terrorists of Afghanistan( FTA).

Cindy:
I guess that’s why even Al Gore said Saddam was involved with terrorism, eh?

Lies… more lies.

None of you have the slightest idea what you are talking about. Go to the CIA website and you’ll learn more than you want to know.

Maybe now this out of control Congress lead by this dim witted President may reconsider this ridiculous amnesty bill that they are trying to shove down the throats of the American people.
Congress should be held in contempt when this evil occurs which it will due to their dereliction of duty to uphold their oath of office.

…that’s right you guys…. we have NOTHING to do with all this trouble…. I mean … well … besides the CIA assasination of Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh in1953 and installation of the Shah …. okay okay ..
.. then there was the CIA’s pal Saddam Hussein, who was put in jail, “somehow escaped” and then in the 80′s with Rummy’s help, aquired anthrax, brucella melitensis, clostridium perfringens (gas gangrene), as well as chemical warfare agent precursors, chemical warfare agent production facility plans and technical drawings, chemical warfare filling equipment, biological warfare-related materials, missile fabrication equipment and missile system guidance equipment…. despite the fact he gassed the town of Halabja… don’t pay attention to that you guys…..
…and the CIA’s boy, Osama Bin Laden and his CIA trained and armed Mujahadeen …. I mean we’ll just use them, and dump em, when we don’t need em. What’s the harm in that?
… so what about the CIA’s boy Manuel Noriega in Panama…. Oh wait…. that’s right…. later we invaded Panama, deposed him, and then gave away the Canal to the Chinese…
…. (forget the other numerous “hot” operations of the past, AND present. They are NONE of YOUR business! Got it?)
Those damn Muslims hate us for our freedoms, and our way of life. (I’m sure they just forgot about all the other stuff we’ve done, aren’t you?)

Why do they hate us? Because we are rich and free? Or because it is our foreign policy to prop up totalitarian dictators that will sell us oil at less than the market value? When the CIA trained and funded secret police of Saudi Arabia or Pakistan or for 25 years before the coup of Iran kidnap people in the night that disagree with the American backed regime…who should they blame for that?
Americans are not at fault, American policy makers are. The simple fact of what motivates the terrorists to hate us is that we spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year ensuring that they can not be free to question their governments.
When American troops installed the Shah in Iran it was at the cost of a democratically elected Prime Minister, not a mullah, but since the Shah had the secular opposition executed there was nothing left but a religious one to over throw him.
Our interventionist foreign policy breeds hate, not our way of life here at home.

… terrorist are MAD at GW because of global warming …it has nothing at all to do with religon.

Nice going Pelosi, Reid, et. al.

Hmmm, I wonder what would be easier, to train and smuggle 300 people into foreign countries, or make a video…

If the aim of terrorists is to instill terror in Americans and disrupt our natural way of life, then it appears from what is being said here that they are succeeding gloriously. Mike is right. This video is just meant to scare you. if you let it scare you, they win. Period. Let the CIA and the Intelligence community do their jobs. They know what they’re doing, they won’t let them get you. Even if they are funding terrorist operations around the world, they won’t let americans get hurt if they can do anything about it.
Btw, if you really believe at this point that Isalmic terrorism is all the Arab’s fault, you are completely out of your mind and totally out of touch with the reality of the situation in the Middle East. You want some research? Look up what Britain and the U.S. did to Iran by installing a puppet Shah, undermining their previously elected parliament because they weren’t giving the West the deal on oil that they wanted. And now we run around the Middle East promoting democracy as the silver bullet to the radical extremism that rose in the first place because America screwed Iran out of profit share in its own natural resources? Seriously?
Think. Rational logic. Go ahead, hate the terrorists for hating America, and there is no doubt that they ought to be destroyed for the good of Western civilization, but lets remember a couple things: like that not all Arabs and Muslims (not always the same thing y’all) are bin Ladin sympathizers and we aren’t infallible and perfect just because we say so.
Stop saying crazy immature, backwards stuff like they’ll “attack us no matter what”. This paranoid loony-toon Dr. Strangelove talk all over the place about Islam is really too absurd to be taken seriously and should stop.

I can see you people have way,way,WAY too much time on your hands

This is all Bush’s fault…oh wait…our embassies were bombed in Africa while Clinton was in office…along with the world trade center (in the 90s). We need to continue on the offensive against these nutheads. They want to destroy civilization and bring us back to the dark ages.

Art Freen,
I am sure that you went after President Clinton during the 1990s when he was talking tough and sending our troops to fight in foreign nations, right?
I mean given that Clinton not only didn’t serve, but the coward ran away from the USA to avoid the draft.
I am sure that if Hillary, Obama, or any of the other Democratic Presidential candidates, who none have served in the military, get elected you will speak about them as chicken hawks when they send our troops to fight, right?
and let us not forget that President Bush served in the Air National Guard, do you know how many Air national guardsmen died during Vietnam? Stop dishonoring these individuals by claiming that anyone that served in the Air National Guard during Vietnam was a chicken hawk.
It never ceases to amaze me how poorly educated and informed the hate-Bush, hate-America crowd is.

The problem in our world is religious extremists, period. The vast majority of muslims don’t want the U.S. destroyed, and I think the vast majority of Christians don’t want muslim nations destroyed.
The problem here is George Bush. By ignoring Clinton’s and Berger’s advice about UBL, by attacking Iraq instead of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and by trying to steal Iraqi oil for Exxon Mobil, BP, and Shell, Bush is turning the entire muslim world (yes, even the moderate nations who were our allies) against us.
Every American should do everything in their power to stop Bush before he sets off WW III with an attack on Iran. Don’t let George Bush and his crazy born-again pseudo-Christian crap bring about armageddon.

Well you tell me Mr. Seatalker:
What in the world has the U.S. military accomplished in Iraq?
WHAT!!!!!!!???????
If you think war is the answer, then suit up buddy!!!! Stop smoking whatever you are smoking and join the Marines and stop talking so much….
I know the answer to this problem….but noone seems to listen and/or understand……..

The Bush administration ignored warnings before 911. Example: the PDB of August 6, 2001, saying that “bin laden determined to attack within the united states”. There were also other warnings of highjacked planes crashing into buildings including the World Trade center. They better do their job this time and listen to the warnings.

@Noel…i thought the whole point of us fighting them over there was so they wouldn’t come over here. Guess that isn’t working so well. Now that our military is over there they pretty much have a free reign over here. Way to go Bush and co.

But were fighting them there. How can they come here?
Uh Oh… Bush may have to rethink his strategy.

your trendy anti-american comments are not needed. it makes me sick how many of you don’t support the american ideals anymore. if you don’t like the united states go move to afghanistan and live.

George Dumbya give up all your money, what did you pay for your computer, you should have used that money for the poor. If money has no value to you sell everything and move away from here. After all i am in need of your money, I have 2 kids in college who has to pay their own way, while other people from other countries use our tax dollars to get a free education. But you don’t hear me complaining.

Amen MajorCaliber!

Sounds like we better get busy with that fence our government refuses to build.

Its weird how so many blame GWBush for his response to the 9/11 attacks. Do they really think if the US had done nothing to respond to the murder of thousands of Americans on American soil there would have been no further attacks on America? It is a farcical view, completely misconstruing cause and effect.

Thanks Mr and Mrs Clinton for not nipping this in the bud when you had the chance. and now mrs clinton wants to be president??? ha ha ha i wouldn’t want her to be the president of my local PTA!!!

“able to slip through the net and get into the United States”
WHAT NET? PEOPLE ARE STREAMING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN BORDER AS I WRITE THIS.

To RayW.
Al Gore said that in 2000 while running for President, not in 2007 when all the facts are now in.

Anyone who thinks this was brought about by the current administration is either delusional or a moron. The attacks against the west have been well documented for 20 + years. I’m more scared of the haters in this country who enable these thugs than these weasels themselves. Wake up.

I am so sick of the “Why Do They Hate Us?” question. The French hate us too, but the worst they’ve done is honor Jerry Lewis and Michael Moore.
The fact is, these Islamists hate EVERYBODY! They hate the Thai Buddhists, the Phillipine Catholics, and even fellow Muslims in Algeria, Morocco, Afghanistan, Iraq and now even in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.
My response? I hate them, too. As I hated the Nazis and Imperial Japanese for what they did and tried to do. So
for you morons coming out here trying to portray the US as Darth Vader’s Empire and terrorist jihadis as Luke Skywalker, you have serious mental and self-preservation problems.
Sometimes a megalomaniac fascist is just a megalomaniac fascist. What had the Jews done to Germany to deserve extermination? What had the Koreans done to the Japanese to deserve their enslavement to them?
Why do you think bin Laden blew up the ancient Buddhist statues in Bamiyan, Afghanistan in 2000? Because they were infidels occupying a holy land? NO! Because he could not tolerate their existence, as he cannot tolerate ours.
People better wake up before it’s too late. They hate us no matter what we do. They dress their two-year-olds in suicide vests for kindergarten graduation, for Chrissake. How sick is that? This is not a clash of civilizations. This a clash between civilization and barbarity. Which side are you on?

You think Muslim Extremism is on the rise because of Bush, go ask any one in India. “No other country in this world is raped and ravaged by Muslim Extremism than India”. They did it for 820 Years from 1000AD and they are still doing it now

hey noel-
would that be the aclu that backed rush limbaugh through his recent drug ordeal?
and is fred thompson a liberal movie star?
so you’re against them until you’re for them, if i’m reading you correctly.
radical islam, like radical christianity, doesn’t happen in a vacuum. a complete lack of rationality coupled with spiritual leaders screaming THEY ARE OUT TO GET YOU will turn anyone into a terrorist. the target of the terrorism is the one who has drawn the most ire of the irrational radicalist. abortion clinic, anyone? there’s a war on christianity, didn’t you hear?
60 (and more) years of pillaging the middle east for oil, anyone?
the freaks are winning and rationality is the victim. our government is trading in fear, and too many people are buying.

Brandon,
There were more attacks on US assets around the world during the Clinton years than there has been during the last 6 years. We are only being attacked in Iraq and Afghanistan at this time, so saying that we are casuing the violence is ridiculous. We are doing what needs to be done, fighting this in their home and not ours. I could care less what people around the world think about us as long as I don’t have to worry about my kids everytime they step outside the door. Look what happens everytime Israel offers peace to the extremist.

news flash for the naive poster about putting iraq troops into afghanistan, the taliban did not regroup in afghanistan. they regrouped in pakistan, are you then suggesting we invade a sovereign nation? maybe overthrow pakistan? the troops in afghanistan have already disassembled the much vaunted non-spring offensive that was supposed to happen by the taliban.

well, at least we got a good look at a couple of them….if you see any of these unfreindly little fellows around contact the fbi.

If you wonder why we are in the situation we are in now, don’t look only at George Bush. It is the fault of the idiots who post on this site, and their ilk, and elected him. I have never heard such complete stupidity in all my life.
Point One: George “Alright, you’ve covered your ass now” Bush ignored warnings about 9/11, and could have prevented it. Point Two: Hatred harbored by extremist groups in the Mid-East has spread like wild-fire, thanks to George Bush’s false wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Point Three: George “the Bonehead” Bush’s total support for Israel is like pouring gasoline on a fire in the Middle East. Point Four: It has been almost six years, SIX YEARS, since 9/11, and our borders are no safer than they ever were. Why? Because our billions and billions of tax dollars are not going to beefing up security here. It is going to “spreading democracy” in Iraq, and making George “I spent the Vietnam War in the ‘reserves’” Bush feel like a man by making his friends richer.
So those of you who are running around in a panic now, look in the mirror for the person who is to blame for the current situation.

To the ever-incorrect fellow named Jack:
When will you liberals ever be intellectually honest about Iraq? False pretenses? Every one of the reasons for going into Iraq has panned out. They have found over 500 instances of weaponized bio/chem weapons. Al Qaeda WAS already in Iraq. There are tapes and documents from the Saddam regime that prove he was playing a shell game with the weapons inspectors. In fact, David Kaye, the last idiot in charge of that fiasco, told his people to ignore documents and concentrate of finding actual weapons, which were moved, hidden or destroyed, given the fact that, thanks to the idiot democRats and the UN, Iraq had 18 months to do something about it.
There were 3 separate hearing held on the subject of Iraq. Two by our Congress and one by the Brits. In all three cases they established that NO ONE lied about WMD or “sexed up” the intelligence. Guys like you, who pay too much attention to the agenda driven media, don’t bother to find all the facts so you don’t have enough information to make an intelligent assessment of the situation.

This is just AQ Propaganda/psy ops. You’re doing exactly what they want you to do – get all spun up. That’s what terrorists do.
By the way, have you ever considered that your political infighting is exactly what they want?

While all of you idiots are sitting here arguing over whose fault it is, or why is this happening, etc., you have suicide bombers preparing to attack. Regardless of what happened in the past or who is at fault is irrevelant. We need to deal with this problem, now! Repubican or Democrat, Liberal or conservative, for or against Islam, we will all be dead just the same if we take no action.

Hey George? Where’s Bin Laden?
Worst President. Ever.

Did they play Pomp and Circumstance at the ceremony?

This is a lie. If suicide bombers are coming to America, they were sent by the CIA. This is definitely fear mongering by the globalists and we are very close to martial law in America. If bombs go off in the United States, they will be American explosives set by black ops people from the American government. Be very afraid.

the barbarians are at the gates

this is becoming a weekly event. ABC news pumping out some BS fear propaganda. i’m sure giuliani is salivating. are we code red yet? hahahhaha…what a joke.
i will admint it is amusing reading the “sheep” comments. some of you are acting like the bombs have already gone off.

What will the liberals use as an excuse when Bush is out of office? You guys secretely love having him in there so you can have your little rallies, and Bush bashing, and media friendly jokes. Face it, the problems over seas are there if Bush is in office or not. Don’t think that Obama or Clinton get elected and all of a sudden the world changes. Come off the anti-Bush attitude. Remember, not too many war-time presidents have been thought highly of. Don’t forget to comment on how your congress is divided within itself, and getting nothing accomplished. We have a problem in the middle east. Let our leaders, do just that…. Lead our Country.

those of you who say we didn’t create radical islam need to read a book. Iran, 1953. Look it up. We removed the democratically elected leader of Iran, and replaced him with the Shah, a brutal dictator. Why? Because Iran wanted to nationalize their OWN natural resources so that foreign comapanies, mainly BP, would not take all of the profit away from their people. The backlash was the formation of the radical Shiite system in Iran and Ayatollah Khomeini.
War and giving away our civil liberties is not the answer to our problems. Diplomacy and money is. People with full bellies and security at home don’t become radical and want to suicide bomb you.
All of you who want to go to war so badly with Iran and the rest of the middle east, go to your recruiter and join up. The top age is now 44 years old for the Army. Get to it! And anyone who says I need to go, I already have.

“U.S. intelligence officials described the event as another example of “an aggressive and sophisticated propaganda campaign.”"
By running this article ABC is participating as a tool of the terrorist propaganda campaign.
I almost wish we WOULD be attacked again, just to remind people that this is SERIOUS and REAL.

“Pentagon hires ABC NEWS reporter to improve PR”
Good job ABC, you are quickly doing their work for them, bully for you! Keep up the great work comrades!

Interesting that this is big news now. I know a few years ago a friend was getting ready to reenlist, he served in the first gulf war. He was told by a family member, a Colonel, that if he wanted to serve his country and protect americans to join a police or local force as the terrorists were here.

Let’s keep those borders open, by all means, Senators! Idiots.

I find alot of these comments that blame Bush funny. Also the comments about how the ” world ” hates us. France and Germany are tasting what we could be tasting if we don’t lock the borders and keep the fight over there. It is also interesting that both of those countries had their elections recently and, what this…..Both elected pro American leaders…..Hmmmm….It’s almost like they are thinking of trying to start a friendship with us cuz they know how wrong they were for not listening and following our example!

Anyone notice the white cars with the blue siren lights in the background? Those are Afgani Police cars. IM sure, there are more pics of those cars and one could track down those cars. Track down who has driven them…….Basic detective work needs to be done over there and you will get some superior intelligence out of this.

Although we did not create al qaeda, we have aided them recently. This war in Iraq has emboldened these disgusting terrorists in Afghanistan by creating additional funding bases and by serving as a place where terrorists can train in terrorist tactics. According to the CIA, unfortunately it has also developed a whole new generation of terrorists in the region as well.

Anyone who believes that the United States/Britain being involved in Iraq/ Afghanistan did not inflame the hatred towards the two former countries is completely insane. Surely these muslim extremists harbored a great deal of hatred for America before 9.11, but our futile attempts at stomping out hatred(terrorism) through our failed conquests only made matters much, much worse. I’m not sure why i’m even posting, however, because all people seem to understand on these boards is partisan banter that fits a perfect conservative/liberal mold. I must either hate bush on principal or blindly back him? Rubbish. Having said that, if this above story ends up being true, expect civil rights to take a huge turn for the worse… imagine a society fearing to use mass transit or walk safely in its large cities…I should think we’d start to relate a bit more with Israel. Bush’s ratings would surely drop…but you can’t blame him for their hatred and willingness to suicide bomb….only for a poorly executed policy in a region of the world that has hated us for a long time and now hates us even more.

“Once we start to question our government and the system of power we are all a part of, in my opinion, the terrorists are winning. They hate democracy and what we are, if we don’t have one vision about what to do and stand behind it 100%, they are getting what they want.”
quite possible the stupidest thing i’ve heard all day. what does democracy mean if not the freedom to question?

question was: “why not yell at/against the idiots who send these young children out to commit these missions?”
Answer is: because they are not spending billions of our tax dollars supporting Halliburton, oops, I mean “fighting terror”.

Relax, no one is getting in to bomb anyone. Their bluster is far worse than their bite. Just look at those fools at the “graduation” ceremony…a bunch of worthless nuts who live in caves.

I knew it was going to happen………We have to fight a war with our hands tied while the enemy doesn’t care who or how they kill.

Thanks, W, for killing off as many as you have. Not our fault that those people have such a warped view of life and the world. Will be our fault if we don’t try to destroy the lunatics before they can harm innocent bystanders. And, yes, I know that from their point of view there are no such things as “innocent” Americans. But their point of view is wrong.

yall are not realizing that this is just AMERICAN propaganda being fed to you so that in a few months when the U.S. Gov does a suicide attack within the states, the sheeple will believe it.
Expect the Iran conflict in no time…and im sure martial law.
see you in the civilian work camps (look it up)!

And the congressional leadership is worried about what? Missing emails from low level Whitehouse staffers!!!

W has made a complete mess of the middle east. their legacy will go on for along time which is a crying shame.

Odd that another terrorism meme appears the same news cycle that the White House destroyed all their emails.
This show is getting old and sad at this point.

Perhaps we should remember our { U.S.} history. Since the inception of this country the wealthy and the politicians have practiced a policy of manifest destiny {God gives us the right to conquer any and all we come across and take what is theirs} this policy has turned every country, even our so called allies against us. this policy is not nor was not the the single purview of the U.S. Every country in the past has practiced it. Long story Short there would be no terrorist if we had not tried to rule the entire word and practiced empire ism. an old history buff.

George W. Bush has created more terrorists than Osama bin Laden could have ever created in his wildest jihad dreams.

Well, I guess we need to set a timetable when we will need to pull out of the US too! It sort of makes sense that the terrorists want to come here. So many people now are demanding defeat in the fight against terrorism. The terrorists have to feel pretty powerful against those people right now, knowing that there are a good number of people willing to give up to them.

What the hell is taking them so long anyway? I’ve had my bunker made since November 2001. I’m getting tired of replacing all that food every 8 months.
Lets go already.

What – you’re not really buying this are you? Anything this administration says should be triple checked and left in the sun for a few days to see if it passes the smell test. Karl Rove’s emails were deleted, that’s a crime, time to create a distraction. Oh, look over there – it’s a terrorist – run for your lives.
Don’t be so damn gullible.

Wasn’t it Dick Cheney saying that the proof that they were doing a good job is the decrease in terrorism in the US? Funny, how we never count the Anthrax attack or the El Al shooting at LAX as terrorism. As for this story, probably leaked by the Bush administration to try to scare everyone back into submission.

Watch out, next Bush will blame Global Warming, herpes, and teen pregnancy on Iran and “radical Islam”. Our real problem is idiotic Americans who think they can be President. Bush is America’s greatest threat to national security and our future. He is a criminal, a traitor, and a war criminal, and must be brought to justice.

If it takes 3000 innocent American deaths in an single instant to win all that great ‘love’ and ‘sympathy’ from the world, then you, and the world, can take it and stuff it.
Doing the right thing is rarely popular… espically with a socialist democrat party and a complicit media. Don’t think we’ve forgot how you libs acted towards Reagan at the time. He gets the props these days, but back in the day he was treated like the stupid, cowboy, right-wing warmonger profiteer and out control capitalistic maniac — that Bush gets painted with today (he just doesn’t defend himself from it nearly as well as Ronaldus Maximus did)

Seems like strong 2nd amendment rights and assault rifles would come handy now. Considering our Army and National Guard are in Iraq.

I don’t know who scares me more – the Muslim fundamentalist terrorists or the right wing neocon nutjobs who keep opening up new fronts for the enemy to fight us.

Let’s see now, these suicide bombers were trained in Pakistan, who are our friends; the 9/11 bombers were from Saudi Arabia, who were our friends. So what did we do? Invade Iraq. Yeah, that’s the ticket!

Gee B Duncab….and I suppose the picture used in the article was taken in the same studio that was used when they faked the moon landings…

Per Brandon, “The problem today is everyone hates us. Not just the extremists who have always hated the US for our freedoms, but people in countries that have been long term allies now despise us for our empiricism.” I think you meant ‘imperialism’. The entire world – not just the ‘extremists’ – has detested the United States since it became the dominant power following World War II. It is despised out of envy – of our freedoms, of our wealth, of our power, of our influence around the world – pure and simple. This irrational envy and hatred have been directed at every great power by all the lesser powers since the Roman Empire. Just ask the British. We are the greatest, most generous and benevolent people that have ever existed. The votes at the ‘United Nations’ from the last 50 years should tell you everything you need to know about how the entire world, including the non-extremists, has viewed us for the last half century, no matter how generous we try to be. We cannot and will not be loved, but who cares?

After all these stupid, ignorant, racist attacks I’ve read; it’s no wonder our nation is suffering. Thousands of innocent civilians butchered in Iraq. God save us for our sins.

Cindy:
I guess that’s why even Al Gore said Saddam was involved with terrorism, eh?
Posted by: KenHorse
Is taking something that was said 15 years ago out of context the best you can do? Hope that helps your party in 08!!!
The quote you are referring to is from 1992. There were 10 years of UN sanctions and inspections in between the time Gore said it and the time GWB said it.
Maybe GWB’s problem was that he was still looking at intelligence from 1992 (which would not surprise me one bit).

Let’s put this in a more reasonable perspective:
1. Americas are more likely to be struck by lightning than to be attacked by Islamic terrorists.
2. Islamic terrorists are dangerous and we should constantly be on guard. We have many other worries also, like disease pandemics that can’t be controlled with existing antibiotics. But we can’t live our lives in constant fear. Where fear rules, fascism thrives.
3. The incompetent and bull-headed policies of Bush have made terrorist attacks on Americans more likely.
4. The statement, “We have to fight them over there so we won’t have to fight them over there,” is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Whether we fight them over there or not is totally unrelated as to whether we might ever have to fight them here.
5. The invasion of Iraq has weakened and depleted our military. It has caused us to lose allies all over the world.
6. Islam is not an evil religion. Is as unfair to say Moslems are evil, because of Jihadist terrorists; just as it is unfair to say Christians are evil because Adolf Hitler was a Christian.

Ummm, to echo what several have already said, gee, wish we had BORDER SECURITY!
And the people who say America needs to repent: Please! give me a break. In what way hasn’t America “repented”? Are you even partially aware of your surroundings? (Ironically, the things we offer as repentance actually do more harm than good, but that’s irrelevant.) This country is so insanely repentant for being America that we’re practically handing ourselves off to the first taker with a sparkly eye and winning smile. Whoops, we hurt some feelings in the past, so now we’re not going to stand up for anything. We’ve apologized and kissed the ground and Politically Corrected ourselves to near extinction. And for some reason you think that God has chosen to use terrorists to punish us? Guess what, they don’t care what we do or think, they just want us dead. They have global domination in mind, and apparently we’re just going to roll over and play dead. What’s it going to take for people to wake up and realize what’s at stake? It’s like the country as a whole suffers from some demented form of mass amnesia.

Isn’t it curious that the same day the missing white house emails is news the story gets upstaged by the THREAT of suicide bombers. Fear works wonders for this administration.
Oh yeah if you support this war and the workings of Bush and company then put your money where your mouth is and go to Iraq and fight the war you so strongly bel;ive in

The terrorists are at it again. Iraq and Iran are countries but the terrorists are fundamentalists of Islamic origin arising from many countries including not only Iraq and Iran but western countries.
Whether we were in Iraq or Afghanistan, makes no difference. The USS Cole, the embassy in Somalia and of course 911 were events of tragedy for Americans long before we were in Iraq or Afghanistan. The Islamic fundamentalists believes that he is in a religious war with Western decadence. This jihadist view occurred long before these terrorist activities.
Wake up now because we are not in a school yard brawl, this is actually a war for the future direction of the world.

Oh please.
If you buy into this in the first place, these guys have been coming to get us every couple of months for the last 6 years since 9/11.
It’s the phantom menace. The Boogie Man. Our never ending unwin-able/unlose-able war.
Which of the exposed terrorist plots captured by any of the “coalition” homeland security agencies have actually panned out to be genuine threats that could face up to even minor investigations?
If you said “none”, you would be correct.

Propaganda just in time for Bush’s lowest approval ratings. You’re all sheep for buying into this BS. The timing is perfect and it just so happens when he is doing his worst, like always.
Wake up you drones, there are no bad men training to kill us, continue to go about your lives watching American Idol and NASCAR. Surely you can find time to understand this while on vacation from your 40-hr slave labor middle-class jobs. You are the working dead and Bush’s generation needs to go, so the 20 & 30-something youth can run the country. Greed has turned America into a wasteland thanks to those over the age of 45…
If you’re not one of them, you’re just as guilty for sitting back and allowing them to manipulate you with fear and promises of change.

Guerrilla marketing campaign by Halliburton and Chevron Texaco… It’s just good business, ask Rudy!

Hey liberal morons, WTC 1993, USS Cole? and you thank W? Thank Clinton! Or do you deny those events even occurred. They are coming again…and they will keep coming no matter who runs the country..or haven’t you figured that out yet?

The big problem I have with the open border policy that allows this infiltration is that it shows that Bush and LCinton have NO LOVE for America. They only love money, power and helping their rich buddies get more rich through granting cheap labor (i.e illegals) to big business along with many other special favors they grant to their greedy freinds.

If all Muslims are as radical as you far right wingers say, and we are in jeopardy of an internal attach – why has’t the far right wing deported every last one of them over the past 6 years since 9/11? You had the politcial power and mandate to do so. You owned all three branches of government. Why are you so suddenly fearful now? Where have you been for 6 years? Why are you so worried about the border all of a sudden when I have been screaming about it being like swiss cheese for 5 years. And I am (in your eyes) a liberal. This whole sudden terrorist scare is all about getting your dam* border to keep the Mexicans out. You are so pathetic!

I wonder what Paris Hilton is up to?

When you hear people worry about us creating more terrorists by having troops in in Iraq now are forgetting that we have had bases all over the middle east for years including Saudi Arabia. The 9/11 attacks happened for reasons that go back to 1949 when the western powers created an all new map of the middle east and there will always be those who want to do the west harm.
We need to confront it now while we still have the power to do it becaus if we don’t it will never stop no matter how much we try to make nice. Don’t be so affraid of some crazy polls, the Europeans are starting to understand the dangers and are electing leaders who will protect them.

CIA? You trust the CIA?
Why didn’t we go after the actual perpetrators of 9/11? The Saudis…
It’s sad to see so much ignorance and name calling in these types of threads. Left, right, neocon, liberal… all labels meaning nothing…

As I read each of these letters I’m struck by how determined everyone seems to continue warring at any cost. The torture and imprisonment, the murder of innocent civilians, and the destruction of entire nations are apparently a small price to pay in all of your eyes. Before Bush is finished he will turn the entire world against us and we will never live without fear again.

@B Duncab. You did read the last
say 100 posts on this site didn’t you?
Oh guess not go back and read the “blame bush” sarcastic one. Yes
ABC news is run by the President B. (READ:SARCASM). THIS IS PROPAGANDA?
What do you HONESTLY believe that?
If you believe that we sent a news crew
out there and those people are not real (the terrorists) then you are one brain washed person. I hope you seek help.
For America’s sake.

OK, I read the article. It claims that the “graduation ceremony” was in Afghanistan..it does not indicate where the suicide people trained. They could have trained in downtown LA for all we know. Whether its propaganda or the real deal misses the point. There are people that want us dead because we are American. They would take the same amount of glee sawing off Rosie O’Donald’s head as they would Michael Savage’s. They really don’t care if they kill an innocent chistian or a muslim as long as it suits their purpose for power. Somebody up there was pulling numbers out of their butt on how many people have died. Most of them, whatever the number is, were killed by terrorists that claim to be muslims. They were killing each other long before we got there…remember Sadam? President Bush understands this. His only mistake was listening to some wienees about doing a halfway job in Afghanistan (we are still there by the way) and Iraq. He sould have gone after a few in the press and congress on treason charges too, but it wouldn’t have changed anything. The only way we are going to get it done is to get out of the way and let our military do what they are trained to do. I’m not thrilled with the prospect of terror cells in the States, or a liberal socialist being the next President, but I am ready for both if they happen. If they want to come over here I say, go for it. I’ll kick their behinds or die trying.

I have complete faith that the President will continue to protect the American people as he has done in the past. This threat will pass as Bush continues to unify the Middle East. Without such a strong leader this country would be in real trouble.

This is yet another reason why the War on Terror is not a “bumper sticker” like John Edwards says, and we need to continue to fight Muslim extremists where they are trained.

Hmmm, I wonder what would be easier, training and smuggling 300 people into foreign counties or making a video….

Seems to me that we should all forget about our political parties and realize we are ALL in this together, whether we like it or not. IMO, instead of our screwing around in Iraq, we should be in Afganistan looking for these murderers before they are able to carry out any more bombings. We never will catch Bin Laden; this is a guy who knows how to survive in the actual wilderness and that is why he will always illude us. And even if we do catch him, do you know any names of the people who will take his place? Neither do I. That is what’s so scary. Everyone who is name-calling, it’s the other parties fault, WHATEVER needs to get off their high horse and realize that this is going to affect ALL of us. Democrats and Republicans alike.

They can’t translate????????? Good job ABC.

Let them come, let them blow us up. Then we wait for the Dems to blame Bush… Then and only then will we get serious about this problem. As if 9/11 wasn’t enough. (Thanks Clinton) Read Mark Steyn’s Book ‘America Alone’. People respect force, and roll over weakness. With everything taken away from them, Germany was able to rebuild and almost take over all of Europe. Right now We have Strong people and a weak government. (and insane news outlets, the bias is sickening) Tell you what next election replace them all.
No more Bushes or Clintons or Obamas. We need a JFK or Reagan type now!!! I’m in Los Angeles, I know I’m on the list.

Otherwise intelligent people have told me the only reason we’re at war in Iraq is to enrich Bush and Cheney. There is no logic behind this contention, but it sounds good. It’s true that Cheney used to work for a company that got many of the jobs to rebuild Iraq after the invasion. It’s true that Bush used to make money in the oil business. Going to war in Iraq is the least logical action I can conceive to enrich these two men. If you really think these two men would invade a country and commit thousands of our soldiers to risking their lives solely to increase their capital worth, I know of some Nigerian money that is available to you if you would like to send me your savings account information.

“War never cured anything.” — yah, right.
That is, if you don’t include Nazism, Facisim, Totalitarianism, Communism, and… oh yah.. Slavery.
To the left — wake up already. Islamic extremism is NEXT on the list. And, don’t confuse Islamic extremism with Islam… its two different completely things.
The sooner the Left candidates start telling you the truth, the sooner you will understand what needs to be done.
This war was not brought on by us. It is not the fault of any party. So, stop blaming the right and get on with the job. Do what is RIGHT!

Enough with the fear mongering jackals!
Clearly, our beloved Republic is being led by incompetent fools, who act like the guy responsible for 9/11 isn’t of interest, and now, are so diplomatically or militarily inept that they can’t catch terrorism while or soon after it’s being planned on video!
Instead of accepting the scaring the American people into walling ourselves off like the Soviet Union, or giving up any more of our hard-won freedoms, perhaps we should take a moment and consider that the current regime in Washington has a penchant for failing on purpose so as to undertake sinister unAmerican tactics against the good American people?
In short, if you support a wall or this incompetent regime, you’re *worse* than the Commies of old!

Actually, Muslim extremists did not begin targeting the U.S. until Dubya’s father permanently stationed troops in Saudi “The home of Mecca!” Arabia, beginning with the first gulf war. So you can still blame a Bush…

Money is priority over security.
w has created many more terrorists by the Iraq occupation.
Read the NIE report.
Quit whining and grow a freaking spine.
Geez.

Jack you are right. I think people have had a hard time looking at the world situation as a war is because the press has not given it that wording. The press is calling it other things and most people don’t know it is WAR….

Didn’t that video look like a Monty Python sketch?
I was waiting for John Cleese to jump out and sa, “And now for something completely different…”

They graduate in June as well. Uh huh. Nothing more easily scared than a ‘Merican.

I don’t recall the U.S. being in Afghanistan before Sept. 11th, but I recall jets hitting buildings and thousands of truly innocent people being killed for doing nothing more than getting up in the morning and going to work.
We are at war people. None of us wanted this war, but we better get used to fighting it and stop pretending if we pull out they will leave us alone. I’m confident that it is better that we kill these blood thirsty madmen before they get the chance to come here and kill more Americans.

United States, Canada, Great Britain and Germany? I thought they only hated the US. Gee whiz can someone please tell the terrorists?
Bali, Philippines, etc., etc., etc is there no safe place? Why no there isn’t and there isn’t because terrorism is not about the US.

Hey, lets get a few of our guys wearing white hoods and take a picture. Then, lets get some media idiots to come watch. Now lets tell them we are going to go kill them and they will get scared and start blamming their president. Man, glad it didn’t work for the KKK.

Gee, and Bush said they would come from Iraq.
Wrong again, stupid Chimp.

oh sure…it’s Bush’s fault {Dr. Evil} rrriiiggghhhttt

Where the hell is a DAISY CUTTER when you need one?!!!

Let’s remember when we go to the poles for our next president. Do we really want to trust our security to the Democrats?

History– Terrorist around since time as we know it. It’s been are foreign Policy for decades. Read history in Middle East.

Here’s some research: We keep getting told that the Iraq War is being fought so that they don’t follow us over here. Well, looks like that’s just not the case, huh?
And, yes, 9/11 was W’s fault – he and his administration ignored repeated warnings, such as the 8/2001 paper titled, “Bin Laden determined to attack inside the US.” Think that might have a been a little hint? And his policies have enraged the Muslim world, just as our policies have enraged the Muslim world for the last 40 years!!!
Hmmm…wonder why Iran doesn’t trust us? Could it be because we supported the brutal Shah despite Iranians overwhelmingly being opposed to him? Or maybe it’s because we sold weapons to both Saddam and Iran during the 80′s in the hopes they’d kill each other off?
As for the rest of the Mid-East, perhaps people are stupid and they find it somewhat of a double-standard that the US runs it’s mouth about democracy but supports authoritarian regimes in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt. You know, they just might think that us Yanks are full of crap; that we’re really just out for our own good, the rest of the world be damned.

“The fruits of our evil labors are coming to bear and now innocent civilians will likely pay for the mistakes made by the leadership (or lack thereof) of our country.”
As opposed to the 3,000 innocent civilians that died before the ‘mistakes’ were made?

I say we turn Texas into one big security/prison complex. Then we can put George Bush, Dick Cheney, and all of the border paranoids in the state where they can be protected. Sweet Lord, I’ve never seen so many people terrified of other people like you so-called conservatives. Do you check under the bed after you say your prayers and before you turn out the lights?

Dems and Reps have a problem on their hands. You think we need to close the borders today. It is a Security thing. Laws people they work. I dont mind people coming to the US legally.

I see a bunch of ignorant rants here. There is nothing worse than a little knowledge, especially when it is accompanied with little understanding.
Dj and historian, thanks by the way.

andyin75067…as a hispanic…I must admit that was funny.
On another note, it is very sad to read some of the justifications posted for the hate islamist extremist have towards America. I felt like I was reading some Al Qaeda manual on how to justify their hate: Mosadegh, Saddam, Noriega, etc.
How sad!

YOU GUN OWNERS ARE HILLARIOUS..IF A CAR PULLS UP IN FRONT OF YOU AND BLOWS UP WHAT GOOD ARE YOUR GUNS GOING TO DO?? WE HAVE 150,000 HEAVILY AREMED TROOPS IN IRAQ AND WE STILL CAN’T PREVENT SUICIDAL BOMBERS..PUT YOUR PEE-SHOOTERS AWAY BEFORE YOU KILL SOME INNOCENT PERSON YOU THOUGHT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A SUICIDE BOMBER..CAN YOU SAY “OOPS”

What is this?
A bunch of people lamely waving little flags surrounded by armed guards?
Did these ‘suicide bombers’ seem that gung-ho to you?
This smells pretty suspicious to me.

Watch and pray, my friends…

Our soldiers have been getting wiped out in other countries since the 80′s. To say that Bush is the root of all problems is like ridiculous and short-sighted as well as partisan. If you really and truly believe that, you are a dangerous person to be around. How can you even deny there is a war on terror? Wake up – the culture war is here and we are at least lucky enough to get a warning before we have to change our lives to protect our way of life.

First of all, I’m not too worried about these guys doing a lot of damage beyond making a lot of people hyperventilate. The country is more vigilant now than is was pre-9/11, when Engineer George got caught asleep at the switch. Furthermore, if they think we’re having a tough time re-inventing Iraq, wait until they try to bend US to THEIR will.
And if you want to lay blame, there’s plenty to go around. Put it first on our side for Bush43′s Holy Crusade and Bush41′s cozying up to the oil-oozing Saud family. Bin Laden only knew us as the guys who helped drive the Soviets from Afghanistan before 41 put our troops into Saudi Arabia. That is not to exonerate UBL and his kind: their religiously-fueled tunnel vision gives them license in their minds to kill civilians for the cause, just as it does in the minds of our Western leaders. Sure doesn’t take much for a charismatic leader to whip up shallow thinkers into a frenzy, does it?
The real problem, equally endemic to both sides of this conflict, can be summed up in a single word: ignorance.

Y’know all those thousands of people who came lined the streets threw, flowers, and waved American Flags and kissed and hugged W. They were all Muslim. Albanians.
What a bunch of whiners. “Oh, I’m so scared!” “Let’s NUKE ‘EM ALL!!! Before they do it to us!!!”
You could bomb the whole world and slit every throat you fear and still you wouldn’t be safe and you know it.

I think most of the world agrees with me when I say that anybody who still supports Bush is either on the payroll or a brainless idiot.

Heckuva job.
So much for fightin’ ‘em over there so we don’t have to fight ‘em over here.
Any other the wingnut talking points left?
Maybe bombing innocent people in Iran will make them like us more.

“Yeah, it is definitely our president’s fault, muslim extremists did not harbor any hatred towards the west before Bush took office. (sarcarsm…) Do some research before posting here.”
Fool—do your own research. Clinton was the Prez for the first wtc bombing by muslim extremists.

I was stationed in Pakistan from 1955 to 1959, and I can state with certainty that Americans and Europeans were hated by a segment of the population even then.
I was stationed in Baghdad from mid 1965 until the 6 Day War broke out and we had to leave, and, believe me, many hated the Americans and Europeans even then, and many of our acquaintances were arrested during this period, and some were killed.
Anyone who believes that the hatred of the West by Arab fundamentalists is new, or the fault of any of our governments is a naif.

Thank how bad it will get when Mrs. Bill Clinton is elected by the lame brains of this once great nation

The 9/11 Commission Report defined the enemy as “worlwide Islamic Jihad.”
The members of the Commission were condemned as “libs,” just like every other thinking person in America at the time.
Better we fight “evil.” And don’t ask questions. After all, no military draft, no war tax, and zero oil conservation. What else could America ask of its Warrior in Chief?

There were more attacks on us under Clinton than the present administration. Get the facts, don’t be dumb.
Posted by: Thos Weatherby | Jun 18, 2007 5:55:22 PM
There are more attacks on “us” in Iraq any given single day than there were during the entire 8 year Clinton presidency. You are the one who is “dumb” and it is you who needs to “get the facts”.
Furthermore, no has claimed that Bush is responsible for creating radical Muslim terrorism. His polices, however, have made it much worse. Anyone who denies this is simply not living in reality.

I couldn’t understand why, if Allied Intelligence had all of this information, to include who’s brother was there and most probably the location of this terrorist graduation (from a Madrassa – most likely), why they didn’t destroy it with a massive airstrike….then I realized it was because the headlines would read CHILDREN KILLED BY US LED AIRSTRIKE ON SCHOOL.

everyone on this website is a political activiist and, yes, there are now 50 million political activists in U.S. There are no more voters left.

Ug, More fear mongering. The latest manufactured boogy-man, Islamic terrorists.
I’m far more concerned about the terrorists here in the US, the ones that planned and implemented 9-11, to great effect, to further the amount of money and power now concentrated in the MIC.
After creating a culture of fear & hate, which now permeates American society, it was easy to dupe the masses into going to ‘war’ with Iraq. Why are we there anyway? Oh yeah, among other things we’re attempting to control some of the last large oil reserves as global supplies began to decline. This is the economic reality the American people are unwilling to face – without access to lots of cheap oil our economy will implode.
We, as Americans are the #1 terrorists on the planet at this point. Those whom feel otherwise should brush up on recent history, especially our last 50 years of meddling in the ME. Even before the Iraq invasion these people has legitimate reasons to hate us – now after the mayhem and destruction in Iraq they have exponentially more reasons to hate us. We’ve killed and maimed far more people and families there then they’ll likely ever be able to reciprocate.
Now that we’ve sown the seeds of hate the consequences will be with us for decades. What comes around goes around.

Wow, I thought the war on terror was just a made-up slogan of the of the Bush administration…someone please wake up John Edwards so he can read this story.

It’s not that difficult to grasp.
When you go around starting wars, sooner or later the enemy is going to find a way to fight back.
What did we think the politics of panic would invite?

Anyone who feels this is the fault of this administration knows nothing of history. The notion that any side in a struggle is more noble than the other is ignorant. All conflicts are about shift in power and global influence AND neither side is ever innocent.

i don’t like the violence associated with our run ins with the islamic world, but i do like to see the clips of those peeps gathering, dancing around and yelling and shooting guns in the air while holding up mind blowingly large posters of an older fellow (it seems like it’s always the same guy too) and burning stuff.
i bet there’s a gigantic posters & go on every corner over there.

Everyone should read “Wild Fire”, by Nelson DeMille.

In reference to your pictures and story about suicide bombers coming to America, England and other places. Ask yourself this question: Is showing these pictures and telling this story helping the terrorist’s propaganda war? Terrorists thrive on media coverage and that’s why they provide you with video of the killing of American soldiers being blown up. Showing this stuff tells me that you have a contact that can pinpoint killers that need to be destroyed instead of photographed. Think about it when one of these nuts kills a bunch of Americans. You will no doubt blame it on the President even though these killers hit us at least 5 times before Bush took office. Your actions are helping the enemy. Shame on you.

Bush’s culpability lies in a criminal unwillingness to guard our borders. He has no moral authority to send our young men overseas to die in the war on terrorism when he is so criminally negligent in protecting our borders at home. I voted for this turkey twice, and I’m not sure now that Kerry wouldn’t have been better – and that’s not saying much.
Bush is the Republican version of Jimmy Carter.
An old veteran

why can conservatives see what is as plain as day: Bush has made the world much less safe with his reckless, stupid, vicious attack on a country that did not attack us. As a liberal I am sick of being to nice to say this: those who still support Bush are – stupid. his policy toward Iraq has been so stupid it hurts my head to even think about it. young Americans have died for nothing – except Haliburton. Any Democrat will do a better job than these fools have done. Invading Iraq is the worse decision any President has made since 1859. Bush caused this This is simple truth. Face facts Right wingers- once agian liberals were corect all along and conservatives were wrong. As far as Iraq goes – we told you so. If we get attacked here it is because liberals were not listened to.

Reading these comments reaffirms to me that so many Americans are extremely well hard-wired to just not get it.
They also reaffirm that the most likely outcome of twisted Muslim hatred and America’s refusal to acknowledge its causes will be to turn the US into a police state, and the rest of the world into an open-air prison/free-fire zone.
And so it will be, until the coming social and environmental collapse that will mercifully trigger our well-deserved species extinction.
Have a nice day :)

Wrong. The only people who hate us are those within our own country. The rest, including the terrorists, fear us.

Has anyone read the David Kay report?
Has anyone listened to VP Al Gore?
Both of these people railed about terrorists in Iraq.
My Question is what would you have done with the 10,000 tons of uranium, the us removed from Iraq after the war. What about the 5,000 tons which went to Iran?
Iraq has been linked to the Oklahoma city bombing and the 1st and 2nd world trade center bombings.
Also The US drove al-quada out of Afghanistan into Pakistan. Pakistan is an al-quada country. The projected deaths from invading pakistan was 75,000. People are screaming about 3,500
which is a terrible loss.

Better suspend habeas corpus, quick. If there’s another such video: martial law. All hail Dear Leader!

This kind of crap is exactly what Bush & Dick Cheney have been spouting for years, and is a key GOP talking point “if we don’t win over there, they will follow us home.”
Well, apparently, either way, they follow us home. That’s all the excuse this administration needs to declare marshal law and suspend elections.
ABC has been a platform and source of so much right-wing crap lately, it’s hard to know what to believe.

America needs to restore its Constitution and stop trying to build a world empire; the Founding Fathers warned us not to get involved in everyone’s political affairs because we would get drawn into them. We have troops stationed in more than 100 countries and our desire to take over the world is the main reason we are being attacked. If the US is serious about terrorism then our leaders should control the border NOW. How can President Bush talk about a global war on terror when our borders are wide open?

Its just a matter of time!

Just a hint of a threat and you cowards start posting about how its W’s fault. Since 9/11 most of the terrorists have been killed in Afganistan and Iraq. Instead of outrage at this you want George’s head. I guess you would rather have Barabas released.

Fear, Fear, Fear and more Fear. That is the only product that Bush and the Neocons and the GOP generally have to sell. Hopefully most Americans have stopped buying it.

The ONLY way to defeat this threat against our way of life is to take it to the enemy, not to deny the war even exists in the first place (a la Edwards’ bumper sticker comment.)
Posted by: Truth Ache | Jun 18, 2007 6:00:56 PM
That’s what we did in Iraq, take the fight to them. Is it working?

There were more attacks on us under Clinton than the present administration. Get the facts, don’t be dumb.
Posted by: Thos Weatherby | Jun 18, 2007 5:55:22 PM
There are more attacks on “us” in Iraq any given single day than there were during the entire 8 year Clinton presidency. You are the one who is “dumb” and it is you who needs to “get the facts”.
Furthermore, no has claimed that Bush is responsible for creating radical Muslim terrorism. His polices, however, have made it much worse. Anyone who denies this is simply not living in reality.

Since they have graduated maybe we can give them a “student visa” so that they can continue their studies here in the US.

Wow,
Too bad bush in 2002 outsourced bin-laden’s capture to the northern alliance that was made up of bin-laden allies.
What a blow to the Terrorists, if we would have actually captured bin-laden instead of giving them a giant requirement poster of “I told you So” by invading Iraq. I wonder how many terrorist trainees it would have deterred by having bin-laden’s head paraded around Times Square.
Sorry I know but, but, Clinton and the democrats hug bin-laden.
I wonder how many of you bushbots support bombing Pakistan whose unelected government not only harbors bin-laden and also A.Q.Kahn who sold N.Korea the plutonium and technology it needed to build it’s nukes that you all blame Clinton for?
I know that doesn’t fit in with your video game mentality, maybe you should release Adults win in the war on terror, children just die.

You people do not get it, OIL OIL OIL. No dependence on OIL = No Terorists. OIL is big business and money, Human life is secondary. If anything we should attack the Saudis they are the ones that attacked us NOT IRAQ. Get it.

I thought the World Trade Centers had been bombed before during President Clinton’s term by Muslim extremists.
The main reason the Muslim extremist hate the US is because of the US support of Israel.

After 9/11, shrub could have chosen to fight terrorism, or invade Iraq. What did he choose, shrubistas?

Don’t you get sick of their lousy propaganda!?! I say bring it on baby. You can only threaten the Western world that much, I think we are getting tired of them. Shut the borders.

Ok, the sarcasms getting a little old.
I’ll just say this. It’s not impossible to take a moderate person, and make them crazy. You probably consider yourselves moderates. If another country performed “Shock and Awe” on your city and then occupied you for four years while suicide bombers flourished and then (currently) is taking the rites to 2/3 of your countries resources, you might be upset. If in the process they destroyed your house, falsely imprisoned or abused a family member, or your family became displaced, you might get a little crazy.
I’m afraid if we keep on this path of finger pointing and arguing for violence we will know too well what what it feels like to have these limits pushed.

Bush did not create these problems. He inherited them from Clinton. I have been very upset with all administrations that our borders have not been secured in all these years, and that even though we gave them amnesty in ’86, a one time ‘fix it’, no one enforced the laws! This I do hold Bush accountable for, plus…where’s the fence and why are we still not enforcing the law…6 years after 922! I’m sick and tired of politicians ignoring US Citizens, and passing whatever laws they wish…to line their own pockets, at our expense! Write and call all of your representatives and tell them to secure the border, enforce current laws. Make no changes even in guest worker programs for at least 2 years!

Think you guys are right on–sticking our head in the sand got us 9/11–while a war was not the answer, it kept them running, and gave ‘em something to worry about! The point is, it is not longer the isolationist world we once were safe in–these nuts need to be stopped…how its done is the question we need to ask. Yes, this is a war–maybe not the Iraq one, but war all the same.

Gee, sure am glad we sealed off the borders right after 9/11. /sarcasm

They wouldn’t want to do this were it not for global warming!

Wow, so many folks here are in complete denial! Wasn’t brought on by the current administration? Sure, suicide bombers have been around for a long, long, long time, but if anyone can tell me why we’re hearing the US being targeted NOW as opposed to 30 years ago – if as some here claim “they hate us for who we are”, I’d love to hear it. The fact is the invasion of Iraq was the last straw for many people in the Middle East, and now we know what we can expect of Bush’s grand plan for oil, er, I mean freedom and democracy over there.

I thought we had to fight them “over there” so they wouldn’t get us “over here”?

Why is it liberals can’t remember that 9/11, the attack on the USS Cole, the embassy bombings, etc, happened BEFORE we went into Iraq or before President Bush got into the White House?
Radical Islam is at war with us regardless of who is President. They hate us because of who we are.

“Nice Going W” my left foot! Was W president in 1993 when CLINTON got the WTC bombed? How about 95, 97, or 98 when the Embassies and the Air Force Barracks got bombed? Was W president when the USS Cole got bombed in 2000?…You liberal idiots need some new material.

“I do not know which weapons will be used to fight World War 3, but i can tell you World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones”.. albert Einstein

Interesting that the people who are the most afraid of these terrorists are the Conservatives posting here. I thought you guys were supposed to be the tough ones, the ‘strong on defense’ people, not bleating, scared sheep.
Conservatives seem to like wallowing in fear, playing out scenario after scenario that they’ve concocted from watching too much of Fox’s “24″.
They would have a dictator, they would install a king in this Country to ‘protect’ us all from a pack of gnats.
Make no mistake; that’s what those Islamists out in the deserts of Afghanistan are compared to us; gnats.
We could kill every living thing in Afghanistan down to the last blade of grass, and leave the buildings. We haven’t.
Because it would be inhumane.
And not very profitable.
The point isn’t that they hated us before Bush; it’s that he’s mishandled the situation so badly, that somehow these dullards are still able, five years in to our direct involvement, to have a graduation ceremony and invite journalists to cover it.
They might bite us, but they can NEVER defeat the United States. Not ever.
The only way to destroy the US is for us to do it ourselves, in the name of fighting an over-hyped threat.
That’s right; terrorism is a) a tactic, not an enemy and b) it’s over-hyped by demagogues who would use the threat to consolidate power.
You know, like Bush has done again, and again, and again, and again.

A few facts to digest-
These terrorists are going after Brits, Americans, Canadians, and Germans. 2 out of 4 of those nations didnt paticipate or approve of the Iraq invasion or occupation.
Secondly, these videos were shot in Pakistan. If invading the desert land of Iraq, run by a hated dictator, and with a dozen UN resolutions justifying it was frought with stupidity- what would you call invading the most ruggedly mountainous area in the world where EVERY hand is turned against us and the ‘lawful’ government has nuclear weapons?
Please try to incoporate at least a shred of logical coherance into your rants against Bush. What he did might have been stupid and was certainly botched, but what some of you are suggesting as the ‘obvious’ alternative is flat out moronic.

when I was a teenager, planes where being hi-jacked, embassies bombed, marines killed in their barracks, and who knows what, what I can tell you since then, we have issues. Everbody who believes in freedom is not no more. It’s gone. Who ever want’s their freedom back will have to fight like our ancestors did. Our soldiers shouldn’t have do all the work for us, we should do something ourselves as well.

Well we had a nice little 25 year old break, and now the true test is do we even have a clue on how to handle this situation like our Grandparents had to do.
We just want our American Idol and great Cabernet from Napa. Don’t bother us ..we just want gas for 2 bucks a gallon and chicks on the Net. I prayed it wouldn’t take getting hit a second time to WAKE UP…boy ,are we are our own worse enemy. We’ll let em in,do some clean up ,then we’ll get that old guy to sing ….PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN.

There a lot of short memories out there.
Remember when the first President Bush decided to end the first Gulf War and not go after Saddam? If he had done so, what’s happening now would have happened then. The first President Bush was continuously bashed by the media for not taking out Saddam.
Yes, Iraq is a disaster. But, CIA Director George Tenet testified before Congress that Saddam had WMDs and was trying to acquire nuclear capability. Now, Tenet is back peddling in his new book. British, French, Israeli, US intelligence all said Saddam had WMDs. President Clinton did nothing after the attack on the USS Cole, and the US Embassy in Kenya. The 9/11 attacks were being planned before the 2000 election. Remember?
The terrorists know that we are a divided nation. They know we have neither the stomach or the will to carry on a long term struggle. Bin Laden once said that he would not attack the US if we dropped our support of Israel and if we all converted to Islam. All things considered, I recommend a crash course in Arabic and the Koran.

Me thinks that common sense has been hijacked.

From CINDY: “Remove the troops from Iraq put them in Afghanistan and get the job done once and for all.”
Wow. All them terrorists are just sitting around in Afghanistan, waiting to be blown to pieces, but we’re to busy in Iraq to take the time to do it?
Folks – there are millions of extremely devoted islamist terrorists on the planet. The believe God (Allah) desires they kill anyone who does not believe what they believe. They’re willing to die for their beliefs, and that Allah will reward them. It’s really quite that simple – and that hard. They don’t just hang around on street corners like gangsters guarding turf. They’ve been attacking the West for many decades and they are well-hidden and well-funded. To think we could just swarm into Afghanistan and end it all in one big operation is foolish at best.
Until the Muslim world routes the evil out of their own ranks – the mullahs and other fanatics who sponsor these death eaters – the world will be at war with them. Get used to it, because right now the world is full of fools and cowards who think this really isn’t a global threat to mankind.

Seems to me that I remember something about Munich too. I believe that the year was 1972… I guess that W was already born by then… must have been his fault too!

To Blame President Bush for suicide bombers is like blaming the rooster for the sunrise. Suicide bombers predate Bush by about fifty-five years, if you include the Japanese.
A weak country tears itself apart when confronted by evil. We have become such a country thanks to media and critics who truly ignore the truth and replace it with moral relativism.
The ignorance of the posts above is consistent with brainwashing. Read them all–they all have the same points throughout, right and left.
If we had fought this war united, it would be over by now. We have the government we deserve, on the left and right, and thus we have the results we deserve in Iraq.
The threat is real.

Yes, let’s talk about terrorist attacks before W’s watch. Let’s go all the way back to October 23 1983, When Ronald Reagan was president. On that day in Beirut, Lebanon, a suicide bomber drove a truck into a U.S. Marine barracks, detonating explosives with the force of 12,000 pounds of TNT. The death toll was 241 American servicemen: 220 Marines, 18 Navy personnel and 3 Army soldiers. Sixty Americans were injured. In a simultaneous attack on a French barracks, 58 paratroopers were killed and 15 injured.
And what did Reagan, the ultimate conservative godhead do? Other than a few shellings, there was virtually no retaliation by Americans for the Beirut bombing. Talk about emboldening your enemy!
241 Americans killed, in the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima (2,500 in one day) in WWII, and the deadliest single-day death toll for the American G.I.s since the 243 killed on the first day of the Tet Offensive in Vietnam in 1968.
Reagan. Did. Nothing.

I have not read one comment about what motivates these people. They are the true Muslims. They believe they are obligated to either subjugate us and make us pay dhimmitude (thats basically a tax for serfs), convert us, or kill us. This was revealed 1400 years ago. This has nothing to do with Bush or Clinton or any US policy.
For those leftist apoligists here who say Islam is a peaceful religion because of a sura that says, “respect the people of the book,” do your homework. Allah said that when any revelation given contradicts a previous revelation, the later is to be followed. This is called abrogation. the sura above was a Meccan revelation, followed later by a revelation telling Mohammed, “strike their heads off where you find them.”
They don’t care if your republican or democrat. We are infedels, polytheists, and debaucherous liberals. They want to kill us all.

Dude, simply mix their body parts with some pork and feed it to the live pigs. Once that gets back to the Muslims, the trip to paradise will not be so clear. Use their religious superstition against them. It works much better than a jdam. Duh!

Well, if the terrorists are coming to the U.S. to do some bombing, then our Government must protect us! I should think that: First order of business in order to protect all Americans will be to immediately ban all guns, both handguns and rifles (sporting or assault). This will make it easy to identify the bad guys. Second: increase the Homeland Security mandate with massive funding in order to make all of American much safer while giving the needed funds to increase border security by 50 or 60 special border agents. This should stop the bombers COLD as they attempt to infiltrate America. Third: Bomb Iran immediately, because they might get “The Bomb” in 10 years and have a long history of invading and bombing other countries like us and Israel. And besides, Israel wouldn’t like that very much that Iran might get the bomb. Fourth: Elect Hillary through whom as Commander and Chief of Empire America our power throughout the World will be omnipotent and flawless! Peace be on Earth!… but in case it isn’t prepare: Gladio

When are we as a nation going to realize that we cannot talk or reason with a extremist mentality. THEY HATE WHAT YOU ARE !!! We must be prepared to fight in the way World war two was fought. Mass casualties and in a very cruel nature. We cannot be the good guys and they (the terrorists) will not leave us alone if we are nice, Wake up America we are in a fight to the finish. Not all Musilims are like this but those that are will not stop until either we or they are destroyed.

These people are maniacal ignorant barbarians, living in the 14th century. The problem isn’t our foreign policies, the problem is them. And further aiding the problem and fueling their vitriol and murderous plans are comments for some Americans who divert blame from the terrorists, to us. Get real and wake up!

Hey folks, aren’t there suppose to be some suitcase nukes loose somewhere in the world? And what of the chemicals that can be made in the kitchen and the radium that can be scraped off of old glow in the dark Timex watches and made into a dirty bomb? If it can be thought of by some high school chemistry geek, it can be thought of by anyone.
Something I have noticed is our color code has not changed in a very, very, very long time.
If a team of non descript terrorists do make it into the US and do something, do you really think we could stop them?
I don’t blame our past or present governments for this mess. It’s always been rich versus poor (greed and power) or one religion versus another (envy and submission – my God is better than your Allah).

There’s a very good reason that the United States is the #1 terrorist target in the world, and that is American meddling and military intrusion in the Middle East prior to 2001.
Now the U.S. has decided to further escalate its aggression against muslims, which will of course lead to increased retaliatory attacks against USA, quite possibly with WMD

This is obviously the fault of the ACLU, gay marriage, and Michael Moore. Oh and also no prayer in public schools.

To suggest we’re the cause of Muslum extremist coming to the US to blow up Americans is pure stupidity!

The US didn’t invade Iraq because they had unusable 20 year old bio-chem shells buried and useless in the desert.
-GSD

The media directs the thoughts of many. The problem is that they are attacking the US government because we don’t kill people who don’t agree with the Peoples greater good. The other side does. So be safe media, attack our elected officials, promote propaganda as hard truth and praise the enemy.
The best part if one looks at history is the media will be the first executed if the opposition should win. I think if the media called a snake a snake terrorist couldn’t promote terror with immunity. But that would take guts.

Hilary will fix everything!(yeah right)
GO RED SOX

Johnny T writes:
“So for you morons coming out here trying to portray the US as Darth Vader’s Empire and terrorist jihadis as Luke Skywalker, you have serious mental and self-preservation problems.”
That is called a “straw man” argument. It’s performed often on Fox “News” and right-wing talk radio. Nobody ever says that we are bad and they are good, JohnnyT. Because the situation is more complicated (not simply black and white) than the way you describe it, it’s easier for you to put up a false and simplistic argument of your own design (a straw man), so you can easily and smugly knock it down.
JohnnyT writes:
“This a clash between civilization and barbarity. Which side are you on?”
That is called a “false choice.” Again, popularized on Fox “News” and right-wing talk radio. You frame a most complex argument in the most simplistic manner, then force the reader to make a yes or no decision, knowing that a volume of information must be given to flesh out the answer.
The answer is “terrorist jihadis” must be wiped off the face of the earth wherever and whenever they are found. The answer is the Bush Administration has exacerbated the situation, creating many more “terrorist jihadis” by torturing and killing their friends and relatives; building a base on sacred ground in Saudi Arabia during the run-up to the first Gulf War hasn’t helped matters (the Bush Administration decided to vacate it just days before Bush “declared victory” on the aircraft carrier, remember); invading Iraq to control its precious oil, sure hasn’t helped matters. Did I say “terrorist jihadis” should be wiped out wherever and whenever they are found? Oh, and why haven’t they been? In AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, and SAUDI ARABIA where they were when Bush invaded Iraq. Oh, by the way, where’s Osama?
Which side am I on? I’m not on the “terrorist jihadists’” side, and I’m sure as hell not on George W. Bush’s side. I’m on the side of the United States of America.

When are you chicken hawks going to enlist?
Cowards.

How are they going to get here swim or perhaps
take the Queen Mary? I thought homeland security had this covered. Maybe they will come in through Mexico as illegal immigrants or Canada as Candian Royal Mounted Police. I am still waiting for the attack of the killer bees.

Solution: if a reporter can attend a graduation ceremony of these terrorists, it can be spotted by satellite and weapons can target the swarm of lunatics. Kill them there. Kill them now. Before they come here and kill us. No term fits: world war, clash of civilizations, … It does not matter that we cannot define it. Like porn, you know a threat when it is there.

Gentlemen
whilst we sear each other, our leaders are sending aid and monies to the enemy of Western civilisation namely Abbas Fatah, the UN camps in Lebanon, Jordan and Gaza.
We are not punishing with prejudice the Saudi Arabian Govt (read Royal family), Pakistani ministers and some Egyptian, Syrian, Iranian officials who are all assisting the terrorists in some way.
Lets not forget Putin’s Russia and China who are trading behind the scenes and supplying munitions and aid to the Players supporting countries, knowing that they will pass on said munitions.
We need to gird our leader’s loins with exhortation and firm communications to do the above clearly and concisely NO MATTER their PARTY!
And if need be VOTE them OUT quickly.
No more wishy washy behaviour, we are at war and have been since the mid seventies with Militant Islam. Lets have clear polite firm conversation backed up with requisite force and sanction where it hurts and hurts quickly.
Lets start with pulling some of the financial plug on the UN and it’s anti American and Western civilisation bias.
Bully’s need a heads up before they take notice and depending on their size a swift kick in the rear to bring them to their knees.
We need to do this together.
MikeNZ

I don’t think I read anyone say that Islamo-terrorism started with George W. Bush… I HAVE heard people say that W. handled this war stupidly, and lied, and did it to beef up his own pockets… I agree… W. is most definitely a war criminal… And I am not ignorant and I do not think terrorism started with W. I just think he is an idiot. Ok so we are under attack by Islamic fundamentalists who want to destroy our country (for whatever reason, the reason is unimportant..if they mean what they say, the only question is what to do about it), and George W. invades Iraq?? Ok all you George W. lovers who think anyone who disagrees with his actions is “ignorant”, please tell me how invading Iraq is helping keep our country safe against Isalmic fundamentalists?? Please?? and without saying I am ignorant and terrorism didn’t start with Bush… we know – move along… and tell me what invading Iraq is doing?? Then tell me who is the guy in charge who WON’T nuke the middle east into the stone age… Same W. guy right??

SOLUTION to CHILD BOMBERS: All Muslim children entering the country receive their choice of a PS3, XBox360, Nintendo Wii. They’ll be too busy to kill themselves. OK so I’m being sarcastic BUT just think if we were able to to sway these kids minds with our savvy marketing skills. Oh I guess that still sounds sarcastic but I’m certain the gaming consoles would work.

the world and the middle east marches towards the abyss,and the night as well as many tears must fall before summers end. all of the press and the administrations focus in the wrong places as usual.
the immigration loopholes will surely come home to roost in the next series of terror attacks but it will not be mexican citizens or illegals who will carry them out in my opinion. asian or african(sudan) and algerian influences as well as chechen with russian kgb help will most likely be the culprit. I say all the immigrants..all nationalities should have the tough immigration rules apply!
we have focused merely on the mexican national to a point of frenzy and lack of focus. if you only knew how many asian nationals(korean,chinese,malaysian,thai and vietnamese )get easy passes as student visa material with sponsors,you would be genuinely surprised. this is where our real transport culpability will be in terms of aiding and abetting the above described terrorists are concerned. the triads and organized crime will aid them in the payoff to those saboteurs in my opinion.

Exclusive: Suicide Bomb Teams Sent to U.S., Europe
To bad the Amreican people have to learn the hard way……….
Common sensed should have told the American people reading the American rags that the rags were full of lies with an agenda………

It is to notice that the Bush supporters have been reduced to:
1) Hoping for massive terrorist attacks in America so that their opinions will be confirmed in their minds.
2) Hoping for the terrorists to attack “so-called” blue states.
3) Eagerly waiting for the day that they can “execute” members of the American media.
Sounds like America hating is the latest trend in Bush-bot world.
-GSD

I’m sure this is all just a big misunderstanding and their coming here to personally thank us for not bombing Pakistan so they could regroup in peace.

[[ They have found over 500 instances of weaponized bio/chem weapons. ]]
With the particularly deadly feature of being invisible?
Colin Powell said 8 days ago on Meet the Press that the WMD assertion was completely wrong, so just give it up please.
[[ they established that NO ONE lied about WMD or "sexed up" the intelligence. ]]
They in fact did, they talked about “mushroom clouds” when the CIA never said anything remotely resembling that.
And they repeatedly mentioned 9/11 and Saddam in the same sentence, in hopes that the people would walk away with the impression that Iraq was involved in attacking America

Someone posted here that Muslim extremists did not hate the US & the West before Bush took office!! How does he figure that? Who tried to topple the World Trade Center in 1993? It wasn’t a group of Swedish extremists.
Get a grip.
Muslim extremists are Muslim extremists; they have existed far back into history and they are to blame for much of the misery in the world today, particularly in the Muslim world. They are thugs on a level that the average American would not believe if confronted with them personally; they are evil incarnate and would cut off your head with a dull knife if they could.
By the way, the kind of beheadings carried out by Muslim extremists, many of which they have videotaped and delivered for broadcast in the Muslim world, involves this technique: the beheader deeply slices into the throat of the victim, severing the major arteries & veins into the skull, folds back the head that is now freed from muscles & tendons, and proceeds to hack away at the cervical spine and spinal cord until finally cutting the head free from the neck. Image such a person who would do that to a total stranger without blinking an eye.
Such is what we are dealing with. The worst of things done by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison pale in comparison to what Muslim extremists do every day to other Muslims.

Asymetric Warfare. Muslim terrorists kill innocent men, women and children – then run and hide under the skirts of their women. The West, in its innate mercy, holds restricts its retaliation -thereby giving the advantage to a bitter enemy.
I say that anyone who harbours terrorists is fair game. We are in a war of survival. I think it’s time to give THEM a big fat taste of asymetric warfare. It might give their friends in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and other places some cause to rethink their support of mass murderers.

Let’s make sure we get them before they get us. Be on the watch.

“I look forward to their arrival. These stupid morons won’t be able to put together the resources to pull off anything major, and most will simply get caught soon after they arrive. To hell with them.”
Posted by: Don H. | Jun 18, 2007 9:15:09 PM
All the phony “terrorist plots” that have been trumped up by the Bush Administration in the last 7 years sure has enabled us to form the kind of opinion you just described.
On the other hand, they tell us:
“Be afraid.” “We’ll protect you.” “Be afraid.” “We’ll protect you.” “Etc.”

Blowback sucks, don’t it?

There are no suicide bombers coming. If there was a real threat, we would seal our borders with Mexico and Canada and the flow of illegals would stop. When this is a real threat, you will see the army stationed on the border to repell the invaders.

Maybe Bush isn’t responsible for all of the radical Islamic hatred toward America… but he is certainly responsible for making sure the borders are strong enough for them to be unable to come across. If there are indeed suicide bombers on the way, and they strike and they will have come across the Mexican border, there will yet be blood on Bush’s hands (as well as most of Congress).

If any of these homicidal bombers get into the U.S. and kill anyone, the blood of the American citizens will be on the hands of the one’s in Governmental offices who have not SECURED our Borders and stopped immigration and visa programs. The “foolish” elected leaders and paid civil servants can’t “hear” the enemy as they speak! They tell us we are at “war” and our leaders and officials interpret that as “let’s not get to excited about it at all”! I say again, the American people will hold everyone from the President of the U.S. to the Congressmen and to the Civil Servants such as Homeland Security, FBI, CIA and ATF responsible for the blood that flows on our streets because they have “done” nothing to protect our people! We have all called for the borders to be closed, for a stop on all visa’s for entry into our Nation from oversea’s people seeking to come here unless there is ABSOLUTE knowledge of their background and purpose and then only limited time here with a knowledge of their presence at all times! WE ARE AT WAR! This is wartime status activity I am speaking about here. If we were at peace and did not have an enemy seeking to destroy our Nation and kill our people on the streets I would not advocate such matters! I call on the people to rise up and DEMAND with a loud voice the principles I have spoken of here in this article! NO vote for any person who doesn’t build fences, who doesn’t close the borders, who doesn’t use modern technology to track all illegals already here and round them up, and who do not support the Jail time and fine’s against all Corporate business and Individuals who hire and use illegal immigrants! That must be done now!! We have the enemy coming to our shores! Are you concerned or do you care about your life and your children and relatives?

“Such is what we are dealing with. The worst of things done by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison pale in comparison to what Muslim extremists do every day to other Muslims.”
Posted by: tramky | Jun 18, 2007 9:26:02 PM
This is a typical Republican argument: “They are bad, so what we do is not so bad if is not as bad as what they do.”
The point many fail to grasp is that when we do something bad, it is REALLY bad, because we have always held ourselves up to a higher standard; and when someone else does something bad, we can always call them on it–because we don’t do those things. I don’t know if you realize this yet, but thanks to Abu Ghraib, we can no longer say that. We can no longer tell others that we don’t do those things. And, when our soldiers are mistreated as prisoners, we can no longer claim “Geneva Conventions.” We have always held ourselves to a higher standard. That privilege is now gone.

This is what happens when we have an incompetent administration. Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney should be put in jail. Shame on them for what they have done to this country and the world.

I am typing this from under my bed so pluese excuse the typos. Did Brian say whether or not these guys are being sent on sail boats or row boats? I want to place a few bets in Vegas before the terrorists get us alllll and the answer to my question could have major implications as to how I bet..
Thanks for any reply…. Goodness gracious I am so afraid… gasp

God help the USA.

Whether you hate President Bush or not, no one wants to be attacked by some crazyed suicide idiot. Hopefully these guys are so dumb that they get caught without any of them getting over in Europe or the US.
The “shoe bomber” comes to mind here…

Unwrapping something for a yard sale this weekend, I found a page from the N.Y.Post, dated Aug 7, 1999. Catching my eye was an article titled, “BIN LADEN IS SET TO STRIKE AGAIN…..U.S.”
I believe Bubba Clinton was President at that time. Does he still claim he knew nothing about Bin Laden’s planned attacks on the U.S.? Do some of you Bush haters still believe that?

OK, to those that think this video is to goad us into an Iran war, let’s look at the facts before waving the PC propoganda that the terrorists are just misunderstood that need coddling and we should blame America for everything:
1. The training camp in the video is located in Pakistan, NOT Iran.
2. Pakistan is a nuclear club Islamic “ally” which has exported nuclear technology know how to Iran & Saddam era Iraq (remember all that documentation we found kiddies?).
3. Committing the amount of troops in Iraq to Afghanistan would not stop Osama and his cronies from cranking out suicide bombers in Pakistan, unless they crossed the border and destabilised the Musharaff government in Pakistan-which would have made Iraqi violence look like a trip to Disney land as you would have had Muslim sectarian violence, as well as India, China, & Russia pushing for a land grab in the region- all with nukes and advance combat weaponry up for grabs by terrorist organisations.
4. Musharaff has really no control over his north-western border which is where Osama and his cronies have established their hideouts and bases in the amount.

Well, we can count on a low turn out at their class reunions!

And the ignorant Dems like Kerry and Edwards continue to claim terrorism is an exagerated issue.

Blowback lol. Freaking morons. Was 911 Clinton Blowback?

We’re fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them here, right? Right?
If we leave Iraq, they’re going to come here, right? Right?
So we’re not leaving Iraq, and they’re coming here anyway, right?

And Brian Ross and the liberal media are now surprised that suicide teams are being dispatched to America and Europe. Ah, excuse me, but weren’t the 9/11 hijackers suicide teams? And we are still arguing about closing the borders. Folks, how do you think these guys are getting in here with their explosives and teams? hmmmmmm?? And Rick, this goes back way beyond W my friend! So when you say nice going W, the last time I looked the 9/11 bunch were in training long before Bush took office. You might want to read The Looming Tower to get a little bit of an insight into the mindset of the Islamofascists!

Since when does Richard Clarke tell the truth?

What we need is another Jack Pershing.

The sad thing is, even if we had another 9/11 I think liberals will continue not to understand what’s going on. They refuse to accept the fact that radical Islam is evil and wants to destroy us. We have to destroy them first.

No one hated us before 9/11. Ask the victims of the graduates of the School of the Americas or the Native Americans that died on the “Trail of Tears”, or the African Americans that survived the “Jim Crow” era. Or ask the Cubans under Baptista or the Grenadans or,,,oh hell who haven’t we pissed off. This has been coming for a looooong time, might as well get ready.

By their fruits ye shall know them, and this is the fruit of the Prince of Darkness, Richard Pearl, and the other Neocons. That is why I am voting for Ron Paul in 2008.

What a bunch of idiots posting comments here. Instilling FEAR is the way to take liberties away from citizens.

I am a liberal but a realist, I hate Bush but to blame him as the cause is silly. Muslim exstremists are just like white supremisists or Nazis they believe being Muslim is the only true way, and it is not only ok but required to kill non-muslims (they kill a lot of other muslims too by the way).
Bush failed completely to get Bin Laden, and should never have gone into Iraq if we had spent even 1/10th of what we spent in Iraq on Afganistan it would be a great example of the good that American is capable of, because of Bush’s failures we have become hated by the world and certianly did not help our cause…but Muslim exstremism is a cult and many other poor and opressed people respond in a constructive non-violent way with out such dogmatic hatred

12 year olds with suicide bomb vests? These people really love their children, don’t they?

Remember the Terrorists only have to be right once and we have to be right all the time…This is one American who is not willing to chance anything a second time…

Remember they only have to be right once…we have to be right all the time..This is one American who will NOT tolerate it a second time.

The day we get hit, and thousands die is the day we close the borders.

But, but, we’re fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them here. Bush promised they would only come here if we pulled out of Iraq. He’s always right about everything. This must be an erroneous story.

This report is not believeable and neither is Brian Ross. The man has a proven track record of lying.

Until people wake up and realize the real war is against Islamic Fundamentalists, more innocent Americans are going to die.
Stop blaming Bush. Who’s side are you on?

Yeah i heard godzilla is mad and making his way to tokyo too.
“Large teams of newly trained suicide bombers are being sent to the United States and Europe,”
yeah ok, wow! great to know that abc news has “Covert Insider Info” that people who are trained in such matters don’t know.
You people need to wake up.
assuming this won’t be “Cencored”

The Greatest Generation showed us the sacrifice that is required to ensure that evil doesn’t flourish. When our backs were to the wall, we stood up and acted. Do we still have it in us to live up to the example set by previous generations? One can only hope. Many don’t seem to realize that we are now involved in a similar struggle.
With information coming out that the Chinese and Iranians are sending weapons to the Taliban and North Korea ruled by a morally decadent pig, it becomes obvious that the world is definitely a more dangerous place. Throw in monetary backing by Venezuala and a Russian government that seems ever more belligerent and it becomes clear that the world is choosing sides. This one is going to be nasty but it’s evident that the pot is starting to bubble. It will call for great sacrifice before it is done and we are going to be called upon to step up and carry the banner once again. I hope you are ready.

After the terrorists blow up whatever they target, there will be 2 reactions.
1> See, I told the Americans invited this to US/UK/Germany
2> See, I told you we we’re in world war IV.
Which one do you think the terrorists would want on US TV? If you chose #1, then you basically are siding with Al-Qaida.
Sadly, you will see/hear #1, and nothing of #2. This isn’t a liberal/conservative issue…this is a life or death issue…what choice are you making by siding with Al Qaida? It isn’t life.

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” — B. Franklin

And the wheels of the fear business keep on turning… the more fear the media manufactures, the more readers and viewers it gets… the more fear the government manufactures, the easier its grip on power.
Have none of you read ’1984′? George Bush apparently views it as an instruction manual…

The point about W is simple. His policies have done nothing but worsen the terrorist threat to the US. He had world support and our support behind him and he blew it, and for what? Money and Power. W can care less about you nutty right wingers or my nutty left wingers, or anyone else for that matter, he simply cares about cash.

Aside from any political beliefs, we should all think about our children. We are witnessing the astounding effects of horrible decisions of ignorant men. Tell the children the truth. Stop the madness.

Who the hell is Brian Ross talking to in that photo at the top of this page? Are you telling me that he can’t even put the phone down so that someone can take a picture for his website? Or, is it that he is posing? Appearing to be a man of constant action. Always tracking down the story. Well, track this story down big Bri. No one is buying your action man picture. Why not try a 007 pose while you’re at it. And, what’s with the “Investigation Team?” Is that your crew of sidekicks? Can we see their pictures? PLEASE?!?!?

What we need to do is shut down immigration. By that, I mean, shut down immigration. I know that when I say “shut down immigration,” the meaning may not be clear, however, if you don’t want suicide bomber immigrants to take advantage of our immigration system, that means you have to SHUT DOWN IMMIGRATION. And by that, I mean, SHUT DOWN IMMIGRATION.

They know they can get through the Mexican/American borders, thanks Washington for not securing the borders!
How many more will die for the want of cheap laborers?
If they get here or are here now, which school will they walk into? Which mall?
Maybe a big sports event?
Our borders should have been under control right after 9/11, and laws enforced!

Hey GSD, Drudge is about as “right wing” as PBS. An independent media study performed by UCLA professors showed Drudge to actually lean to the left–probably because all Drudge does is mimic what appears in the mainstream press, which leans to the left.
Regarding Bush and terrorists, the left is going to blame Bush no matter what happens–even you lefties know this. It has nothing to do with conservatives believing Bush is without his issues. It’s just that to you guys EVERYTHING is his fault. If there are no terrorist attacks, he is exagerating the problem, if there are attacks it is because Bush antagonized Muslims. If oil prices go up, it’s Bush’s fault. When they come down, it has nothing to do with him. You chastise him for paying too much attention to Iraq while many on the left were against any action in Afghanistan as well. And let’s not forget Democrats chided Bush Sr. for not “taking out” Hussein in the first Gulf War, when H.W. Bush backed off to appease liberals. You lefties want it both ways all the time; you shouldn’t be allowed to get away with it.

Let’s hurry-up and surrender! I have more inportant stuff to do like watching
the Munster’s on TVLand

We will never again win a war as long as the numbers of civilian casualities are reported in the news. Is it or isn’t it WAR? In WAR innocent people get killed. Look how many innocent people died before Hitler and the Japanese were stopped. That’s the way war is and why it is so awful. The terrorists don’t care about the innocent people they kill or the innocent kids they use to kill other innocents. They kill anyone they can. We kill who we think are their military. What is so hard to understand? They play by different rules and with the help of our media, and our leaders who are perpetually running for re-election, they will win every time.

To those of you who talk about hunting terrorists in Afghanistan…
Bin Laden is probably not in Afghanistan. He is probably in Pakistan, and has probably been to Iran. Hmmmmm. I bet you wouldn’t be too happy to talk about war with Iran. There is no right and wrong country. We have to fight the terrorists wherever we have an opportunity to fight them…and right now it’s Iraq. We have had some success in disrupting Al Qaeda’s over all network by engaging them on a battlefield of OUR choosing.
By the way…Iran..the bombs will be dropping. Stand by and watch the fireworks. We will not fight a nuclear Iran…we will stop them before that happens. Not an all out war…just assets. Our war with Iran is primarily be fought as a proxy war in Israel.

My-oh-my, does anyone know of something more predictable (or fearsome) – Like the weather forecast for next week ?

The sky is falling. The sky is falling!
Yeah. We’ve been hearing this for 6 years now.

I’m sorry. Is Bill Clinton still President? Did he get the “BIN LADEN DETERMINED TO STRIKE IN US” briefing and then go clear brush and play some golf? Hmmm?
I WANT MY SIPPY CUP! Hillary probably stole it.

THOSE STUPID LIBERALS DOESN’T UNDERSTAND THAT AMERICA HAVE BEEN THREATEN BY A BUNCH OF MURDEROUS THUGS TRYING TO DESTROY THE WESTERN CIVILIZATION. G.W.BUSH WILL PROTECT AMERICA FROM THEM

[[ They have found over 500 instances of weaponized bio/chem weapons. ]]With the particularly deadly feature of being invisible? Colin Powell said 8 days ago on Meet the Press that the WMD assertion was completely wrong, so just give it up please. [[ they established that NO ONE lied about WMD or "sexed up" the intelligence. ]] They in fact did… in hopes that the people would walk away with the impression that Iraq was involved in attacking America.
First of all…the fact that THERE WERE WMD’s found in Iraq is not mitigated by Colin Powell’s statement. Secondly, an entire squadron of airplanes was found in the desert…buried…who can say that there never was WMD in Iraq. Third, the IAEA claimed back in July 2003 that much of the WMD had been moved to the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon in Water Trucks and buried near an airforce base controlled by Syria. Just because we haven’t found WMD doesn’t mean it didn’t exist, or wasn’t capable of being made in the dual use facilities.
Furthermore, Iraq was developing their NUCLEAR program in Lybia…remember…the DAY we invaded Iraq…Qadaffi revealing “his” Nuclear program to the world…his scientists were Iraqi.
As far as sexing up the intel…my recollection is that the Intelligence Minister from Iraq met with Mohammad Atta in Turkey in July 2001. No direct connection was ever established regarding that meeting. Come on already. Does anyone believe they met to exchange recipes???
Hmmmm….

I refuse to live in fear.

The USA should have let the Soviets have a free hand in the 1980′s. Afghanistan would be atheist and no one would have ever heard of 9/11 or Osama Bin Laden. The mullahs would be buried in mass graves and afghanis would be reading Marx instead of the Koran. You can thank Reagan for creating Al-Queda

I am afraid something really big will have to happen before anti-war liberals are made irrelevant. There were those in 1941 too, but they fell into obsecurity after 12/07/1941. I wish it didn’t have to be that way but the Michael Moores of the world will make sure of it.

Unfortunately, what it will come to for any sense to be put in these peoples’ heads is general war upon the region. Leave no stone unburned.

WHERE’S THE FENCE? We need to secure our borders and stop the illegal trafficking across them!

It makes me sick to hear the Pro Bush crowd constantly applauding the incredible mess this president has gotten us into. While it’s true that the muslim extremists were out to kill us before Bush, he has only exacerbated the problem by radicalizing even more muslims by his iraqi adventure. The jerk took us to the wrong country to fight. And just how do you think those graduating suicide bombers are going to get into the United States? Easy. They’ll come through the Mexican border that this president refuses to clamp down on. Is this an upside down world or what?

Read Mathew ch. 24, Luke ch.21 and then read 2nd Tim ch.3
It’s good stuff. Remember it is about Israel. They will never be overtaken again. God is in control of this whole thing and laughs. Read Psalm ch.2

These people who continue to blame Bush for everything need to wake up. Thank God the strong won over in WWII or we would all be speaking German now.
These terrorists have hated us and been killing us for decades. Bush is someone who is finally showing strength and conviction to go after these Jihad nuts. You need to support our President and our Military not run them into the ground. United We Stand, Divided We Fall, Remember 911, Remember Beirut, Remember all the attacks…….and be strong! Dark days may lie ahead if these suicide devils have their way. The only thing I can say to those in Washington is lets get this border issue closed up NOW!!!!!

I love all the action this article is getting. Has Iraq gone well? No. Has Iraq been good for the U.S.? No…That was easy! Now for the tough questions. Could we sit idle after 911? No. They (terrorists) made the first strike. My point is the terrorists struck before we entered Iraq. How some of you think the terrorists were born out of the Iraq war I simply do not know. THEY HAVE BEEN ATTACKING US FOR A LONG TIME. My last comment. Please do not bash our president if you do not vote…you may be to blame!

Maybe they should see a few Western movies. The Indians lost and so will they if they come here. They will come here to die and we will oblige them. Our nation has a second admendment that allows us to bear arms. Ask the Brits about Americans and their guns.
God Bless America

i blame god for making everyone finite

Whatever. Bring it.
Honestly, is anyone going to change their daily lives because of this? Only one more reason to live our lives like it was our last, it may well be. And really, there’s not a damn thing we can do to stop it, but there’s no way they can stop America either.

Well, if they hurry Bush will grant them legalization along with 10′s of thousands of other potential threats already in the US. Did I mention we have a wide open border…9/11 apparently wasn’t enough for Bush to secure the borders 6 years ago.

nice going carter and clinton. your pals are at the gates….get ready FOOLS!

“We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.” Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel, 1969-1974

I saw this story on TV.
The hate over there is getting worse.
Bush has no clue how to make things better.
He started this mess, and can’t finish it.
George Vreeland Hill

Muslim extremists loved the U.S. before we went after them. They loved us, nature and baby animals. They are loving nuturing people who just happen to enjoy military weaponry and explosives. All of this is because of the evil bad U.S. of A.

The powers that be use terrorism to control you, to justify their resource wars and their efforts to maintain the dollar as the world reserve currency for the exchange of oil. The dollar, along with U.S. standing in the world is declining and rightly so. We have lost the faith of many and gained the hatred of millions.

Islamofacists began attacking US interests
in the 1770s, long before Bush or our current foreign policy

When are we going to start blaming terrorists for being terrorists? West Bank, Beirut, Somalia, Darfur, Beslan, Chechnya, Kosovo, Khobar Towers, Tanzania, etc.
Stop blaming Bush, and start blaming terrorists.
Name 1 freed American Soldier captured by Al Qeada, just 1. You can’t every single 1 captured by Al Qaeda has been murdered. What does the US Do? Capture them, give them Koran’s, feed them according to Islamic law, and has since released some found to be innocent. What has Al Qaeda done? Slam planes into buildings, incite ware between Shia and Sunni, cut off the heads of civilians, kill American soldiers, kill innocent people in marketplaces, but somehow it is all the fault of the US.

What do you mean Islamic nuts didnt hate America before George W.??????? Are you stupid or just ignorant? How about 1993????
In May 1994, four men – Mohammed Salameh, Nidal Ayyad, Mahmud Abouhalima and Ahmad Ajaj – were sentenced to life for bombing the World Trade Center, which killed six people and injured 100.
Those guys dont sound like people born in Kansas!!

No translation provided…bad reporting…again.

Well, Bush definitely can’t pull out of Iraq now. Those twelve-year old boys might either stow away on their homebound flights or steal their bonus flyer miles!

If and when the civilian authority of the United States collapses from simultaneous nuclear attacks, we will finally be rid of the self-imposed moral limits for the sake of human rights and mutual co-existance. The Ummah will quickly discover that the fall of one Western power has only resulted in a hundred new enemies each with its own nuclear arsenals and legions of roving paramilitaries with absolutely no reason to hold back in a new war of ten-thousand years. And there will be no ACLU to bail out the fifth columnists in our midst.

Well it’s about time. They picked a fight with us then run and hide in their
caves. But wait the Taliban offered up
Mr. bin Laden we turned them down. Where
is he anyway?I know he’s in a Hilton in Islamabad on a floor with no elevator
button. But we digress.
So your OBL, pull off the crime of forever.You just beat the greatest air
force of all time. What do you do? You vanish like a puff of smoke. HMMM!
I don’t know if you think like I do.
But if I’m him I take the next 19 guys
strap’em full of c-4 wait till next Tuesday. Then blow a bunch of you lazy fat stupid sheep in 19 different mini-marts while you are chowing down your
breakfast corndog. I would do that,Make love not war, that my motto
peace
Math and Physics don’t Lie
Poeple Do

Build the wall!

bush should take the blame for not being ruthless enough when it comes to killing these @#?!s. How is it that a journalist was able to photograph the event without an American F-16 getting there first? Our intel sucks, our military has its hands tied and Bush cares too much about his image to do the right thing. It’s time to get medieval when dealing with stone-age mentality.

Well, they don’t scare me. They’re going to have a hard time blowing anything up except themselves with those sheets wrapped around their heads.

“Posted by: Jebster | Jun 18, 2007 6:03:41 PM
Believing this stuff will happen is like believing the Boogey Man is hiding under your bed. ”
I guess you were absent on 9-11. Tell someone who jumped out of the WTC there’s nothing to fear but fear itself.

Katie will have to dust off her pompoms and cheer for the suicide bombers on the 6 o’clock news.. Brian Williams will smirk and wink and give them a big thumbs up…

Electing Dems was a huge mistake America. Dems led by Harry Reid have already waved the white flag and surrendered. If these take hold in the US we need to stick together and do what is necessary to protect ourselves and our families. Imagine the targets people…grammar schools, churches, malls etc. Are you ready for that? I’m not. Those of you who have blamed Bush are the same who voted for the likes of Harry Reid. Appeasement hell. The hands of our fighting forces have been tied long enough by the stupidity right here in the US of A. Will the Dems tie the hands of citizens here too defending our homeland if and when it is needed? For 6 years Dems have whined about their rights…wake up morons as if you don’t you won’t have any rights to speak of. These terrorists mean business-it’s beyond time for ALL citizens of the US to mean business also. There are MANY vets who feel as I do and will take up arms…I can hear the libs and their “fear mongering” comments already.
Damn how stupid some of you truly are in your worlds of make believe!

Thank you, Mr. bush, for leaving the borders open so that suicide bombers can come through and kill men, women and children, irregardless of whether they have done anything bad to anyone.
This will be an impeachable offense when the first bomb goes off.

Some of these comments/commentors are so completely IGNORANT..
All I can say is that it is quite good you are indoors at a computer and not out in public were you could do harm to youselves or innocent others with your Drooling Stupidity…

After reading many of feedbacks here, I have become saddened because to solve terrorist threat we need to unite as a nation, not finger pointing each other or taking sides. This is a very serious matter, and what we must do is to prepare and prevent the worse to come to our societies, here and abroad. I think we better use our energy to find the best solution of this horrendous threat. It’s not easy but USA and our allies have millions of citizens that can contribute good insights to this problem. We are in hundred of millions and their numbers are not too great so please….

Murder of innocent civilians is evil no matter who does it or how its done. There is plenty of innocent blood on the hands of all governments.

Sure would be nice if we could bring back the Jefferson school of thought…”Government of the people, by the people, for the people…”

All it boils down is the 2008 elections. The hate america crowd would find nothing wrong with what is going on in the world if we had a Democrat as president right now. It amazes me that people on the right use facts to prove a point and all you get from the left are replies like stupid foxnews watching idiot. I am starting to truely believe that political action groups on the left monitor these blogs because most left responces sound like the same democratic talking points.

Suicide Bomb Teams from Afghanistan are just a reality that we are going to dealing with. Suicide bombers don’t scare me enough to disturbed my sleep or tomorrow’s plans.

Brandon,
re:
“Nobody is saying that their was no anti-American sentiment before we invaded Iraq. What I am saying is that there was united American support after 9/11, and every single action W has committed since this point has eroded the pro-American sentiment.”
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ERODING OUR SUPPORT AROUND THE WORLD. THEY HAVE BEEN TEARING DOWN OUR STATURE SINCE 9/11.

After reading the first couple of dozen posts; then skimming throught the rest I could not help but be reminded of the line from Monty Python’s “Life of Brian” during the Sermon on the Mount scene.
“I think what Jesus fails to apreciate, the meek are the problem.”
I would just update the screenplay and substitue the word “meek” with “religious.” Would make more sense given today’s horrid bloody sectarian world-wide violence commited in the name of a silly believe in bearded sky-god overlord. It would be comical if only it weren’t so…

The Puppet Masters are distracting you folks again; time to wake-up, while you all are preoccupied with this “urgent” news story, is anyone paying attention to the Immigration Reform Bill that our beloved C-n-C put back on the table for Congress to reconsider?

Hopefully a Democrat will get in and straighten this out by sending all terrorists to a government program that counsels them into submission.

When are we going to fight and lead the world in a real ww3 against this enemy?How many more americians and none americians must die? 3,000? 30,000? 300,000? IT COULD BE YOUR LOVED ONE NEXT!!!

This is just sad. Why do we only think in two terms? Left vs right? Why do you believe that any multi-millionaire with their own personal security detail knows how to ‘keep us safe’. Forgive me for using the phrase but we should think outside the box on this one.
I have never once heard anyone discuss limits and better policing of bomb-making materials. No one mentions increasing our efforts to infiltrate these groups. Are we even trying to sow dissension among ‘the enemy’?
Politicians are too busy trying to get elected (or re-elected) to freely engage in constructive debate.
We waste our time and endanger our lives when we fight each other.

The thing you folks need to consider is that this is Afghanistan. Before 9/11 the Taliban and Al Qaeda had intended to break through the Panshir Valley and take the Fergana Valley to the north. This valley feeds a large portion of Central Aisa. Capturing this area would have given the Taliban/AQ control of central asia (or at least a very good starting point).
The only thing standing in their way was Ahmad Shah Massoud and his “army”. He was assasinated on 8/11 (not sure exactly which day he died 8th or 9th). This was carried out by Al Qaeda (after a number of attempts). After 9/11 the Russians frantically tried to bomb the Taliban (using unmarked aircraft) to slow their advance. Then the Americans showed up and the rest of the story you know.
This was an event that was unfolding prior to American involvement. It had nothing to do with us. Our involvement served two purposes, to put the Taliban/AQ out of business and to stop their advance into Fergana. You will also recall that we supported the Afghanistan mujaheddin during the Soviet occupation (so if anything, they should probably have though favorably of us to a large degree).
So next time, before you start throwing around accusations for irresposibility, stop and try to understand what is actually going on in the world. The world is a lot more complicated than you give it credit for.
-Noone

Total bull. That’s what it is. With 10,000 coming accorss the border eveyday illegally, not even a firecraker has gone off. If you believe this story, the go vote for Bush gain!

FEAR!! FEAR!! RUN!!! HIDE!!!! IMMIGRANTS! FOREIGNERS! Men with dark skin! Egads, anyone stupid enough to fall for these silly lies and ridiculous stories must be a gullible christian.
Got duct tape and plastic? Hey, how’s the investigation into the White House treason coming along? Move along folks, no treason, electioneering and fraud to see here folks, move along, move along? Karl, hey, how you doing? Been Roved lately?

Hey Brian Ross. It’s Hamilton vs Burr all over again. We’re supposed to fire a shot in the air and take one because we have a Republican President. Just ask the Democrats. Only, unlike Burr, these Terrorists will shoot us in the back after the first pace. They play by their own rules.

Every teenager in America should join the military in exchange for a free college education. Problem solved!

Why not try rooting for your own team for once?

And yet the U.S. doesn’t seem to concerned about securing our southern border.

THANK YOU JIMMY CARTER AND ALL OF YOU DRUGGED OUT DRUNKEN LIBERAL LOOSER CRY BABIES. I CANT TELL YOU TO GET A LIFE BECAUSE YOU PROBABLY SOLD IT or smoked it.

This is a completely FAKE story. Out Fascist Government wants to keep you Sheeple SCARED. Most of these comments were made by ABC”News” people anyways. The Land of the “Free”.

yes there were terrorist groups with hatred towards the U.S. prior to our invasion of Iraq..that being said, as i believe was said by someone on Bill Mahrer’s show one night (whose show btw i don’t care for but happened to channel surf onto) Al Qaeda is no longer a group it’s a lifestyle. i think this is a very accurate statement and the current administration largely accountable.
for those of you who defend the administration and actions taken since 9/11 particularly in Iraq allow me to play devil’s advocate and ask you a question. has there ever been a time when public opinion OUTSIDE our country has been so negative towards us? we even get booed at the Olympics now. i traveled all over Europe two years ago and in my dialog with locals in each country it was disturbing how negatively they view our country and administration especially when you consider right after 9/11 public opinion around the world was virtually unanimous in their support for us. clearly to those on the outside looking in at the USA we have done something wrong. perhaps we on the inside should open our eyes.

A far bigger threat is the invasion of 18 million illegal aliens aided by the dupes in Congress!

A number of people have said that this is the result of Bush’s aggressive war stance. Others have disagreed, pointing out that this has been going on since before 9/11.
You’re both right. We’ve been punching middle easterners in the face for decades, and they are punching back now.
Take the moral high ground, America. Treat terrorism with the police action it deserves, not with bloated and misdirected wars.
Elect someone who will do exactly that: Vote Ron Paul.

Religious extremists should be rooted out.
Religion is to often used as an excuse to kill.
Drugs are available in high security prisons so there is no way we can keep determined people from entering into the USA illegally.
The exploitation of people for profit started long ago and this among other bad policy has resulted in groups of people who hate the west.
Bush simply made everything a million times worse. After 9-11 even the people of Iran felt sympathy to the USA. Iran was getting more secular untill Bush declared them evil and encouraged them to elect a radical religious extremist for President.
Bush and Cheyney are oil men and they will not do the most important thing; finding new sources of energy.
If oil becomes worthless then the Middle East becomes a worthless pile of sand.
If we surrender our freedoms to Big Brother Government the Religious extremists win.

…and in who’s name are they doing most of this? Who has George Dubya on a string? Who is the excuse everyone has for being how they are…good or bad? Stop believing in Santa Clauses and most of this goes away.

All of America’s wars have had opponents here at home. Even our revolutionary war saw over 50% of the population against the War for Independence. The American Civil War also had massive opposition among the U.S. population. Lincoln was viciously scorned for his steadfast approach to saving the Union. Millions hated him…the war was costly, the war killed hundreds of thousands, there were countless mistakes made along the way…
Thank God for a man named Lincoln and his willingness to take the country through the worst experience in its history.
It seems that many today who are opposed the Iraq War simply lack the confidence in man’s ultimate ability to improve his world through the destruction of tyrannical regimes. Unfortunately, that mind-set is nothing new to this or any other nation. There always have been, and always will be, people who simply don’t believe that war can eventually make things better. History has proven them wrong time and time again (but they don’t seem to care).

The Desert Eagle is unusual in that it uses a gas-operated mechanism normally found in rifles, as opposed to the short recoil or blow-back designs most commonly seen in semi-automatic pistols. In fact, the rotating bolt and locking mechanism bear a strong resemblance to that of the M16 series of rifles. The advantage of the gas-operation is that it allows the use of far more powerful cartridges than traditional semi-automatic pistol designs, and it allows the Desert Eagle to compete in an area that had previously been dominated by magnum revolvers. Although this has the disadvantage of prohibiting the use of lead bullets because lead is too soft, leading to lead particles blocking the gas release hole, preventing proper function.

I thought Bush said we went to war in Iraq so we would fight them over there and not over here? Oh wait, it was because they hate our freedoms. No, it was because they had WMD. No, it was, er, what IS the reason now? Maybe now the borders will get some work. What ever happened to the billions and billions earmarked for a border wall anyway? Is that still waiting to be spent or has it been spent so Halliburton could move to Dubai?

With the price of gas these days im surprised we dont have american suicide bombers in iraq, wait nevermind we have all the military there protecting our oil. I mean protecting us from terrorists.

It’s time to punish these morons to the point where they’ll be afraid to screw with us again. We have the weapons to shut these people up for hundreds of years, or completely annihilate them if necessary. I am dead serious, it’s time to stop these idiots for good.

Saddam: sponsored by the US
The Shah of Iran: made possible bij the US
The Saudi Kingdom: US supported
Osama Bin Laden: trained by the US
Todays crap is just a continuation of US policy of messing around in other nations. US leaders don’t care if civilians get hurt. They just want more instability. Because instability brings violence and war, and that gives an excuse for a strong all controlling government and brings more halliburton profits.

we all gotta go sometime, but I really do not want it to be at the hands of a suicide bomber at a freaking mall.

Well I’m glad some Americans aren’t in Afghanistan. I feel sure with their anti-American sentiments and general hate of….well….pretty much everything, they would make great recruits for the next “kill yourself and lots of innocents for god” team assigned to attack the United States.

Hate to say It my Liberal Brothers, The folks over there want to kill your babies.
Moms Dads, and your way of life. They won’t be happy until everyone is miserable.
this is there only Goal, Blame whoever you want they will keep coming, they will never be happy.
Pray for all our Leaders!

When dealing with this type of enemy, there is only ONE military doctrine that will bring peace…
Hit them HARD until they SUE for peace.
And the ONLY way to do that is to:
a) let the Generals do the fighting
b) keep the Media AWAY from the front
c) unleash enough military force to defeat your opponent 10 times over
d) wage war like a full-court press until one of two outcomes becomes apparent
* your enemy kneels before you suing for peace or
** you annihilate your enemy
From that moment on, NO country will EVER doubt your resolve as you ‘speak softly and carry a BIG stick’.

As long as our foreign policy supports the extortion of these people’s riches and we prop up evil dictators to rule them … we are the enemy.
Do the math … what would you do if some foreign nation invaded your state, replaced your government and gave the riches of your lands to companies from theirs.
I cannot believe anyone in this country is suprised!

0 WMDS. Impeach.

This ‘graduation’ ceremony is all the more proof that George W Bush is as weak on national defense and the War on Terror as the Democrats…
Yes, Muslim extremists hated America and its values before 9/11, and this is readily apparent through incidents such as the earlier WTC bombing, the USS Cole and others. 9/11 was another step on a longer ‘war’.
However, if 9/11 taught us anything, it is to defend our borders and target the RIGHT enemy. Last I checked, Osama bin Ladin was somewhere in Afghanistan, NOT Iraq… We had support from countries throughout the world to go after al-Qaeda and take Osama down…
What did we do? We somehow got lost and decided to wage war in Iraq, making up as many stories as possible to persuade Americans that this was ‘right’. This may seem to be a comment of an ‘armchair general’, but it is an obvious point: Why start a war (or a theatre) when you haven’t finished the one you’re already in? It is a simple FACT that a single-theatre war is easier to manage than a mult-theatre war…
Some claim that Bush was a ‘visionary’, looking at a longer-term war on terror. If this was the case, I struggle to understand why he so stubbornly focused on an issue that wasn’t there (or, a problem that was being contained for 12 years, and could have waited a while longer before being addressed), whilst leaving our borders wide open??
How could a ‘visionary’ put major U.S. ports under the effective control of the U.A.E., especially when that same ‘visionary’ requires airport passengers to put their toothpaste in a clear plastic bag when flying? Why do those travelling to the U.S. on visas require personal interviews and detailed background checks, while others (INCLUDING TERRORISTS) are likely to be allowed permanent residency (through the Z-visas)??
Bush advocated Dubai ports, and he is now advocating the immigration bill that specifically ALLOWS gang members, terrorists and those defying deportation orders to get legal status… (Note, Clinton and Obama voted for this, but SO DID JOHN MCCAIN and other REPUBLICANS!!).
I for one don’t trust the guard who travels the world looking for a potential threat whilst leaving the doors of my own home wide open.

Some basics
After the first gulf war a large permanent US presence was established in the middle east
In 1996 Bin Laden signed and issued a Declaration of Jihad outlining his organization’s goals: drive US forces from the Arabian Peninsula, overthrow the Government of Saudi Arabia, liberate Muslim holy sites, and support Islamic revolutionary groups around the world. He declares that Saudis have the right to strike at US troops in the Persian Gulf.
Fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them here makes no sense, especially when you look at the stated goals of Bin Laden.
We need find ways to stop fundamentalist views from propagating. The large unfocused conflict we are waging at the moment helps the fundamentalists recruit.

Sure are a lot of mixed nuts on this site. World history as FOX News tells it. Bush has screwed America. Lied in the State of the Union Address, and all these nuts still believe him. How can their be so many right wing in America?

what a bunch of suckers…..
Media is just entertainment, they say something (no mather what) and you just believe it, without questioning. Who’s dumb?
The Iraqis did nothing wrong to anyone.
The problems today are all a hoax of the Illuminati.
Use your brains!!

Terrorists, even if they increased “efficiency” by 1000%, won’t come remotely close to reaching the amount of deaths we essentially cause ourselves through alchohol, drugs, smoking and car accidents.
I’m far more worried, on a day to day basis, about staying alive on the road with bad / drunk drivers around than a suicide bomber popping up.

ABC News consultant Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism official is a disgrace to this nation. He should have spoke out during his tenure in the Clinton Administration. He instead waited till he was passed over for a better job by Condi and then retire to speak up. He is a punk and I hope he can clean his soul from the money he makes on that book he published. Good hire ABC!!!! NOT!!
I know your true colors Clarke.

We don’t have to worry. They will go straight to Iraq. After all, we’re fighting them in Iraq so we don’t have to fight them here, right?

The level of ignorance and fear and outright jingoism contained in most of these posts is fairly typical for your typical American and fairly appalling. We’re a nation of morons and most of these posts prove it.

These suicide teams are criminals committing crimes on their own volition, plain and simple. No U.S. administration is responsible for their acts, just like police are not responsible for the crimes of the criminals they hunt down on a regular basis.
People who try to “apologize away” intentional acts of violence are idiots who often become defense attorneys… and in this case, are demonstrating that they are not patriotic towards the U.S. at all, despite their pompous declarations to the contrary.
Not a W lover – would rather have someone else in office – but just a non-apologist who thinks that individuals are responsible for their own actions and situations (“sticks and stone…”).

hi all
i think u need to step back before the 11/9 events! Muslims r suffering all over the world from hundreds of years coz of west governments….
try to read history please and do not take ur information from Bush and Blair
West planted all ‘dictators’ insie the islamic countries and as u all seen when one of them ‘Saddam’ refused to obey them any more they killed him… and in the same time they gave silly excuses to persuade their people that he was a terrorist and as Liza said one day ‘Saddam got rockets so he can hit USA!!’… and surprisingly we discovered that he was hidden in a hole under the earth…and they tried to link him to Alqaeda and we disovered that Alqaeda call him ‘kafir’ or unbeliever!

I think it’s funny how some folks think we can try to convince these terrorists to love us if only we’d reach out our hands to them. LOL
These are the same looney people who love gay rights, porn, and everything these terrorists hate about us. Go ahead, reach out your hand to them thinking it was all the republican’s fault. LOL
They’ll rip your hand off because they hate YOU for everything your stupid political party stands for. Go ahead and make more cartoons poking fun at their religion and see how much they love your so-called “freedom of speech”.
Keep right on living in your dream world blaming all the world’s problems on bush.

This comment from the Taliban commander reminded of the Republican debate when Ron Paul said they come after us because we are over there.
“These Americans, Canadians, British and Germans come here to Afghanistan from faraway places,” Dadullah says on the tape.
Shame on you Guiliani for trying to make political hay out of your one dog and pony issue – and you even got that wrong. Please read the 911 Commission Report – sure you can afford it after accepting contracts from the Saudi’s to the tune of 17 million.
Logic, Reason, Honesty

Jack Bauer will come to the rescue…..Chloe is already monitoring the teams from deep inside CTU.

Will S.1348 stop them or give them legal status?

We want to believe that these fundamentalists are rational people who would like us and would leave us alone if only they got to know us and saw we weren’t all like our political leadership. We are living in denial. They hate all non-Musilims. They look at us as if we were cattle that they could use, sell or kill. We have to face the facts about these people.

Rick are you on Crack, did the fruit of our Evil Cause 911, the USS Cole, the Prior World Trade center bombing, Etc, Etc, Etc. These people mean to kill us and have since at least the 1970′s where was Bush then? Pacifism did nothing prior to WW2 Soon a leader of a Country who’s goal is to cause the coming of the 12th imam will have a Nuclear weapon. Do you think he will use it to hasten the return? Shold we turn the other way and hope he changes?

Yes, if studying history means studying Bill Clinton’s years in the White House, then do that. Or read the 911 Commission Report. These barbarians attacked long before “W,” as you call him, became president. It’s understandably difficult to look past this administration. But that context is necessary in order to, um, understand reality.

Awfully ignorant comments coming from the left. Perhaps we should have stayed out of Afghanistan and Iraq and just waited for the next 9/11 attack to occur, cry about it, try some UN sanctions, then wait for the next attack? Might I remind everyone that the attack on the World Trade Center was an attack on a civilian target (and don’t give me that ridiculous Michael Moore crap – it was disproven when that section of freeway collapsed due to a fire in California a couple months ago). Indeed, muslim extremists have repeatedly shown a willingness to kill westerners in the name of Islam.

Well said Yuman, well said

I think that’s DNC retreat in Vegas.

They don’t understand that the West will get angry and truly solve this problem; we’re just slow to do so as we know the real consequences all too well. But we’re moving toward it as we did toward slavery, national socialism and international socialism.
They don’t comprehend what they’re provoking. Anyone who shouts God is great while blowing up dogs has no place in the civilized world, and no moral authority, as the Left would grant them.

You guys are concerned with terrorism because many people in US goverment wants you to be concerned and not see other important issues.
Like Kyoto protocol. If you won’t comply with emission reduction (stop buying goddamn SUVs) than you’ll destroy all terrorists including the rest of the world.

Looks like another Pentagon Production.

I’m glad the liberals under the Clinton regime did not succeed in their attempts to ban all guns. Its nice to live in a country where the citizens can fight back on their own terms. It is unfortunate for the citizens of Canada, Britian and Germany that they have to rely only on their governments for protection.

Ask Jihn Edwards, this was just a bumper sticker by our President. Ask Harry Reid, we have lost already. Any other helpful suggestions by the Libs.

The left blames our president? You are a bunch of spineless cowards, I wouldn’t want you on my chess team. You are the same people start losing and throw the board with all its pieces. The only thing the terrorist are winning is the media war because you losers believe them. Get your heads out of your fourth point of contact and take some pride in your country and yes your president. Cowards. My third tour starts in 08 proud to go and serve. You don’t support me you mock me, My band of brothers despise you on the left.

al Qaeda=CIA

Mr. President Bush,
I know how to fix the problems we are facing when dealing with the Islamic extremists. Contact me at my email address given by myself to ABCNEWS (this blog).
ABCNEWS, I hereby give permission to release my email address to The President Of The USA or one of his direct subordinates.
thank you.

and would they be coming across the southern border? (not that i believe anything anymore)

Can’t we all get along?
Of course not!
Wait a minute, did Bush say if we fight them there, we won’t have to fight them here?

So, let me see if I understand this correctly. They are following us home before we come home?
Al Qaeda, somehow, didn’t get Dick Cheney’s memo.

So much for John Edwards bumper sticker..No such thing as a War on Terror”..

From one American to another. We chose to be where we are.
Democracy,Captitalism, is who we are. It does work. That is why we are under attack. We should not feel ashamed as our enemies devilishly sway us into believing with their sabre rattling propaganda. Oh, by the way, their pros at the debate, the argument. They love nothing better than to win the argument and they most often do.
But,what strategy do we take? Plenty to debate over. Blog all day on the internet? Cool, at least awaking the general American public to take all this personally is a must. We must decide and stand behind our decision. Right or wrong. The Illegal Immigration is the first thing in 4 presidential elections that is worth paying a lot of attention to. It is scary ! Some of this fear is real, some isn’t. I believe the internet blog is doing what the media refuses to do. Or is this the next level of freedom of speech brought to us by the media?
Until the United States Of America truly unites, we’ll continue to run in circles which delights the enemies we face. Our Government, same thing. We might want to also sink some teeth into this miserable monster we call fear.
Countries who seek our demise are truly envious of our place. Why else is this going on. We Americans have worked hard for what we have, of course. Taking is and has always been the weapon of choice for govenments who can’t make it on their own. That is why they are here illegally.
There is the problem folks. What we do about it is up to us. Waking up to this as once said, “All these things that so freighten us are not death symptoms, but birth symptoms.”
America, get our government doing what we want. Then we will see the change we long for. Activate with one another.

Wow, I didn’t know there were so many experts on the war. All you people that know how the war should be run and whose fault all this is need to join the military and put your money where your mouth is!

It’s time to WAKE UP, WE ARE AT WAR!
Time for Bush to suck it up and take the leash off our brave Warriors. They know just what to do and how to do it if we will let them.
Hunt them down and kill them all, and yes, that means even if they choose to hide across the border in Pakistani.

Rick (and Brandon),
You are about as sharp as a marble. Certain Muslim terrorists are willing to blow themselves up and kill countless innocent people, and you want to blame the President? If you’re looking to assign blame, look no further than the murderers.
Your stupidity astounds me.

I don’t really fear Mexicans or other foreign nationals. I do resent them entering the country illegally. Recent DOJ stats indicate that aliens, both legal and illegal, have a crime rate that is 500% greater than that of U.S. Citizens. Please note that the crimes listed do not include illegal entry, a misdeamenor. Accordingly they occupy 28% of Federal prison beds.
I am concerned that the borders are not secure. As stated previously, if an uneducated peon from Mexico or Central America can simply walk into the country, what is there to stop a dedicated terrorist?

I am American Muslim. My heart cries when I see terrorists use my religion to justify murder and some of my fellow Americans end up writing extreme comments. I wish American government has well thought out strategy and effective domestic and rational foreign policy to deal with the problem such that I can have MY REAL AMERICA BACK.
Dear fellow Americans, my message to you is simple – people like me are simply caught in cross fire b/w terrorist and Bush.
I don’t blame you for your anger !

Whatever happened to ‘let’s fight them over there so we don’t have to fight them here.’ So much for that brilliant theory. While there have always been terrorist attacks abroad, pre-9/11 all we had to worry about were ‘patriots’ like tim mcveigh and the freaks who bombed abortion clinics. Our little venture into Iraq has done nothing but fan the flames of American hatred.

For those blaming U.S foreign policy on the possibility of suicide bombers coming to the US and Europe, you are as dim witted as you sound. Do you honestly think they would not have done this if we were not at war? How would you explain the bombing of our embassies in Africa, the first and second bombings of the World Trade Center, and other aggressive tactics used by terrorists that were met with a limp response from the US. Do you really think these murderers would live in peace with us if we “pulled out” of Iraq? HOW NAIVE ARE YOU? This is war, ladies and gentlemen. Get used to it. If we do not stamp it out now, we will suffer horrible consequences years down the line. Thank God President Bush has the guts to stand up to those who would sooner cut you and your family’s heads off all in the name of God.

Muslim terrorists are still coming after us in this country. Can someone explain how victimizing 3rd parties, i.e. Mexicans, Sadam Hussein, homosexuals, makes us more “secure”. And what is it making “secure”? Our right to become soilent green for our nation’s large corporations?

What bothers me is that a reporter would rather just film this, thinking about how great a story it will be, rather than telling someone about… I don’t know, 300 terrorist who are going to try to kill innocent people. Reporters have taken the, “I’m not going to choose sides for the integrity of the story”, a little to far. THEY ARE USING YOU STUPID!!!! and given the chance will kill you and your family without losing a wink of sleep.

The people on here who blame this on our leadership are the real problem. They don’t care who our President is, they are still going to come over here and kill us, they’ve done it before! They laugh at our media and our “peace activists” for taking their side. They think we’re soft and easy to defeat. Are they right? Not from my prospetive. I’m thankful my husband is working hard in our intelligence community to keep idiots like you safe. Without people like and and the proactive people in our government our country could be in MUCH worse shape. WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!! You are acting like fools and THEY ARE LAUGHING AT YOU!!!!!! Why do you think they hate Bush so much? He’s actually fighting them, thank God!

*Why Bush has failed all of mankind!!!*
George W Bush was given a gift that no other human in the history of mankind had never had. After 9/11, he had nearly 100% of the Nations of the World supporting him. No other world leader in the history of man kind ever had people so freely supporting him. He had the chance to make Terrorism a despicable act in the eyes of world opinion. He could have made this world safer and brought all nationalities together in a world of peace.
But he blew it. And big time. He blinked and instead of being a world leader, he chose to push the interests of his small group of supporters. As he said it, “To spend his political capital.”
Now his close knit supports attack his critics. And why? They are so small minded to not realize the Historical and World Implication’s of the failings of this man????
They trash his critics as Unpatriotic, as Liberal Bush Haters… as as… You know the catch words and there are so many.
But in reality this is so untrue.
Again, when we invaded Afghanistan and the world supported us…. Nearly 100%……. There were no Bush hating liberals. We all backed GW!!! We were not only a united country, we were a united world against terrorism.
Afghanistan could have been the deciding factor in eliminating Terrorism. The world hated it. But GW blinked and started acting like the terrorist that he’s says he’s against and invaded Iraq.
Where is our Moral high ground now???? GW screwed it up.
Now May God give us another opportunity like what GW had and also give us a man who has the stature and vision to use it to turn this world around for the betterment of all of mankind.
It’s unfortunate to say, but the original 3000 who died to create the first opportunity may have died in vain.
As for now, we can only pray that we and this world survives the
incompetency of GW.

here it comes. I hope we don’t have an American Beslan tragedy. These people need to be stopped

In a world where it’s getting easier and easier to get from place to place and cause problems, America needs to do what it should have done years ago.
Zero illegal immigrants, No visa from terrorist nations, DEPORT those who have criminal pasts, and seal off the Borders. Remove foreign Aid from those countries and if that does not work. We need to remove the press from our military and do the job correctly.
This is only the beginning, Cyber Warfare, Chemical Warfare is all becoming easy for these roughe units to get as we have moved on to bigger and badder weapons, problem is Nuclear waste and terrorist nations are now getting ahold of those older weapons and will use them. They want to die anyway, so why not take people with them and be a hero?
You can not fight with a human rights mind and win any war against these groups. Men, Women, and Children are willing to kill themselves, in America thats unheard of and unthinkable, but to them its everyday..
Maybe the world needs an example again. I hate to say it but something big might need to happen to get everyone including us in line again..

Don’t take this too seriously. It is just for show and intended to get people worried. There are no suicide bombers coming to the USA.

I can’t believe there are people still here supporting Bush. I think you people get more and more stupid by the day.

I love it when people say “Bomb’em back to the stone age”. Seems like I remember some leader taking a blanket approach to an attack…something like he gassed his own people after an attempt on his life. Who was that, and what happened to him?

I find a couple of the ideas put forth by folks like Yuman and others like him to be a little puzzling.
Wasn’t it during the Clinton administrations that the American military and intelligence agencies saw drastic cuts, some up to 70-80 % of their budgets ? Base closings and troop reductions were the rule of the day. Evidence shows that Clinton and Co. (esp. nice work by Ms. Gorelik and Mr. Clarke) ignored the intelligence they received on Bin Laden, and let him go, not once, but several times, and after we were attacked, our military was nowhere near the strength it should have been.
So, before you start spouting your Michael-Moore generated conspiracy theories, how ’bout learning a little twentieth-century history.

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen this many ignorant ppl gathered in one place.
America is doomed.

Better to surrender so the Islamofascists won’t be mean to us anymore. We should have surrendered to Hitler, too, and the world would have been a better place.

I though a suicide attack happened in 9-11, am I wrong?

If Kerry were president, Gore vice-president and Michael Moore ambassador to the UN they’d still be coming to kill us. It’s their religions command.
Wake up fellow Americans. Fight or die. It’s that simple.

Posted by: Yuman | Jun 19, 2007 1:03:50 AM
“The noblest of wars benefit few and hurt many.”
Yuman are you kidding me? I dont have the time to address all the craziness found in these hate-America and Howard Zinn-like apologists, but in reference to your naive and narrowminded statement about the uselessness of war, I ask one question:
How many more would have died if you would have been the one at the controls back in the 40′s?? Wake up! Evil lives, and sometimes peace is only attained through force.
It’s scary out here.

What is a Muslim suicide bomber? Not sure, but I do know what Paris Hilton had for lunch today in the county jail…I mean that is much more important than these insignificant terrorists right?
“FREE PARIS”

Despite all the ragging here, it’s universally seen (US intelligence reports, etc.) that Bush’s disastrous misadventure in Iraq has spurred the development of more terrorists than would have been the case if we stuck to Afghanistan.
Whatever the situation was before, he’s definitely fanned the flames and drastically disturbed the mid-east, perhaps beyond “saving.”
Wake up out there, folks! How any blind idiots can still support Bush is totally beyond belief.

Our borders are wide open for this sort of thing to happen. We can build the Hoover dam, the Golden Gate, highways that stretch for thousands of miles but our Govt. cannot build a fence. A merger with Mexico and Canada is on the way and Muslim terrorists are only the tip of the iceburg. Mexican drug gangs and other criminals will have free access to our country as well.

yes

I’d like to see more in depth reporting about this, please.

USS Cole Oct 12, 2000
Khobar Towers June 25, 1996
US Marine Barracks 1983
World Trade Center (1st Try) Feb 1993
Radical Muslim Terrorists have been around for centuries and will continue to attack. Jihad is an old concept, nothing President Bush caused.

Is everyone crazy? Its bush’s fault? What about 9/11 what country were we at war with then? The USS Cole what about then? The 2 embassy’s? They attacked us for no reason and will keep doing this. It funny how fast people forget 3000 died. Israel gives in and the people of Palestine get what they want. There own land, what do they do? Keep attacking and want Israel wiped off the map. Yes we all should be handling this peaceful it will really work, it has so far. Tell that to the families of the people that died on 9/11.

whomever said this………
Frankly, the average American could careless. A nuke could go off in DC and people would be more interested in what Parris Hilton is doing in jail. The world is at war and for most folks their attitude is, “So what… not interested.” It is a sorry state of affairs but true.
SORRY BUT YOU’RE REACHIN BUDDY……..WEAK ARGUMENT……WEAK

To Rachel,
Shameless plug, but the book sounds interesting.
To Mad JayHawk,
How true, how true. I voted for the man twice, supported him through the invasion, but the guy has totally lost me on the immigration issue. His brother had better find a new career, out of politics, because I’ll NEVER vote for another Bush.

and boom goes the dynamite!

I am so tired of hearing how “they” hate us for our freedoms. Lets get a grip. That is not why they hate us.

firstly, you guys elected bush as ur president.
Secondly, you elected him for 2 terms
Realize what bush did is also americas’s fault not only your leaders fault. Elect him for 2 terms. In his first term 9/11 occured. In his first term he retaliated. (sounds the playground when you were 2 years old, ‘my dad can beat up your dad. (HAHA) and near the end of his 2nd term, hes still trying to show that he can fix this issue. This issue has been going on since his pops was in the office, and it doesnt look like its going away.

Those people who blame the recruiting of terrorist on Bush are complete idiots. You are really showing your true ignorance and how incredibly uneducated you are. Terrorists have been attacking long before Bush became president. I guess we can blame the embassy seige in 1979 in Iran on Bush too! Or even the WTC attack in 1993 on Bush as well. Maybe the terrorists were ticked off that Bush was the owner of Texas Rangers! You liberal bloggers are really a colossal jewel of ignorance!

I logged in to post exactly the statement by K Ols: They hate us for our foreign policy. I read through some of the posts on this board. Some of the comments posted here are as creepy and frightening as any quote I’ve ever read by a terrorist. Something happening here…

For the most part, the comments on here are clearly delusional. First, American efforts to reinstall the Shah in Iran is what tripped off radical Islamic fundamentalism. Had we not done that, there would have been no hostage crisis, no Ayatolah takeover and probably no shooting down of the Iranian passenger plane or the Lockerbie plane. Attempting to reinstall the Shah got us to where we are.
Second, middle east hatred of America is nothing new. But for some reason they’ve never tried attacking us here. Since Bush stole office though, there have been plans as well as actions to destabilize the middle east. It is understandable that they wouldn’t like that.
Third, it is not about the religion. Sure they flock around the religion but that’s exactly what we do here. Remember that God told Bush to invade Iraq. Therefore, Bush literally started a jihad. Nobody told him to include religion in his war. That was of his own doing and that is what helped raise the ire of the middle east religions.
We can’t just poke around in the affairs of other countries and expect there to be no effects that come of it. We are just now really starting to see those effects.

we need to have an open and honest dialogue among people and try to listen to others peoblems and figure out how we can help and not to pour oil over the fire .we have to learn how to live with dignity and respect the others no matter what is their folour ,race or religion .we need to respect the others and treat the others in a respectful highly ways .Violence will lead only to more war and hatred and disaster.

all the $ spent on iraq,afghan,ext,we could have housed, fed,and perhaps given free university to every single person on this planet,but nope lets kill each other instead,.

They may hate us, but they’re using similar tactics w/ similar results.
The Middle East is a hot bed of hatred and intolerance. Freedom? Only to those rich/powerful enough to buy off the gov’t of whatever country they may be living in. Muslim Extremists are filled with hate for everything that isn’t EXACTLY them. Sunnis attack Shiites attack Al-Qaida attack Iranians attack the Taliban attack Hamas attack Fatah, etc. It’s one big knot of hatred and intolerance w/ one common enemy: Freedom.

Bush wasn’t president during the Olympic massacre, Iran’s hostage
taking, the disabled American shot and thrown into the sea, The embassy bombings, the USS Cole attack, the first attack on the World Trade Center, and on and on and on… We all should recognize that this has been festering for decades.

You people that are blaming the president and the US for causing any or all retaliation by psycho (terrorists) are completly out of touch with reality and do not understand the gravity of this situation. It is a world wide situation.
The terrorists have gotten to you. Appeasing them doesn’t work. Won’t work. Will never work.
Now more than ever we need to stand up to them. We have to stay more vigilant and involved in a way that our troops, our president, and our country can be proud.
Giving in is giving to much.

If it’s not Bush’s fault, whose is it? He has these people on the verge of extinction in Tora Bora, and let them go. And he’s had SIX YEARS since then to bottle them up. Instead, they’re stronger than ever. Bush has done far more to promote al Qaeda than bin Laden ever did.

Way to go W. You’re letting them in the back door

Boo! Stay scared so we can take away even more of your constitution rights! And maybe if all you’re doing is worrying about terrorists you’ll forget about how everything else is going to hell in this country…..

A great plan, have suicide bomber press conference? are they just gonna fly over here on the airlines? then where are they gonna get the bombs? from home grown jihadists of course. try again no one is scared.

Thank God I have the right to keep and bear arms, my birthright, many of you do too. Ladies and Gentlemen, prepare to defend yourselves, buy large caliber and repeating weaponry, they kind that your elected representatives are trying to take from you.

There is a fundemental difference between having an abstract antipathy to a country versus having a real reason to go after that country. For instance, I may dislike Sweden abstractly, but if Sweden dropped a cluster bomb on my cousin, I’m going after Sweden. We have sown dragon’s teeth …. We’ll be vulnerable walking around the mall while the people who started this are in country clubs for the rest of their comfortable lives with security which we’re paying for.

Not one person in the neocon group had ever served in th military. They went to war just
like it was the first time, which it was. Too bad
they still don’t know what it’s like.

Hey Tedemalet,
Recent study shows that Hamilton had an illegal hair trigger installed on his pistol and discharged early. So not nobleness, just bad luck.

The truth is we are not going to be able to come close to mustering the kind of global cooperation needed to address this UNTIL Bush is gone. Any solution is in lame duck status right now.
Considering that the problem is with the resurgent Taliban in Afganistan, its nice to know our silly detour into Iraq was time well spent.

Oh my!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“were supposedly ”
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

So we have the graduation ceremony this past two weeks, but the training has been going on secretly for years.
How many other training camps are winding up with graduated suicide bombers?
Makes one wonder what the valedictorian speech was. Go out and conquer the world??? Go out and kill and thus the world will be conquered.

It’s attitudes like this from both sides that are the root of the terrorist problem. My God is better than yours and you better repent. Wake up, Fairy Tales are NOT humanities salvation.

Why are liberals so dumb? Do they think blaming someone will stop the Arabs? Maybe they think because they are liberal chickens that suicide bombers won’t hurt them.

We’re involved in Iraq because we don’t want to begin thinking about modifying our behavior at home. We are desperate to preserve our access to Middle East oil because that is the only way we can keep running our society the way we’re used to running it. Mostly, we don’t want to face the tragic misinvestments we’ve made in the infrastructure of happy motoring, and we don’t want to face the inconvenient truth that there really isn’t any combination of alt.fuels that will permit us to keep running all the cars the way we like to run them. Either we keep getting the oil or say goodbye to the American Dream Version 2.K.
I live simply so that others may simply live.
You bunch of sheep!

in other news today: ‘Monday: 2 GIs, 149 Iraqis Killed; 320 Wounded’ — now that means for every 2 americans killed, there are 149 iraqi that are dead — you think they haven’t noticed this discrepency?
more news — ‘More than a 100 people — including CIVILIANS, police and Taliban militants Have been killed in massive fighting in the past three days in southern Afghanistan’
american air strikes kill the afghan civilians along with the talibans, and all we say is ‘oops, sorry’ — but if just one american gets killed, its a major deal. what a double standard for american and muslim life. no wonder they’re standing up and taking crazy nutty actions — as long as we maintain a military presence on their soil, they will have reason to send more suicide bombers towards us — from the article — the reason they are sending suicide bombers is because:
‘These Americans, Canadians, British and Germans come here to Afghanistan from faraway places’, Dadullah says, ‘Why shouldn’t we go after them?’
the only way this will stop is a complete withdrawal of american military from the region — but that would be embarrassing, so americans won’t even consider it — how many more will have to die to save american face!?!?

I am really suspicious of the number of pro-war postings, here. Sounds like the flying right is pretty desperate.
Has anyone posting here bothered to read Bin ladin’s reasons for attacking the United States? It might help to go to the source’s mouth, don’t ya think?
Next, it is impossible to make intelligent comments unless you have have historical context. Required reading is “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man,” by John Perkins. Then read his just published follow-up, “Secrets of Empire.” Then come back and we’ll have a discussion.

don’t believe the hype. after cheap oil runs out Americans will self-implode soon enough. why send bombers here……

This is the propoganda of neocons. Simply spreading the hateredness.

So much for fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here. One of the dumbest talking points ever. Apparently one of the courses was “Mapquest for Terrorists.”

Ha Ha Ha Ha! How nice of them to allow photo op’s for the graduates! And then to announce they are sending suicide bombers to the US.
Responsibility fo any attacks in the US, will undoubtedly be elements in the US govt. NOT MUSLIMS..
Al Queda gonna get you!

“There always have been, and always will be, people who simply don’t believe that war can eventually make things better. History has proven them wrong time and time again (but they don’t seem to care).”
-John Denton
You have a unique understanding of history. Name ONE war that made things better for the aggressor.

Whew, thank God we have secure borders!
Everyone living near the Mexican border in Arizona knows that middle easterns have been crossing the border illegally with fake id’s with Hispanic names.
It kills me that the mainstream media won’t cover this though.
Google it if you don’t believe it. The LA Times did a back page story…

Come on now! Do you really believe that they would be so stupid as to have a “graduation ceremony”? To be infiltrated by spies and informatants? More booga booga to scare the sheeple into doing anything that Dictator Bush wants! I hope our readers are not stupid enough to fall for this blatant propaganda.

The borders should have been closed right after 9/11. The President blew it . The whole country was behind him . Now we have to show we are the Super Power and take it to the terrorists B4 they take it to the US. and you know it’s only a matter of time B4 they come over here .

don’t you people have jobs? go back to work.

I doubt these clowns will make it into western countries to mount operations: think about it: some sweaty 12-year-old with bad English and wearing a too-big coat tries to get through customs? I think they will be used in Iraq and Afghanistan. These guys aren’t coming here. I would be more worried about the sauve guy with three degrees, dady’s money and a big grudge against the west. Those were the guys on 9/11.

Many new technologies will help in the future as long as we stand together. Let us elect a president with smartz. Make them take an aptitude test like the military does. If they don’t score high enough then they can only reach rich dude’s kid. A military draft sound right around the corner? We should all serve in some way to help our country. Mandatory service!
Not just for war but for hospitals, infrastructure, education and every other sector that needs help. Also some real money for the troops would help them feel less screwed when they are trying to feed their families and the ones they are dying for.

B.S…..another “Boo, Gotcha” by the desperate right wing crazies…!!! I wouldn’t put it past some of these crazies to make their “dispensable aides” dress up in sheets and strap on bombs just to scare stupid Americans into voting for them again

To understand why the US is so unpopular in Muslim lands, particularly in the Middle East, one has to know the history of our involvement there. Our problems go way beyond what Bush has done. The first thing that infuriated the Arab countries was US recognition of Israel and the expulsion of Arabs in Palestine in 1948. President Truman was advised by Secretary of State George C. Marshall and Secretary of War James Forrestal not to recognize Israel as an independent country. Truman caved in to pressure from the lobby, and the Arabs have hated us ever since. Then, in 1953, the CIA organized a coup against the democratically elected government of Iran. This was done because Iranian Prime Minister Mossadegh nationalized the oil industry in Iran. The US then propped up the repressive and unpopular Shah until the Iranian Revolution of 1978. When in 1980, Saddam Hussein invaded Iran, the US provided support to the Iraqi military. Saddam later returned the favor by invading Kuwait. We also aided Muslim forces (including what later became the Taliban) fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan. Yes, the jihadis in Afghanistan once considered the US to be a friend. What really set us up for the two attacks on the WTC was staying in Saudi Arabia after Gulf War I. Osama bin Laden (our former ally in Afghanistan) stated explicitly that his problem with the US stemmed from our long-term military presence in the Muslim holy lands. He also denied in an interview with a correspondent with Ummat magazine, a Pakistani publication, having anything to do with the 9/11 attacks. In any event, he has yet to be tried in absentia or even indicted for this crime. This is not to defend bin Laden, but it is time for our leaders to acknowledge that our many interventions in the Middle East have not served us well. We are creating enemies faster than we can defend against them.

It doesn’t surprise me that these people think we want to exterminate Muslims. They have no idea what being free means. They live on a much more base level then we do.

In addition to the length of the conflict:
Since when did contributing to someones anger excuse their actions? If a 9 year old walked up to you in the store, after dropping a bottle of pickles, and said it was his sisters fault because she called him a fathead, would the mess on the floor be the sisters to clean up? When on earth did logic that wouldn’t be applied to 9 year olds become acceptable to apply to educated adults? What are we telling people when we (essentially) imply that their murderous action is OK because someone else did something wrong? We are telling people that they are not responsible for their actions. As long as we do that, things are just going to get worse imho. bk425

I’m happy to see that all the new recruits are equipped with a proper flag. They’re going to need it. ;)
12 year olds, eh? Didn’t say if they were handicapped. That recruitment effort seems to be humming along over there. *smirk*
America has fought her own home-grown terrorists for over 100 years. They’re certainly still around, but America has successfully reduced them to the handful of pathetic, powerless morons we see before us today. It *can* and *has* been done here, and it *can* and *must* be done again there – time should be no object. It’s a worthy goal that *must* be attained for the future of America and the world at large, even if it takes 100 years.
If anyone is hankering for a little “redeployment”, let’s start with the WWII theaters. Aren’t we done there yet? ;)

Training school for suicide bombers huh, I’ll bet they go trough a lot of instructors, ie 1 per teaching session and if they (the new recruits) are as slow to learn as their cousins from Irag (New Military trainees), I’ll wager they have gone through more instructors than they have inducties. LOL-One more comment-U S intelligence? Isn’t that an oxy moron??!

If you ask me we should have put a military presence on both borders after 9/11 and with actual authority to do something instead of watch.
Our government has been more reactionary in nature, ever since Pearl Harbor. We want to be proactive against something we can’t comprehend. No red, blooded American wants to strap bombs to their person and go blow themselves up for a cause. That’s not to say we won’t die for a country but these people out there won’t fight us face-to-face. They do understand that they cannot win militarily and it makes me sick how they use our own politics against us. I do not understand why our own government doesn’t grasp that or maybe they do and just do not care.

Muslim Terrorist cheered on by Democrats in Iraq.
The Shah of Iran removed by democrats (Carter)
Afghanistan surrendered by democrats (Carter)
Castro loved on by democrats
Hugo Chavez cheered on by Democrats
Bush “hated” by democrats
US Military “hated” by democrats
Defeat at any price the goal of democrats.

Do you people really think that anyone would invite cameras to video faces of people that were trying to “sneak into” a country to perform terrorist acts? Give me a break….this is another scare tactic to try go get Americans to give up liberties! Wake up people!

I disdain people calling potential suicide bomber victims “innocent civilians”.
No one in this country is innocent in this war. We have idly stood by and allowed our government to start wars of aggression against third world countries that were no “stategic threat” to our civilization. We are trying to kill fly’s with a sledgehammer. It is no wonder they want to come here for a little pay back.
When they exact it we won’t be “innocent victims”.
It’s time to wake up and pay attention to what our government is doing in our name and it is not good!

he who fails to study history is doomed to repeat it. Hmmmm
Has anyone recognized how these militants resemble the Al Capone’s of our past. Or of Hitler’s Mein Kampt. Kill everyone who isn’t like the super race??
Those who want to cut and run are very naive. One can bury their head in the sand but there is still a lot exposed.

Interesting to note that the video they have posted doesn’t have the English segment. Also interesting is the convenient at the end of his speech. Can anybody guess what he said?

I love how the the ignorant try to claim that liberals, progressives and Dems are white flag waving cowards when in fact the repubs are the the ones who so blindly surrender their rights to the government and are guided by color coder fear meters.

Afghanistan is only useful to the Oil Administration if it can help with Caspian oil or natural gas.
The Oil Administration is following its public Cheney Energy policy in its attempt to secure the oil infrastructure in Iraq — they published that plan before 9/11. So it was no surprise they tried to use 9/11 as an excuse to attack Iraq. When that failed, they made up a bunch of silly lies to convince the fairly ignorant US public that Saddam was in bed with his lethal enemy Bin Laden, so they could try to grab and secure and build the Iraq oil infrastructure.
The Cheney Energy Policy is public US policy and has been so for many years.
Cheney publically declared that he wants the US to increase its dependence on Middle Eastern (and Columbian and Venezualan…) oil, and that he wants to build a military to be able to seize oil in more countries.
Unfortunately, this Oil Administration has been so terribly incompetent at foreign affairs, and mismanaged the Iraq Occupation so badly, that Iraq is pumping even less oil than before, and their allegations that Iraq oil would fund the Occupation have been proven excruciatingly false — and the long term prospects are terrible for US oil hegemony, as a huge majority of Iraqi civilians now hate the US and desire its absense, which cannot bode well for the billions of dollars the US is pouring into its plan to move its Saudi bases to Iraq.

There is one solution to all the mis-named Islamic terrorism. Take your country, your guns, your lavish corporate HQ’s, your legions of forces, your insufferable preaching, your profound ignorance, your support for sick and corrupt dictatorships, your endless thirst for OTHER people’s God given resources and get the hell out of places that dont belong to you. Then someone might like you.

So much for “we have to fight them over there” (Iraq, Afghanistan) “so we won’t have to fight them over here.”
Terrorism is a tactic and can’t be defeated. Imagine a war on flanking.

If the terrorists are hell bent on using any means at their disposal to attack us, it should come as no surprise to see that they are preparing suicide assaults on our country. Quite frankly, I think we should have been anticipating this news and preparing for a possible suicide attack.

These muslim extremists remind me of a cartoon Pinky & the Brain. They had an obsession with taking over the world. They were actually so dumb their plans never succeeded…As for the first post, by Brandon, You must me the biggest ignoramous to exist on the face of this earth. Read up on history buddy, these idiots have been trying to conquer the world longer that the United States even existed….

The Muslim extremists’ mission to destroy us by using suicide bombers has nothing to do with W or politics. It is because of their extreme interpretation of their religion and their belief that our way of life is wrong. They will do their best to destroy us because they believe their way is the ONLY way. It does not matter what political party is in power and neither this administration or his Daddy’s started this by going into Iraq. For our children and grandchildren’s sake we better secure our borders and screen every person in this Country either on a VISA or here illegally. As for Afghanistan, it was Russia’s Viet Nam. They were occupiers before us and were defeated. We must stay the course there and deal with Pakistan and Iran as well as stabilizing Iraq. Pull your head out of the sand America.

Bin Laden’s stated goals are to keep America wasting treasury and international respect by engaging the middle east militarily. Now that we are seriously considerng leaving, Bin laden is going to bomb us to keep our anger level up so that we continue to fight over there. Bush was right about one thing, we fight them there so we don’t fight them here. The only way out of this mess is to ween our nation off of foriegn oil, and that’s the real sin of this administration, curbing the effort to remove our need for oil. No need for oil leads to no need to have immoral policies in the middle east leading to no extremists. It’s that simple.

When’s the class reunion?

This is what’s referred to as “blowback”- look it up if you don’t know what I mean. It’s NOT that they “hate us for our freedoms” or whatever- anybody that believes this are termed “useful idiots”. Sadly, there appears to be many of them posting here. No, it’s about our CONDUCT in the rest of the world.
Weren’t we told that we were “fighting them there so we wouldn’t have to fight them here”? Clearly, this article shows that fighting them there WON’T PREVENT THEM FROM COMING HERE. It NEVER DID.
And, there WEREN’T any suicide bombers OR car bombs in Iraq before we got there. Think that’s a coincidence?

I am sick of the “oil for blood” jingoism of the left. If it really is oil for blood, why the hell does gas cost $3.50 a gallon. Oh, and by the way, Exxon makes 8cents a gallon profit but the government makes almost 70 cents a gallon profit. Tell me who is the real profiteer here.
Dummies!

Not much point in organizing an alumni society for these graduates…eh?

First get rid of the democratic party and the left wing s in this country, then we can be safe

They are attacking us because of US foreign policy. If we didn’t have military bases over there they would leave us alone. Bush Sr. is more responsible than Bush Jr. is.

cant blame bush if you elected him for 2 sessions in the office……….

U.S. intelligence officials described the event as another example of “an aggressive and sophisticated propaganda campaign.”
delivered directly into your little brain by ABC news. more americans get their terror propaganda from abc than any other source.except the white house.

Looks like more staged terror attacks on the way…. :(

I hear all of you saying “Let’s bomb these guys back to the Stone Age or the 7th century” blah blah blah. I don’t know about you, but if one of these crazies set off anything in this country, my primary action would be to make like Rome did Carthage to Iran. Destroy it all, salt the lands so nothing will grow for 1,000 years. Make a statement to terrorism. Let them know, that when we get done with them, not only will we wipe Iran from the history books, but we will with Extreme Muslims as well. Everyone knows, the winner writes the history book. I’d prefer to bomb these psychopaths to non-existance. Wipe these crazies from history, so history won’t be able to repeat itself.

What? You guys didn’t know that Bush has this ‘ol hurricane machine that he made up and when he fired it up it accidentally hit New Orleans? He fired it up again at Iran just a couple o weeks ago. (Sarcasm if you morons don’t get it.) You know…I’m sure there’s some people out there that really do believe that Bush dropped that asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. That’s almost as dumb as believing that Bush caused all the terrorism we face today. I take most of you failed History, eh?

Laden was our dog in Afganistan. He was trained by CIA to fight the soviets in Afganistan. He was called “freedom fighter” then. We knew when Pakistan asked Taliban to keep Laden in Afganistan. We never thought our dog would attack us. This is the reason Bush ignored the warnings of pre – 911. Taliban even agreed to our oil companies request to build pipeline through Afganistan to Arab ian sea where it is easy to transport to nearby countries and make a profit. All the while this guy had bigger goal to attack US. Stupid Liberals don’t know that Bush had nothing to do with Laden. And the dump patriots don’t know that he was trained by us and called him “Freedom Fighter”. Much like the Kurdish people now. WE call the Kurds the freedom fighters since they faught against Saddam. However Kurds are labeled terrorists in Turkey. Before he attacked the US he was attacking the neighboring countries and we did nothing since he was our dog and dogs don’t attack their masters. Lessons learned. This kind of attack will not happen again. Liberals and Patriots before you fight a holy war here know your history and American foriegn policy.

American exceptionalism is a huge component driving the resentment of the United States abroad. Like it or not, YOU’RE NO BETTER THAN THE LOWLIEST BEGGER ON any street in the Middle East. What makes you think you’re so special? Your TV works? Beer in your fridge? A Hummer in your driveway. Step back a few feet and look at how ridiculous some of you sound.

This is just propaganda.Al-Qaeda is warning to attack US and Europe for the last two years. I am sick of all these last warnings, just do it or shut up.

Why is it so many who post here and claim to know all about the threat that is Al Queda, and how the sky is falling, have no idea who Tim Osman is and what his connection to the US has been??

Cool. Why don’t all of you enlist instead of making comments about who’s fault it is and do something real to save America.

These people do not hate us for our freedom they hate us because of our presence in their countries!
Our government has taken out democratically elected leasders from other countries for decades all for the corporations so that they can steal the natural resources and use cheap, slave labor all for money.
For all of you so called history buffs, just remember what happened to the Soviet Union after their 10 year war with Afghanistan.
Remember, we (CIA under Reagan) armed Bin Laden and others like him to fight the Soviet Union. Back then our government called them “freedom fighters” today we call these same people, terrorists and insurgents. We never learn from our own history. We arm and aid other countries, call them our friend and then years later we go to war with them. Whose next? Pakistan?

Unambiguous common sense about “The War” is that we are losing it because both America and Israel have not and are not fighting the war that needs to be fought in the Levant/Eastern Mediterranean or in Iraq. It’s all the same war. Is there any ambiguity in that what has befallen the people of Gaza will befall the people of Iraq should America cut and run? How is Israeli disengagement from the Islamofascist terrorists in Gaza any different from American disengagement from Islamofascist terrorists in Iraq? America as a whole did not see this fact prior to the congressional election of 2004. Hopefully hindsight is as 20/20 as the adage goes. Given the Iranian intent to launch an apocalyptic Middle Eastern war in the near-term, let’s hope we’ll be around to execute its lessons in November 2008.

All these Muslim extremists are just cowards. Not one of them has the guts to face someone who can defend themselves and shoot back.

Firstly there were far fewer terrorists before Bush invaded Iraq. Terrorism has been around since the days of Rome- It was always thus.
Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. Everybody knew that but the majority of Americans.
9/11 was perpetrated by mostly Saudi Arabs backed by Saudi money protected by the Taliban government in Afganistan.
A government created with arms left over that were supplied by the CIA to fight the Russians
Indeed Saudi money still builds the schools that create the suicide bombers yet most of these people were not sent to Cuba.
Since the war in Iraq there is less oil available more instability which drives up the price-making certain Saudis rich so they can fund the schools that create the suicide bombers- Good one Dubya!
Afganistan would not be a problem if the US and the British didn’t waste the resources on a useless war that created more new terrorists than Osama could dream of. Instead of the 50,000 troops NATO has there now we’d have 150,000 and the Taliban would be eliminated.
And lets face it if a terrorist will die for their cause there’s very little one can do to protect you. Most security since 9/11 is either dumb or ineffective.
Ever since 9/11 Al Quadia has been preparing somthing to top 9/11. A couple of suicide bombers won’t do the trick. They may come but that will only be a diversion-I dare say they and radical Muslims are probably aiming to overthrow the Pakistani government so they can get their hands on some Nukes.(you would think this would be a major issue for the US- If not it will be kinda of like waking up in 1949 and finding out China fell to the Commies)
Of course the stupidest thing about the Iraq war is that the US and Britan eliminated Iran’s only counter balance-
Absolutly Brilliant! Dubya sure is a genius.
PS. The sadest part is that the American people tend to forget that the majority of you supported the war in Iraq in the first place.

No, we do not strap explosives to our chests in order to blow up civilians.
We send long range missiles and smart bombs instead.
So much more effective!

Bring ‘em on.

This is what you call BLOWBACK! Do your research….even the CIA is aware of this…the hatred for the US comes from our horribly flawed foreign policy. It’s not the people or the troops, we are just cannon fodder for the corporate interests that have took over the military industrial complex. WAKE UP AMERICA!!!! INVESTAGE 9/11!!!! INVESTAGE THE IRS!!!! INVESTAGE THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION!!! INVESTAGE FEMA CAMPS!!! INVESTAGE ALL CORRUPTION!!! IT IS YOUR DUTY AS AN AMERICAN PATRIOT!!!! DISSENT IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF PATRIOTISM!!!!

Twenty-two years ago, U.S. Navy Petty officer, Robert D. Stethem was savagely beaten, executed and thrown onto a hot airport tarmac in Beirut, Lebanon by Iranian backed Hezbollah terrorists during the marathon 17-day hijacking of TWA Flight 847. His lifeless body lay on the tarmac for hours, serving not only as proof of Islamist brutality, but as an omen of things to come. All of the Muslim terrorists who took part in the hijacking, killed Stethem and held the passengers and crew of the ill-fated flight incredulously remain free over two decades later.
Interestingly, the murder of U.S. serviceman Stethem was preceded by less than two years earlier of the bombing of the U.S. marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon on October 23, 1983– a bombing that claimed the lives of 299 of our servicemen and six civilians.
In response to that bombing, we pulled all of our troops out of Lebanon in February 1984, something similar that is being demanded of us today. One can see only too clearly that our acquiescence to the demands of Islamic terrorists have consequences, and not the type one would expect.
Iran, meanwhile, the primary sponsor of Hezbollah, continues to threaten the security of the United States through its nuclear program and exportation of terrorism in Iraq and throughout the West.
The manner in which we handled the murderous Islamic terrorists who all but installed a revolving door on TWA Flight 847 in its forced trips between Beirut and Algiers in 1985 is not unlike the manner in which we are handling the same terrorists and their identical ideology today.

Hey Americans, what part of the USA is Canada anyway???? The Title should bombers being sent to US, Canada, and Europe !!! Just like the other day, the so called leader in News you way, stating NATO was founding by the US and 12 European Nations – another lesson for our “cousins” south of the 49th, Canada was there too – just as we were on our beach at D-Day, joined the Second World War in 39 vice 41, and the Great War in 1914, and not 1917. Wake up, Canada is a separate nation!! Stop your Manifest Destiny Conspiracy – we are NOT you!!!

I agree with one thing, America is HATED all around the world. I speak from experience. I spent 13 years in the middle east, and I know from first hand knowledge. But It isn’t our country or our people that they hate, it is American Business. Now think about it. All the skams and crap American business pulls right here in this country. Look at the scam the Gas Companies just pulled, Putting three refineries off line just befor a holiday, just so they could scream GAS SHORTAGE, and gouge us with higher prices, just to increase their profit.
Now condider this, they pull that kind of crap here in this country where we have lots of laws to help protect us. What do you think their behavior is like overseas in countries where they don’t have those laws. FOR AMERICAN BUSINESS IT IS OK TO KILL, DISTROY, POLLUTE OR ANY THING ELSE THEY WANT TO DO, AS LONG AS THEY MAKE A PROFIT. That is why the rest of the world hates us. And the illigal and unjustified invasion of Iraq has only put more iceing on the cake. Why can’t we hold American business responsible for their actions over seas? Because our government is made up of Rich Lawyers, and most of those bad things happened under Republican administrations, (Republicans are the party of the Rich and Big Business, so why would they stop them, every thing goes, as long as you make a profit. Samuel Clements had it right 100 years ago, he said “AMERICA IS THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH, WE HAVE THE BEST DAMN GOVERNMENT THAT MONEY CAN BUY!”
GOVERNMENT OF THE RICH, BY THE RICH, AND FOR THE RICH, AND THERE IS LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL THE RICH.
TO HELL WITH THE REST OF US PHEASANTS, LITTLE, NO ACCOUNT PEOPLE, WE DON’T HAVE ANY RIGHTS, BUT THEN WE DON’T NEED THEM ANYWAY, ASK ANY RICH PERSON, THEY WILL TELL YOU!!! SLAVES NEVER HAVE HAD RIGHTS!

Let’s be honest, we are at war with radical Islam. Now let’s kill as many of them as we need to in order to claim a decisive victory.

I think it something in the water…

Lies like this are always spewed forth from the right in the U.S. It’s the only way they can win elections:
“as i recall the ACLU and liberals are the ones hampering our efforts to stop these terrorists…and BTW..the planning and preperation for 911 was done 99% under the CLINTON administration!”
Note the absence of any links whatsoever to proof of this theory. Hey, if it sounds good and it fits your preconceived political ideology then screw it – JUST SAY IT! The model the right uses for its propaganda.

Keep it straight folks. For those who keep repeating that the 9/11 terrorists came through Canada – that’s just another of gdub’s big fat ones. Keep it straight ….

“U.S. intelligence officials described the event as another example of “an aggressive and sophisticated propaganda campaign.”"
They should know, they planted this story as part “an aggressive and sophisticated propaganda campaign.”
The real terrorists are occupying the White House.

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT RON PAUL TOLD RUDY GIULIANI IN THE DEBATE, “THEY ATTACK US BECAUSE WE ARE OVER THERE.” “WE NEED TO LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE ATTACKING US.”
“These Americans, Canadians, British and Germans come here to Afghanistan from faraway places,” Dadullah says on the tape. “Why shouldn’t we go after them?”
HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO WILL FIX AMERICA!
RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT 2008! GO RON PAUL!!!

The neocons keep saying that the reason we fight them there is so we won’t have to fight them here. But it looks like fighting them there may not be stopping them from coming here. The George Bush reelection war will not stop them.

Welcome to the spin zone. Where FDR said the only thing we had to fear was fear itself, now this administration has nothing to offer but fear itself.
The fact remains that you are far, far more likely to be knifed by some random mugger than be blown up by a suicide bomber.
And for Karen who referenced the seizing of the embassy in 1979, don’t forget that the CIA had overthrown the democratically elected Iranian government in 1953 (with the help of the Brits) after that government decided to nationalize the oil industry. The Brits and us decided Iran was getting too close with the Soviets and Cold War politics demanding we overthrow their democratically elected government and replace it with an autocratic monarch. Heaven knows why Iranians should have held a grudge about that.
Look, they don’t hate us because of our freedom or any of that nonsensical propaganda coming from the government (and it is propaganda, designed to keep you in fear and willing to surrender your liberties in the pursuit of permanent war. We’ve entered a bizarro world where the Republicans now are the ones saying “We’re from the government and we’re here to help.”) They hate us because we’re mucking around in their affairs.
None of this absolves the Democrats who are just as much to blame for this fiasco. The Democrats want to continue the same foreign policy, just “smarter.” On the cheap. While the Republicans have a devil-may-care attitude about putting us in hock to the Chinese, borrowing the money to fund the war.
Only if we throw out both parties do we have a chance to avoid losing our republic to an empire, and then to bankrupt ourselves into being a second-rate minor power like the Brits, dreaming wistfully of the days we used to run the world as we go hat in hand to the IMF for a bailout.

the only thing to fear is fear itself.
those who are willing to give up essential liberty for temporary security deserve neither liberty nor security
the media and political figures are trying to scare the people by posting this kind of information like this article into giving up. If they wanted to fight this thing as a nation they would be out there trying to come up with ways to fight national terrorism instead of sitting back and waiting for it to happen. All they are doing is terrorizing American people side by side with these extremists which makes them no better than those claiming to murder americans.
What we need is a plan to help us get through this modern threat. Our foreign policy is the biggest reason why they hate us or as the gov’nt likes to say “they are jealous of us.” Placing thousands of troops in over 75 countries around the world doesn’t seem like a very good idea to be doing while we should be practicing diplomacy. Our biggest problems are “snooping” around on other countries and using our military to achieve financial goals like resources and using our military in foreign affairs.
“Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.” George Washington
“Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.” Thomas Jefferson

Anti-Terror measures implemented under President Clinton:
– sent legislation to Congress to TIGHTEN AIRPORT SECURITY. (Remember, this is before 911) The legislation was defeated by the Republicans because of opposition from the airlines.
– sent legislation to Congress to allow for BETTER TRACKING OF TERRORIST FUNDING. It was defeated by Republicans in the Senate because of opposition from banking interests.
– sent legislation to Congress to add tagents to explosives, to allow for BETTER TRACKING OF EXPLOSIVES USED BY TERRORISTS. It was defeated by the Republicans because of opposition from the NRA.
– Developed the nation’s first anti-terrorism policy, and appointed first national coordinator.
– Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up 12 U.S. jetliners simultaneously.
– Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up UN Headquarters.
– Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up FBI Headquarters.
– Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up the Israeli Embassy in Washington.
– Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up Boston airport.
– Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up Lincoln and Holland Tunnels in NY.
– Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up the George Washington Bridge.
– Stopped cold the planned attack to blow up the US Embassy in Albania.
– Tried to kill Osama bin Laden and disrupt Al Qaeda through preemptive strikes (efforts denounced by the G.O.P.).
– Brought perpetrators of first World Trade Center bombing and CIA killings to justice.
– Did not blame Bush I administration for first World Trade Center bombing even though it occurred 38 days after they had left office. Instead, worked hard, even obsessively — and successfully — to stop future terrorist attacks.
– Named the Hart-Rudman commission to report on nature of terrorist threats and major steps to be taken to combat terrorism.
– Tripled the budget of the FBI for counterterrorism and doubled overall funding for counterterrorism.
– Detected and destroyed cells of Al Qaeda in over 20 countries
– Created a national stockpile of drugs and vaccines including 40 million doses of smallpox vaccine.
– Robert Oakley, Reagan Counterterrorism Czar says of Clinton’s efforts “Overall, I give them very high marks” and “The only major criticism I have is the obsession with Osama”
– Paul Bremer, Bush’s Administrator of Iraq disagrees slightly with Robert Oakley saying he believed the Clinton Administration had “correctly focused on bin Laden. ”
– Barton Gellman of the Washington Post put it best, “By any measure available, Clinton left office having given greater priority to terrorism than any president before him” and was the “first administration to undertake a systematic anti-terrorist effort.”
In stark contrast, here is the Bush-Cheney anti-terrorism record:
– Backed off Clinton administration’s anti-terrorism efforts.
– Shelved the Hart-Rudman report.
– Appointed new anti-terrorism task force under Dick Cheney. Group did not even meet before 9/11.
– Called for cuts in anti-terrorism efforts by the Department of Defense.
– Gave no priority to anti-terrorism efforts by Justice Department.
– Ignored warnings from Sandy Berger, Louis Freeh, George Tennant, Paul Bremer, and Richard Clarke about the urgency of terrorist threats.
– Halted Predator drone tracking of Osama bin Laden.
– Did nothing in wake of August 6 C.I.A. report to president saying Al Qaeda attack by hijack of an airliner almost certain.
P

Sure looks like the Truth. I’m not talking to no-one anymore.

Well, it’s finally happened. Our military actions abroad are going to kill Canadian civilians. I wonder if I’m going to be one of them? I’m gonna be in Toronto this coming weekend for the Pride Festival along with a million other people –pretty good target for a terrorist, wouldn’t you say?
Everyone is ignoring the big question: why do they want to kill us in the first place? People don’t want to kill other people for no reason –they just don’t. And our leaders want us to believe that they’d be willing to travel to the other side of the world and blow themselves up to kill us because we’re “helping” them? Obviously, they don’t want our help. If we weren’t in their country killing people, arresting people, wiping out their crops, and imposing our ideas of how a country should be run on them, do you honestly think that they’d have anything to do with us? Let alone want to kill us?

HOW EXACTLY ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GET HERE?

Unfortunately, there is a difference in moral values between the Western Civilization and those who choose to carry out these dastardly deeds. How does one combat against them? They will continue to hate the good because of the evil in their hearts. We must pray to God Almighty…AND ARM OURSELVES TO THE TEETH!
Sandy – Ohio