Let's forget Bush for a moment. George W. Bush is a very odd vessel for what is the most important message of our time: that there are implacable forces in the world that hate us, our way of life, our vibrant culture, our personal freedom, and those forces will do all they can to kill us. This is a real war. There are various sources of this ideology, but they are quite willing to set aside their differences to act against us, "the enemy of my enemy" and all.…
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76 - boomcrashbaby
Now it remains in our best interest to silence them.
Ashcroft couldn't have said it better. So we give Iraq a democracy but strike out freedom of speech? We give them a free country as long as they don't speak ill of America? As an American who wants to fight terrorism, who wants to find a middle ground with different cultures who currently hate us, who wants to keep our country safe and who wants to maintain the freedoms our forefathers fought for...What IS the point of this philosophy?
77 - Natalie Davis
Exactly. It is time to sing a new song: "Let There Be Peace on Earth."
78 - Shark
DAWN: They had an expert on there discussing the soon to be completed missile defense program. Imagine if you will, if the terrorists who used our planes against us on 9/11 had ICBM's instead. It's plausible, it's conceivable, and above all it's deeply disturbing."
What's really disturbing is that we'll spend billions on that system and it can't take down CROP DUSTERS.
79 - duane
Maybe not, but it will be designed to take out zeppelins and other large slow-moving objects. Yeah. Take 'em out good. Real good.
80 - JR
Well, the upside of that missile defense is that it will create jobs for what few science and engineering majors we produce in this country (although for most of the work we'll have to hire foreign students). It's actually kind of a neat socialist scam for techies: the government creates make-work jobs building a system that will never be used and never work anyway, and the libertarians cough up the money because they think their taxdollars are going to national defense.
Hey, I'm starting to like this idea!
81 - Natalie Davis
Ah, a world of guided missiles and misguided men... I wonder if Dr. King is rolling proverbially in his grave.
82 - duane
Yeah, God knows that missiles have never helped us in the past. We don't need no stinking missiles.
83 - Jim Carruthers
C'mon, wasn't the missile defense system crucial in "North by North West"? Jebus Jumped up Christ on a Pogo Stick, where would that Cary Grant be without a missile defense system covering his sweet, sweet ass?
You think he would have got his ashes hauled in a train going into a tunnel if it wasn't for a continental missile defense system? Hell No!