Major Terrorist Threat in UK-US discovered

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Motorboat Cruiser

Sorry but nowhere near the same rate. Our escapade into Iraq was a terrorist recruiter's wet dream.

This is why 9/11 happened pre Iraq, I'm sure.

[mousepod]

I'm with scaeagles as far as rooting out and destroying terrorism is concerned. I just don't buy the methodology that our government is prescribing. It doesn't make sense.

- a bunch of potential terrorists are arrested because they plan to take down planes with liquid-based explosives.

- the next day, Americans can't bring liquids on airplanes.

- how do they know that liquid explosives work?

- because they were used in 1995.

The timing of the new ban seems do more to foment panic (power by fear) than it does to actually prevent terrorism.

And that's one example of why I'm annoyed

(and if we're putting people into groups, I'm the registered Libertarian who tries to balance his fiscally conservative mind with his socially responsible and sometimes bleeding heart)

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Well, except that I never denied that terrorism was a problem pre-Iraq.

Maybe this will help illustrate my point.

[Alex]

And tracilicious knows 4 people cured of cancer by herbs.

By any chance would anybody know of an herb we could give to the cancer of terrorists that would just mellow them the hell down?

[scaeagles]

MBC, Sac, and ISM can be our "herbal ambassadors" to the terrorists.

[Motorboat Cruiser]

From the Washington Post...

Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 27, 2005; Page A01

The number of serious international terrorist incidents more than tripled last year, according to U.S. government figures, a sharp upswing in deadly attacks that the State Department has decided not to make public in its annual report on terrorism due to Congress this week.

Overall, the number of what the U.S. government considers "significant" attacks grew to about 655 last year, up from the record of around 175 in 2003, according to congressional aides who were briefed on statistics covering incidents including the bloody school seizure in Russia and violence related to the disputed Indian territory of Kashmir.

Terrorist incidents in Iraq also dramatically increased, from 22 attacks to 198, or nine times the previous year's total -- a sensitive subset of the tally, given the Bush administration's assertion that the situation there had stabilized significantly after the U.S. handover of political authority to an interim Iraqi government last summer.

[tracilicious]

I'm sure that Sac has more than enough to share.

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Motorboat Cruiser

Well, except that I never denied that terrorism was a problem pre-Iraq.

If terrorism was clearly rising prior to Iraq, including the largest attack ever on US soil, then I cannot see that the causality of increasing terrorism is Iraq. Terrorist roles may in fact be growing; they were growing before Iraq. There is no way to prove they are growing faster because of Iraq.

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

MBC, Sac, and ISM can be our "herbal ambassadors" to the terrorists.

By the time we are done with those bastards, a box of Oreos and a playstation will keep them far too busy to bomb anything.

[Not Afraid]

So, legalizing pot will cure the world of terrorists. I can deal with that.