#645878 - 12/19/10 01:50 AM
Re: War On Terror a fraud?
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Let's don't ...unless you want me to post all the Earthquake Warning vidz again! Fish on... Todd
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#645887 - 12/19/10 03:45 AM
Re: War On Terror a fraud?
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Stratigically we should be using more of our own oil, but that's a different subject.
Oil security seems further down the list on reasons to be in the middle east. To think the entire war is just to give the military a blank check, and secure our oil interests in Iraq is just plain silly. 1st Point: You misspelled "Strategically" you and G.W. should hang and and discuss your plan for Strategery! High five. 2nd Point: You're absolutely right, it wasn't all about oil and tax interests, it was about Weapons of Mass Destruction!! .........sure am glad we found all of those, that was a close one.
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#645900 - 12/19/10 08:22 AM
Re: War On Terror a fraud?
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#645953 - 12/19/10 01:53 PM
Re: War On Terror a fraud?
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Dear lord BD, arguing just to argue. Pull your head out.
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#645970 - 12/19/10 02:56 PM
Re: War On Terror a fraud?
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Know a guy personally who was stationed at Langley AFB on 9/11. He told me himself, even BEFORE Rumsfeld phukked up and let it slip during a news conference, that he was there when the F-15's that shot down flight 93 were scrambled and then returned with empty missile carriages. The thing about Flight 93-- The "Phone Calls" informing the passengers... Ever try to use a cell at 30,000 feet? There's no fuggin signal. Even flying a Cessna, I lose signal at about 2500 feet. "Let's Roll" -- It's like they hired a B Movie writer to come up with that. How the fvck could they have known what conversations occurred on that plane? They couldn't. The black box recorders would have only recorded what went through the head sets, that is, if they survived the impact at all. I want to know-- Why have the black box recordings never been released? Why were no black boxes ever recovered? Why was there no debris field at the pentagon? What flight was that, and who was on it?
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#646008 - 12/19/10 05:04 PM
Re: War On Terror a fraud?
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You know what I want to know.... WTF happened to building 7? Why did that collapse after receiving no serious damage whatsoever and how is it even RELATED to the planes?
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#646325 - 12/20/10 01:16 PM
Re: War On Terror a fraud?
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My opinion of the War on Terror is that it is, in some definition, a fraud. Without getting into 9/11 (collapse of WTC7 is easily the most questionable single event from that whole episode), it is a fraud in the sense that we are spending money to accomplish nothing. It is a fraud when you pay for something and get practically nothing. As I've stated many times before, we have too many soft targets in the U.S. to truly protect them. This is because we are fortunate enough to live in a rich country, with (comparatively) solid infrastructure. Trains, subways, ports, condos, skyscrapers, etc.
We can't protect it all. Not even close. At least not without driving us to bankruptcy. So, instead, we decide to dump BILLIONS into airport safety which, even at this point, is basically futile. The TSA's own self-tests of attempting to get weapons through checkpoints result in over 70% of weapons getting through undetected. Some airports have 100% failure rates. And all of this dumping of money stems from an event where people with 1 inch razor blades took over a plane. Something that will NEVER be allowed to happen again.
I've gone back in the PP threads and tried to find all of the 9/11 posts but the search feature doesn't seem to work very well that far back. I'd love to see the old "terror" and "9/11" posts from Sept - Dec 2001 and review what everyone was saying. I remember what I typed and I stand by it. I'm curious to see how many people would re-read what they posted and still agree with it? From what I remember, there were plenty of hotheads that were looking for a country to bomb. How did that go?
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#646337 - 12/20/10 01:34 PM
Re: War On Terror a fraud?
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Dick Nipples
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The contractors who are doing virtually everything over there at incredibly inflated prices are getting everything they wanted, and more.
Fish on...
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