Comments on: United 93 http://www.mainstreetj.com/2006/04/29/393 Politics and Culture Done Just Right Wed, 01 Nov 2006 19:18:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: McCloud http://www.mainstreetj.com/2006/04/29/393#comment-844 Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:29:24 +0000 http://www.mainstreetj.com/2006/04/29/393#comment-844 Where in the Constitution does it say anything about airplanes or nukes? What it DOES say is the CIC will protect the nation from threats, both foreign and domestic. Just like Clinton was trying to do with al-Shifa. Where in the Constitution does it say anything about airplanes or nukes? What it DOES say is the CIC will protect the nation from threats, both foreign and domestic. Just like Clinton was trying to do with al-Shifa.

]]> by: Mickey White http://www.mainstreetj.com/2006/04/29/393#comment-842 Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:02:02 +0000 http://www.mainstreetj.com/2006/04/29/393#comment-842 McCloud, where in the Constitution does it allow our county to decide which country can have which weapons? China has Nukes pointed at us, why are we not bombing them? McCloud, where in the Constitution does it allow our county to decide which country can have which weapons?
China has Nukes pointed at us, why are we not bombing them?

]]> by: McCloud http://www.mainstreetj.com/2006/04/29/393#comment-838 Sun, 30 Apr 2006 03:27:12 +0000 http://www.mainstreetj.com/2006/04/29/393#comment-838 When the Clinton administration bombed the factory at al-Shifa, it wasn't because they were retaliating for a VX gas attack, it was because they thought Bin Laden was using it to produce the poison, which might one day be used against us. Since we knew Iraqi scientists had been involved with the Khartoum thugocracy, such was a reasonable assumption. It was more a pre-emptive strike than retaliation for the embassy bombings. The same logic was used on Iraq after 9/11. Let me turn this around on you, Wintermute. You appear to be an intelligent person, so why do you pretend Hussein's ties with terrorism didn't exist? Just because he didn't do a joint press conference with Bin Laden doesn't automatically exonerate him. Keep in mind he's a gangster. There's no doubt Islamists will use WMDs if they ever obtain them. If you have any better ideas on how to stop them from gaining that technology without resorting to military interventions against countries who have no desire to be civilized members of the international community, please provide them. When the Clinton administration bombed the factory at al-Shifa, it wasn’t because they were retaliating for a VX gas attack, it was because they thought Bin Laden was using it to produce the poison, which might one day be used against us. Since we knew Iraqi scientists had been involved with the Khartoum thugocracy, such was a reasonable assumption. It was more a pre-emptive strike than retaliation for the embassy bombings.
The same logic was used on Iraq after 9/11.

Let me turn this around on you, Wintermute. You appear to be an intelligent person, so why do you pretend Hussein’s ties with terrorism didn’t exist? Just because he didn’t do a joint press conference with Bin Laden doesn’t automatically exonerate him. Keep in mind he’s a gangster.

There’s no doubt Islamists will use WMDs if they ever obtain them. If you have any better ideas on how to stop them from gaining that technology without resorting to military interventions against countries who have no desire to be civilized members of the international community,
please provide them.

]]> by: Wintermute http://www.mainstreetj.com/2006/04/29/393#comment-836 Sun, 30 Apr 2006 02:27:59 +0000 http://www.mainstreetj.com/2006/04/29/393#comment-836 OK, that goes for the Al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and the Taliban government who indeed appeared to be harboring them. The hijackings were <b>not</b> sufficient justification to attack Iraq or even to fight any more there, until such time as Zarqawi or his ilk make plans and some moves to attack the US. Four planes don't bring down a great nation that stretches from sea to shining sea; and the sooner intelligent people like you lose the excessively militaristic brainlock, the better this country will be served. OK, that goes for the Al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and the Taliban government who indeed appeared to be harboring them. The hijackings were not sufficient justification to attack Iraq or even to fight any more there, until such time as Zarqawi or his ilk make plans and some moves to attack the US. Four planes don’t bring down a great nation that stretches from sea to shining sea; and the sooner intelligent people like you lose the excessively militaristic brainlock, the better this country will be served.

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