In article MbcBb.29223$ZE1.17885@fed1read04, "R. Hubbell"
writes:


There is really no way for us to stop them from launching successful
attacks on
civilians if they are willing to die doing it. In the long run we can
prevail,

Sure there is, you're uninformed if you think otherwise. Our intelligence
gathering is downplayed quite often but don't believe it. We know what's
going on in most all corners of the globe.


I am not slighting the success of the intelligence folks at preventing follow
ups attacks to 9/11/01, they have done remarkably well, but there is no way to
prevent a handful of fanatics willing to die from shooting up a mall in Peoria
or Kansas City.

We can never be invulnerable to those sorts of attacks short of making this
coutry a virtual prison.

but in the short term they can launch at least a few more large scale
attacks,
and I expect them to do so when it will be most likely to influence our
politics in their favor.


Who's "they" that you keep mentioning by the way? Are you talking about
Osama
Bin Laden? He's a cripple and I hear he is on a dialysis machine. Or do
you mean the Saudi's? Who ever "they" are I believe you're getting lousy
information.


Only in the movies do the bad guys lay down their arms and go back to being
farmers when their leader goes down. There are still many Islamofascists out
there to take up their cause.

SNIP

As I replied to someone else, the PUBLIC statements of a number of the Dems
have promised them a turnover of Iraq to the UN, which is the equivalent of
surrender.


The democrats have promised something to who?


To everyone, that they will turn Iraq over to the UN, which is the same thing
as turning it back over to the Baathists or the radical Shia.

SNIP

Don

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Wm. Donald (Don) Tabor Jr., DDS
PP-ASEL
Chesapeake, VA - CPK, PVG