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Originally Posted by sob
Better tell John Kerry that. He's going to end terrorism. I assume by giving a group hug to terrorists. Or maybe with the UN.
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i was responding to one unmotivated insinuation you made (somehow i would blame bush for something); now you seem to be making more. i'm not sure this is really worth a response.
no one will end terrorism for a very long time, if ever. "yep, we got the last one! no one hates us anymore." = wishful thinking.
actually kerry said he intends to kill terrorists, but i'm not sure when he said he was going to end terrorism. either way, this has nothing to do with my post.
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Originally Posted by sob
I'm not sure what your position IS, but as far as I know, no one in the World Trade Center was trying to leave the union or was engaged in a decade-old conflict with the central government.
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my position is (third time now) republicans won't make an issue out of the story that started this thread. and, as the past days have shown, they have not done so. the story was a bunch of nothing to being with. a politician would be foolish to make an issue out of this story.
you cited russia as an example of terrorism. i said it was not comparable to an attack in michigan because the situation is completely different. russia was recently attacked by chechen rebels. this has been going on for years. chechnia wants to leave russia, a somewhat legitimate position, but uses methods of terrorism. you can't really parallel their situation to any random terrorist attack on us. an amount of violence over there is expected because it has been happening for a long time. in the US there is not a highly organized resistance to the government. here there is no terrorism associated with an ongoing conflict in a specific part of the country.
so it is not valid to cite russia as an example of terrorism that could happen in the US.
what's more, russia and the US are increasingly different. russia is hardly even a democracy anymore.
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Originally Posted by sob
I doubt that will make the victims and their families feel any better.
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well, since the story has been repeatedly shown to be baseless, it would take an amazing set of circumstances for the alleged threat to happen after all.