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cdb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 11:36 AM
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Help! Anybody have a snappy comeback for this?
I don't know where to begin..

"Yeah, the Democrat's would do a much better job fighting Terror..."
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Birthmark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 11:38 AM
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1. ...after all, they could hardly do worse.
Hope that helps. :D
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cdb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 11:40 AM
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7. That helps...do we have any stats
on Clintons efforts... missle to Afghanistan, etc??

Is there a good source for that info?
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 11:38 AM
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2. How about, "Well we certainly couldn't do any worse!"
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evlbstrd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 11:38 AM
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3. The Dems DID a much better job. Under Clinton.
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 11:39 AM
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4. You could always point out that...
"The number of 'significant' international terrorist attacks rose to about 650 last year from about 175 in 2003, according to congressional aides briefed on the numbers by State Department and intelligence officials on Monday."

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0426-09.htm
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blueheeler Donating Member (163 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 11:39 AM
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5. Here is a good start....
Edited on Fri Jul-08-05 11:40 AM by blueheeler
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cdb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 11:41 AM
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9. THANKS
Thats just what I was looking for!!
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understandinglife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 11:40 AM
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6. Democrat's wouldn't let Halliburton supply the flypaper, for starters.
Edited on Fri Jul-08-05 11:42 AM by understandinglife
And, you can send them a copy of the facts:


http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1002





Peace.

www.missionnotaccomplished.us - How ever long it takes, the day must come when tens of millions of caring individuals peacefully but persistently defy the dictator, deny the corporatists their cash flow, and halt the evil being done in Iraq and in all the other places the Bu$h neoconster regime is destroying civilization and the environment in the name of "America."

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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 11:40 AM
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8. Yes.
The Democrats wouldn't have invented a reason to stop pursuing Bin Laden into Pakistan and go into an unjustified war in Iraq.
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ananda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 11:41 AM
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10. nobody can "fight" terror..
Terror is an abstract noun meaning extreme fear. The only thing we can fight is the fear that is within us and the delusion that we are not responsible for the horrible crimes against humanity in the ME that cause good people to lose their humanity, sink into despair, and become terrorists.

Sue
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 11:42 AM
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11. 3,000 victims on 9/11 can't be wrong
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whatever4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 11:48 AM
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12. Yeah
And that's the most important thing in the world, being able to fight terror? Being able to wage wars, wars that actually increase terror?

Maybe politicians that know a little more about politics and a little less about war would be "better".
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 11:49 AM
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13. Try this: Go look up BCCI and see whose side BushInc was on and which side
the Dems were on. While Kerry was working to shut down the terrorists' banks and their access to funds, W was making millions of dollars off his deals with them and his father was trying to shut the investigation down and obstructed it at every turn.

Everything that happened from 9-11 to today's Iraq policy is rooted in BCCI. Almost all the characters are the same and the bad guys then were the same bad guys now, Bin Ladens and Bushes and AQ Khan, the Pakistani nuclear scientist who is the world's most dangerous proliferator of nuclear material and another Bush associate.
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lebkuchen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 11:50 AM
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14. Just imagine the next 3-1/2 years without them.
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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 11:52 AM
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15. At least we would find OBL
how hard can it be to find two gimpy men in the mountains of Pakistan? One is a tall Saudi wearing white carrying a portable dialysis machine and the other is a one-legged gimpy dude.

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KarenInMA Donating Member (821 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 11:52 AM
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16. "Well, most of us can pick Saudi Arabia and Iraq out on...
a map, and know they are two DIFFERENT countries"
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Sparkly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 11:53 AM
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17. Maybe just a simple, "HELL Yeah!!" n/t
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The White Tree Donating Member (630 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 12:07 PM
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18. Republicans are fighting terror how exactly?
In my local paper was an AP blurb that I cannot find online that said that the US State Department was revising how it calculated terror incidences. As a result of the recalculation they report that about 28,000 people died in terrorist related attcks in 2004.

So what exactly are those Republicans doing to fight terror.

Doesn't seem to be working.
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elvisbear Donating Member (545 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 12:08 PM
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19. That's what you call an ex·ag·ger·a·tion. (Video)
First part of video is the chimp and Kerry during the debates when Kerry
talks about "* not being concerned about bin Laden". * then says that's what you call and ex.ag.ger.a.tion. The the video cuts to * saying the quote during a 2002 press conference.
Page with movie link.
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/001585.html#001585

Link to actual movie.
http://media.musicforamerica.org/media/notconcerned.mov
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WLKjr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 12:13 PM
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20. here is mine
"Yeah, the Republicans have been after him for 5 years. Still nothing. A Democrat would have had him already, and not attacked the wrong country.
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SaintLouisBlues Donating Member (755 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 12:14 PM
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21. More Al-Qaida attacks and deaths (700) since 9/11 then before 9/11
From today's Post-Dispatch:
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/world/story/C454DC052AB46D80862570380016AC8E?OpenDocument


"This is just part of the continuing al-Qaida attack," Pape said. "Although many have hoped that al-Qaida had been weakened by American counterterrorist attacks, the facts are otherwise."

The London attacks mark the 15th terrorist event since 2002 linked to al-Qaida or associated groups, he said. Those attacks have killed over 700 people - more deaths than attributed to al-Qaida in all the years before the 9/11 attacks combined.

Pape said that the numbers are even more dramatic within Iraq, a country that had never experienced an incident of suicide terrorism before the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003. The number of such attacks totaled 20 in 2003, 48 last year and 50 just in the first five months this year.

In his book, Pape details how al-Qaida attacks since 9/11 have systematically targeted countries that have allied themselves with U.S. policy in Afghanistan, Iraq or both. The victims in those attacks, from Bali to Madrid, include citizens of 18 of the 20 countries that bin Laden himself has targeted as U.S. allies.
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jimshoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 12:14 PM
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22. Perhaps we'd do better
at overcoming fear. As someone said upthread, you can't fight an emotion.
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