Sooner rather than later...

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Originally posted by dhamsaic


Again, you're trying to emotionally load your argument. <b>If</b> he's tried in a military tribunal... <b>If</b> he's sentenced to death... <b>then</b> we have become the Taliban.
The main problem in your final remarks is that you're using <b>if</b>. If this and if that. It doesn't really matter because that hasn't happened, and the other side can play that game too. No one wins that argument, and it's not worth going there. So let's argue this based upon facts instead, mmmmkay?

Speaking of facts we'll start with an administration that has backed away from Ashcroft's statement that he was coming here to explode a dirty bomb. A dirty bomb would only hurt the real estate it was exploded on if our goverment stockpiled potassium iodide tablets the way they have anthrax antibiotics. The reason for the dirty bomb is fear as the administration has already said, they then turn around and use the word dirty bomb and the word radiation four times in the announcement of the arrest. Who is using fear? I have also noticed everytime this guy is mentioned they also mentioned that this guy was in a gang, what the fuck does that have to do with anything? The <b>fact</b> is he is a US citizen. The <b>fact</b> is he hasn't been charged. Guilty or not he should be let go. And if he does go and explode a bomb, it will be the government's fault for not followning it's own rules. Those rules are there for a reason, one I'm willing to risk my life for. Its that simple, as they say in NH "Live free or Die". As for your point that this is a war specifically against the Taliban and al Quada, what about the expasion of the police action to the Philipines, not because the groups are necesssarily affiliated with the either of the afore mentioned groups but because they are radical muslim groups. You'll also notice that there are over fifty groups of the government's list of known terrorist groups. Does that include the paramilitary groups we trained in Colombia that are now resposible for most of the kidnappings and killings? No, we are trying to give them even more money. Which we will continue to do until they are no longer useful, at which point we will brand them as terrorists. Thats the cynical game our government is playing and as long as we allow them to do so it is the same as us asking to have planes dropped on our heads.