Suicide Bombers To Arrive in USA, Europe -- ABC

(Excerpt)

So the Iraq war was fought for what reason, now?

We know that the WMD excuse was a lie. The fallback is that "the terrorists" will be fought "over there." Looks like that excuse won't fly, either.

See: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/06/exclusive_suici.html

Yes, because, as we all know, suicide attacks on the U.S. were nonexistent before the Iraq War.

I'll believe it when I...

/Journey-Don't stop believing
*screen goes black*

Posted by Paladin:
Yes, because, as we all know, suicide attacks on the U.S. were nonexistent before the Iraq War. [/quote]

How many suicide attacks in the United States have there been outside of 9/11?

Posted by Tex:

A most witty reference! (The only quibble I would make is that in The Sopranos, the screen goes black right before "believin'," if I'm not mistaken.)

Graduation ceremony? Man, what a time to drop a few 1,000 pound bombs! BTW include some cluster bombs and napalm in the mix. We called that "shake and bake" in the Air Force.

Sounds like propaganda to me. It's not as if they weren't trying this before; hell, there was just a plot broken up not to long ago.

What happens when one and a half million human beings are imprisoned in a tiny, arid territory, cut off from their compatriots and from any contact with the outside world, starved by an economic blockade and unable to feed their families?

Time will tell, but it sure does seem odd that they're still able to organize as they have, despite all this talk that the U.S. has destroyed their leadership.

You sure? I thought it was at exactly the same time.

You could be right. It's second-hand to me, since I didn't watch the finale. In fact, I have never watched a single episode of The Sopranos.

^I'm pretty sure it was "Don't stop" and then black screen.

It's a brilliant / horrible ending -- take your choice. I can't believe people are still talking about it. What if they'd ended Star Trek: Enterprise that way? Hmmm. Sorry to be O/T.

My reference was only to the song, not the specific line.

edit: ohhh ya, it was "don't stop" and then it went black... I thought Excelsius was saying the music went silent then it went black... I get it now.

Oh, I see what you mean.

Never mind. [/Emily Litella]

Outside of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, how many Japanese cities were hit by atom bombs?

Zero, which is about the same number of groups caught attempting to carry out an attack which didn't have an FBI provocateur in them.

Outside of Pearl Harbor, how much damage did Japanese attacks on American soil really do?

They had a battle on an Alaskan island. Also, they started some forest fires along the Pacific Coast. Other than that, not a whole bunch.

Didn't they stir up some polar bears in the Aleutians?

The reason that the limited number of suicide bombers was at issue was that you seemed to imply that there were a significant number of suicide bombings in the United States that had occurred, when in fact there were only two.

If your point was that suicide bombings are signficant, I have no objection, but then there wouldn't be much point to your original statement. We both agree that suicide bombings are significant -- which actually indicates that the existence of teams that are still being organized and sent over here despite what Bush is particularly worrying.

The bottom line is that Bush's justification for invading Iraq, already on its last legs, is deprived of any vestige of legitimacy.

Psychologically, a serious of suicide bombings in various US cities, continuous bombings, would be very very effective. More effective than 9/11 in many ways.

Sorry, but it won't be psychologically damaging for us. It will piss us off to the point where the backlash against these wackos will be over-the-top and justifiably so. Fuck kissing their asses. They'll never be satisfied because they will always hate our ass, so why even bother trying to treat them as anything but vermin?

It's like those "After School Specials" where the nerd sees why the bully acts the way he does, befriends him, and life lessons are learned all the way round for everyone. The reality is the bully will always be a prick until he's beaten down so bad he pisses himself and leaves you the hell alone - or maybe he still picks on you so you rush some lumps again (even worse this time) until he does learn.

I think it would be very psychologically damaging, mainly because despite all of the safeties implemented and all the wars started, people would realize they aren't any safer than they were years ago. Other than that, I dunno.

The Japanese also invaded and occupied the Phillippines, which was an American territory at the time, and interned thousands of American citizens.

If one graduates from Suicide Bomber School,
Don't they have a final they have to show competency?

No more Muslims allowed in the west.

Yes, these suicide squads (if it ever happens) could cause a rift....between the "throw the baby out with the bathwater" crowd who will want to pull the plug on all Muslims in America and those who won't see them as that big a threat.

If America is smart (big if) we'll keep a cool head and not let them divide us. It's really up to us to weather any storm they try to bring.

Kind of like how the war in Iraq hasn't divided us.

Yep. Don't understand why they won't or haven't done anything.

9/11 killed retail in the months that followed. Those were some tough months going into Christmas.

Imangine if it was the malls exploding? Whose going to go to one?

Movie theaters? Mega-movie coming out? Mega suicide bombings. Blow up in the theater, survivors run out and as they hit the door, a second bomber blows up.

Schools? I could if I was a evil terrorist hit any school in my neighborhood before anyone could get there in time to stop me. Note to FBI: I am not an evil terrorist. Not even a "good" one. Just an American.

Your only half right. It will be a major pyschological blow.

And it will piss us off.

Perhaps after 9/11 all the terrorists in the world decided not attacking us inside our borders was a smart thing to do.