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this fear the terrorist thing is really upsetting me
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| josh4 |
| quote: | Officials Warn of Future Terror Attacks
2 hours, 35 minutes ago
By KATHERINE SHRADER, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Speaking with one voice, President Bush (news - web sites)'s top intelligence and military officials said Wednesday that terrorists are regrouping for possible new strikes against the United States.
They said the best defense was for Congress to approve the president's military and anti-terror budget. But some in Congress, including prominent Republicans, were questioning some of that spending.
Offering few specifics on terror threats, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told a House hearing that the government could reasonably predict attacks would come from terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and other means.
Meanwhile, new CIA (news - web sites) Director Porter Goss told the Senate Intelligence Committee the Iraq (news - web sites) war was giving terrorists experience and contacts for future attacks, and FBI (news - web sites) Director Robert Mueller expressed worry that a sleeper operative in the U.S. may have been in place for years, awaiting orders for an attack.
"I remain very concerned about what we are not seeing," Mueller said in remarks he submitted to the senators.
Rumsfeld told the House Armed Services Committee that the proposed $419 billion defense package for 2006 would set an ambitious course to "continue prosecuting the war and to attack its ideological underpinnings."
Yet the Republican-controlled Congress may exercise its considerable authority over federal spending and reject White House requests to simply sign the checks.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...e/terror_threat |
Why are they still shoving this crap down our throats? I get the idea - we're supposed to be afraid. Scared of something we can't see, hear, taste, smell, or touch. But the terrorists are there, always watching, planning, scheming, plotting their revenge. We don't know who they are, where they are, or what their capabilites are, but at any moment POW when we least expect it!
Hogwash, blasphemy, for crist sakes STFU. |
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| shaolin_Z |
| quote: | Originally posted by josh4
Why are they still shoving this crap down our throats? I get the idea - we're supposed to be afraid. Scared of something we can't see, hear, taste, smell, or touch. But the terrorists are there, always watching, planning, scheming, plotting their revenge. We don't know who they are, where they are, or what their capabilites are, but at any moment POW when we least expect it!
Hogwash, blasphemy, for crist sakes STFU. |
Fear is how you control ppl and mobolize the public to go along with interests of the elite/ruling class. And ofcourse that involves quite a fair bit of misinformation and exploitation. The sad thing is that public appathy/obidiece only hurts them in the long run. The only thing the Iraq war/invasions has done other than secure oil reserves for American and other Multinational corperations is gurantee more anger towards the US and a garantee of more attempts of terrorism. I don't mean to upset you or anyone but that's the reality of the situation. |
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| Shakka |
| Great. Another 1984 thread. |
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| Q5echo |
i like how Katherine used the defence budget as her propaganda tool. brilliant!
even during decades of peace, thousands of bystanders died at the hands of suicide knuckleheads in the name of allah. your right, it is hogwash.
don't you mean OPEC has secured it's oil rights for sale to multinational interests? i could swear the world's free market dictated the elite's supply.:rolleyes: |
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