Category: politics
Over the last ten years you had a bigger chance of being struck by lightning in the USA then get killed by a terrorist attack.
Don’t get me wrong: Every live lost is an unmeasurable catastrophy.
Not all people that get struck by lightning will die. Lightning killed more people than terror in the US over the last forty years maybe.
Assuming seventy three deaths a year by lightning.
It would be funny if I would get struck by lightning after writing this.
There were neither arrests, nor were there any attacks.
Did those bad guys retire to florida?
mission in Iraq.
I’d say that he wants to be loved by his dad. He wants to show his dad that he can do thing, that his dad could not. Sounds crazy, but unfortunately this war is nothing short of being crazy.
but since americans don’t know anything about other countries this looks like an impressive list to some …
have something in common: we both like Raisin Bran cereal.
Since nineteen month he is in captivity. Interesting PR gag that he get’s roled out now.
update: drudge chimes in.
update2: < a href="http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_2544"> more at GQ
"We went to war because we were attacked, and we are at war today because there are still people out there who want to harm our country and hurt our citizens,"
this is insane. There is NO connection between Iraq and 9/11.
Nothing. Zilch. Nada.
But Mr B. likes to make one. Since with 9/11 you pretty much can justify anything.
Just there is no connection between that country that event.
Nothing.
After September “the eleventh” (as Mr. B likes to call that terrible day) americans put allot of flags on their cars. Mr B. had a cool approval rating, after all he promised to ‘smoke them out’ those people that were behind the most shoking act of Terror in history.
That “War on Terror” stirred some strong emotions.
Those needed directions, so some people thought. And it worked:
When the War on Iraq started half of the people believed there were Iraqies in those planes. The war in Iraq became this part of the campaign on Terror. The former regime in Bagdhad was as bad as the one in North Korea or elsewhere in the world. Just that they had nothing to with the Terror act of Sept 2001 nor were there any real weapons of mass destrcutions that could be found.
With all this the american public would have no problem with.
As long as the US would have won the war. Officially they did so a very long time ago. Only problem is that the peace needs more soldiers and money than the war. And it’s not going anywhere.
There were always ‘milestones’ in the US view that would make things better: The hand over of sovereignity (done in a coup 24 hour before it was scheduled to dodge an onslaught of Terror) or the elections or the building of the government.
Americans like a success story. They like the winner. They were not winning in Vietnam, and they will not in Iraq.
Still my favorite is that Rumsfeld compared Iraq with Post War Germany a couple of weeks after his Boss declared major combat of being over.
Somehow some people must have not gotten that memo.