"It is during our most challenging and uncertain moments that our Nation's commitment to due process is most severely tested; and it is in those times that we must preserve our commitment at home to the principles for which we fight abroad."
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld - 2004
Thursday, October 14, 2004
Why the Iraq war is out of proportion.
The 9/11 terrorists with no link to Iraq killed Americans with box cutters and airplanes, not WMD.
This is why police actions will work, and are working, too bad we don't have more resources devoted to crime fighting.
I think the point was, Anonymous (so brave to leave your name), that the risk isn't just WMD - this war is one of ideology. The 9/11 hijackers didn't need WMD - that's the whole point. You're right that the prospect of their using WMD is terrifying, but solely focusing on WMD doesn't address the underlying problem....
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Just think what terrorist will do with WMD
I think the point was, Anonymous (so brave to leave your name), that the risk isn't just WMD - this war is one of ideology. The 9/11 hijackers didn't need WMD - that's the whole point. You're right that the prospect of their using WMD is terrifying, but solely focusing on WMD doesn't address the underlying problem....
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