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gulliver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 12:54 PM
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Why no big attack so far and why one is coming.
Edited on Thu Jun-02-05 12:55 PM by gulliver
I think the reason there has been no big attack since 9/11 is very simple: Al Qaeda is still reaping the benefits of the last attack. They haven't needed to attack us lately, because Bush has already done everything they want (and more) to destroy America. Bin Laden got lucky with the WTC towers coming down, but he got even luckier with Bush. Perhaps Bin Laden even postponed the 9/11 attacks (planned under Clinton) until Bush was seated so that Bin Laden could take advantage of Bush's stupidity and connections to the Saudis.

Bin Laden is a happy man. No need to do anything right now...

Unfortunately, Bush will no longer be president in 3.5 years, and I believe that fact will motivate Bin Laden to try another attack within that time frame. OBL knows he is about to lose Bush, and he knows that Bush is a damage multiplier for attacks against the United States.
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Last Lemming Donating Member (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 12:57 PM
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1. You need to go
to the 9/11 forum and do some reading by people who have thought a lot about this
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gulliver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 12:59 PM
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4. Why do you think so? n/t
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Last Lemming Donating Member (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 01:02 PM
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7. See below n/t
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gulliver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 01:07 PM
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9. For a counter-argument to your point?
Edited on Thu Jun-02-05 01:11 PM by gulliver
Which posts?
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SmokingJacket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 12:59 PM
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2. I'd buy that, except...
Bin Laden is almost certainly dead. The last believable tape of him was in December of 01.

If Al Qaeda exists, it's a disorganized band of people with CIA ties -- like Bin Laden was.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 12:59 PM
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3. To believe this, you must also believe that al Qaeda
actually was the perpetrator of the Sept 11 attacks. I no longer believe that.
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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 01:01 PM
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6. he's the one they INSTANTLY blamed, but his photo's not on the poster
of the 19 hijackers published THE VERY NEXT DAY with names and histories.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 01:13 PM
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10. Right. And on the 12th, MendacityCentral was already
blurring them into Saddam.
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Lerkfish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 01:00 PM
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5. wow. you still think this is all an OBL plot?
you have it backwards. Bush is not good for bin laden, but OBL is good for Bush.

Even if you don't ascribe to LIHOP or MIHOP, to think bin laden is the only terrorist gunning for us at this point is overlooking a great many things.
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 01:07 PM
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8. Please don't feed the monsters
A 6'5" Arab male on a dialysis machine living in a cave in Afghanistan did not make the WTC fall. He's just the public face for the operation. In the meantime, Bu$h has no intention of bringing Osama to justice. The bin Laden family just won't have it.

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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 01:24 PM
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17. BinLaden is a CIA opperative
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LunaC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 01:16 PM
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11. Al Qaeda didn't perpetrate 911
The PNAC BUSH CABAL DID!

Please review the link in my sig line then try to tell me otherwise.

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Pockets Donating Member (388 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 01:18 PM
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12. Why no big attack so far and why one is coming....
Bushco runs the country, so there is no need for an attack at the moment.
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Individualist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 01:19 PM
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13. Wrong!
Edited on Thu Jun-02-05 01:20 PM by notsodumbhillbilly
You say, "Al Qaeda is still reaping the benefits of the last attack."

PNAC is still reaping the benefits of the last attack.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 01:21 PM
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14. OBL Who dat?
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 01:23 PM
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They won't attack because they don't have to
After the 9/11 attack, we had the moral high ground. French papers were printing headlines that said 'We Are All Americans' and the world had rallied to us. Bush & Co. pissed that away, and now we do not have the moral high ground.

If they attack us again, they will give us the moral high ground again. They are smarter than that, unfortunately.
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 01:23 PM
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15. Al-Quida?
HAHAHA! Al-Quida is nothing. They didn't do anything with 9/11 I believe. BinLaden doing 9/11? Haha!
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 01:24 PM
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16. Follow the money. Then, you'll discover who benefitted most from 9/11. nt
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 01:26 PM
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18. Exactly
Silversteen and Halliburton.
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Al-CIAda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-05 01:37 PM
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19. Dude, you have lots of reading to do. n/t
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