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According to MSNBC, the CIA released the following statement on the recent suicide attack that killed eight people on a CIA base in Afghanistan.

"The CIA is looking at every aspect of the attack. Broadcasting what we know to the enemy in time of war is a bad idea. The Agency and our government as a whole have bled al Qaeda and its allies, dangerous though they still are, through aggressive successful counter-terrorism operations. That will continue without break or pause."

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January 5, 2010 1:45 PM   

To all the blind fools who believe in the "War on Terror": I will put it in simple terms
Osama bin Laden is the son of an aristocrat with ties to the royal family of Saudi Arabia. What other American family has the strongest ties with the Saudi royal family and can exert the most pressure? The Bush family. Why? Oil.

The CIA has been involved in Afghanistan since the 70's and even trained OBL. Who was head of the CIA at that time? Bush 41 was head of the CIA from '76-77 during the time we supported the Afghan insurgence against the Soviets and a year befor OBL joined one of the militias. Throughout the 80's Bush 41 was vice-president and the CIA was run by Bush 41 understudies. The CIA taught OBL everything they know about escape and evasion and guerrilla fighting. And now you mean to tell me that the entire intel force of the CIA cannot capture or kill this guy after over 15 years. This is either willful negligence or epic ineptness.

It is my conjecture that there are members in the CIA who are wilfully keeping this war on terror going on. It may or may not lead up to the Bush family but there are connections. I know this may come to a shock to many Americans but there are members in our military and defense agencies and government who are not the most scrupulous of persons. Why was the CIA not given the green light when they had OBL in their sights back in '01 or any other time they were close?
Is it not funny how we do know that much of Al Qaida and some other terrorist groups are supported by the drug trade in particular the poppy trade but yet we don't go in and destroy their crops like we did in Columbia and Bolivia against the FARC and drug lords there, perhaps since the South Americans weren't giving a cut to the CIA anymore? Example: Bush 41 decides to invade Panama because Noreiga decided not to play with us anymore. Manuel Noreiega, known drug trafficker, and money launderer long before he was ever a dictator we once backed.

So sad, an entire nation goes into a knee-jerk reaction tizzy, because one loner with a stand alone complex decided that it was his time to "show the world". Americans need to stop acting like a bunch of scared sheep everytime a "terrorist" act is attempted. Random acts of violence happen everyday, and for people to think that they can be kept safe from all harm need to remember that there are over 6 billion people in the world and no matter how much security any given country puts in place, there will always be the one random person that just "goes crazy".
What is lost in all the chatter of "what should we do next?" and "how did our policies fail?" is that it was the act of fellow human beings helping other fellow human beings stopping the lunatic fringe from accomplishing its goal. That is where the focus needs to be on. It is within communities and families are how these people are identified. And it is within these zones of influence where hearts and minds are truly transformed. We could spend billions on more airport security or we could spend that money on humanitarian efforts in these areas such as Yemen and abroad and even here in the U.S. where helping people improve their lives and education will do more harm to terrorist recruiting than any bomb dropped on their houses.

I can't believe so many of you knuckle draggers really believe racial profiling is the answer. Then what is your answer for persons like Tim McVeigh, Eric Rudolf, and Ted Kaczynski do you think we should start profiling random white males as well? What about the two white males in Columbine, also affluent kids who went off the deep end. What about all the terrorist acts the IRA did? Serial murderers can be of any color or religion it is up to us to put on the labels of "terrorist".

However, the ultimate irony in all this is that the right wing is now calling for more "government oversight", hahaha. The very same group asking for less government control but are more than ready to take their trousers down for a government official to do a "freedom search".

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May 23, 2010 12:32 AM   

I can't believe so many of you knuckle draggers really believe racial profiling is the answer. Then what is your answer for persons like Tim McVeigh, Eric Rudolf, and Ted Kaczynski do you think we should start profiling random white males as well? What about the two white males in Columbine, also affluent kids who went off the deep end. What about all the terrorist acts the IRA did? Serial murderers can be of any color or religion it is up to us to put on the labels of "terrorist".

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