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>And I doubt that any american citizen feels safer.

Walter I think you are confusing *feeling* safer with *being* safer. We are definitely safer today than we were on 9-10 for goodness sake. This is true of the U.S. and of Europe. If you know anything about security and intelligence actions you know that. I have friends with RCMP intelligence and even *Canada* is safer.

Do we *feel* safer - probably not, because our consciousness is raised regarding the nature of the evil we face.


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>I find it very ignorant of people thinking they can weed out terrorism by just military power: Very, very short sighted.

And you are quite right that anyone who thinks that way would be ignorant of the situation, just as anyone who sees the type of islamo-fascist terrorism that we face as just a law-enforcement problem or just a cultural misunderstanding would be quite mistaken.

But we are emphatically *not* thinking we can weed out terrorism entirely by military means. That is a complete misrepresentation of what has been going on for the last three years. Afghanistan was a military problem in terms of denying Al Qaida that safe-haven, but it was certainly only one part of a very comprehensive effort. Countries like France which have engaged in no military action ( with a very small exception in Afghanistan ) in this regard have nonetheless been quite aggressive in intelligence matters.
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>Have you ever asked yourself, what the role of the weapon industry was to take military action upon iraq? or even what was the real motivation? Saddam? Get real. It was already known he was about powerless and did not have any prove connections to Al-quada. If they really were that concerned about its nuclear program, why is there so little progress in this same matter in regards to Iran and North Korea?? They're far bigger threats. Anyone who tends to believe that Bush makes the decisions could not be more far off. Bush is not your first man, but rather a puppet (how could he with the intelligence of a peanut?). Who is? Good question...

Horses for courses. North Korea and Iran are unique as Iraq is unique. Saying that we should not have dealt with Iraq because we have not dealt with two entirely different situations in a similar matter is a non-sequitur.

It appears to me you are speaking authoritatively about a subject you apparently know little about. I respect your intelligence and certainly defer to you in many technical matters, but your pronouncements about motives and power balances within the American government are strictly opinions - man on the street opinion. You are entitled to them, but they carry no weight.