Only an athiest would nitpick like that!
Well, I hear it fairly often; I hear people say that Gore or any other Democrat would have done nothing about 9-11, except perhaps lobbed a missle somewhere and complained. Of course, these are the same sort of people who claim the CIA is stuffed full of Democrats who are sabotaging the war in Iraq in order to make Bush look bad.
Which ones claim that the Secret Service will stage a coup on any president who doesn’t retaliate with nuclear slag?
Goodness gracious GREAT balls of fire!
Probably the same ones who have a President who thinks that sending terrorists Rainbow Monkey[sup]TM[/sup] dolls is a good idea. (i.e. None.)
So, what public announcement did the Taliban make that you were referring to?
Probably so. But that’s still exactly what you said all the other governments (those not involved) would be saying in the OP. So it doesn’t distinguish the Taliban in any way.
I suspect they would, but how is that saying “neener neener neener”? Had we accused Canada of being involved, they would also claim that they had nothing to do with it.
That they’d unleash Osama on us.
Somehow, I don’t think that on 9/11 the Taliban bothered to call the White House and say that they were genuinely sorry such a fate had befallen us and that if there was anything they could do to help for us to just ask.
Canada would also volunteer to allow us to inspect their facilities unconditionally and go out of their way to make the inspection easy. Do you really think Iran would do the same kind of thing if they’d given Osama & Co a nuke to use against us?
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Not really. Gallatin is on the outskirts of Nashville which voted liberal in the 2004 Presidential election. I believe that Nashville also voted in support of Democrat Harold Ford in the Tennessee Senate race in 2006. Tennessee’s governor, a Democrat, won reelection by a huge majority.
Further, Nashville has one of the highest concentrations of Iraqis outside of Iraq itself. Three years ago it was cool to witness the Iraqi election taking place in my own neighborhood.
If you want to live in “redneck central,” you are in the wrong place. You need to get away from work more. Seriously.
You have nothing to fear but beer itself.
Gallatin’s a lot closer (at least philosophically if not geographically) to Lafayette, where men are men and sheep are nervous.
Frank, the Canucks are our buddies, and I’m sure we wouldn’t bother asking them to allow us to inspect their facilities, since we’d know damn good and well the nuclear material couldn’t have come from there, but if we did ask, I’m sure that they’d be cool with it. After all, they happily put up with a bunch of us surly 'Merkins on 9/11.
Don’t get me wrong. There are a lot of things the U.S. should be doing to fight terrorism, and it’s doing almost none of those. The very first thing we should be doing is going after loose nukes as best we can, using diplomacy and pressure in the Former USSR, Pakistan and other places. Reforms in intelligence and counter-terrorism wouldn’t hurt too. Neither of the major parties seems to be making counter-terror a priority, for reasons that escape me. The stupid war is only making things worse.
Back in late 2001 or early 2002, before Bush squandered the goodwill of the ENTIRE FUCKING PLANET to pursue his desire to wage war in Iraq, I think most other nations would have allowed America to inspect their top-secret facilities if a nuclear weapon had been detonated in America.
These days, not so much. I get the impression our national image has been somewhat tarnished by our four-year fuckup in Iraq.