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  •  They're lying. (4.00 / 5)

    Simple as that.

    They are lying sacks of shit. Racist fools, jingoist morons, and plain ol' dumbass shitheads.

    A simple google of Kerry+BCCI or Kerry+Iran+Contra, or a quick look at the wikipedia and disinfopedia pages on Kerry, BCCI, and Iran Contra will very quickly indicate to all but the most asinine of fools that:

    1. Kerry has been fighting the war on terrorism since before most of these fools knew what the fuck terrorism was

    2. Kerry has been more effective, more useful, and more disruptive to terrorist activity than Bush could ever hope to be - by breaking their bank, exposing their connections, and chasing down their links to various cartels, drug lords, money laundering schemes, Kerry helped set back terrorists, dictators, drug barons, and international evil-doers far more than the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan ever will.

    3. As is extremely clear from recent events, the MOST effective way to fight terrorism is with a combination of police work, intelligence collaboration across national boundaries, and money/document/electronic paper-chases. Examples abound, but let's just take a quick look at who has been captured in the last years, and how...Khalid Sheik Mohammed? Gailani? Noor-Khan? ALL the biggest hauls made in the last year - every single one - have come as a result of sleuthing and police work, bank records checks, electronic sniffing, and so on.

    So, they should get their fucking heads out of their asses before they suffocate.

    The only way to ensure a free press is to own one

    by RedDan on Fri Aug 27, 2004 at 12:32:44 AM PDT

    •  So right (none / 0)

      I was talking to the last of my friends who still plans to vote for Bush. You mention BCCI to him, and he laughs as if it was just a minor indiscretion at a neighborhood S&L. Iran-Contra? "Just your opinion!" The war on terrorism? "Clinton thought it was just a police matter!" Isn't it? If it's completely a military matter, who are we going to invade and occupy next? "Shut up, you just don't get it!"

      The "just don't get it" line is so popular with all the armchair chickenhawks who, in their mind, are full of steely-eyed resolve to face down this new threat, in stark contrast to all the mealy-mouthed liberals who want to actually understand the enemy and formulate a real counter-strike. Pathetic.

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