On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 18:25:13 GMT, "Michael Daly"
wrote:

Compare the number of Americans killed by terrorists on US soil in the
last (choose time period) years to the number of Americans murdered by
Americans on US soil in the same period. Are you sure that terrorists
are such a big problem? You'd save a lot more American lives by
spending those $billions at home than by waging illegal wars abroad.

Mike

Look at the number of Americans who kill themselves each year via
cigarettes- about 440,000, last I heard. I am not hearing about any
air strikes against the R.J. Reynolds headquarters.

Or the number who die each year of the flu- about 36,000, I believe,
yet my 86-year-old mother cannot get a flu shot. Who is protecting
who here?

9/11 was surely a tragedy, but it shouldn't divert us from some
clear-headed risk assessment.

Pete