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On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:48:10 -0500, Harryk
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On 2/28/11 9:31 PM, I_am_Tosk wrote:
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:29:37 -0500, wrote:

On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:16:59 -0800, wrote:

On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:38:24 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:51:00 -0800, wrote:

On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:32:54 -0500, wrote:

The total cost of 9/11 is about $2 TRILLION AND CLIMBING. Bush ignored
warnings that it was going to happen, then invaded a country that had
nothing to do with it. I guess when you get a memo that says OBL
determined to attack the US, it's ok to file it in the round file.

Another non-responsive answer.

My error... you were talking about the cost of 9/11 to the terrorists.
Sorry. OBL had/has $100M to play with. Yet, the Somali pirates are not
terrorists. They're criminals. Since they're the ones who are getting
the money, an attack on the US from them is pretty unlikely. I know
you'd like to make the case that there is some equivalency between the
two, but there isn't. Bush tried that, unfortunately successfully.

"Gad" is the operative word. Our government thinks they have
sequestered/confiscated his money and there really are not that many
ATMs in the mountains of Pakistan anyway.

We don't have a clue who the Somali pirates are or who is behind them.
There is plenty of Al Qaeda activity in Somalia and is unreasonable to
think they don't have an eye on that money.
You admitted Somalia could be a problem about a month ago and said we
should invade them too if we could prove it.

I never said that. Prove it.

Most of the people who are profiting are war lords and have no great
interest in attacking the US. That's just nonsense.

And you know this how? Even if you are right and is only a few who are
Al Qaeda, it only takes one.

I've already posted links to this. Feel free to do your own research!

So, you believe in Cheney's 1% solution. Classic.

Personally I think it is better to just cut off the money.

How? Who should we starve this time?

You cut off the money by stopping the pirates

?? Maybe you can freeze their BofA checking accounts.

We were talking about where the NEXT attack may come from and where
the money to finance is coming from. While Al Qaeda is amassing
millions in Somalia, we are still attacking goat herders in Pakistan
and Afghanistan who don't have 2 nickels to rub together.
OBL was just the money, not the brains.

You have demonstrated how easy it is to launder money and you know
there are 100 guys as smart as bin laden, just not as rich.
Now they are rich.
This piracy is a clear and present danger to the US, certainly more
than some broke assed Taliban guys running around Kanahar.

Sounds like revisionist history to me. Maybe NOW the Taliban aren't
rich (OBL certainly still is) and they aren't attacking the US sans a
few people who were warned about going there (kind of reminds me of
those hikers who got arrested by Iran).

OBL is very well cut off from his money ... if he still has any. We
have been targeting his finances for a decade.

Which has nothing to do with Somali pirates, who are mostly fishermen
and criminals. OBL for all his faults is well educated.

How long are you going to fight the last war?
OBL has not been involved in any attacks since 9-11. The recent ones
came out of Yemen, right across the straight from Somalia.

?? So we should let bygones be bygones? Bush screwed up big time by
letting him slip away. Feel free to keep defending that loser.

You are willing to bomb and kill thousands of Afghanis for a decade
because some guy passed through there 10 years ago but you think Tosk
is evil because he wants to bomb some fishing villages that sponsor
pirates.

What?? We're certainly not doing that in Afg. Bush is the one who
wouldn't commit troops there when we could have caught him. I guess
OBL wasn't that important... But, you want to commit 300K troops in
Somalia.

I don't think Tosk is evil. I think he's a moron and an
asshole/stalker. Don't blame me... you brought him up.

And you are a retarded bitch, so what?

I was at one of our local supermarkets earlier this evening, and when I
finished shopping, I struck up a conversation with the porter there, a
nice young man who is developmentally disabled but despite his handicap
works hard at his job, which he has held for more than 10 years. He's a
fellow who is getting along in this world, and he's obviously more
employable than you are.

I think Tosk pretty much summed up who he is with his one line
response.