If Bush is so good on terror, why are we so scared?

[TheWildCard]

Some of you guys are just going overboard here.

I mean Terrorism hasn't just killed 3,000 people what about the people who were killed and the damaged caused in the U.S.S. Cole bombing, the suicide bombings, the first WTC bombing, the night club bombing. I mean yes Cancer is a threat but cancer can't buy a nuke off the black market, it can't sneak it into a country, and it can't blow it up and the last time I checked a gun and a car can't do that either. Terrorism also threatens the world and both the sponsors of it and the terroists themselves both must be dealt with

[TheWildCard]

Some of you guys are just going overboard here.

I mean Terrorism hasn't just killed 3,000 people what about the people who were killed and the damaged caused in the U.S.S. Cole bombing, the suicide bombings, the first WTC bombing, the night club bombing. I mean yes Cancer is a threat but cancer can't buy a nuke off the black market, it can't sneak it into a country, and it can't blow it up and the last time I checked a gun and a car can't do that either. Terrorism also threatens the world and both the sponsors of it and the terroists themselves both must be dealt with

Then why are we in Iraq?

There was evidence that Saddam had WMDs which he could have sold to terrorists organizations plus he was paying Palestinians Bombers Families to blow up Israelis. Putin even said that Iraq was planning an attack on America

[TheWildCard]

Some of you guys are just going overboard here.

I mean Terrorism hasn't just killed 3,000 people what about the people who were killed and the damaged caused in the U.S.S. Cole bombing, the suicide bombings, the first WTC bombing, the night club bombing. I mean yes Cancer is a threat but cancer can't buy a nuke off the black market, it can't sneak it into a country, and it can't blow it up and the last time I checked a gun and a car can't do that either. Terrorism also threatens the world and both the sponsors of it and the terroists themselves both must be dealt with

Assuming we are talking about Americans, all the other terrorist attacks combined have killed only a handful of people...not enough to raise the number much over 3,000.

Our government has never shown much interest in protecting foreigners on foreign soil.  If it did, our foriegn policy would be drastically different in any number of ways.

I suppose it is possible that terrorists could acquire and use a nuclear weapon on the US, but it is unlikely, and it has never happened before, so I think is inappropriate to just assume it will happen at some point when you are calculating the risks.  People love to concoct nightmare scenarios, but the job of the government should be to base their decisions on actual facts and not encourage the public's delusions.

And you believe North Korea wouldn't want to sell any of their weapons to terrorists? You don't think Iran would do it for the right price?

[TheWildCard]

Scorpio,

Saddam supported Terrorism by paying those people to bomb innocent civilians. And sadly it doesn't take an army to attack another country plus Putin isn't going to do Bush any favors I'm shocked that he even said that the Russians had that intelligence.

Here are a few questions for you Scorpio why did Saddam kick the U.N. inspectors out if he was clean? Why wouldn't he let them back into Iraq?

From everything I know of Saddam he was power hungry he wouldn't give up his control of Iraq for nothing.