It's not as if American policy hasn't provided the rest of the world enough of an excuse to strike at us with our publicly stated intention of ruling the world with brutal force. We have even shown them that international law including the precedents formulated at Nuremberg, means nothing. The gunsights of American weaponry up to and including nuclear hell is pointed at them. To my way of thinking, this is like a gunslinger coming into a frontier town ready and willing to pick fights and kill anyone that looks funny or wont pay protection at his whim. Eventually the town folk will form a posse or someone who has had enough fear or terror or grief will do the job with a shot from a window using a rifle. This is bad enough. This is how it is on the surface. Only the knowledge of murderous retaliation has kept this from occuring.

What really worries me is the notion that even with the world holding itself in restraint, knowing the horror of American retribution, someone here, with power or profit to gain will provide the rational using the obscene WMDs we have in U.S. arsenals, provided from our weapon labs from our taxes. If anything of this terror visits itself upon my people, or my children, the responsibility will be laid at the door or our leadership no matter where it resides. The boardrooms of elite power or the office of the shithead in charge. The contrived event of 9-11 was the 1st shot.

This nation would require the formation of a conscience and an end to it's fascist corporate lust for the labor and resources it now seeks to control at the point of the sword...

From reading your script I don't hold much faith in convincing you.

This was not a plea, it was a declaration.

"What would be your response to the perpetrator's of 9/11? "

In all seriousness, Sheepdog, as he's stated time and time again, believes that the WTC was destroyed by remote controlled aircraft ultimately under the auspices of either Bush et.al and/or Israel.

He honestly believes this.

Save your breath.

-it would be necessary to lead by example.

Unless of course by terrorism, you mean the natural response of people to defend themselves from actions in the pursuit of your free, open market; at the cost of their humanity.

"any meaningful definition of terrorism has to include organizations that target innocent civilians." this is precisely why we need to grow a conscience. We need to stop the activities of such organizations as the CIA who reign as the world's supreme terrorists

The strange phenomenon of right wing nuts to rewrite history continues, even as millions of Americans are beginning to see through the cracks of the overpriced, taxpayer built and funded armor.

Terrorist groups? Who are you taliking about ? The Baathists? Al Quaeda (both nor leftist), The Klan and Aryan Nations, Monsanto, ExxonMobil?

Or are you again trotting out the spurious claim that Americans concerned with their future and the collective future of our planet are terrorists?

No clarity from the psychopaths of the right and the religious nuts though.These zealots instead continue to use superficial buzz phrases to continiue their assault on humanity. But the commercials are not working as well as they used too, huh....

As Clarke has started a veritable landslide of active government employees whistle-blowing on the crimes of the bush junta, so must the right wing as a whole realize their canard of global slavery and greed based economics is failing, failing, failing....