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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Well, look at a bar chart of the deaths if you need a pretty picture of how dangerious the world just became for us. I understand that math is hard, but just bear me out and use your crayons to draw a bar chart here. Label the Y axis "dead Americans at the hands of Islamicists". Label the X axis "Time". Then, plot 250 American deaths in Lebanon in 1983. 250 deaths over Scotland in 1989??. Plot smaller events for WTC I, Mogadishu, Aden, Tanzania, Kenya numerous shootings and bombings against civilians in Israel where Americans were killed.
OK, now add in 3000 on 9/11 and plot that out for 20 years. Then jump it up by another factor of 12 (the same as the jump from 250 to 3000). Maybe it happens sooner, maybe later. Either way, if you don't accept that we are at war and the trajectory is not friendly for American civilians, then you deserve Chicago. I won't argue that it means our eventual overthrow by Islamic radicals. It does mean we are at a war we didn't start, and that we have to win. As you yourself recently stated here (maybe I'm paraphrasing) with regard to an Israeli assassination in Syria "terrorists should be killed wherever they are". Why is that again? Its because we are at war. Has Kerry even mouthed those words once in this race? His base at the wedding would probably sit out the election if he did.
Its really as simple as that. Plot that massive death, which already started, out over another 20 or 50 years. How the hell is that not massive death?
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As Twain said, there are lies, there are damn lies, and there are statistics. What kind of asshole would even for a moment take seriously a mathematical progression as a likely scenario for terrorist casualties? Give me a fucking break.
And in any event, i never said we weren't at war. We are. Kerry and Edwards have acknowedged that as well. But that still doesn't get us to Bilmore's paranoid delusion that a Kerry presidency would "have us all living under Sharia." That was the statement you jumped in to defend. My question to you is this: are you, too, so batshit crazy as to believe that if Kerry is elected we'll all be speaking Arabic? Or are you just picking fights?
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On a personal note, can you or another Democrat in the Chicago area please hold a press conference tomorrow announcing that you or another Democrat is running for mayor etc.... Or have you and the rest of the city not had enough yet? Its amazing. Not one word outside of the media. No credible contender. Nada. Its like the city Is. Dead.
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Sorry. See, Daley is one of many reasons I live in the suburbs.
