So If Khorason Was Close To Initiating An Attack On The U.S. Do You Feel Safer Because They Were....

[global1]

bombed last night? Did that take care of the threat?

[GusBob]

1. 'Osama Bin ladin determined to attack America'

How did ignoring that intelligence work out????

[Throd]

2. How the hell would anybody on DU know?

[valerief]

3. Yeah, that's a Miss America question.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017216548

[1StrongBlackMan]

11. Because DUers have ...

access to trusted data analysis ... from the same news outlets we distrusted last week.

[sabrina 1]

23. DUers remember 2003 and they see the same old war mongers screaming for war

AGAIN. It's hard to believe that McCain and Cheney and all the other old war criminals, suddenly developed a conscience and learned not to lie over the years.

And then DUers know a whole lot about our Arab 'allies'. Eg we know that Bahrain's dictatorship is routinely abusing its own citizens who have the gall to protest peacefully, FOR YEARS NOW, asking simply to be allowed to have some freedom.

And we know that Saudi Arabia has been funding many of these 'extremist' groups. So it doesn't make sense to a person with a logical mind when the very people who created this group, is now out to destroy them.

We also know that it was Saudis who were responsible for 9/11. We learned about the funding of AQ through various charitable groups yet, we went to IRAQ which had zero to do with 9/11, because that was the first country on the PNAC list of seven in the ME and Africa they wanted to destabilize.

And then we saw their dream come true. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, which didn't quite work as planned, yet. But I would be willing to bet that before much longer, there will be 'regime change' there too, and that after that happens, it will resemble the disaster in Libya and in Iraq and in Afghanistan.

Could someone point out one place that has 'wiped out terrorists' where we spent years and lives and money supposedly doing that?

And could someone explain how repeating what has failed (except for arms dealers and defense contractors) so often in the past, is going to work this time?

Feinstein and Rogers tell us we 'are in more danger than ever'. Really? I guess they didn't realize that if they are telling the truth they are arguing AGAINST military intervention. How stupid do they think we are?

[1StrongBlackMan]

24. Different. President. eom.

[sabrina 1]

26. Same policies. War, bombs, military 'solutions' that will never work.

I doubt at this point any president actually has any say in any of this.

But we are learning and are not as likely to be fooled that this is for our 'safety' as a lot of people were back before Iraq.

So now we have to decide what to do about this. At least that is a step further than when we were trying to make sense of it all.

[malaise]

27. +1,000

I can't take much more of this - same shit - different day. All lies.

[choie]

28. Sabrina,

It's pretty obvious that not all of us are learning, unfortunately.

[frylock]

43. so. predictable.

[1StrongBlackMan]

44. Yes. Recognizing the obvious should be predictable. eom.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Are we on Red Alert yet?

[Skidmore]

5. Do you?

[loyalsister]

6. I'm sure that there is more than one perspective that can be reasonably argued

But, I certainly don't have the evidence or expertise to make one. Or, even to form a solid opinion. I'm reserving judgement.

[tazkcmo]

7. Not enough info

To make a decision, either way.

[cali]

8. all I know is this: the more we bomb

the more wars we engage in in the middle east, the greater the likelihood of terrorist attacks.

[Erose999]

9. I don't feel safer, because if there was an imminent threat, shouldn't the terror alert color scale

thing have been raised from Burnt Sienne to Magenta, or some shit? Whoever is in charge of that program has obviously dropped the fucking ball, probably drinking on the job.

FUCK!!

[upaloopa]

10. How are we to know?

How do we know if there was a treat? How do we know if there was a threat it is no longer viable?
How are we to know what is true here?

[global1]

13. That's Exactly Why I Asked The Question In The Original Post.....

we just go on what they tell us.

[951-Riverside]

12. They must think the American people are pretty fucking stupid

For a year they've been trying to convince the american people that they need to go into Syria to get ISIS but the moment they start bombing targets in Syria they say its to get "Khorason".

And what the fuck is Khorason?

J.F.C

[CaptainTruth]

21. I think I had fried Khorason with rice one time in Korea.

It tasted like chicken.

[malthaussen]

14. Dude, I've always felt safe.

I'm three times more likely to be shot by a cop than killed by a terrorist. Police, now, they terrify me.

-- Mal

[pa28]

16. Now you've done it. You've gone and put the issue in perspective.

We've supposed to be working ourselves into a blind panic over the future of homeland here.

[CaptainTruth]

22. Ding! Ding! Ding!

We have a winner.

[NightWatcher]

15. Kanye's wife (the one with the big booty) was about to bomb us?

WTF is a Khorason?

And yes, a lot of people would love to claim that they were about to attack us.

[GeorgeGist]

18. The newest OogaBooga™

Launched last week.

[Maedhros]

29. They waited until September to spring Khorason on us,

because as everyone knows, you don't introduce a new product in August.

[2banon]

36. ROFL!! THANK YOU! And Oh, SPoT F*CKINg ON

I needed one good belly laugh today..

[KG]

17. calls to mind the the constant alerts back in the '03 run up to war

frogmen, anyone?

[Chan790]

19. Yes, I feel safer because it's a disruptive act.

No, it does not automatically or intrinsically take care of the threat in any permanent sense.

[2banon]

39. I get the sense you're serious.

as if to suggest you were actually afraid of being killed by IS? Like you actually BELIEVE it was about to happen any minute now. Do I have that right?

Yes, I feel safer because it's a disruptive act.

disruptive is the new word for destructive.

Disruptive kind of gives it all a more pleasant, acceptable meaning, doesn't it? Intended to obscure the reality of savage, death and destruction.

[Chan790]

45. I'm absolutely serious. n/t

[Feral Child]

20. HA!

The only thing I find scary is the damn politicians clamoring for war to make us safe.

[PeteSelman]

25. I'm just pissed that they continue to coreectly treat us like idiots.

I don't believe any of this bullshit. None of these made up, ragtag groups are a threat to us here at all. Not one single bit.

The same people that were lying ten years ago are lying now. And idiots are falling for it again.

[Maedhros]

30. More are falling for it this time, because there is that contingent of Democrats

that will praise whatever Obama does regardless of ethics or efficacy.

[geek tragedy]

34. Or maybe we just take terrorism more seriously

as a threat than you do.

[Chan790]

46. That's how I feel.

More than that, I cannot believe after all this time that they're still bewildered that we were never with them on this.

[geek tragedy]

33. That's what Bush said on 9/10/11.

Not a credible claim.

[PeteSelman]

35. What did the lying ex-President say the night before the 10th anniversary....

Of the catalyst event that set his paymaster's plans in motion?

You can be a dupe of this administration just as the right wing fools were of Chimpy but I'm not being fooled by this garbage.

We're being lied to, again. Just because the guy selling the shit is on the "good" team doesn't make it stink any less.

It's pathetic to see this sort of crap on this site of all places.

[geek tragedy]

38. Oh, a Truther. nt

[PeteSelman]

40. Oh, a sucker.

I can play that dumb game too.

[geek tragedy]

41. My wife was under the towers in the subway when the first

plane hit. Sorry I don't have much use for people treating it as a form of recreational fiction writing.

[gwheezie]

31. Doesn't anyone remember the link to the boston bombers

It was reported on in several articles after the bombings. There is a possible link. I think they are a more likely threat than Isis.
What if the intel we have does connect khorason to an attack that already happened here? Then yes I think if there is a verifiable link we are correct to go after them.
I'm less concerned about Isis. They haven't attacked us yet, khorason may already have.

[morningfog]

32. No one said they where anywhere close to attacking the US.

The line is "US and European interests." Interests means anything, including the Mosul Dam as we learned last month.

It is pathetic propaganda.

[KG]

37. same kinda lame agitprop trotted out in 2001-03

remember the alert about frogmen. and funny how the daily fear factory alerts ended after the invasion.

[stranger81]

42. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia. . . .

I feel considerably less safe knowing that we're surrounded by a nation of sheep that can be convinced at the drop of a hat of the necessity of bombing into oblivion any country or group populated by brown people. Even if it is a group no one had even heard of yesterday.

Anyone who continues to buy this crap needs their head examined.