One BILLION spent so far to protect us. How much is a pair of boxcutters?

[mopaul]

keeping america safe from terror: one billion bucks. one pair of boxcutters: priceless

[arbusto_baboso]

1. But, but, We NEED a missile defense screen...

Sure, it won't work with the technology we have right now (or even what we'll develop over the next 30 years), but don't you see that we NEED to resurrect SDI in order to protect ourselves from the terror inherent in boxcutters?

Why do you hate America?

[MisterP]

2. but it DOES work

FOX says so *stamps feet*
just my imitation of petulant, hallucinating neocon

[displacedtexan]

3. Exactly!

The airlines were CLEARLY at fault, yet WE TAXPAYERS pay off the survivors as well as bail out the airlines.

What a scam!

And now the airlines are failing again?

And no one in the "Free Press" is following the money?

[Freols]

4. Truth

Did Bush Boy ever consider that his republican fascism might has MADE more terrorists prone to attack? Did he consider he 'Terror war' was terrorizing thousands of Iraqis, destroying a country and spawning another generation of US haters from all over the world? What the hell is going on in this world.
I mean Bush is training GEORGIAN SOLDIERS!! And lets have a long thought... why would he do that? Its Corrupt, violent and threatening another peaceful country... hmm, O I GET IT! Its cus they are not communist! Man that answers it all... wait, they are paying the US with oil? O thats fine, very good. Funding terrorism for oil, and when they resist invade them and take it.

Pretty soon they will be accepting OPEC into the US as political refugees!

The worst thing is how openly Bush does it.
Just hope the democrats do something different.

Freols

[newyawker99]

9. Hi Freols!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[SharonAnn]

5. One billion may have been spent, vut I don't think it really was to

protect us. It was to line the pockets of Bush cronies.

[Eric J in MN]

6. Why one billion? Star Wars alone is $10 billion in the bill which

Bush signed Thursday.

Read my article on it at MoveLeft.com

http://www.moveleft.com/moveleft_essay_2004_08_08_we_should_spend_as_much_on_helping_the_wolrd_as_on_defense.asp

[MrBenchley]

7. ONE billion?

$38 billion went into the black hole that is Tom Ridge in the first year he was in office...and we got nothing to show for it but the idiotic color chart. And there was no accounting for the expenditure....which did NOT include increased airport security...

[ProfessorGAC]

8. I Thought Throwing Money At A Problem Wasn't The Solution

Isn't that what the right has been saying for 25 years?

Wow, who would have guessed? Duplicity from the Republicans. I'm shocked! Shocked, i tell you!
The Professor

[catmandu57]

10. What should be scary

boxcutters don't come in pairs, and someone could do the same damn thing with a sharpened piece of plastic or glass, that couldn't be detected by metal detectors. By the way did the cockpit doors ever get reinforced?