what i heard

[knowbody0]

i heard OBL state he attacked only when he was attacked
this on the eve of destruction in holy city

i'm a tree huggin peace lover,
i heard an invitation for dialog

[laruemtt]

1. ditto, nobody0.

i am 100 percent certain NONE of this would have happened if we'd stayed out of everybody else's business.

[Mallifica]

2. I think he closed the door

on dialog a long time ago . . . you can't kill innocent people and then want a conversation.

edit: spelling error

[Iris]

3. it goes both ways.

So, I guess that's why Bush would rather have endless war. Who's going to dialog with him?

[laruemtt]

5. it will never justify what they did on 9/11. NEVER.

but i believe they wanted us to feel how they have felt everytime we go butting into their business. i know what i say will be completely twisted. but this is what i believe. they would have had much better success if they had come out and talked - guess it's not their way.

[Not Me]

6. At some point in every war, you decide it's time to talk.

We are probably not there yet, but when?

[atreides1]

7. "...you can't kill innocent people and then want a conversation"

Why not? The US has been doing exactly that for years. It's part of the foreign policy.

[DrWeird]

9. Alright. Then you can't kill innocent people...

and then whine about it when somebody does it to you.

[Not Me]

4. That's the way I take it.

I hope that these testosterone-charged candidates can hold down the rhetoric until CIA and State Department has an opportunity to weigh in on this.

Oh to be sure, OBL is as good as dead when we get him, (and he knows that) but I hope at some point we can rachet down the macho swagger and take a good look at what it will take for lasting peace.

[knowbody0]

8. but how would each of us feel

if for the last 30 years our people were relentlessly attacked?
to me it is much like david and goliath

[fob]

10. It sounds like you're saying UBL is verifying the "carpet of gold or

carpet of bombs" threat from bush*co in summer of 2001. If so then, well treason is too weak of a word for bush*co.

[Paradise]

11. wouldn't that be a novel idea! n/t