Forget WWIII, the War on bathtubs has been going on for decades

[tocqueville]

Yet even if you include the 9/11 casualties, the number of Americans killed by international terrorists since the late 1960s (which is when the State Department began counting them) is about the same as that killed by lightning - or by accident-causing deer, or by severe allergic reactions to peanuts.

"In almost all years, the total number of people worldwide who die at the hands of international terrorists is not much more than the number who drown in bathtubs in the United States" wrote John Mueller of Ohio State University in last autumn's issue of the authoritative American journal Terrorism and Political Violence.

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Al Qaeda and individual international terrorists are the object of worldwide intelligence and police operations. They are a marginal phenomenon. The Bush administration's conflation of them with the social upheaval in their world is exploited to perpetuate changes in American society that provide a much more sinister threat to democracy than anything ever dreamed by Osama bin Laden.

The radical threat to the United States is at home.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/02/10/news/edpfaff.php

[Solly Mack]

1. I knew my tub was plotting with my rubber duckie!!!

Yep - the radical threat to the US is at home

and I don't mean my rubber duckie...

[senseIsntCommon]

2. See: Distraction

It's so much easier to take away all of your civil liberties and rights, when you are busy watching Faux "News" while hiding under a bed for fear terrorists will get you.

[newyawker99]

4. Hi senseIsntCommon!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Nevernose]

3. "On purpose" is scary, "on accident" isn't

That's just human nature. I rarely worry about my kid falling out of a tree and breaking her neck or being otherwise seriously injured, although that's statistically more likely than a stranger abduction.

Just becuase Bush is an incompetent asshole who's taking advantage of terrorism doesn't mean that we shouldn't worry about terrorists.