Wow Kerry took the Florida primary!

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One point that he makes that I disagree with is his lumping of all terrorists into one group. Taken to its logical conclusion, the IRA, the Basque, the various Militia and KKK in the USA would all be working with Al-Queda. That there are multiple terrorists groups with common goals is not in question. That they interact, even sometimes work together again is not a question. But that an Islamic secular state, which the fundamentalist Muslims abhor would work together with a terrorist group of those same fundament defies logic.

I understood that more to mean that we need to be careful in either chasing down one particular group, or in defining terrorism too narrowly. I think he was more calling for the clarification in general terms what constitutes a criminal enterprise or an enterprise that supports other criminal enterprises, and therefore when investigating or chasing down the stream of money one may be surprised by whom may be involved with whom. (e.g. is Saudi Arabia and the house of Saud a terrorist supporting organization?) They may not even pursue the same agenda, but if not in direct conflict, individuals may aid one another against the common enemy. That might even extend to domestic terrorist organizations, and it might not be too far fetched to think of a militia group or the KKK getting aid, or aiding international terrorists in striking at the US Federal government or a particular human target.

Even Israel seems to be descending into the barbarism of the Middle East rather than bringing the region up to the civilization of the Western democracies. For stability, the ratio of fundamentalist lunatics to rational citizens must be large. That does not seem to be the case there.

Which is why I was surprised by your reference to the Mossad's tactics. Terrorism in Isreal has only escalated since that time, and the Mossad has been more and more ineffective. Isreal now regularly exercises military extremes in their responses to terrorist incidents which only play into the anti-Isreali propaganda. They do not treat them as crimes.

In general, to the rest of your post I would reply that I have seen evidence to lead me to believe that Saddam, and his administration gave succor to terrorism. Some indications of that before the build up to war involving Zaraqawi, Abu Abbas, and others, and certainly he allowed extremists from Syria in by the bus load in the months prior to the March 2003. My prejudice is in that in all other aspects of Saddam's Iraq he was in total control of his borders, and all actions of his government. How then could these terrorists move freely within his society without his approval? Again, I may be prejudiced by my knowledge of Saddam and his iron grip on Iraq, but to me the err is in assuming there was no link. To me it is err to not be suspicious of the facility at Salman Pak. I'm not sure what evidence would convince you, but in time that too may be revealed. For my part, I will continue to dig until I find it. I think it is a truth that needs revealing.

:D Now if only I could find those stockpiles of WMD.