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Well yes, if you narrowly define "any terror attacks" as the one you want it to be, then you betchya. That's like saying there has never been a major crash in the stock market. There hasn't, because the ones I'm counting don't meet my threshold. How can we as individuals search for and find...

That's a very strange point you're making. What would we say to other countries? "We're looking for someone, and if we do stumble across him at some point, there will be missiles flying over, but we're not sure when." Actually Clinton bombed him when they knew where his camp was. Or...

Yes, and the US can use planes -- but again that requires quite a bit of preparation. The military has to have cruise missiles available, in theater, and/or an aircraft carrier to launch the planes. Russia has to be informed, along with other countries. So spotting Bin Laden once isn't...

If you exclude the WTC and then exclude the Pentagon, exclude the anthrax attacks, exclude the embassy attacks and then limit it to the US then there haven't been any attacks. Here's your original statement: "Since 9/11/01 (7 years ago for the slower ones) there has not been another attack...

Not bullshit, she left the town $20 million in debt, or about $3000 per resident. On top of that she increased her town's public expenditures by 33% and increased taxes 38%. Here's an article about it: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12987.html And yet, you can't seem to...

Yes, that is certainly stupid. If the US doesn't have designs on Mexico, why does it have nukes? The nice thing about forum posters is that they self-classify with their own writing, making it easy to distinguish the rational from the nuts to the downright insane. Serious question...

I think that's true for humanity in general. Nevertheless, your original statement, that there have been no attacks since 9/11, has been proven false. And as others have pointed out, as framed it's wildly biased as it excludes the major attack itself.

I would say that Clinton did a good job on terrorism, or at least a competent job and that blaming him would be somewhat unfair. :) Now you're reaching. First off, Afghanistan is landlocked. Picture us launching cruise missiles: A) Towards Russia B) Over other countries. To say...

[/b] You understand that it was renewed by the Bush administration in 2001, right? Ashcroft's Larry Thompson renewed it. So if it was a problem, and the 9/11 commission said that it wasn't, why was it renewed in 2001? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9088-2004Apr13.html...

Odd, that's not what the Republicans said during the elections of 2000.

Exactly. That's like describing insurgents as Sunni and Shiite, which is useful information. Categorizing them as all "Muslim" is useless.

So headlines about Ireland should have read "Christian Kills 30 Christians In Bomb Attack"

Actually murder is termed a principle of "dual sovereignty." Ie. the federal government and/or the state has jurisdiction depending on the circumstances. And yes, it is reasonable that the Supreme Court rules on what they belief abides by the constitution -- ever since Marbury v. Madison...

Well that, and also because it's meaningless given that there are over a billion Muslims of all different sects. No more meaningful than describing a nut who shoots up a church or mall as "Christian."

Absolutely. However, there was one difference between the two presidents: one repeatedly worked to make terrorism a priority before 9/11. Clinton added $300 million for anti-terrorism, attacked Bin Laden (and was attacked by Republicans as "wagging the dog.") In fact, Deputy CIA Director...

There's no question that intelligence sharing has improved due to the 9/11 commission's recommendations. Sadly, given that terrorism is up massively from before 2003, it is also clear that the country is in more danger than we were before Iraq. Well if you watch Fox, in order to be...

Interesting -- here's a debt graph by president as well: http://zfacts.com/p/318.html

Given that terrorism is up massively under the Republicans with their "creative" solutions which McCain supported, perhaps it's time to try someone else. First off, mayors are in charge of budgets in Chicago. Secondly, Governors are in charge of budgets in Illinois, which is where Obama was...

Interestingly, after some research, that happened right at the start of Clinton's presidency -- he had only been in office a few weeks when the attack occurred. It's unlikely any policy he set in those weeks contributed or allowed it to happen. Ie. if the attack was policy related, it would...

That's a great theory and also entirely unproven with not a study behind it. I think you're confusing "beliefs" with "science."