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sabrina 1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-04-11 04:55 AM
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54. And by acting upon it I and others who did not think
Democrats were likely to engage in assassinations, thought he meant bring them to trial. It's called 'justice'.

Clinton brought the Blind Sheik Rahman to trial for the 1993 bombing of the WTC, right in NYC. Those trials took seven years. Justice was served.

Bin Laden should have been tried in an International court. We do not know what role he played in 9/11. We do know he denied it but 'was happy it happened'. Later, it seems he thought it gave him standing to let people believe he was responsible. Whatever, we used to respect the law in this country. Now we just execute people without charges or trials or convictions. Just like any third world dictatorship.

As for Iraq, Iraq is always going to be relevant to everything the US does. Our claim is 'we were wronged and that gives us the right to do whatever we want'. But the problem is we no longer have sympathy for that claim because of what WE did to the innocent Iraqi people. We lost our moral authority, our claim to being the victims. We have created one hundred times the victims Bin Laden, assuming he was guilty, created.
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