Quote (Ghot @ Apr 28 2018 05:00pm)

You can spin things to suit your beliefs. But all that encouraging to use any means was recent, like in the last year.
Saudi hyas been our ally since before that.

Quote (Plaguefear @ Apr 28 2018 02:29am)

There is no spin here, if you think that the 9/11 attacks did not inspire the current crop of radicals you are ridiculously ignorant and not worth debating.

Quote (Ghot @ Apr 28 2018 07:29pm)

Were the radicals that blew up the world trade centers, the ones thatinspired the current crop of radicals, or were they a different batch?

Quote (Plaguefear @ Apr 28 2018 04:56am)

Are you trying to be clever here?
Because you look really really silly.

Quote (Ghot @ 28 Apr 2018 09:12)

The only one that looks silly here is you. The Islamic terrorists are behind the World Trade center attacks and any continuing attacks. No matter what they call themselves.
Blaming the US for this is ludicrous.

Might as well blame France and Britain as well. Hell might as well blame the Crusades.

The only ones to blame are the same folks as always, the radical Muslims.

Quote (TradeBot @ 28 Apr 2018 11:43)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N4tXf3Ensw

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Comey Did Not Leak Classified Information
Notwithstanding the president’s insistence that Comey leaked classified information, the known evidence strongly suggests that this is not the case. To be clear, there are significant problems with the former director’s account, but the claim that he committed a crime is specious.

The leak claim centers on a memo-to-self Comey wrote about a White House meeting on February 14, 2017, in which he alleges that the president asked him to drop the investigation of Michael Flynn, the former national-security adviser whom Trump had fired the preceding day. Several months ago, when we first learned that Comey had written memos of his conversations with the president, I observed that they were unlikely to be classified because Comey, who is smart and careful, would avoid including such information. Well, the memos were made public about a week ago, and we now know that the one in question is not classified. (See here, pp. 10–11.) Obviously, unless information is classified, the criminal laws against unauthorized disclosure of such information are inapposite.

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The fact that the memos were government property is important because the former director has posited a Clintonesque objection to accusations that he “leaked” information. He had already been fired when he gave the February 14 memo to Richman with instructions to pass it on to the Times. Thus, his theory goes, he was merely a private citizen passing along his personal aide-mémoire.

But in fact, the February 14 memo (the physical memo and its informational content) belonged to the government. Comey orchestrated the transmission of its contents to the media without authorization. That’s a leak, period. Comey has tried to circumvent this inconvenience by a crimped definition of “leak” — it is only, he told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, the “unauthorized disclosure of classified information.” No, that is a classified leak. Other unauthorized disclosures to the media of non-public government information may not be quite as serious, but they are still leaks.

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Comey is trying to have it both ways: He wants you to accept that he made the decision not to prosecute on his own, out of fear that the Justice Department was tainted by bias in Clinton’s favor. Yet, when dismissing critics’ claims that the proof was more than adequate under the applicable law, he shrugs his shoulders and says, in effect, “What could I do? I was constrained by the Justice Department’s interpretation of the law.” That is, his hand was forced by the same pro-Clinton bias that he was supposedly thwarting.

Quote (Skinned @ Apr 28 2018 01:02pm)

If this Korea thing pans out, Trump should get Nobel Peace Prize.