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Thursday, February 16, 2006

Saddam Threatened America - on tape

Hypothetically speaking, say a passenger is sitting in first class in an American Airlines transatlantic flight. All of a sudden, he tells the stewardess, "this plane is going to blow up. I can't tell you how I know, but it's going to happen." Well, what should the reaction be? The likely response would be a police escort from the plane, followed by a night in jail, and a full-scale investigation of the man, his house, his friends, and everything about him. I would expect the FBI to look in his kitchen, in his attic, under his mattress, in his computer and phone records. Everything. And they have just cause to do all of this.

Now, what if the FBI does a thorough inspection, and they find a couple manuals on bombs in his apartment. And say they look into the man's phone records, and they find that he's threatened a couple of airplanes before, and on one occasion, they even found a real bomb on him, but it never went off. Say the FBI have all this information, but they stiill can't find any bomb in his apartment.

In this case, was the man innocent? Did the FBI mess up? Should they have ignored the threat and never have searched his house? Is the FBI to blame for all this? Or should we be blaming the threatening man, for threatening to kill all 257 passengers on the plane.

Sound familiar? Recent tapes from Saddam Hussein have him telling America, "Terrorism is coming." Should the US have gone into the country, or ignored this threat? I know where I stand. (Please keep in mind that there has never been any connection between Saddam Hussein and terrorism, and MSM sticking by that.)