Edwards Has Plan to 'Drive Up Cost of Doing Terrorism

[Flatrater]

(2004-07-06) -- With the war on terror top-most in the minds of American voters, Democrat vice presidential candidate John Edwards today announced his plan to "drive up the cost of doing terrorism."

Mr. Edwards, who like Senate colleague John Forbes Kerry supported the presence of American troops in Iraq by opposing funding of that presence, said that as vice president he will ensure that the U.S. government sues every terror group whose faulty ideology results in injury or death.

"Terrorism is not a war issue, it's a legal issue," said the first-term Senator, who built a fortune as a trial lawyer. "It's just another defective product that hurts ordinary people. If you sue the maker of the product--tie 'em up in court for a few years--you increase their cost of doing business and jeopardize their ongoing operations."

[taranaki]

only reference to this that I could find on Google was this one...

http://www.scrappleface.com/

Please,if you are going to post satire to this board,Explain the joke in words of one syllable.We have some fairly unsophisticated readers here.Cretins who say things like "Its a George H. W. Bush attitude. Don't fuck with us. ", and "Theres a difference between an Iraqi terrorist and an Iraqi civilian?" simply won't get that it's satire,they'll repeat it as gospel fact[to the amusement of the rest of us].

[DGB454]

It's actually refreshing to see someone bash another politician other than Bush.(even if it is satire) I don't even bother reading those anymore.

I wonder...does Edwards think terrorist will show up for their court date?
I can hear that discussion..."Oh crap!!!...I have to be in court that day. Let's call off the car bomb till I get back. I don't want to miss anything."

[YogsVR4]

Funny stuff

[WissNX01]

He is a coward. He'll PM you and write all kinds of guidlines about personal attacks, yet he does the exact opposite, and threatens to ban you if you disagree. He can cause hes a mod, and it seems that mods outnumber non-mods by a large majority, which is evident by thier post count. Either way, I was dead serious when I asked what the diffference between a terrorist and civilian is. Yogs pointed it out, but I am still convinced alot of the Iraqi civilian population are still supporters of the insurgents and terror.

[werwolf-23]

Originally Posted by WissNX01

He is a coward. He'll PM you and write all kinds of guidlines about personal attacks, yet he does the exact opposite, and threatens to ban you if you disagree. He can cause hes a mod, and it seems that mods outnumber non-mods by a large majority, which is evident by thier post count. Either way, I was dead serious when I asked what the diffference between a terrorist and civilian is. Yogs pointed it out, but I am still convinced alot of the Iraqi civilian population are still supporters of the insurgents and terror.

Well, of course they do. If China somehow invaded and conquered the US (just for argument's sake) Would I be out there trying to kill every last one of them I could? Damn straight.

And I'd be terrorist to them, too.

[WissNX01]

First off all, the Chinese are not a threat. They are separated by 10,000 miles. For them to get a sizable force here, they would need to use ships, since planes dont have an effective capacity or range. We would see them comming.

YOu would be a freedom fighter. But I dont want to get into what defines a terrorist. But, suppose you caught a Chinese soldier. WOuld you behead him and put him on the internet?

Would you use children to strap bombs to and send them to the soldiers?

Capture Chinese businessmen and kill them?

Theres a difference. Theres a thing the Iraq insurgents are doing, if anyone is fimilar with the military, its called Commanders Intent. Alot of them are carrying this out. Thats when they attack infastructure and soldiers directly. Using deception and hinding in mosques and using civilians as shields is wrong. Not to meantion the beheadings

[taranaki]

Originally Posted by WissNX01

Using deception and hinding in mosques and using civilians as shields is wrong. Not to meantion the beheadings

And scattering hundreds of thousands of cluster bombs,and depleted uranium shells is not ?Bah,you're a steaming hypocryte, and the level of debate on this board has dropped several notches since you arrived.

I'm sick of hearing from idiots who believe that the Stars and Stiripes is the ultimate excuse for everything,and that being President automatically elevates you to the status of God. Please,find somewhere else for your gutless shite,it doesn't ring true,and it never has.Osama is a terrorist. Iraq is a sideshow go catch some real terrorists and the world might find you to be more acceptable company.

[WissNX01]

Like I said, more personal attacks. Just because I dont support Kerry or any other Democrat fool, means you come after me, calling me an idiot? Thats bullshit. You just dont agree.

Bring up the uranium shells and cluster bombs if that makes you feel better. Maybe we should have used nukes in retrospect, since those work real well.

Fact is he is the president. He stepped in after 8 years of Clinton getting sucked off in the White house. Came in after his own father failed to follow though with the Kurd uprising in 91. He is righting things that were left screwed up by previous administrations. Your just one of those guys that is still pissed about Florida and the 2000 election. Gore is your boy, and I expect this from your kind of people.

How about Democrats like Zel Miller that support the president? YOu think hes wrong? How bout ol Joe Lieberman? Hes a Jew, so it must be part of the right-wing Zionist consipracy theory crowd. Joe Lieberman is all about blowing these guys to pieces, and that scares your heros Ted Kennedy (a murderer by the way) and John Kerry. You dont hear about Liebeman in the paper or Tv unless it supports the liberals. Imagine what would have happened if Gore and Lieberman had won. Lieberman would have insisted that Gore level the entire Middle East.

YOu can call me what you like, but theres a fine line between supporting terror and being against it. I think your a few miles over the supporting line.

[taranaki]

Hilarious that a Bush fan calls Kennedy a murderer.10,000 Iraqis and almost 800 GI's traded for oil isn't murder to you ,is it?

[WissNX01]

OIl? This isnt about oil. If it were about oil, our prices wouldnt be so high. We wouldnt have to negotiate with OPEC for increased output. What, you think the Army is pumping the oil, loading it on tankers for the secret oil reserve?

The troops liberated the Iraqis. Its not Bush or Rumsfelds fault that stupid clerics can pull the wool over thier eyes. YOu libs hate hearing how we liberated them. Brush it off as a distraction away from Afganistan and Bin Laden, his day in hell is approaching. As far as the 10,000 Iraqi deaths, I dont care. I dont know an Iraqi, and even if I did, I still wouldnt care. Besides, the # is probably higher. And by the way, its now over a thousand GI deaths.

Either way, a guy like bush who has a strong religious conviction, and actually has the nuts to admit and act on it, just scares you. Better than Gore. Better than Kerry. Kerry cant decide anything without Ms Cleo.

[taranaki]

Actually, you'll find that an unusually high proportion of those GI deaths are from causes other than combat.That's why I didn't include them.And you are right.Religious fanatics scare the crap out of me,especially the nut jobs with WMD at their disposal.The Republicans have a proud history of puting mental defectives in the top chair,it's a miracle that none of them has done more harm.

And please tell me again how you liberated the Iraqis.Then wrap yourelf in the StarSpangled Banner and see how far you can walk through central Bagdhad before you get yourself killed.Invasion and occupation is not the same as liberation,that could explain why so many people are getting killed over there.May last year, the asshat in the Oval Office declared the bulk of the fighting to be over.More GI's have died since then than died in the initial land grab.Curiously though,none of them died of injuries caused by WMD.....

[WissNX01]

Its a fact that the military suffers a high death rate because of accidents. Its always been that way. Of course, you wont see that fact in the news.

[Flatrater]

Originally Posted by taranaki

Hilarious that a Bush fan calls Kennedy a murderer.10,000 Iraqis and almost 800 GI's traded for oil isn't murder to you ,is it?

Now Naki I have to ask you how many of these 10,000 people were killed by American bullets, bombs and how many were killed by there own kind (the Iraq people)? Why do you insist on all the death on Americans and Bush. Granted we are in Iraq but the Americans aren't shooting till shot at. Face it the rebels in Iraq are doing more killing than the Americans!

And from what I have seen and read Bush has been in the United States of American this whole time so I don't understand how he could of shot, bombed or killed anyone! Are you treating this like a soccer game blame the goalie when the team fails to win.



If you want to count the bodies.
http://www.iraqbodycount.net/bodycount.htm

[2strokebloke]

And from what I have seen and read Bush has been in the United States of American this whole time so I don't understand how he could of shot, bombed or killed anyone!

Good point, and Hitler didn't kill millions of jews. It's not like he walked around gassing them personally.