We don't do Politics in Dept of Homeland Security

[Talon Karrde]

Circular logic. The terror alert is raised; because there is new information suggesting a terrorist strike. It is a reactionary fucking scale you dipshit. You don't raise it willy-nilly ... or do you?

But your acting like it doesn't help stave off the attempts of terrorists. Your acting like the scale is a useless tool that doesn't help in anyway.

And your rebutle was ... where? Exactly?

Why do I need a rebutle? You claimed I "self-diagnosed" my self as incompetant, and I pointed out that you stated it.

Most people are freely admitting that Al Qaeda has managed to re-group between the invasion of Afganistan and now.

I don't think this is because of us freeing Iraq. I gather from this you believe since we were fighting 2 wars, we forgot about Al-Qaeda. I sincerely doubt that. We never left Afganistan, we simply expanded our efforts elsewhere.

And I'll point out that the frequency of terrorists attacks by Al Qaeda (or their affiliates) against US interests has increased, just turn on the nightly news.

Example?

Rubbish. He is fighting the disease by warning you that you might catch it (after all we are discussing the head of Homeland Security delivering as speach about a hightened terror alert, raising the threat level, and then praising Bush for making America safer) - which is fucking ironic, let me help you;

We from the 'common cold security centre' would like to warn you all that you are more likely to catch the common cold. PS We would like to thank Bush for his great job of stopping the threat of the common cold...

What would you suggest he do differently then?

Bitch don't put words in my mouth, I think Bush is incompetant for many reasons (being unable to string a coherent sentence together in English being one of them), this was me pointing out the fucking irony in the article Stravo quoted, and you being a moron and being unable to fucking read and comprehend.

Well we haven't heard that one before. Because he's not a great public speaker, let's rap on him.

Try me, see what happens.

GASP!!!!

[Darth Wong]

You act like just because the terror alert is raised, our country is not safe.

I love it when people say monumentally stupid things like this. Especially when the whole purpose of the terror alert is to warn people that they're not safe

[Talon Karrde]

You act like just because the terror alert is raised, our country is not safe.

I love it when people say monumentally stupid things like this. Especially when the whole purpose of the terror alert is to warn people that they're not safe

The reason the level is raised is to warn people of POTENTIAL danger. What you and others in this thread choose to ignore is when you raise the level, terrorists realize that the government is on to them, and are less likely to strike. I still fail to see why this is such a hard concept to grasp.

[Mr Flibble]

You act like just because the terror alert is raised, our country is not safe.

I love it when people say monumentally stupid things like this. Especially when the whole purpose of the terror alert is to warn people that they're not safe

The reason the level is raised is to warn people of POTENTIAL danger. What you and others in this thread choose to ignore is when you raise the level, terrorists realize that the government is on to them, and are less likely to strike. I still fail to see why this is such a hard concept to grasp.

So by that logic if the government were to constantly keep raising the alert level, there would never be any terrorist strikes.

Get real, I suspect that terrorist merely laugh at the terrible level warnings.

I'm just looking forward to mauve alert (cookie for the reference).

[Crown]

But your acting like it doesn't help stave off the attempts of terrorists. Your acting like the scale is a useless tool that doesn't help in anyway.

The scale is a useless tool you twit, the same could be accomplished by leeking the story to the media or a whitehouse press conference, there is no need for the scale you brainless tool.

Why do I need a rebutle? You claimed I "self-diagnosed" my self as incompetant, and I pointed out that you stated it.

I stated it as a general observation, but still allowing you the oportunity to prove me wrong, but when in your reply you didn't conceed, and infact self diagnosed yourself for me, I felt vindicated in pointing out that I agreed with your own opinion of you.

Although I guess I shouldn't be too suprised that you are getting this mixed up, I mean some of your other thought process have been remarkable too.

I don't think this is because of us freeing Iraq. I gather from this you believe since we were fighting 2 wars, we forgot about Al-Qaeda. I sincerely doubt that. We never left Afganistan, we simply expanded our efforts elsewhere.

The 'President' of Afganistan, can at best be described as the Mayor of Kabul, if you think you have secured the whole country you are kiddig yourself.

Example?

You can't be this stupid.

What would you suggest he do differently then?

Wake Up! Try and find the root cause of terrorism and eradicate it. Or at least dismanteling the fucking networks, or hunting down actual terrorists. THAT's a good start, or perhaps increasing funding to intelligence networks, not fucking changing the colour of the fucking day!

But again this is a red herring, I am sure that he is doing this (one hopes), but the point was in the fucking irony of claiming that Bush was making America safer while raising the fucking threat level for the umpteenth time!

Well we haven't heard that one before. Because he's not a great public speaker, let's rap on him.

'Not a good public speaker'?

He is not a good public thinker. Period.

GASP!!!!

[SWPIGWANG]

You act like just because the terror alert is raised, our country is not safe.

I love it when people say monumentally stupid things like this. Especially when the whole purpose of the terror alert is to warn people that they're not safe

The reason the level is raised is to warn people of POTENTIAL danger. What you and others in this thread choose to ignore is when you raise the level, terrorists realize that the government is on to them, and are less likely to strike. I still fail to see why this is such a hard concept to grasp.

Potential danger == unsafe
No danger == safe
increased potential danger == reduced safety

Than again, I guess nothing is dangerous until one is dead.

And you are implying the government is NOT on to the terrorists without the warning? Now if the warning has actual substance like where, when, who and how they are going to strike, it might mean something but as it stands now all it says is "we know you are out there somewhere trying something we aren't exactly sure of, and unable to prevent effectively and thus the general warning" which in real terms means the threat terrorists sees is no greater than before.

[Stravo]

You act like just because the terror alert is raised, our country is not safe.

I love it when people say monumentally stupid things like this. Especially when the whole purpose of the terror alert is to warn people that they're not safe

The reason the level is raised is to warn people of POTENTIAL danger. What you and others in this thread choose to ignore is when you raise the level, terrorists realize that the government is on to them, and are less likely to strike. I still fail to see why this is such a hard concept to grasp.

Let me lay this out like you're my 6 year old daughter:

When we are in danger there is an alert to let us know we're in danger.

When we're in danger we're not safe.

The country is on alert until election day

We are not safe until election day because we are on alert.

The country is NOT safer since 9/11 because the alerts keep on coming.

Alerts=Danger NOT Alerts=less Danger.

Try to grasp these fundsamental concepts and it might help you in this debate. No matter how desperately you want to spin it, the fact that there is an alert means that we are in danger, it does not mean we are suddenly safer moron.

[Darth Wong]

You act like just because the terror alert is raised, our country is not safe.

I love it when people say monumentally stupid things like this. Especially when the whole purpose of the terror alert is to warn people that they're not safe

The reason the level is raised is to warn people of POTENTIAL danger.

Do they not teach English in your homeland of Moronistan?

Danger is synonymous to hazard, jeopardy, peril, and risk, all of which are fucking potentials for harm rather than actual harm. The phrase "potential danger" is a redundancy, you idiot. It's like saying "a risk of a risk".