Lawrence O'Donnell rewrite: John Kerry was right when he said fighting terrorism

[muntrv]

is primarily a law enforcement issue in 2004 campaign.

[seabeyond]

1. yup. nt

[malaise]

2. A super rant

Go Lawrence

[dkf]

3. I'd say it was a special op issue instead.

[blm]

14. as I recall, the intention was to use special ops at the time of confrontation...

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[Bandit]

23. Law Enforcement also has Special Ops.

SWAT being just one of their most notable. The action taken by Delta and Seal Forces was along the exact same format as SWAT follows.

[blm]

26. Exactly...and I don't think this nation would have ANY problem allowing this type of force to be

used in missions like this one. In fact, educating the public about how much more EFFICIENT and economical this type of force would be in terrorism cases, is exactly what is needed. Excessive bombing and fullscale wars are NOT efficient, not economic, not effective, and decidely INHUMANE....in other words, they are DUMB for ANY country.

[Cali_Democrat]

4. Of course he was

The notion that you can use conventional military forces to fight terrorism is beyond absurd.

[Mrs. Overall]

5. O'Donnell just obliterated Bush, Cheney, and the entire Republican party--wow...

Excellent--I hope a video gets posted of that.

[malaise]

7. Will be here later - in an hour or so

http://thelastword.msnbc.msn.com/

[blm]

13. O'Donnell's tough. MSNBC refused to book him after he attacked credibility of Swiftliars on air.

The last months before 2004 election and O'Donnell was put on a chain by MSNBC. Even Olbermann hadn't been allowed much room at that point, as the NBCs, along with rest of corpmedia, were fully invested in keeping Bush in office for that favorable ruling they got in 2005 from Bush's FCC.

[aquart]

6. Yes. I said so at the time.

The minute the idiots began ranting "Act of war" I knew there was absolutely no hope to avoid war. During a week when I was still in shock, that was what gave me the sickest feeling.

[zigzagzed]

8. Yep

With intelligence and special operations teams occasionally thrown in to locate key terrorists and remove them from circulation.

[politicasista]

9. Kick

:kick: :patriot:

[Leopolds Ghost]

10. Yep, also said so at the time, we were routinely ignored by post-election Kerry haters

Of course, Kerry could have done more to emphasize this sort of thing.

[blm]

12. Hard to do when every prominent Dem on TV was siding with Bush's military positions. Kerry was on

his own for the most part back then. Even Biden waited till late 2006 before he came around to Kerry's position. And we all know how Bill Clinton used his summer2004 book tour to vigorously and PUBLICLY defend Bush's military decisions and leadership.

[StarsInHerHair]

11. yes, also theRand Corp. released a study on what ends terrorism, I

used to post the link.........it said about 40% success rate in ending terrorism was police/detective work, about another 40% was giving the people a political party to look after their needs, & using the military option had about a 6% or 7% success rate in ending terrorism. Why choose what doesn't work?

[blm]

15. yes....but, that wouldn't put the big bucks in MIC's and oil barons' pockets.

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[StarsInHerHair]

16. BUT tellingvthe voting public MAY LIKELY CHANGE THEIR VOTING PATTERNS

nt

[blm]

19. That's exactly what I'd like to see, but, corpmedia is in bed with both MIC and oil industry.

Who will tell the people? It's one thing to tell the truth...it's another thing to expect corpmedia will put that truth into its regular reporting and discussions.

As Greider once asked, "Who will tell the people?"

[EFerrari]

17. Of course. I'm sorry it's too late to recommend this.

[deacon]

18. Bush used bin laden to beat kerry in 2004. n/t

[TornadoTN]

20. This action against Bin Laden is the best argument for ending the wars I've seen

Intelligence, Clandestine Services, and Special Forces are the best methods to combating terror, not using invasion forces and inflaming an entire region, creating more and more people you have to fight against.

[RockaFowler]

21. I think O'Donnell is getting better and better each day

His show is very informative and heck - he's cute to look at :)

[jillan]

22. Personally of all the presidential elections in my life time, the election of 2004 was the hardest

one for me to take.

Even worse than 2000, and that was traumatic in itself. But in 2004 we saw the damage W did to the world and Kerry was going to put an end to it.
I cried for days and I never did get over it.

[politicasista]

24. Kick n/t

[steve2470]

25. k&r nt

[BlueIris]

27. But he windsurfed.

Therefore he was good enough to be president.

:sarcasm:

[BobbyBoring]

28. Since day 1, 9/12/2001

This should have been treated as a law enforcement issue and not a war. Our military is trained to fight wars against other nations with armed forces, not cave dwellers.

However, handling the aftermath of 9/11 by means of law enforcement would have produced a bunch of different suspects