Re: 40 REASONS TO SUPPORT GUN CONTROL

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 12:30:22 -0000, "Bill Weston"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>ben wrote:
>> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 22:35:07 -0000, Bill Weston
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> I have to agree with you - if your country took airport security as
>>> seriously as we always have, 911 may have been avoided.
>>
>> Pray tell, what did the events of September 11, 2001 have to do with
>> airport security?  The hijackings were a succesful exploitation of
>> the then current hijacking response protocol.
>>
>But the protocol as you put it was clearly ineffective as anyone who has got
>on an internal flight in the US will testify.
>
>>> Of all the govt.s that have allowed and sponsored terrorism, the US
>>> contributed certainly the most funds.
>>
>> Nice try.  Prove it.  Supplying arms, or money to buy arms, to foreign
>> nations or factions for legitimate purposes which are subsequently
>> used by terrorists is not the same as sponsoring terrorism.
>>
>Arms and money were transferred directly to the mujahadeen in afghanistan by
>the CIA when they were fighting the russian invasion. There was no afghan
>nation or govt at the time, so the stinger missiles, 88mm rockets et al were
>given directly to the terrorists/freedom fighters. The same thing happened
>with the sandanistas in nicaragua.

Don't you know anything about Latin American? We were giving weapons
to the Contra not the Sandanistas.  The Contra's were the Freedom
Fighters.  The Sandanistas were the Marxists oppressors.


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