Obama says al Qaeda greatest threat to U.S.


	Obama says al Qaeda greatest threat to U.S.

infidel70

11-16-2009 4:15 PM

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11-16-2009 10:01 PM

ColoradoRight

and Afghanistan still awaits a Presidential decision.....

11-16-2009 10:14 PM

davboz

How can he believe that statement when he shares more in common than differences with alQaeda in terms of what they don't like about America.

11-16-2009 10:43 PM

blueridge

Actually, Congress has been the greatest threat under both Bush and Obama, since "terrorism" is the plea to erect Homeland Security, so-called PATRIOT ACT, etc....setting up the Security State through "must pass legislation", and now Obama's majority Congress is dishing us up the Nanny State.

Al Qaeda has not hurt virtually any Americans (nor can it be proved they committed 9/11), but Congress and usurping Presidents have.

11-16-2009 10:48 PM

bignosemousie

Actually, Congress has been the greatest threat

That is exactly what I was thinking!

11-16-2009 11:30 PM

davboz

What happened to allllll thoooose LEFTIES who were so concerned, shocked, scared, insulted, and pissed off at the big-government intervention into our lives just 1,2, and 3 years after 9/11?
Were those very people posting and commenting under "regular" guy & gal blog names, spreading the anti/Gov.intervention meme on all those progressive blogs and denouncing the corporatist/crony nature of the Bu$hCo administration,..really the meat of the Democrat campaign workers, and even many who are walking the halls of the Obama White House today?
Are they the same people who complained, only now it is them doing the SAME THING? Don't tell me the moral outrage was phony? Really? And they just wanted a...

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