If you could have killed the 9/11 terrorists just before they hijacked those plains would you have done it?
85273
Sounds like a question i'd ask Doc Brown on Back to the Future, what happens when history is changed?  Playing with the space time continuum is risky business.  Have you heard of the Chaos Theory?  Any little event can cause major ripple effects that may be worse than the one that was 'supposed' to happen.  For example, you kill al the terrorists who flew into the WTC and Pentagon, which means there was no stopping of commercial airline traffic....which means the terrorists on the west coast were able to carry out their suicide missions...which means one of them struck a nuclear power plant that released radiation travelling world-wide.  You get my drift, and, oh by the way, there were terrorists who were ready to takeover aircraft on the westcoast, but thanks to the FAA clamp down on traffic, their plans were thwarted.  Their targets are unknown, i only picked a nuclear facility to make a point.
1086170
They were planning this war before 9/11!
938371
it wouldve been funny...but people dont say 9-11, they say 9-1-1. sorry :o)
169442
spy on them first , kill them, and ask questions later if you need to. better to kill lots of innocents than let one terrorist, or criminal get away!
1003430
they were planning the invasion of iraq way before 9/11
772536
Coulda, shoulda, woulda. What IS your point???\n \nI have been disgusted with many people in our country lately. It deeply saddens me how our country has so divided itself by way of rumors, party bickering, and accusations of all sorts about world affairs. It is just best to listen to President Bush very carefully and listen so well that you are not judging him as he talks. He is a strong leader with an immense global crisis, but not because of his own doing. If we had never invaded Iraq, do you really think that America would be free of hostile global politics. Do you think if we had a different, maybe Democratic president the past 4 years, that terrorists would just be hanging out in the Middle East playing cowboy and Indian in their little harmless terrorist training camps?
112953
You are probably a terrorist.
1167369
are you terrorist????.........
1163302
If I was President I would not have gone to war. I would have secured our borders asap and then with the money that has already been used on this war I would buy every man woman and child a hybrid car to cut down on fuel cost for every American. I would not of fought the families of 9/11 victims in having a 9/11 commission and would have had them lead the investigations. And most important I would not have ordered the killing of American citizens by staging 9/11 in the first place.\n"The first person to raise their hand is the first person to run out of ideas." - HG Wells
20670
It depends on the crime. If I saw a friend plant a bomb... yeah... for the most part no. I would talk to the friend first before doing anything else.
633883
That you were a terrorist getting ready to blow up the building and kill lots of innocents. That's what you wanted to hear, right, in order to re-enforce your belief that ALL Americans are racist neanderthals?
1013939
I think it's a little sad that we have to do it, but - yes.  I think the only way to fight terrorism is to nip it in the bud.\n\nTruthfully, I wish there were no terrorists... I wish for world peace... but, with people who have no reguards for their own life or the lives of people in their own country (speaking of the terrorists places like Iraq, Afganistan) - I guess we have no choice but to go in and stop them doing whatever it takes.\n\nI don't understand how some of the terrorists in Iraq can kill people in their own country like they are doing.  Blowing up their own buildings - their own bus systems... destroying what they could all use (everyone in their country) peacefully.\n\nTerrorists like that will not stop until they are snuffed out.
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I probably would've done the same. \n\nWhat lots of folks don't realize is that we put out a bounty in Afghanistan for terrorists. Think about it. We told a bunch of dirt poor Afghans that we'd pay them in American cash if they fingered Afghan terrorists. Of course they would turn in just about anyone they didn't know or maybe had an on going feud with, Al Qaeda or not.\n\nI'd be willing to bet that lots of Guantanamo "detainees" have been directly involved in terrorist activities, but when you consider all of those imprisoned without cause or evidence, other than the word of another dirt poor and desperate Afghan, it really is disgusting what we've done in Guantanamo. If their is real evidence to hold any of these people it should've been presented prior to their incarceration. After all, that is the American way. Right? \n\nLots of folks are awful pissed about 9/11 and I'm one of them. That doesn't mean we should throw due process, common sense, and our collective sense of humanity out the window in order to conduct another witch trial. In the end we'll lose by showing ourselves to be just as bad as the terrorists responsible for 9/11.
595577
Hindsight is 20-20, but I'm not sure. We still would have lost American lives so it seems like we would still have gone. However because of how brutal and devastating the attacks were that they hit a target and how they have permanently scared DC and NYC, those things might have had a larger effect on the decision than the acts themselves... OK, I think we would have no matter what. I believe Bush wanted to go to war and unfortunately 9-11 gave him an opportunity to do so without a fight from government or the American people.
141836
no hun i would have done the same thing
545751
I would prevent the 911 terorist attacks.
635143
If by "soon", you mean the next six months...then I'd have to answer the question with NO.  This is mainly because Islamic terrorists such as Osama bin Laden have shown a real patience after initial attacks on a selected target fail.  In 1993 the first attack on the WTC, though tragic, was a miserable failure from the standpoint of inflicting massive casualities.  They waited over 8 years before carrying out the next attempt, which as we all know, was far more deadly and horrific.  It has been nearly 5 years since 9/11.  It may be another 5 years before America is hit again with such devastation.  The terrorists are patient and highly adaptive to our security measures.  Because of this, nobody can ever really know when or where they'll strike again.\n\nOne thing is very certain, though.  Flight 93 failed to reach its intended target.  This means Al Qaeda will try to strike the Capitol or White House once again to complete their original mission that failed on 9/11.  Its unlikely they would hijack planes this time around, as many security measures have since been adopted to make that plan inoperative.  The more likely scenario would be a car bomb or perhaps a suicide bomber detonating themselves in or near a major Washington DC landmark.