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Anonymous asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

Why have we had two terrorist attacks in this country since Obama has become president?

I mean, he's only been in power for a year and already we have had two attacks.

Do you think the fact that terrorists now know that they will "only" have to deal with the US legal system if they attack has made them bolder?

Update:

Doin: You already did, remember..but this is not "that" logic...the truth is that Obama is going to put all the "criminals" behind bars in the US penal system...is that even a threat to these guys?

Update 2:

MR WOLF: NO I'm not...Obama is responsible for increased terror attacks due to him STUPIDLY revealing that he intends to PROSECUTE any terrorists caught in a court of LAW, not militarily...I don't remember Bush doing that...see the difference?

Update 3:

TO THE IDIOT WHO SAID: "2 attempts, 0 successful"...do you call all the dead people at fort Hood a failure????

Update 4:

RYUNKIN: Not sure I believe in ALL of what you said, but some of it I do.

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago
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    by that logic they would have to assume they are going to fail, cause to only have to deal with the american legal system means they would have to be alive which means their "suicide"bombing was a failure.

    if you assume you are going to fail on a "suicide"mission why go. arent you supposed to believe that allah will make it work and then you get to go and get your virgins

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    And how many terrorist attacks on the nation during the Nazi-like Bush years didn't we find out about. If you were honest, and most anit-Obama people are not, you would admit that Chaney and Bush virtually kidnapped the press and replaced them with propagandists for the "conservative" cause.

    I don't understand why people of your political persuasion continue to attack yourselves? Don't you realize that by focusing your venom on just one head of a two-headed monster you are failing to pay attention to its hands, the hands it uses to beat your brains in with.

    This country is in the clutches of a few thousand chosen elite who rape and plunder us and propagandize us into believing that socialism for the elite and capitalism for the rest of us is right and proper. Now this is the real playing field that should be leveled, one way or the other.

    If you don't think that this is true then tell me how many small business people that you know of are living the good life? Between big government and big business a small businessman doesn't stand a chance to stand alone and gain his own economic freedom.

    As far as I can see, days of a Bill Gates or a Warren Buffet rising to the top are over if he doesn't do it be joining the plunderers and working his way to the top of some bureaucratic corporation. How many people actually make a good and honest living outside of an office any longer? Not many and perhaps that is why the new superpower in the world is China, a nation where honest labor is still a possibility. AN INDEPENDENT MIND IS SUCH A TERRIBLE THING TO WASTE!

  • 1 decade ago

    You're wrong; by the standards of the law, we have had zero. It may be technicalities, but you have to go by the technicalities, and they both come in huge.

    1. By the definition under law, a terrorist attack can't occur on territory under UCMJ jurisdiction (the UCMJ has no articles dealing with terrorism, and a strict reading of 18 USC 2331, which legally defines terrorism, says that terrorism can only occur against civilian interests). By law, Obama isn't allowed to call Fort Hood terror...and no government official can either.

    2. Vis a vis Flight 253, it's not an attack on civilians unless it's successful(ly fatal). In addition, he was never screened by officials in the USA; his lone screening was in Nigeria, which is known to be a soft point in the worldwide air security network.

    This is purely legal, and while I'm not a lawyer, it's what official statistics must go by. The rules for defining terrorism, while flawed, are 100% objective, and 0% subjective.

  • Lex
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I think it's because we're fighting a war, and has little, if nothing to do with Obama.

    Right now the terrorists are just testing our current administration. Seeing what he'll do. If he reacts and fights the way they want him to by sending diplomats and begin negotiations, the attacks will continue and get progressively more violent. If he reacts the way they don't want him to, then they will back off.

    Either way, the ball's in our court. I just hope Obama has enough balls to do what's right.

  • 1 decade ago

    If you say that President Obama was some how responsible for terrorist attacks in this country than you are also implying that George Bush was some how responsible for 9/11 attacks. Unless you are just being a complete hypocrite.

  • 5 years ago

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    What about James Von Brunn the holocaust museum shooter?

    Notice under Obama the attacks either failed or the perpetrators have been caught.....

    Also note, ZERO successful foreign terror attacks on American soil under Commander in Chief Obama.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Obama has made us seem so weak across the world im surprised the terrorist even try to commit any attacks. Now watch this latest attack will end up being Bush's fault some how in the minds of the Obama supporters but if it was one of the crew members that would have stopped him Obama would have taking full credit like the subway bombing attempt that was stopped in NYC.

  • Doin
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    By that logic, we can blame bush for the terror attacks on 9/11.

  • 1 decade ago

    2 attempts, 0 successful. More than can be said for America under the last Republican watch. Don't you feel safer?

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