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Comment Re:Looks like the AG actually read the law (Score 3, Informative) 817

Yes, Bush possessed satanic powers that let him in on things nobody else knew. But if you want to be an idiot, go right ahead.

Speaking of idiots... did you know only Congress can declare war on another nation? You might want to brush up on your recent history, since it's a well known fact (among those of us who don't suffer from selective memory) that Bush invaded Iraq prior to getting a Congressional declaration of war. So, you know, pot, kettle, all that jazz.

Which is well within the powers granted by the "War Powers Act".

Comment Re:Real reason (Score 1) 523

Well, more along the line of there probably won't be a successful 9/11 style attack because the passengers now know the outcome. But the passengers of United Flight 93 who knew what the other planes had done and reacted as would today's passengers are still just as dead. If you took the money being spent on TSA security theater and simply put two well trained Air Marshals on every flight you might fix even the end up dead part and have lots of money left over for explosives detectors both at the airport and on the planes as well as R&D into better less detectors. Like ones that the would be hijacker doesn't know he is being detected or even checked.

Comment Re:Real reason (Score 1) 523

Hell, the vast majority of airlines security that flew on September 11, 2001 didn't get flown into buildings by terrorists and neither did all of the planes that flew in the US before 9/11. In fact the only other plane I know of that was intentionally flown into a building has happened since the TSA was up and running and it was the Cessna in Florida. Which I will agree wasn't a TSA issue.

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