}}} using a weapon of mass destruction

So, we’re all in agreement, then, that Saddam HAD “weapons of mass destruction”?

I mean, if our bar for the term now includes homemade bombs, then any state’s National Guard, as well as most mining sites and demolition companies, have “weapons of mass destruction”.

:-S

OK, never mind. Hadn’t read that part.

1) What were their majors? Anyone studying chemistry as a major has a substantial chance of knowing this kind of stuff offhand.

2) What were their backgrounds? Lots of teen males explore this arena of knowledge without a great deal of deep intention of nefarious purposes. Knowing how to “blow things up” is just one of those things that a teen male, esp a tech geek, likes to know on general principles. You DO NOT have to really, really intend to do anything with it.

I think certainly their behavior bears looking into, even extensively, but it’s far from conclusive, or even strongly suggestive, evidence.

}}} And how many people would try to protect a friend who was the Boston bomber?

You’re making a presumption, here. Perhaps they were protecting him because they thought it was a chance of mistaken identity and they were just trying to protect him from incrimination, still believing him innocent…. “He’d never do something like that. We were all just playing around, talking about this stuff… But it would LOOK bad to the cops…”

Not saying that’s the answer, but it is at least a plausible alternative based on the current information.

Altogether it’s certainly something to “make you go, ‘hmmm….'”.

This man said that American citizens know almost Nothing about the many moslem radicals who’ve crossed our southern border already. That they live in Mexico for a year or two, becoming fluent in Spanish to pass for Mexican, then come in. He said that this Administration has the policy, when one or more of these terrorists are found, of sending the FBI in a.s.a.p.. which has the dual effect of cutting off any publicity by making the case “instantly classified,” and protecting the radicals from Americans’ vengeance.

This congressman said he personally knows of several cases, but that they’re just the tip of the iceberg: Obama & Co. have made it almost impossible to track these killers.

College educated muslims — in Western universities — are the sole source for the worst of the worst jihadis.

STEM fields are overrun with islamist fanatics.

Morsi
Atta
Arafat
Ahmadinejad
et. al.

For the most part, their educations were paid for by the infidel.

Hence, Western university life is the number one causation for fanatical radicalization.

We are educating fellows who can’t possibly fit in back in their own cultures — which drives them insane with rage — against US.

Western society has no utility for fellows who need to drop everything three times during the workday to pray at rote hatred against their fellow Americans — plus sunset and dusk.

It’s not for nothing that no-one can square that circle back among the ummah.

Islam is not of the 8th Century — it’s really a Neolithic ethos — suitable for that stage in human experience when skirmish warfare was perpetual — and mostly cousin against cousin.

Bare feet, spears and arrows were rather limiting towards strategic warfare. Man didn’t have wars — he had the feud.

If you take it in that light, then the true nature of islam stands starkly revealed.

It’s an inchoate feudalism; no castles, forts or redoubts. You either have a horse — and can strike tactically — or you don’t and can’t.