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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 09:28 AM Original message |
What do you think Osama Bin Laden's Goal was on 9-11? |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 09:30 AM Response to Original message |
1. Wisdom? |
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BeFree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 09:47 AM Response to Reply #1 |
12. Furthermore |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 09:32 AM Response to Original message |
2. His goal was to get this thread kicked to the Dungeon. |
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yellerpup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 09:33 AM Response to Original message |
3. To weaken us as a country by causing a financial |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 09:33 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Ding Ding Ding |
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robo50 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 09:34 AM Response to Original message |
5. I bet even Osama Bin Laden didn't have any idea how |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 09:36 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. No, W, did things that Bin Laden was even surprised at |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 09:34 AM Response to Original message |
6. I believe he did it to start a holy war.... |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 09:37 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Not that simple |
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Cirque du So-What (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 09:58 AM Response to Reply #9 |
14. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 10:03 AM Response to Reply #9 |
19. Since the US represents or did the West in all it's secular glory, we are the |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 10:18 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. No |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 03:16 PM Response to Reply #21 |
43. Of course, but he would not gain the sympathy he garnered had he attacked |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 03:31 PM Response to Reply #43 |
46. I apologize |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 09:35 AM Response to Original message |
7. To make the U.S. panic, overreact, and get bogged down in wars in the Muslim World |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 11:29 AM Response to Reply #7 |
30. That was my answer. |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 11:58 AM Response to Reply #30 |
34. That's what most of us around here believed just a few short months ago. |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 12:07 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Saw that coming a million miles away though. |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 12:10 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. I have to admit, I am a little disappointed to see how many people around here |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 12:13 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. I expected the same thing in the 90's. |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 12:14 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. It's hard to be too cynical. n/t |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 09:39 AM Response to Original message |
10. His primary objective was to get the US to pull its troops out of Saudi Arabia. |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 09:46 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. That's it in a nutshell. |
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tabatha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 09:51 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. And so few people know that. |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 10:00 AM Response to Reply #13 |
17. When Republicans are in charge, terrorism works. |
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Clio the Leo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 10:00 AM Response to Reply #10 |
15. as described in "Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders" NT |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 03:22 PM Response to Reply #10 |
45. Yep that's the reason for all of the "they hate us for our freedoms" bullshit |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
16. To completely disrupt our society and goad us into military adventures in asia. |
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bigjohn16 (747 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
18. To drain us of blood and treasure. |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 10:15 AM Response to Original message |
20. Recover from kidney disease, most likely |
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willing dwarf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 10:20 AM Response to Original message |
22. The question itself points to our biggest problem |
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glowing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 10:23 AM Response to Original message |
23. At this point, its a stretch to think Bin Laden was responsible for anything other |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 10:24 AM Response to Original message |
24. Kill as many non-Muslims as possible |
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CJCRANE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 10:48 AM Response to Original message |
25. His goal was |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 11:09 AM Response to Original message |
26. He thought he could cut the country off at the head |
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Avalux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 11:14 AM Response to Original message |
27. To scare us and spend all of our money and resources on preventing another attack. |
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polichick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 11:15 AM Response to Original message |
28. I think it was a symbolic gesture, a statement about U.S. interference... |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 11:16 AM Response to Original message |
29. Obviously, he was out to conquer America and make us all worship |
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Kurt_and_Hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
31. To set two cultures against each other. (And self-aggrandizement, of course.) |
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mikekohr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
32. In his words he hoped to make us spend a million for every dollar they spend. |
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Kurt_and_Hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 11:35 AM Response to Original message |
33. To impress Jodie Foster |
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SKKY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
36. To get us out of the Middle East was the manifest function... |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
37. To make us fearful enough to never set foot in the middle east again. |
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Unvanguard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
39. To provoke a foolish US response that he could exploit to weaken the country. |
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agentS (922 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 11:52 PM Response to Reply #39 |
48. Yup. I figured as much on Sept 12th |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 02:49 PM Response to Original message |
42. That America would demean itself and act out of fear rather than greatness. |
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Oregone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
44. To strike at something he hated |
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Ter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-28-09 10:57 PM Response to Original message |
47. To get the US to stop favoring Israel |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-29-09 01:03 AM Response to Original message |
49. To get the exact reaction that the idiot moron "W" gave him |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-29-09 01:48 AM Response to Original message |
50. OBL was the latest in the series of attacks on the US by radical muslims |
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