240, Jaguar-
So terrorism doesn't exist?
There are no terror cells, and Al QaeThe spada is a bunch of nice guys?
Hezbollah was trying to be friends and wanted to take the Isreali soldiers out to dinner.
Why do people choose to discount argument A, by ridiculing an argument B which has not even been made?
Why not try to discount a theory that has infact been positted? I've never said terrorism doesn't exist.
I don't think 240 has said that either. We know terrorism exists. We've seen plenty of evidence of that around the world over the past 50 years, ...in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, the USS Liberty, the Contra
terrorists um.. freedom fighters, etc., etc., right up to 911 and beyond. Terrorism is going on everyday.
As for Hezbollah, they didn't take the Israeli soldiers to dinner, ...they had them for lunch!
Western Democracies feel like killing their own?
On occassion ...yes. See: Pearl Harbor, declassified Operations Northwoods, or if necessary review the US civil war, or review the poison gas wafted over San Francisco, ...or the tests they conducted on army personnel giving them useless stuff to
"research" when unbeknownst to the brave soldiers, they were infact the test. The government simply wanted to know what levels would produce death. Then too there were the Kent State shootings. The list of Western democracies killing their own is quite long. Now I realize that in Pearl Harbor, it was the Japanese who dropped those bombs, ...but by conspiring to bring the attack in the first place, then withholding the information about the impending attacks, as well as the subsequent removal of both radar, and code breaker machines, the US government was as guilty as if they had dropped those bombs themselves.
Yet somehow Al Qaeda has claimed responsiblity for all of these acts.
My understanding is that they have never claimed responsibility. They were blamed. But who knows... bin laden's last minute re-emergence to rally support behind Bush in the 2004
selection could simply have been fortuitous timing for Bush, ...or maybe bin laden is still on the payroll? {shrug}
The spanish act was an inside job too.
No, common thought among the Spanish population is that it was a CIA op designed to scare the populace and influence the elections to ensure Spain's troops remained. They failed to take into account the Spaniards have years of experience dealing with Basque separatists, and weren't frightened into giving up their freedoms. They instead chose to assert them even stronger at the ballot box.
Too bad the the lgovernemnt changed after the attack and the new governement pulled Spain out of Iraq over it.
The new government specifically ran an anti-war platform that had the pull out of Spanish troops at the top of the agenda. The invasion was
never popular with the Spanish. That's what the people wanted all along - a pull out of their troops, and that's what they got. That's how it works in a democracy
(US not withstanding) 
Is there a single insident in the last 20 years that might be the fault of someone other than the government?
Tons of things ...like Bjork's swan dress at the Oscars for one
What was she thinking?!
