No one in this administration has ever said there is proof they were involved, but we had to send a message to those non-Americans and their fellow travelers. The President believes in a broad war on terror.
It's a well-known fact that Switzerland has not proven that it doesn't have weapons of mass destruction, and there is no way to know that al Qaeda hasn't deposited billions in Swiss banks and paying interest that is being used to kill Americans right now. Are YOU willing to take that chance?
Switzerland is right in the middle of highly unstable region that has been the site of major wars in the past 100 years. America has vital interests in Europe, and the people in Switzerland don't even speak English.
In fact, they don't even speak the SAME language as each other. That is a recipe for instability that we simply can't tolerate in a post 9/11 world.
2007-04-15 08:21:48 · 33 answers · asked by Longhaired Freaky Person 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I wanted to attack Mars.
2007-04-15 08:23:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
Nobody said Saddam did 9/11 or was involved in 9/11.
All anybody said was that after 9/11 you can't just wait for nefarious people with a proven intent to do us harm and an unproven but potential ability to do us harm to do us harm.
The connection to Al Qaida, however thin, was never represented as a link to 9/11 - just an example that Saddam had ties to terrorists with a global reach. The argument was that Saddam had had biological agents in the past, was refusing to allow the inspectors to see the sites they had selected, thus indicating that he still probably had such agents, and that even though he probably lacked the ability to strike inside the US, he had sufficient ties to groups that did have that ability so that he could pass THEM the chemical agents in question.
At the time, after 9/11, this seemed a reasonable assumption.
The problem is we did Iraq as a military operation rather than a special ops operation - send people in, locate Saddam, call in the missile and/or air strike, kill him, put a puppet in place the way we did in central and South America for decades, rather than try to do it honestly and openly.
2007-04-15 08:29:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
I disagree... i think of genuinely all people is able to this type of criminal offense, besides the fact that if or not you or i like it, ya know? besides the fact that it became purely a lashout against that which we don't comprehend. a super majority of yank's (myself secure) are extremely blind to those of different religions, so i don't think of people who have been attacking Sikhs knew the variation. i'm not attempting to assert that it became ok, merely the choice, i think of that all and sundry people could attempt to apply this as an excuse to be taught approximately distinctive cultures, distinctive religions, be taught from this journey so as that it in no way happens returned.
2016-12-20 15:36:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ha ha. I happened to be in Switzerland on 9/11. My heartfelt thanks to all the wonderful Swiss, German, Dutch and British people who aided my husband and I in our efforts to communicate with our children back in the states and to arrange passage back home as quickly as possible. The measures that the phone companies in multiple countries made to ensure that we were able to communicate were well above and beyond the call of duty and the love and commiseration that we received from our many friends overseas touched our hearts deeply.
2007-04-15 08:26:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
You know, now that I think about it--that Swiss Miss cocoa is pretty good stuff......
We could use some of that to sip on while we are riding around burning off all the oil we stole off those Iraqis......
And when we are done is Switzerland, maybe we should scoot on over to Monaco. I never forgave that Prince Ranier for choosing Grace over me.....
Great plan, LHFP! Now go get a hair cut.
2007-04-15 08:31:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
The truly sad thing is that this administration seems to be able to tie anything to any country they want to!
Funny question though!
Are swiss army knives more frightening than boxcutters?
All that money in those swiss banks probably is pretty tempting for the current group of thieves we have!!
2007-04-15 08:51:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Switzerland? Are you kidding? You want to divert resources away from fighting the ever-present Papau New Guinean threat?
2007-04-15 08:25:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
We probably should have looked in the direction of Israel.
They are known to have WMD (the US supplies them), they have attacked the US in the past (USS Cole), they are known to have attacked other countries and blamed them on Arabs, they have their Mossad spies everywhere in the US, and they harbor Zionist terrorists in their state.
They are not the only country that has WMD that are not acting in the best interest of the US, but somehow they are our best allies?
2007-04-15 08:32:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why Switzerland? It wasn't them it was them damn people from Iraq not Switzerland and anyways if they wanted to bring our country down they would have. You're blaming the wrong people in the Middle East man.
2007-04-15 08:26:06 · answer #9 · answered by :: Nero:: 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The sad fact of the matter is that our armed forces are so stretched now,that we couldn't attack Switzerland.The reasons you gave are valid though.Let's drop what we're doing in Iraq and target the evil empire festering in Switzerland!
2007-04-15 08:37:06 · answer #10 · answered by Michael R 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I got dibbs on a chalet on Lake Lucerne.
Across the road from the secret airbase.
2007-04-15 08:32:57 · answer #11 · answered by Wonka 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋