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yeahwho

10-28-2007, 03:02 PM

The "Terror War " is really getting big. Especially considering we've been fighting this "War on Terror (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_Terrorism)" since September 18, 2001. Just as in the other major war (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_war) we're fighting due to Alleged weapons of mass destruction, the "Terror War" also keeps getting larger and more insane.

Here, compiled from the USA Today is a look at the evergrowing "Terror Watch List (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-10-23-Watchlist_N.htm?csp=34)" it has quadrupled over the past 3 year period.

Here is the Homeland Security Terror Watch Screen Listing (http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08194t.pdf)(with recommendations on how to expand the list and enhance the program) report to Congress. This list is fresh off the presses from October 24, 2007.

I do not expect this information gathering to end anytime soon. I know we are all subject to some form of identification, but the war on terror list takes things to another level. It now has 3/4 of a million suspected terrorists on it's list. 750,000.

Do you think we'll win the "War on Terror"?

Do you think we're fighting the "War on Terror" the correct way?

Is there even a need for the "War on Terror"?

I'm just astounded by these numbers and haven't quite yet come to a full conclusion on exactly where Homeland Security plans on stopping this information gathering.

Anybody else here have an opinion on these ever growing statistics?

Miho

10-29-2007, 02:44 PM

I'm in a similar mindstate. I can't say I'm at all scared of this "War on Terror". It all seems so unnecessary, and... I don't know, to be honest. I also don't know how the status of the "War on Terror" will be two decades from now. Fuck, I'm just living my life. I don't want to pay attention to this shit.

yeahwho

10-29-2007, 11:45 PM

To get your name on the terror list seems very nebulous (http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5984673.html) and arbitrary. Even those who are in our Nation's own Security Dept (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060506-6767.html). end up on the list. We eat our own.

The cost of all of this is staggering, I was appalled when in 2003 the citizens of the USA were asked to split the $200 Billion cost, which very soon afterward climbed to $400 Billion dollars, yet that was just baby numbers compared to the latest cost estimates, $2.4 Trillion Dollars (http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/24/news/economy/cbo_testimony/?postversion=2007102412), all on credit. We don't actually have the money.

Kind of odd that we're adding hundreds of thousands of new names per year to this list. This seems to be a losing war. You'd think it would get smaller after all the money and lives spent.

yeahwho

10-30-2007, 12:07 AM