Kidnapping. Looting. Torture. Which crime family....

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Provide one good reason why most every nation in the world sees ugly Americans everywhere. How many Americans would so threaten American lives as to endorse torture? Remember that Powell claim at the UN that Saddam and Al Qaeda were working together? Some here would rather we forgot it. But that too is apparently more lies obtained by torture. Just more reasons why the world has every right to hate Americans:

Europeans Investigate CIA Role in Abductions
A radical Egyptian cleric known as Abu Omar was walking to a Milan mosque for noon prayers in February 2003 when he was grabbed on the sidewalk by two men, sprayed in the face with chemicals and stuffed into a van. He hasn't been seen since.

Milan investigators, however, now appear to be close to identifying his kidnappers. Last month, officials showed up at Aviano Air Base in northern Italy and demanded records of any American planes that had flown into or out of the joint U.S.-Italian military installation around the time of the abduction. They also asked for logs of vehicles that had entered the base.

Italian authorities suspect the Egyptian was the target of a CIA-sponsored operation known as rendition, ...

Who previously did international kidnapping in violation of laws - international and local? USSR? N Korea? Even when capturing Adu Nidal, the French did so with the cooperation of the local government. But we are Americans and they are all idiots. What other bottom line justifies such anti-American activities? Did god say we can do it? After all, it is god's chosen president.

If that does not threaten your personal security, then this boondoggle should shake your tree. By 1996 the UN had identified and tagged equipment that could be used for WMD manufacturer. Then a mental midget president even disbanded the Iraqi army and police (but he cannot think of anything he did wrong). So all that equipment, specialized explosives for nuclear weapons, etc are now missing. Taken in three waves. By May 2003, potential nuclear terrorists were stripping Iraq of everything useful while the president claimed he made the world safer. Safer for who?

Looting at Iraqi Weapons Plants Was Systematic, Official Says
... a highly organized operation had pinpointed specific plants in search of valuable equipment, some of which could be used for both military and civilian applications, and carted the machinery away.

"They came in with the cranes and the lorries, and they depleted the whole sites," Dr. Araji said. "They knew what they were doing; they knew what they want. This was sophisticated looting."

The threat posed by these types of facilities was cited by the Bush administration as a reason for invading Iraq, but the installations were left largely unguarded by allied forces in the chaotic months after the invasion.

The George Jr administration could not have made it easier for rogue powers to obtain the necessary equipment; even by inviting these people in. Furthermore, most every adjacent country refuses to reply to requests for information on all these missing machines. Radioactive scrap metal traced to Iraq has even appeared in Netherlands. George Jr has again succeeded in making the world safer - by distributing Saddam's WMD machines to unknown parties throughout the world.

Kidnapping? Looting? Torture? Even the streets of Washington were reported to be that unsafe. Al Capone for president - or maybe he already is.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I still don't understand why in Afghanistan and Iraq we made no attempt to seal the borders. Yes, it would take additional manpower but much of it could be watched with technology and anything moving spotted many miles from the border. Warthogs could be there in minutes.