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rooboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 03:16 AM
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Poll question: Is the world better off without Mohammed Atta?
I thought this question bore repeating here. A caller into Thom Hartmann's radio show posed the riddle that since Republicans always like to ask if the world was better off without Saddam Hussein, it must also follow that the world is better off without Mohammed Atta.

So is it?
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 03:18 AM
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1. Interesting
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alittlelark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 03:19 AM
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2. Isn't he livin' it up somewhere in the ME??
I mean, the RC planes.... he's fine.
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OmmmSweetOmmm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 10:51 AM
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10. His father reported him still alive. As to his being what the
Propoganda machine was trying to portray him as..a devout radical muslim? Didn't he booze & coke it up, eat pork and whore around in Florida???
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Jack_DeLeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 06:25 AM
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3. It would have been best...
if he died and if no one died in the 9/11 attacks.
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henrik larssonisking Donating Member (211 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 09:39 AM
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5. it would have been better if all 19 hijackers
had just topped themselves in their bedrooms.
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TabulaRasa Donating Member (223 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 09:32 AM
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4. That's great!
What a perfect response to that asinine question, "Is the world better off...?" It so perfectly reveals the complete stupidity of that either or option, without any consideration of side-effects. Absolutely wonderful!
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SheilaT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 10:00 AM
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6. After all, if he were still alive
he might try to crash another airplane into another tall building.
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rooboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 10:11 AM
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7. If he were still alive, it would mean that 9/11 never happened. n/t
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SheilaT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-07-05 01:16 PM
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30. I'm being a little sarcastic,
which is what such a silly question deserves. I'm assuming (against all reality, I realize) that Atta could have done what he did on Sept 11, 2001, and still be alive.

"Well, aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?"
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Paintedlady Donating Member (115 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 10:23 AM
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8. How about if..........
he still is alive (as claimed in the link below) and 911 happened anyway.
http://www.welfarestate.com/911/#1

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POakenfeld Donating Member (5 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 10:43 AM
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9. NO doubt
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forgethell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 11:12 AM
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11. OTHER
YES it's a good thing he's dead. NO. It is NOT a good thing his plane crashed into the WTC.
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Dorian Gray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 11:16 AM
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12. Probably...
but I couldn't, in good conscience, say that it was "good" his plane crashed into th WTC. That was NOT good, no matter which way you slice it.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 11:29 AM
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13. Yes.
But I would've preferred that he kill himself without taking 3000 others with him. 9/11 was not inevitable.
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Stop_the_War Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 11:31 AM
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14. I believe that Bush planned 9/11
Edited on Sun Feb-06-05 11:33 AM by Stop_the_War
you can call me a conspiracy theorist, but I think it's quite obvious that it could only be the government that could pull something like that.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 03:37 PM
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Yupster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 04:49 PM
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23. Okay
You're a conspiracy theorist.
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New Democrat Donating Member (71 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 12:50 PM
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15. I refuse to vote in this poll.
It is wrong in many many ways!
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Kahuna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 02:50 PM
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16. Please don't try 'n help us by posting rubbish like this...
This is the kind of irreverent rubbish that the MSM looks for so that they can point the finger at us as deranged haters. Of course it is better that atta is dead. But why did you have to phrase it as, yes- it is good that he crashed his plane into the Towers? Not helpful.
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rooboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 04:55 PM
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24. Grow up. n/t
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Kahuna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 05:53 PM
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28. You grow up. The poll is stupid and immature.
nt
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Kahuna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 02:50 PM
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17. Delete. Duplicate post.
Edited on Sun Feb-06-05 02:54 PM by Kahuna
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Must_B_Free Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 02:53 PM
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18. wait a minute - you tricked me!
I wanted to say yes, but I didn't agree with what is said after yes...
But I don't wish he was still alive
and I'm not a right winger

This is hilarious.
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number6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 03:14 PM
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19. if he was a hijacker, it would have been better if he was caught ....
before he got on the plane ...
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ottozen Donating Member (92 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 03:40 PM
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21. Is he really gone?
If so, where did he go? What is he scheming now?
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amazona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 03:55 PM
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22. any proof the world is without mohammed atta?
A passport dropped some distance away from the crime in question is less than compelling evidence of anything in my book.

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ermoore Donating Member (474 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 05:32 PM
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25. What?
Edited on Sun Feb-06-05 05:32 PM by ermoore
Honestly, you make no sense. Maybe I missed something.
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Pastiche423 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 05:32 PM
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26. Since no evidence has been provided
as to who committed the attacks on September 11, 2001, it matters not one whit as to our safety, whether or not Atta is dead or alive.
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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 05:38 PM
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27. Who are the incredible idiots who voted yes in this poll?
It is absolutely disgraceful that anyone would vote yes given what was written there.
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Must_B_Free Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-06-05 05:59 PM
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29. I just picked yes
then noticed that I didn't agree as I read the rest..
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