i respectfully disagree with the characterization that one people's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. this represents the two parties conflict on equal footing and this is
typically not the case but certainly not in current Islamic
fundamentalist conflagrations.

you cannot reasonably make this symmetric equivalence.
Kim Jong-Il and Saddam Hussein saw themselves as
freedom fighters as they terrorized millions. They
even had supporters!

but they were no ones freedom fighter. their cause was/is
cancerous to humanity and to freedom. you cannot equate
the bombing of a schoolbus to shooting someone who is
attempting to launch a rocket at you.

that is why (among other things) that we have something
known as killing in self defense as a valid legal defense.

we attacked bin laden and overthrew the Taliban
to disrupt his attempts to kill us and Afgan santuary
of terrorists.

we attacked hussein because he had demonstrated a willingness
and capability to kill civilians in order to try to intimidate
his enemies and he openly threatened the US and our allies
while defiantly refusing attempts to disarm him. there was
also a concern that he was continuing to pursue nuclear options...and because of the oil he had plenty of mad money.

your argument that bin laden lives because of his lack of
oil is naive. if bin laden were to peek out of hiding he would
be taken out. he is merely hidden better and less effective
hence less of a threat.

bin laden like hussein is a man who gleefully cheers the slaughter of
innocent civilians in the name of Islam and provides funds
and support to those who do the killing.

So, essentially Obama was duped because he was an uninformed, new to the job, junior Senator who feared Republican attack dogs in the media because they have done so many damaging attacks thus far? huh?

Here's how the Senate voted on 'a bill to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to establish a procedure for authorizing certain acquisitions of foreign intelligence, and for other purposes.'

http://markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-they-voted-on-fisa.html

This basically immunizes telecom companies from lawsuits and give warrantless eavesdropping privileges to the President, which is just what Bush Jr. wanted.

Here's how the Presidential candidates voted:

Obama: Yea
Clinton: Nay
McCain: Did not vote.

I'm not going to speculate at this time as to why McCain was absent for this important vote.

I am disappointed that Barack Obama and other Democrats caved in to the President.

I'm with Hillary on this one.

If an individual is only allowed to donate $2300..... yeah, that idea of yours just doesn't add up. Even if these 'well off' people donate $2300 for the primary and $2300 for the general, the top that it is allowed, it still does not add up.

A resort to a solely based personal attack. How old are you again? I based all that I said off of studies as well, mostly though DIRECT from Steve Coll. The fact you launched a solely personal attack and belittlement without providing these vast research papers that say something different than the Pulitzer Prize winning Steve Coll on the subject says alot.

I suppose Fanta is smarter than Steve Coll and knows much more than he does as well. He must have the inside men and resources to get such information.

If everyone is so strapped for cash, how exactly is it that Obama has been getting record amounts of cash from the American public? That ontop with how much Mccain, Clinton, and others have received. Something seems odd that records would donate and such, though supposedly everyone can barely survive each week.

Pretty much, Osama wasn't even the real hero of the Russian defeat in Afghanistan. The rich and highly educated Osama took all credit for the successes that were actually Ahmed Shah Massoud, the Northern Alliance leader who was tracking Osama in Afghanistan for us prior to 9/11. Mossoud HATED Osama with a passion for what he did to him and according to him Osama was a horrible field commander, as is evident by the very poor battlefield training of al Qaeda.