Post #115

Subject: Shoes As Terror Weapons!

“(CBS) The joint FBI-Homeland Security bulletin, obtained by CBS News today [October 26, 2007], bluntly warns that terrorists are still working to use ‘modified footwear as a concealment method for explosive devices,’ CBS News correspondent Bob Orr reports. The alert follows the discovery of bomb detonators - expertly hidden in the hollowed-out soles of this pair of shoes - found aboard a European bus last month. “

So, let’s bomb Iran! :p

As best as I can figure, the type of neo-con lunacy as subscribed to by the White House says that we must show terrorists that we’re tough – that’s the way to win the War on Terror. So, when we couldn’t finish in Afghanistan, we turned to Iraq – when we couldn’t finish in Iraq, we turn to Iran.

Bombing Iran, another country that has not attacked us and does not threaten us, is not the answer. Why ensure that another generation of 65 million Muslims hate us? Bombing Iran will just set us farther behind in the War on Terror.

Oh, how Osama must be smiling! The Soviet Union collapsed due to the self-inflicted wound of bankruptcy – squandering blood and treasure. America seems determined to follow.

“Intelligence officials say the shoes were not being worn at the time, but instead were being used, as the document says, ‘to smuggle electric blasting caps across international borders for use in a terrorist attack.’ ‘The terrorists have an interest in explosive devices. They are trying to figure out the best way to push them, to move them through the system,’ said CBS News counterterrorism analyst Paul Kurtz.”

Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan? Al-Qaeda in Iraq? Al-Qaeda in Europe??? Well, who? Who are these bad men, and how will bombing Iran help us?

“Officials say there is no specific intelligence that terrorists are preparing new attacks against America. “

Um, wonder why this information was released….