What Would Have Been The Proper Response To 9/11?

This is a partial repost of a thread on Usenet, the unquoted text portion at the bottom is mine.

From: happy@work.org (Restless)
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:08:35 GMT
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Recall Bush telling us that this war on terror would be a loonnnngggg drawn-out affair. Most in Congress accepted that premise. Americans seemingly accepted it too. And now the country has done a complete 180. There are criticisms and condemnations galore.

What should have been done?

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From: "Bob Eld"
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:25:25 -0800
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Special forces ops. Targeted surgical strikes, gum shoe detective work, espionage, infiltration, warrants and arrests and a concerted effort focusing on Bin Laden, Al Zawahiri and other principles of 9/11. General warfare using the main military is nonproductive and did not and could not get at the intended targets. It's sort of like using a sledge hammer to swat flies, you smash up a lot of things but the flies just scatter and fly off to bite another day. Of course, Iraq should have never been a target in the first place as they had nothing to do with 9/11 or anything related. All actions should have been focused on the "real" enemy not some vendetta Bush had against Saddam.

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From: "Roy Blankenship"
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:50:30 -0800
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I feel like the methodology used was similar to burning the interior of your car when the goal was to adjust the carburetor. Did we have to destroy Iraq's infrastructure to get rid of Saddam? I don't think so. Did that happen so that companies could get unbid contracts and mountains of US taxpayer money? Does anyone else think the $12,000,000,000 we are sending to Iraq every month is a little ridiculous for the result we are getting? Is it a coincidence that the during the reign of the Bush Administration literally trillions of dollars has been sucked out of our country?

"Sumthin' ain't raht".

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Before you place any blame on those who carried out the actions, look to yourself and your fellow countryman who not only voted Bush into office but actually, initially, SUPPORTED the "war" in Iraq. It wasn't until things started going badly that all the lesser educated morons started crying and screaming and pointing fingers at everyone except themselves. Further, at the time, most of the lesser educated morons *NEEDED* the war in Iraq, they had to have a sense of "justice" and "righteous vengeance" against terrorists after 9-11. Whether the war was justifiable is completely inconsequential, we went to "war" so the general masses of butthurt Americans who got four jet liners flown up their collective asses could feel better about how fucking stupid they all were for so easily allowing a bunch of rag heads with box cutters to nearly cripple our economic and political infrastructures.