[ Mawlawi is suspected of organizing a scam to illegally bring Moroccan men into the United States by arranging sham marriages and engagements to women from Memphis. ]

Wonder how many babies, American citizens all, got made that way.

David -
If they were sham marriages, they were probably not consummated. The gals simply received a fee for the marriage license and appearing at the immigration office to attest to their undying love for their new spouses.

They have come for years to recruit and subvert. They are coming across our borders from Mexico and they are coming across the porous border of Canada who lets anyone into their country. They have come as students and killed our citizens, they have come on visa's a went underground with the help of their brethren, they have become the 5th column in our country and they are planning our death unless they are caught first and disposed of, may all these murderers be caught and have done to them what they wish for us.

Ron,

Dave might be off in his timing but not in the result. After a few years (I think two years for the green card) the sham husband will get a sham divorce and they can bring over a native wife to have babies - born with full citizenship.

This is a small example of what Israel has had to contend with for years.

Make sure to read the last paragraph, which details a previous strange case with possible terrorism ties here in Memphis involving false driver's licences. That case remains unsolved still.

Reason all for *not* establishing a _defensive_ posture in fighting the Islamic fundamentalist terrorists.

The best defense is a "violently executed" offense.

1. Declare war on Iran, etc. But mostly on Iran. (non-declared wars do not fall within the purview of the Constitution; thus, so called "security laws" last *forever* -- not just for the duration of the war. Result: Constitution in shreds.)
2. Nuke Iran with cruise missiles. (No American soldiers need die.)
3. Warn other such nations (e.g., N. Korea) they're next.
4. *Do not* engage in "nation rebuilding."
5. End state of war.
6. Move on.

The USA has negotiated with these vile tyrannies for decades. That has lent them legitimacy and, most importantly, encouraged them.

Leila Khaled, one of the hijackers of five airliners in September 1970, made precisely this point:

"The success in the tactics of hijacking and imposing our demands and succeeding in having our demands implemented, gave us the courage and the confidence to go ahead with our struggle. It made us continue the struggle because it showed us materially that we could achieve our goals by armed struggle."

As Ayn Rand pointed out: "When good compromises with evil -- it is evil that wins."

Xenophobia, race hatred, national paranoa and an increased dwindling of our freedoms are all we can hope for from "Homeland Defense."

Want America properly defended? Wipe out the enemy's nation. Since the 1970's, that nation has been Iran.

Such is what George talk-tough-but-act-softly Bush *should* have done on 912.