The U.S. government is looking to create a stock market to help determine when terrorists will strike in the Middle East. HOLD THE PHONE. We're going to create a stock market to predict terrorist attacks, ok right now I want to say this is one of the worst ideas I've ever heard. The idea simply is that terrorists and people supposdly claiming they have knowledge will buy futures in say "Attack on Yasser Arafat August 14th", allowing the government to learn about attacks earlier and to weed out those that don't have valid information.

Will a terrorist buy stock in his own attack, probably not. Will he buy stock in a fake attack just to confuse the hell out of the United States? Yes. Will someone with information buy futures in an attack? No, they probably won't. Who wants to have their phone tapped when they call Pizza Hut? Also who wants to risk losing moeny if the attack doesn't happen. What I'm seeing is that people that have money to waste are going to buy into this horrible idea. A fool and his money are soon parted, thankfully

I suppose according to Bush and his right-wing buddies I'm not a patriot by criticizing this plan, but frankly I think the opposite. Bush is selling out the country to gain control of the Iraqi oil. Now not only can we not find Bin Laden but we're also without Hussein. The deck of cards idea worked brilliantly, that's if the plan was to create lots of useless spam.

The administration of the United States is completely off target. Not only have we failed in the Middle East in my honest opinion, but we're also splitting up countless families back here by sending people off for long stays in Iraq.

Democrat or Republican? Try Nader.

Reform is in order.

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