Next Terrorist Target: The Constitution

"Such is not mere speculation by conspiracy theorists but comes straight from recently retired U.S. Army General Tommy Franks, who field marshaled the U.S. wars against Afghanistan and Iraq. In a lengthy interview in this month's Cigar Aficionado, Franks painted a picture of what he called 'the worst thing that can happen in our country': a terrorist attack with WMD, a 'massive casualty-producing event somewhere in the western world -- it may be in the United States of America -- that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass-casualty-producing event. Which, in fact, then begins to potentially unravel the fabric of our Constitution.' As a result, Franks said, 'the western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.'"
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