It would be nice if he acknowledged that we weren't attacked by the Iraqis in the first place. Now that they totally screwed up this war, we have to stay forever.

Attending one funeral for a service person from each branch would be nice.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10314.html

Whenever George Bush makes a prediction, the smart money always bets against him. Almost everything he has predicted regarding the war, gas prices, jobs, the economy, etc. has been totally wrong. Indeed, I included the word "almost" in the last sentence simply out of caution.

When historians write the book on Bush's universally wrong series of predictions, he will be forever known as Nostradumbass.

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You included the word almost to cover your ignorant over generalized comment.

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No. It's because Baby Bush is *almost* always wrong. And if one said he's always wrong, you'd probably come back with the one thing he ever said that was correct.

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Sure I guess when we're attacked we should just throw a few tomahawks at some tents in the desert (showing our enemy what dumbasses we are). It seems to me we haven't had any new terror attacks on the homeland since Bush responded after 9/11. Don't you think, Rayboy, that he was referring to terror attacks, you know it's called the War on Terror.

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Al-Qaeda let 8 years pass between attacks on the homeland. Proves nothing except their patience.

Bush's response after 9/11 was nothing compared to his lack of response the month before. Nostradumbass can't even make a solid prediction when it's handed to him in a PDB.

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This shows how ignorant you are, AQ only planned 9/11 for a month? It seems as though the majority of their planning occured in the previous adminstration. I agree their was all kinds of warning signs, Somalia, the African embassy bombings, the USS Cole, Bin Laden's declaration of war etc....wonder why Clinton had such an anemic response to those attacks?

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Winston Churchill

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JFK

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain

There is also a reason Clinton sent Sandy Berger to steal classified documents from the archives. The report was that an intel group under the Clinton admin had raised red flags and nothing was done, the report buried.

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Motherfucking moron. Can't you read simple English? I never said that.

I was being charitable. Bush sat on his ass the entire period, but he received the PDB on August 6, 2001, that warned "Bin Laden determined to strike within the USA", and continued to sit on his ass.

You should read all of the vicious GOP criticism of Clinton's efforts to deal with al-Qaida. Many of those quislings now give a blank check to Bush for doing so much worse.

And the Cole was bombed in October 2000, right before the election. The culprits were identified right after the SCOTUS gave the election to Bush. Clinton and his team briefed the new administration and left the decision to Bush since he would be responsible for the aftermath. Clinton's biggest mistake was trusting Bush to be responsible.

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So Bush sat on his ass for 6 months (during a transitional phase). While Clinton had warning signs for how many years?

Dumbass, just because the election was held in November of 2000 doesn't mean Bush took office in November. Bush didn't take office until Jan. 20th, 2001. Clinton had about three months to respond to the USS Cole bombing. The biggest mistake of Clinton's was his lack of backbone. Obama I mean Osama said it this way......

"After leaving Afghanistan, the Muslim fighters headed for Somalia and prepared for a long battle, thinking that the Americans were like the Russians," bin Laden said. "The youth were surprised at the low morale of the American soldiers and realized more than before that the American soldier was a paper tiger and after a few blows ran in defeat. And America forgot all the hoopla and media propaganda ... about being the world leader and the leader of the New World Order, and after a few blows they forgot about this title and left, dragging their corpses and their shameful defeat."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...ho/miller.html

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And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.

JFK

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain

What a laugh. No one reported to the Government in August 2001 any SPECIFIC threat. Nothing other than a nebulous " they are coming" report. And Clinton spent 8 years ensuring that the different Agencies would not and could not share information. There was a group that had strong suspicions of what was coming but Clinton ignored them and eventually shit canned them. That would be why he sent Berger to steal documents from the archive, to cover his ass on the matter.

As for doing something, you whine and bitch that Bush DID do something on what he felt were credible dangers from Iraq in 2002 and 2003. Yet after the fact he should have "done something" in August 2001 on a report that a terror organization wanted to attack us. No specifics, no dates, no uncovered plans, no names.

YOU bitch and moan about what the Government does NOW to try and catch terrorists and complain our rights have been eroded, BUT then in the same breath claim Bush should have "done something" in August 2001 on a non specific report of a potential threat.

You bitch and moan that 7 guys in Florida were rail roaded on terror charges when the Government has taped evidence of them announcing CLEAR plans to attack facilities, asking for training, money and association with a TERROR organization, BUT demand Bush should have done "something" in August 2001 on a non specific threat of an unknown terror attack "somewhere, someday, somehow" in the USA.

There is a word for that.

If we had caught the 19 terrorists on September 10 you would be demanding we release them because they hadn't actually done anything and Bush was "fear mongering". I mean all they had were box cutters and before September 11 2001 no one was worried about them.

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-Laurence J. Peters

I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

Clinton Defends Record on Fighting Terrorism

Clinton said he authorized the CIA to kill bin Laden, and even "contracted with people to kill him." He also said he had a plan to attack Afghanistan, overthrow the Taliban and hunt for bin Laden after the attack on the USS Cole, but the CIA and FBI refused to certify that bin Laden was responsible, and Uzbekistan refused to allow the United States to set up a base. By contrast, Clinton said the Bush administration's neoconservatives "had no meetings on bin Laden for nine months," believing he had been "too obsessed with bin Laden."

"At least I tried," Clinton said. "That's the difference [between] me and some, including all of the right-wingers who are attacking me now. They ridiculed me for trying. They had eight months to try. They did not try. I tried. So I tried and failed. When I failed, I left a comprehensive anti-terror strategy and the best guy in the country, [Richard] Clarke, who got demoted."

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So he fails to act and blames it on a Republican Adminstration...Wow, I couldn't have seen that happening....

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No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain

So he was going to break international and US law...oh ok

No matter what the public perception may be, one
thing is certain: assassination is illegal under both U.S. and
international law.3

http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.p...+L.+J.+677+pdf.

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Winston Churchill

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.

JFK

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain

So, he's fucked either way he goes with you?

Q: What is the difference between targeting an individual terrorist, and dropping a bomb on a Baghdad restaurant because you believe Saddam Hussein is eating there?

A: The first option is not likely to kill children and innocent bystanders.

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