I am sitting here trying to figure out which one of you is going to snap and do something stupid...all this faux outrage but no outrage when we use drone attacks to murder innocent civilians..
I am mad but I am also smart enough to realize WHY they are doing this.GunSlinger like most neo cons has never served in the military but is all gung ho about sending more of our troops to die for nothing. Oh and do we really need to remind the neo cons here Bush went AWOL from his military service and he is the one that got us into Afghanistan in the first place not Obama.
From the article :There are at least two fatalities and a number of wounded. The base took indirect and small arms fire, causing major damage to buildings, an aircraft hangar and several military jets.
I don't have to old man. My dad served.. It's called an all volunteer force. I don't believe in women serving in combat roles.. I can serve my country in other ways.. You don't tell me what to do..
I don't have to old man. My dad served.. It's called an all volunteer force. I don't believe in women serving in combat roles.. I can serve my country in other ways.. You don't tell me what to do..
With the black flag of al Qaeda flying over the American embassy in Tunisia, the murder of the American ambassador in Libya, the storming of the US embassy in Cairo, the burning of the American flag in London, and the torching of American businesses in Lebanon, the Obama administration is focused like a laser on its top priority: slashing defense.
You're too cowardly to say that to Barack Obama, who was huffin' and puffin' his way instead of serving militarily. Now he doesn't know what he's doing, and you're letting him get away with it but not a political woman who has more military savvy in her little fingernail than Obama has in his whole body..
Put your money where your mouth is. Fire Obama, baby brains.
I am sitting here trying to figure out which one of you is going to snap and do something stupid...all this faux outrage but no outrage when we use drone attacks to murder innocent civilians..
I am mad but I am also smart enough to realize WHY they are doing this.GunSlinger like most neo cons has never served in the military but is all gung ho about sending more of our troops to die for nothing. Oh and do we really need to remind the neo cons here Bush went AWOL from his military service and he is the one that got us into Afghanistan in the first place not Obama.
No, we went to Afghanistan in response to being attacked by a bunch of cowards on 9-11-2001. At least Bush had military service. Clinton, libtards hero, was a dope smoking draft dodger.
You killed his body without getting to the root of his problem--eternal hatred for white people.
Obama doesn't understand the problem either. He turns incompetent people loose who put people in charge of security, but won't let them use security weapons.
How'd that work out for the raped, tortured, and murdered Ambassador to Libya?
I don't have to old man. My dad served.. It's called an all volunteer force. I don't believe in women serving in combat roles.. I can serve my country in other ways.. You don't tell me what to do..
Your Commie psycho-babble doesn't bother me Old woman.. I don't buy in to the whole Commie tell me what to do shit.. Go use it on your ABSENT leader, the Appeasement President.. See if he cowers to you liberal zombies.
OBAMA FLASHBACK: The Day I'm Inaugurated Muslim Hostility Will Ease
Then-Senator Barack Obama makes the case for an Obama Presidency on November 21, 2007 by saying he is uniquely qualified to bring stability to America's relationships in the Muslim world because he lived in an Islamic country during his youth and his half-sister is Muslim.
Your Commie psycho-babble doesn't bother me Old woman.. I don't buy in to the whole Commie tell me what to do shit.. Go use it on your ABSENT leader, the Appeasement President.. See if he cowers to you liberal zombies.
Absent leadership? Because of protests half way across the world?
How about several concrete warnings of an imminent terrorist attack that were ignored? We were attacked on 9/11 because George Bush did nothing, despite being begged. He fired the only Terrorist expert on his staff, Richard Clark, first hired by Reagan. Why? Because Clark wanted Bush to focus on Bin Laden not Iraq. Iraq was the only thing the Bush administration cared about, so they ignored every warning. They were begged to have planes in scramble-ready format and to tell all airlines to be on heightened alert for any plane that went off course. Bush ignored it all.
Turn off talk radio.
IT was perhaps the most famous presidential briefing in history.
On Aug. 6, 2001, President George W. Bush received a classified review of the threats posed by Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network, Al Qaeda. That morning’s “presidential daily brief” — the top-secret document prepared by America’s intelligence agencies — featured the now-infamous heading: “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” A few weeks later, on 9/11, Al Qaeda accomplished that goal.
On April 10, 2004, the Bush White House declassified that daily brief — and only that daily brief — in response to pressure from the 9/11 Commission, which was investigating the events leading to the attack. Administration officials dismissed the document’s significance, saying that, despite the jaw-dropping headline, it was only an assessment of Al Qaeda’s history, not a warning of the impending attack. While some critics considered that claim absurd, a close reading of the brief showed that the argument had some validity.
That is, unless it was read in conjunction with the daily briefs preceding Aug. 6, the ones the Bush administration would not release. While those documents are still not public, I have read excerpts from many of them, along with other recently declassified records, and come to an inescapable conclusion: the administration’s reaction to what Mr. Bush was told in the weeks before that infamous briefing reflected significantly more negligence than has been disclosed. In other words, the Aug. 6 document, for all of the controversy it provoked, is not nearly as shocking as the briefs that came before it.
The direct warnings to Mr. Bush about the possibility of a Qaeda attack began in the spring of 2001. By May 1, the Central Intelligence Agency told the White House of a report that “a group presently in the United States” was planning a terrorist operation. Weeks later, on June 22, the daily brief reported that Qaeda strikes could be “imminent,” although intelligence suggested the time frame was flexible.
But some in the administration considered the warning to be just bluster. An intelligence official and a member of the Bush administration both told me in interviews that the neoconservative leaders who had recently assumed power at the Pentagon were warning the White House that the C.I.A. had been fooled; according to this theory, Bin Laden was merely pretending to be planning an attack to distract the administration from Saddam Hussein, whom the neoconservatives saw as a greater threat. Intelligence officials, these sources said, protested that the idea of Bin Laden, an Islamic fundamentalist, conspiring with Mr. Hussein, an Iraqi secularist, was ridiculous, but the neoconservatives’ suspicions were nevertheless carrying the day.
In response, the C.I.A. prepared an analysis that all but pleaded with the White House to accept that the danger from Bin Laden was real.
“The U.S. is not the target of a disinformation campaign by Usama Bin Laden,” the daily brief of June 29 read, using the government’s transliteration of Bin Laden’s first name. Going on for more than a page, the document recited much of the evidence, including an interview that month with a Middle Eastern journalist in which Bin Laden aides warned of a coming attack, as well as competitive pressures that the terrorist leader was feeling, given the number of Islamists being recruited for the separatist Russian region of Chechnya.
And the C.I.A. repeated the warnings in the briefs that followed. Operatives connected to Bin Laden, one reported on June 29, expected the planned near-term attacks to have “dramatic consequences,” including major casualties. On July 1, the brief stated that the operation had been delayed, but “will occur soon.” Some of the briefs again reminded Mr. Bush that the attack timing was flexible, and that, despite any perceived delay, the planned assault was on track.
Yet, the White House failed to take significant action. Officials at the Counterterrorism Center of the C.I.A. grew apoplectic. On July 9, at a meeting of the counterterrorism group, one official suggested that the staff put in for a transfer so that somebody else would be responsible when the attack took place, two people who were there told me in interviews. The suggestion was batted down, they said, because there would be no time to train anyone else.
That same day in Chechnya, according to intelligence I reviewed, Ibn Al-Khattab, an extremist who was known for his brutality and his links to Al Qaeda, told his followers that there would soon be very big news. Within 48 hours, an intelligence official told me, that information was conveyed to the White House, providing more data supporting the C.I.A.’s warnings. Still, the alarm bells didn’t sound.
On July 24, Mr. Bush was notified that the attack was still being readied, but that it had been postponed, perhaps by a few months. But the president did not feel the briefings on potential attacks were sufficient, one intelligence official told me, and instead asked for a broader analysis on Al Qaeda, its aspirations and its history. In response, the C.I.A. set to work on the Aug. 6 brief.
In the aftermath of 9/11, Bush officials attempted to deflect criticism that they had ignored C.I.A. warnings by saying they had not been told when and where the attack would occur. That is true, as far as it goes, but it misses the point. Throughout that summer, there were events that might have exposed the plans, had the government been on high alert. Indeed, even as the Aug. 6 brief was being prepared, Mohamed al-Kahtani, a Saudi believed to have been assigned a role in the 9/11 attacks, was stopped at an airport in Orlando, Fla., by a suspicious customs agent and sent back overseas on Aug. 4. Two weeks later, another co-conspirator, Zacarias Moussaoui, was arrested on immigration charges in Minnesota after arousing suspicions at a flight school. But the dots were not connected, and Washington did not react.
Could the 9/11 attack have been stopped, had the Bush team reacted with urgency to the warnings contained in all of those daily briefs? We can’t ever know. And that may be the most agonizing reality of all.
