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 | PlanetaryGear (52)
05/10/2006 | Bringing up Bubba Clinton, as some on this board have, is a sure sign that one is bereft of a sound intellectual argument and is hardly germane to the topic at hand, and thus, is uncalled for. With regards to the current President, this was a horrible failure on many levels: not only did 9/11 happen on Dear Leader's watch, despite being warned about al Quaeda's intentions in a PDB August 6th 2001, but he actually managed to squander the international goodwill and political capital that manifested itself afterward. He took a national tragedy and the ensuing public hysteria and used the short-term political gain that was handed to him and gave those neocon swine and petro-pimps the holy/oil war they wanted. Let us also not forget the fact that Osama is still on the loose, al Quaeda recruitment is up, the Taliban are starting to wreak havoc over there in Afghanistan again and terrorist incidents have increased world-wide. Nice job, Great Crusader!!
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 | numbah16tdhaha (147)
05/09/2006 | So Clinton being asleep at the wheel on foreign policy for eight years didn't contribute at all?
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 | GenghisTheHun (168)
05/09/2006 | The charge that Bush knew about 9/11 before it happened is among the more moronic libels that I have seen in politics in over 50 years. I put it right next to the JFK conspiracy or maybe Area 51 conspiracies. (Weee ooow! Weee ooow! CrEAK!)
Much of the domestic stuff was good. Afghanistan was ok, but Iraq is, well, you know!
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 | EschewObfuscation (61)
05/09/2006 |  Clearly the strongest performance of his presidency. He routed the Taliban in Afghanistan, very effectively, against the cacophonous objections of the liberal wing-nut fringe, many of whom now would have us all believe that they voiced no such resistance at the time, but only object to the war in Iraq. Nonsense.
They also promulgate that Bush somehow rammed the Patriot Act (single-handedly)through Congress, that he secretly planned to invade Iraq all along and that we all have fewer rights today than on 9/10/01. More nonsense. We are simply safer (but not yet safe) than we were on 9/10/01.
Ah, the wonderful things you have to believe in order to be a liberal. President Bush knew about 9/11 before it happened, determined that he could use it as a smokescreen to invade Iraq, "lied" about WMD's and all the rest (what was the referendum vote in Congress, again?) and did all this with a brain which if placed on the edge of a razor blade would look like a pea rolling down an interstate. What an ideology.
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 | Drummond (54)
05/08/2006 |  The 911 commision whitewash notwithstanding, it seems that Bush had plenty of warning, but was obsessed with Iraq from the beginning - screaming at Richard Clarke to find (or make up) a connection to Iraq even as it was becoming obvious to the rest of the planet that Iraq wasn't involved.
Whether Bush dropped the ball prior to the attacks is a topic of reasonable debate, but where Bush really failed was in the aftermath. He began by muscling through the Patriot Act, which had obviously been prepared long before 911 waiting for such an event to happen (unless you really believe they scribbled out hundreds of pages of new law in 24 hours). He then squandered post-911 national unity by with partisan sleeze - having treated an election in which he received fewer votes than his opponent as a mandate for completely one-sided agenda. He ended any chance he had of being a bipartisan leader by pushing a war based on misinformation, ignoring any information that might frustrate his obsession with Hussein.
Since then he and his have attempted to manipulate the emotions around 911 to push through major compromises to the Bill of Rights - successfully making this country less free.
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 | CzechMate (11)
05/07/2006 | No other president in my lifetime had such a great opportunity as Bush with this terrible act terrorism. The nation was unified, cried to help out, was willing to do anything...what did Bush do...attack Iraq and reckless politics...rest is history.
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 | CanadaSucks (45)
05/07/2006 | Prostituted the attack to launch an invasion of Iraq that he wanted with or without evidence. . .Iraq had as much to do with 9/11 as the Netherlands. . .the classic case of playing to the emotions of the crowd to get what you want. . .didn't know that so many Americans had such a desire to be led by the nose.
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 | louiethe20th (74)
05/06/2006 | This was a Bill Clinton problem. His failure to do anything after the 1993 bombing or anything there after contributed to the tragedy that was 9/11. How many time was Bin Laden offered to him on a platter and he wanted nothing to do with it?
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 | Djahuti (54)
05/06/2006 | Although they never tire of bringing up 9/11 as an excuse to take away our constitutional rights and to continue to work in secrecy,this day was one of the worst failures of the Bush Administration.It is well documented that many people tried to warn them about the coming attack.Our own intelligence agents were taken OFF keeping an eye on Al Queda by none other than the Bush team.(Clinton HAD been keeping them under surveilance).Several people tried to alert Condoleeza Rice,but she deemed it "unimportant",and several other Nations intelligence teams gave us info including the fact that planes would be used.It was all ignored,and had it not been,9/11 may well have been prevented or at very least been prepared for.
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 | JohnSpina (17)
05/05/2006 | Was a strong leader after 9/11.Calmed the nation down and showed me he was going after the villains.
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 | magellan (153)
05/05/2006 | I don't blame President Bush for 9/11, and I thought the days following 9/11 were the strongest of his presidency.
His mannerisms, his words, his demeanor - everything eminated strength in the face of tragedy. We needed him to be like that, at that time, and he stepped up.
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