just the kind of compassion and calm rhetoric we have come to expect from Progressives. Thank you for providing such a clear example.
You don't need to know what the exact target is, but you still know what the probable targets are.. Defensive measures can always be taken if it the true target or not. You did EXACTLY that: NOBODY else besides you, including Bush himself or ANYONE who was there that morning says this is the case.
Yeah you're right he didn't feel that day was TRAGIC at all. After all, he planned the whole thing, right?
It is true there was intelligence stuff about WMD's.. The Bush admin. lied about it insofar as exaggerating the extent and certainty of that intelligence. They claimed there was "no doubt" when in fact there was indeed doubt among the intelligence.. That is the main way in which they lied.
They lied, and continued to do so well into the war. After all you need to keep the propaganda fires stoked to ensure public support, right? And to what end? Iraq is a tottering, unstable pastiche of a 'democracy' which itself was imposed on the population-the antithesis of true democracy! 'You're getting democracy, whether you like it or not, because we have the most guns and we say so...'
"planned the whole thing"? Where do you see me alleging that in my post? Nowhere, is the correct answer. My point is that Bush only cares about what the public thinks of him and his actions post 9/11. It's painfully obvious to anyone who actually watched the interview.
Really JUST THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION??? Oh how soon we forget... Democrats and their LIES ABOUT WEAPONS IN IRAQ... [ame="http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwqh4wQPoQk"]http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwqh4wQPoQk[/ame]
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The position of the United States was the same. SEC. 3. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS REGARDING UNITED STATES POLICY TOWARD IRAQ. It should be the policy of the United States to support efforts to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq and to promote the emergence of a democratic government to replace that regime. And it authorized US military arms and equipment be drawn out, the US logistics and intelligence and cash to raise and train and equip an insurgent army to remove the government of Iraq. THAT was an act of war. The necessity to remove Saddam and his government was made quite clear and by the Act that became US policy. Clinton's plan to carry out US policy failed but that did not change nor remove the necessity to remove Saddam as the Act clearly stated. Had Clinton succeeded then like Bush he would have been faced with controlling the country and getting a democratically elected government installed.
There is no rational reason to believe the attack on the Pentagon was preventable. No he COULD have, but the prudent thing was NOT to. They were setting up communications, his chief of staff was there to keep him informed of developments and he wasn't going anywhere until the SS and the military made sure what if any imminent danger existed, how they would move him and where they would go and get security beefed up along the whole way. Why you think he should have jumped up and ran out of the room to somewhere you have yet to identify is beyond me. Just what we need the image of the President and his team in chaos.
They did nothing of the sort, the reported exactly what the facts were as they were known. All of Saddam's known WMD were never found nor officially accounted for. What do you think Blix and UNSCOM were looking for right up to the start of the war. But that is secondary to the fact that Saddam had every intention of producing more and better WMD once the sanctions were lifted and he was free to do as he pleased. We could not allow that to happen as was made clear in 1998.
Yes, a true leader. There is a difference between a true leader and one, like Obama, that simply sits in the leader's chair. One that goes out and says "hey, this is how it is", and takes the heat for it, as opposed to someone that just says what is supposed to be said, because the teleprompter says so. Bush and Palin are leaders. Obama is not. Bush and Palin speak from their hearts and their minds. Obama speaks from what is simply written before him. Retards do that.
Ignoring repeated warnings about the hijack plot in the months leading up to 9/11 and allowing the Saudi royal family safe passage out of the US before the FBI could question them and after all other aircraft had been grounded, for starters. Oh, and abandoning the search for bin Laden and pursuing a dishonest war with Iraq strictly for personal reasons....need I go on?
Yeah, holding a bullhorn. That really did a lot. And why do you cons always blame the media whenever it does not exactly mirror your feelings on everything?
You don't need to be a national security expert to realize there is a huge gulf between doing nothing and running out of the room screaming. It does seem to me, however, that conservatives have this tendency to reduce everything to two extremes while not even seeing what's in the middle.
I finally got to watch the whole thing... While I didn't like a lot of things that Bush II did while in office, I always held respect for him, as we all should for the President... After watching the interview, I must say, I gained more respect for him... It was really interesting seeing it from his perspective, how he felt about everything as it was happening, etc... Nat Geo did a good job with that one... No bias, they just let him tell his story...
total horsecrap. Bush DENIED any Iraqi involvement with 9/11, contrary to never-ending Liespeak Mythology. As far as Saddam aiding and harboring terrorists; BOTH were absolutely correct. Provide a video of Bush saying what you claim, stop the lying about it...
Years, that was nothing new and there was no actionable intelligence. Agencies had bits and pieces of intelligence but that intelligence could not be put together because of the rules and prohibitions put in during the Clinton years. I guess he could have proposed passing the Patriot Act and you would have supported that. Which had no consequence and he had no grounds to do so anyway. With tired old cliched myths...no.
Great post. God Bless America and God bless President George Walker Bush. The above, bolded statement of yours is a bald-faced lie. Totally false, I'm sick of the leftwing lies. Because that is what Al Gore would have done. Another statement that is a bald faced flipping lie. It really saddens me that the Left hopes Iraq will fail for the simple reason they can blame Bush. How horrible.
OH PUHleeze.....TFM. Perhaps you should run put on your glasses....because you didn't get ANY of that from me. Please don't try to put words in my mouth that I did NOT say. Thank you in advance....
