Posted on 10/27/2004 6:32:29 AM PDT by presidio9
Well, Brbrba, we are people who are lucky not needing people like you.
1. BUSH IGNORED THE ADVICE OF THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION REGARDING THE URGENT THREAT OF AL QAEDA.
The Clinton administration, with the aid of John Kerry, ignored the "urgent threat of Al Qaeda for eight years, allowing them to grow in strength and number.
2. BUSH IGNORED THE HART-RUDMAN COMMISSION TERRORISM REPORT, WHICH OUTLINED A RANGE OF U.S. SECURITY REQUIREMENTS AND STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES.
Kerry ignored the Duelfer report and the 9/11 Commission report, at least the "inconvenient parts"
3. BUSH FAILED TO GET OVER 100,000 HOURS OF VALUABLE TERRORISM-RELATED TAPINGS TRANSLATED BY LINGUISTS AT THE F.B.I, A FULL 3 YEARS AFTER 9/11. IN FACT, JOHN ASHCROFT REFUSED TO ENDORSE FBI REQUESTS FOR $58 MILLION FOR NEW COUNTERTERRORISM FIELD AGENTS, TRANSLATORS AND INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS.
Clinton failed to have those linguists in place as well. Judging by the number of Arab linguist turncoats at Gitmo, they have to select them rather carefully.
4. BUSH HELD NO FACE TO FACE MEETINGS WITH HIS TERRORISM CHIEF RICHARD CLARK AND NEITHER DID DICK CHENEY WHO WAS HEAD OF THE TERRORISM TASK FORCE.
So did Bill Clinton, maybe because Clarke was so fatally wrong on so many points, and Clarke's opinion changed dramatically when a Republican president came to office, i.e., he was all for preemptive intervention when Clinton wanted to bomb a chemical factory in Sudan.....
5. BUSH CONTINUED HIS VACATION ON THE DAY HE RECEIVED A BRIEFING ABOUT THE IMPENDING ATTACK ON AMERICA.
Kerry has missed nearly 78% of the public meetings of the Senate Intelligence Committee and refuses to release his attendance records for the closed door meetings. He missed all the meetings immediately after the first WTC bombing. He has taken a vacation from his Senate job, missing very important votes, for the past year since he began running. The record shows that he got meetings terminated early so he could go home for dinner.
6. KNOWING ABOUT THE IMPENDING HIJACKINGS, BUSH DID NOTHING TO BEEF UP AIRLINE SECURITY.
Al Gore was head of the 1996 Gore Commission on Airline Safety, which could have prevented 9/11. Kerry was informed of security laxness at Logan Airport in Boston (from which most of the hijackers left on 9/11/01) in May of that year, and ignored the warning.
7. BUSH'S ATTORNEY GENERAL, JOHN ASHCROFT, TOLD THE ACTING DIRECTOR OF THE F.B.I. TO NOT TELL HIM ANYTHING MORE ABOUT TERRORISM.
What does this mean? Proof would be nice.
8. BUSH WAS INACTIVE AND INDECISIVE FOR A FULL 7 MINUTES THE MORNING OF 9/11 WHEN INFORMED OF THE ATTACK ON THE WORLD TRADE CENTER.
Kerry admitted that he was dumbfounded and "could not think" for FORTY MINUTES!! (the second plane hit the World Trade Center at 9:03 a.m., and the plane hit the Pentagon at 9:43 a.m. Do the math or get someone to help you, Babs)
9. BUSH INVADED IRAQ WITH THE RATIONALE OF IMAGINARY WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION AND IGNORED THE REAL THREAT IN AFGHANNISTAN. NOW WE HAVE A TERRORIST BREEDING GROUND IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND OSAMA BIN LADEN AND ABU MUSSAB AL-ZARQAWI, A RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORIST, RUNNING FREE.
At the same time, with the exact same information, Kerry came to the exact same conclusions as the President: invade Iraq. Now, with the advantage of hindsight (the only view you get when your head is up your ass), the claims we should not have gone. Well, hindsight in 2003 said Hussein had WMDs. Bush had to act on a worst case scenario basis. End of story.
10. BUSH IGNORED THE ADVICE OF THE GENERALS IN THE MILITARY WHO PROVED TO BE RIGHT.
Who? Tommy Franks? LOL! The "fired" Shinseki? Nobody is "proved right" until the war is over. And don't forget, according to General von Clausewitz, "no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy." Words to live by.
11. BUSH OPPOSED THE CREATION OF A DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY.
And Bush is the first one to create one. Maybe he used some Texas "nuance!" Resisting the growth of goverment is not necessarily a bad thing, except to social parasites like Babs. And how many terrorist attacks would Clinton have needed to start one? His adminstration actually increased the height of the communication barrier between intelligence agencies (see Jamie Gorelick).
12. BUSH OPPOSED THE CREATION OF THE 9/11 COMMISSION.
Because it would become the political distraction and sideshow that it turned out to be. What did we learn? Nothing, except that one of the commissioners, Gorelick (apt, no?) created the wall between intelligence agencies that directly contributed to the 9/11 murders. The 9/11 also absolved Bush of ALL responsibility for 9/11.
13. MORE THAN 3 YEARS LATER, OUR BORDERS, PORTS, AND NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS ARE STILL NOT SECURE.
Let me know when you want to start building a wall, Babs! And stop buying foreign goods. Idiot! The ports are clearly being monitored, and they aren't going to tell a blabbermouth like you about it. A terrorist lulled by your idiocy and the belief that the ports are unguarded will make simple and obvious mistakes that help us capture them. Hear of any port bombs lately?
14. BUSH SUPPRESSED THE RELEASE OF A CIA REPORT THAT LAYS BLAME UPON HIGH-LEVEL PEOPLE IN HIS ADMINISTRATION FOR NOT DOING THEIR JOBS IN A SATISFACTORY MANNER BEFORE 9/11.
Have you seen the report, or are you simply going on the biased reports of liberal flunky Robert Scheer? When you see it, let us know.
15. BUSH FAILED TO SECURE NEARLY 400 TONS OF KNOWN, DEADLY EXPLOSIVES IN IRAQ, AND NOW THEY MAY FALL INTO THE WRONG HANDS TO BE USED TO BLOW UP AIRPLANES, LEVEL BUILDINGS AND DETONATE NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
Funny, it cannot even be established that the explosives were there, yet it is Bush's fault? What about the vaunted IAEA, that simply left them there instead of destroying them? Maybe they are with the rest of the WMDs that you have been saying were never there! Hussein could fill a bunch of trucks pretty quickly if he wanted to, and the seven weeks or so between the last time the UN saw them, and the time the US got there is more than enough. And why is a 16 month old story only coming out NOW???
From ABCNEWS.COM:
"The nuclear agency pulled out of Iraq in 1998, and by the time it returned in 2002, it confirmed that 35 tons of HMX that had been placed under IAEA seal were missing. HMX and RDX are the key components in plastic explosives, which insurgents have widely used in a series of bloody car bombings in Iraq."
(what is wrong with that timeline?) "ElBaradei told the United Nations in February 2003 that Iraq had declared that "HMX previously under IAEA seal had been transferred for use in the production of industrial explosives, primarily to cement plants as a booster for explosives used in quarrying."
Can you say "UN Dumbasses?" So they believed Hussein was going to "quarry" with these high explosives? And they have the gall to complain about the President?
Stick to sitting by the pool in Malibu, and getting older, uglier and more frustrated and ignorant. That's what high school dropouts like you do, Babs. Save the analysis for those who can read.
If she's such a believer in Kerry why has she only donated $1,000.00 to his campaign? She must have fallen on hard times!
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