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Bush: Weak terror response led to 9/11 (Bush hits back at Clinton)
UPI ^ | 9/22/05

Posted on 09/22/2005 12:50:55 PM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon

Bush: Weak terror response led to 9/11

Sep 22, 2005, 19:00 GMT

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (UPI) -- President Bush said withdrawing from Iraq would be a mistake that would embolden terrorists just as U.S. responses to other attacks led to 9/11 hijackings.

Speaking Thursday at the Pentagon after an update on the war on terror, Bush said a pullback would be seen as weakness and make the United States less safe.

'The terrorists saw our response to the hostage crisis in Iran, the bombings in the Marine barracks in Lebanon, the first World Trade Center attack, the killing of American soldiers in Somalia, the destruction of two U.S. embassies in Africa and the attack on the USS Cole,' Bush said. 'The terrorists concluded that we lacked the courage and character to defend ourselves and so they attacked us.'

It was the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, carried out by al-Qaida operatives, that led Bush to launch the war on terror with an attack on Afghanistan, where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden had been given sanctuary. Bush links the fighting in Iraq with the war on terror.

The president said the plan is to follow a strategy of making political gains in the affected counties, while training local personnel to assume security operations.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 226; bubbaterrorist; bush43; clintonlegacy; clintoon; cutandrun; fellatiousfirstfelon; gladivotedbush; redherring; x42
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

YEAH! It's about time,I hope he does it more often.


301 posted on 09/22/2005 6:45:41 PM PDT by patriciamary
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To: hophead
Is this from ScrappleFace or The Onion? He can't be growing a backbone now.

Oh.....you kids make me laugh!

Ask the Taliban about the President's 'backbone'. Ask alQaeda about the President's 'backbone.' As Saddam about the President's 'backbone.'

Better yet...........ask his loyal troops about their Commander in Chief's backbone.

You don't know what you're talking about, and you look ridiculous.

302 posted on 09/22/2005 6:53:23 PM PDT by ohioWfan (If my people which are called by my name will humble themselves and pray......)
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To: Doc Savage

I'm with you Doc!! Is your first name Michael?


303 posted on 09/22/2005 6:55:19 PM PDT by westmichman (I vote Republican for the children and the poor!)
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To: hophead
Well, I see now that you clarified what you meant about backbone.

It's the wrong word, hophead. The fact that he hasn't lashed out at his political enemies has nothing to do with lack of courage, but rather with presence of class and decorum.

I'm very glad he's finally spoken up, but he probably, with his temperament, was better off to cool down before he made a public statement, lest he say something very UNPresidential (which I'm sure is what he was thinking).

304 posted on 09/22/2005 7:00:11 PM PDT by ohioWfan (If my people which are called by my name will humble themselves and pray......)
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To: inquest; rintense
Name one President in the last 100 year who started a war in the first 8 month of his administration!!!! The President and his administration were studying different plans to get Osama Bin Laden and eliminate Al Qaeda and the Taliban regime before 9/11 and Condalessa Rice testified about this last year in the 9/11 commission hearings.

You "inquest" is the worst Bush hater on FR. Come one man just give it up, enough with your idiotic arguments.

305 posted on 09/22/2005 7:02:16 PM PDT by jveritas (The Axis of Defeatism: Left wing liberals, Buchananites, and third party voters.)
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To: Doc Savage

ah... but a man can dream, eh?


306 posted on 09/22/2005 7:13:58 PM PDT by CGVet58 (God has granted us Liberty, and we owe Him Courage in return)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

4 years too late.


307 posted on 09/22/2005 7:14:56 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: gidget7

Yes, he said it. I'm glad. Damned tired of that impeached president bashing our President. WE voted for him too...both times and would vote a third time if we could. :)


308 posted on 09/22/2005 7:16:57 PM PDT by cubreporter (I trust Rush. He has done more for our country than anyone will ever know. He's a man of honor.)
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To: Soul Seeker

Good points SS. Thanks


309 posted on 09/22/2005 7:36:37 PM PDT by NYC Republican
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To: All
Maybe I'm too cynical for my own good but Clinton-bashing *isn't* going to work, Mr. President. We won't fall for a bit of stale red meat to distract from an unwillingness to slice the bloated budget, rumblings of a "temporary Katrina tax" and being AWOL on illegal immigration.

We're not the simpletons you take us for.

310 posted on 09/22/2005 7:43:55 PM PDT by newzjunkey (CA: Stop union theft for political agendas: YES on Prop 75!)
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To: jveritas
Name one President in the last 100 year who started a war in the first 8 month of his administration!!!!

According to what's being said on this and countless other threads by Bush's fans, the war was already in effect at least since the 1993 WTC bombings. Did he show any signs of acknowledging that fact? Did he at any point during the 2000 campaign criticize the Clinton administration for an inadequate response to the provocations? His talk of "humility" during the campaign suggested that if anything, Clinton was trying to do too much.

He gave no outward sign during the campaign, or during the first eight months of his presidency, that he was about to change U.S. policy toward the terrorists. That lack of outward sign, as much as anything else, was a part of the "response" Bush said that "the terrorists saw", in his statement quoted in the article of the thread.

311 posted on 09/22/2005 7:44:34 PM PDT by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon
If I hear an "anti-war protester" say the words "exit strategy" one more time, I'm going to slap them so hard, their mama will feel it!

Mark

312 posted on 09/22/2005 7:48:53 PM PDT by MarkL (I didn't get to where I am today by worrying about what I'd feel like tomorrow!)
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To: cubreporter

Thanks for the reply, cubreporter. Yes, people help people at the point of need. Too bad there was so much press on the looters. That obscured much of the important things that were happening -- things that presented more excellent role models for people to emulate.


313 posted on 09/22/2005 7:49:36 PM PDT by Eastbound
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon
ALRIGHT!
314 posted on 09/22/2005 7:52:00 PM PDT by Jorge (Q)
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To: cyncooper
The person who made such an ill-informed comment about "inadvertant" most likely took a cue from the addle-brained Ann Coulter who just said if Roberts turns out to be a conservative judge after all (she must finally see that he is) it will be because President Bush "inadvertantly" selected such, not deliberately.

Did Ann Coulter really say that? Sounds likes she's back tracking.

Roberts has been working in Washington for years. More likely insiders know exactly where he stands on the Constitution.

315 posted on 09/22/2005 7:54:20 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: newzjunkey
Maybe I'm too cynical for my own good but Clinton-bashing *isn't* going to work, Mr. President...

Reading this thread...your post is ironic.

You don't see that?

316 posted on 09/22/2005 7:57:11 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

OBL said that after Somalia (black hawk down)when Clinton had the military cut and run he knew America was "a paper tiger" and lacked the willingness to fight and the stomach for death.


317 posted on 09/22/2005 8:00:20 PM PDT by infidel29 ("We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." --Benjamin Franklin)
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To: FreeReign

I have boycotted Coluter's columns on the Courts since she decided to engage in an emotional tirade because she's not welcome in the inner circle of this President to influence his choice.

She's now stating the President may have accidentally made a good choice? It's twisted, but in a way she had almost be better on her knees praying she's right about the guy after the way she has conducted herself. This guy proves to be what I believe he is, a Strict Constructionist, and her reputation is severely damaged.

I suppose by the same logic I "inadveratently" supported the right guy? Laughable logic.


318 posted on 09/22/2005 8:07:02 PM PDT by Soul Seeker (Barbour/Honore in '08)
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To: FreeReign

Ironic.....LOL I thought the same thing, well close, you were nicer! :)


319 posted on 09/22/2005 8:10:46 PM PDT by gidget7 (Get GLSEN out of our schools!!!!!!)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

Thanks for the ping!


320 posted on 09/22/2005 8:16:35 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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