[MeekOneGOP]

Excellent work JohnHuang2 ! Thanks for posting your article and for the ping !

"For America," added Bush, "there will be no going back to the era before September the 11th, 2001 -- to false comfort in a dangerous world. We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities."

"A presidential executive order issued during the Clinton
administration hamstrung the FBI so badly that bureau
lawyers decided it would be illegal to infiltrate Osama bin
Laden's terrorist training camps in Afghanistan, a senior
FBI official during the Clinton administration said Saturday."
(June 1, 2002)

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"I don't believe 9-11 happened because of an intelligence breach," Quayle told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes."

"I think it was really a policy breach. It was the inaction of the previous administration, by and large, that al Qaeda -- and bin Laden in particular -- thought that they could hit the United States, and there would be a retaliation maybe of a cruise missile but nothing more than that," he explained.

The comments make the former vice president, who served under President Bush's father from 1989 to 1993, the highest ranking former U.S. official to suggest that the Clinton administration should get the lion's share of the blame for not preventing the 9-11 attacks.

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[SouthernHawk]

Awesome thread! Thanks for the ping! JH2 - "you da MAN!"

[dansangel]

((((((Meekie))))))

You are a wealth of information! You ***ROCK***!

[JustPiper]

Loved your post Meek and JH, as always my friend, you nailed it!

[MEG33]

Loved your post!

[BOBTHENAILER]

For the press, it was either lie outright -- portray post-war Iraq as a failure -- or face a credibility meltdown.

JH2 attacks the RATs "like a doberman on a hambone", says Dennis Miller.

As does the Meekster.

[JohnHuang2]

Gracias, amigo -- great graphics, btw :-)