posted on February 22, 2002 01:14:20 PM new
"When sharing a stage with Bill Clinton in New York a couple of evenings ago, Israeli Prime Minister Aeriel Sharon said, "If only you had been president a few more months, we would have peace now." Of course, with Al Gore in the White House, Clinton's 'Mitchell Plan' would have continued to proceed with full United States support; most likely with former president Clinton as the personal emissary to seal the deal. George W. Bush began his administration with the announcement that he was ending the Mitchell initiative, and was going to leave the Middle East to itself. So, Al Gore - peace in the Middle East, after decades of war; George W. Bush - hundreds more dead, tensions at unprecedented levels, and a continued justification used by Osama bin Laden.
Speaking of Mr. bin Laden, where was George W. Bush in the crucial weeks when the 9/11 attacks were forming? On vacation for a month. Why couldn't the Minneapolis FBI office get a FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) warrant on Zacarias Moussaoui, taking jumbo jet turn-and-bank lessons on an expired visa, and fingered by French intelligence as a terrorist? Because
it was the Bush administration's policy not to issue a FISA warrant for any reason - while under Clinton and Janet Reno, NO FISA REQUESTS WERE REFUSED. A policy that Al Gore no doubt would have continued. If Al Gore had been president, Zacarias Moussaoui would have been properly investigated and our intelligence services alerted to the threat of these terrorists and their strange flying lessons.
It gets worse - Bill Clinton had in place a multi-layer military response capability targeted on bin Laden: cruise missile firing submarines on station, AC-130 gunships on scramble alert, special-ops teams on the ground. George W. Bush immediately dismantled this effort. With Al Gore in the White House, when Osama bin Laden made those satellite phone calls to his mother, the call would have ended with Osama's remains at the bottom of a smoking hole. Bill Clinton's top advisors met weekly on the threat of Al Qaeda, Bush's didn't bother to get to the topic until, I'm not making this up, Sept. 4th.
So there's the comparison - Bush: thousands of innocents dead, the Middle East blowing up, Afghanistan falling back into civil war, and Osama bin Laden remains completely free and Al Qaeda virtually untouched. Al Gore: peace in the Middle East, Osama dead, terrorists thwarted, and thousands of Americans returning safely home from their jobs at the WTC and the Pentagon; leaving the Republicans with nothing to talk about except how Al Gore supposedly claimed to 'invent' the Internet.
With George W. Bush, we have a 'president' of such limited mental abilities and short attention span that he can admittedly only give attention to one or two things at a time; Bush chose a tax cut for the likes of Ken Lay over national security and world peace. The only thing George W. Bush can do to 'restore pride' to the White House, is to leave it".
posted on February 22, 2002 02:03:39 PM new
<i>a continued justification used by Osama bin Laden<i/>
Exactly what plane of reality are you in. Have you deluded yourself so much with your hate for Bush that you will print anything and expect us not to laugh at this nonsensical dribble.
Statements in your posts regarding your hate for Bush are one thing. When you start posting that Osama Bin Laden is justified then it becomes treasonous to every patriotic american Republican, Democrat or others.
posted on February 22, 2002 02:57:19 PM new
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posted on February 22, 2002 04:14:11 PM new
Yeah, I know. Interesting that you were able to get *that* word past the filter here by copy/pasting. I'm going to remember that technique...
Has anyone bid on that shiftless wonderyet? It sounds like the odd powder-bluetub with which my Grandmotherscattered pedestrians throughout San Jose.
posted on February 22, 2002 07:54:51 PM new
Those who believe that Bush is handling the "war" in a way that Al Gore would not are incorrect. Although I am not in 100% agreement with Ken's assessment of Bush's efforts or Clinton/Gore's preemptive strikes, I have no doubt that Gore would have been at least as effective as Bush in handling the current circumstances. I think that any President would surround himself with competent military advisors, it's just that Bush needs them so much more than others.
posted on February 22, 2002 09:38:27 PM new
Yeah if only Clinton/Gore could have had just a few more months they could have fixed that pesky Mideast stuff and then gone on to cure cancer and eliminate world hunger. Geez, can't you just kick yourself in the butt sometimes?
posted on February 22, 2002 09:52:30 PM new" When you start posting that Osama Bin Laden is justified then it becomes treasonous to every patriotic american Republican, Democrat or others."
Obviously, you've been getting your political education from watching America's Funniest Home Videos. I mean, so many people are now aware that Geo. Bush, jr. was sleeping with Osama, the Taliban, and al-queda in order to get his oil and gas pipeline through from the Turkministan region down to the Indian Ocean. When the deal fell through, Bush went to Rome last July and told the ex-king of afganistan that Dubya planned to get America into a war with Afganistan! As anyone with foreign policy experience could have told Bush, the king went and told Al-Queda about the impending attack. Then, SURPIZE, SURPRIZE, SURPRIZE! Al-Queda launched a strike on America to show them that America may have an ocean on either side, but America is not safe from the enemies that Bush creates for us.
Bush, therefore, is Incompetant at best, a full-blown TRAITOR to America at worst!
Add to that that ONLY Congress may declare War and that Bush has NO LEGAL AUTHORITY TO DO SO, he is breaking the Law in this MASSIVE ABUSE OF POWER!
Does it make it any clearer for you now Who's the Traitor?
Borillar
"Real friends don't let friends vote republican"
posted on February 23, 2002 11:47:25 AM new
Yeah Right,
The elderly were lined up,
said don't cut our medicare.But Slick willy said,
Don't Listen to the folks with the white hair,
I'm Gonna give you health care,
it's what I'm gonna do ,
Give all your money to Hilary and she'll spend it all for you.
(chorus)
spend it all for you,
That slick talkin willy with the big lie on his lips,
(chorus)
Big Lie on His lips.
GORE is another ISRAEL First fanatic he would have us in a world war right now, all Bush is trying to do is coverup and steal like any normal republicano,
posted on February 23, 2002 12:35:56 PM new
auroranorth
Bush is an 'el repulicano' and Clinton is slick Willy, and Gore is 'Israel first' who would have gotten us into a worst war? then who would make a better Presidento' in your own opinion?
posted on March 7, 2002 11:37:50 PM new Borillar, as attractive as the idea is becoming, I don't think we're going to resort to electing dead people anytime soon...
posted on March 8, 2002 01:07:33 AM new
But a dead person beat Ashcroft out of a job as Governor of Missouri in 2000, and had it not happened we'd not likely be blessed with his services now as Attorney General.
Now there's meat for a conspiracy theory - Ashcroft's opponent was killed in the crash of a private plane not long before the election. The reports of the cause of the crash are ambiguous at best.
Is assassination the court of last resort in republican party political manuevering? A fair question probably, given the fate of the fabulous Kennedy brothers.
