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Same old song
Bush's State of the Union address played like a greatest hits of empty policy promises -- while the Dems clapped and frowned in disunion.
By Michael Scherer [2006-02-01]

  • Maybe not 16 words, but 11

    Scherer says last night's speech lacked any blockbuster "16 words." Au contraire. I can't believe Bush's handlers let him make this blunt admission of one of the Administration's biggest failures:

    "We will not sit back and wait to be hit again."

    So there you have it. The Bush Administrationi was "sitting back" when 9/11 hit, despite dire warnings from Richard Clarke, despite FBI agents raising the alarm about people learning to fly planes but not land them and, most tellingly, despite a Presidential Daily Briefing titled "Osama Determined To Strike Inside The U.S."

    And yet, he still maintains that illegal domestic surveillance without a warrant is the only way to keep us safe? Try listening to your own advisors and reading your own PDBs for a starter, eh? What a fraud.

    -- Litz
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    Wednesday, February 1, 2006 04:07 AM
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