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gkrevvv and the rest of you kool aid drinking nut jobs. Where the heck do you get your information? This forum is hysterical if not pathetic. Not only do you reinvent history but you say and believe irrational things. "9/11 happened because Bush didn't follow what Clinton was doing"? Where on earth did you get that from? Clinton decimated the military. Now Barney (There's nothing wrong at Fannie Mae) Frank wants to reduce it 25%. How about the aspirin factory that Clinton bombed or his retreat from Somalia? Or the inefficient (law enforecement) manner in which his adminsistration "investigated" the first WTC bombing? And let's not forget Jamie Gorelicks wall between the CIA and FBI that forbid them from sharing information. Or that Clinton could have captured or killed Bin Laden three times but chose not to. But of course if he did you guys would call that irresponsibly aggressive. Or would you?
The article blames President Bush for Katrina. Not just the federal response but the hurricane itself. And the insurance costs that went with it. Incredible. How about the democratic Mayor and Gov who were so completely incompetent in their response and incompetence in suring up the leveies even though they were given federal money to do so? Compare how Giuliani and Pataki handled 9/11 in NYC.
President Bush inherited "Peace and Prosperity"? The current Irag War (Gulf war ll) is actually a continuation of Gulf War l. For those uniformed who respect facts you might recall that Iraq invaded Kuwait and raped and pillaged it's citizens. We drove them out and back to Irag. A peace treaty was established that stopped us from going all the way to Bagdad at that time. Suddam Hussain agreed to curb his agression, let in weapons inspectors and disarm all WMD. Remember he had gassed and poisoned over 400K of his own citizens (Kurds). In the end he violated 17 UN resolutions by not letting the inspectors move about freely. Constantly fired on US and coalition planes patrolling the airspace around Iraq (as agreed in peace treaty). So please, let's not let the facts get in the way of your revisionism.
And regarding the economy, Clinton presided through the Dot Com bubble (smoke and mirrors) which burst in 2000/2001. Was brought kicking and screaming into budget reform by Newt Gingrich et al (Contract with America). Bush inherited the Dot Com burst and 9/11 right off the bat. After getting his bearings he led us through 6 years of the largest economic growth this country has ever seen. Economies are always cyclical, but the community reivestment act which force baanks to loan money to non credit worthy people at risk of loosing their FDIC charter coupled with incompetence and corruption at fannie mae (all Clinton appointees, see Gorelick) and yes some greed on wall street (they had to push this crap off to someone so they packaged and resold as derivatives.
I am a headhunter in NY. After 9/11 there were no jobs to fill for over a year. Currently, "in the worst econonic crisis since the great depression" I am working on million dollar openings having difficulty finding good people available. There are no gas lines as there were in the Carter adminsistration. And certainly no bread lines.
But there certainly is a whole lot of Kool Aid.
