Site Presented By
Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
You would know the memo all but WAS effectively ignored.
Her own testimony was indicting enough. "I belive it said 'Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States."
Rice then went on to filibuster (a term used by even her Republican advocates on the commission) for the next several minutes about how a memo dated August 6, 2001 somehow should in no way have served as a warning to the Bush Administration.
Yawn. You do realize obfuscating blame, at some point, gets old don't you? This is why your party LOST.
"The buck stops here."-- Harry Truman (He meant at the PRESIDENT'S desk for those Republicans here that don't understand what the word RESPONSIBILITY means.)
It was Bush's JOB to protect the nation from the moment he was sworn into office. Not NINE MONTHS later, after the worst terrorist attack we've ever seen.'
PERIOD. That's the president's job, as Republicans like to remind us when trumpeting the values of Bush, Cheney, Rice and Co. They had a memo warning them of attacks. They effectively IGNORED it as they took no tangible steps to stop an imminent attack.
Hence they FAILED to keep us safe on 9/11. Sorry but they did. If you don't want to hear that, then I'm afraid I can't go around giving them credit for keeping us safe afterwords.
If you want the credit when things go RIGHT on your watch then you have to take the responsibility when things go WRONG on your watch. Sorry Dubya.
So, do you also believe that the Clinton administration lied about Saddam's WMD? Or were Hillary and the Breck Girl lying?
John Edwards and Hillary Clinton engaged in political rhetoric intended to free them from the trap of having been duped by George Bush and Dick Cheney in 2002.
It was either lie or look stupid. Unfortunately they achieved both.
You had to call in experts to assess the damage done by W and his Band of Merry Fuk-ups?
It' true terrorism plots were being crafted before Bush took office. However, Bush ignored the warnings and the way Bush/Cheney reacted to 9/11 put the U.s. exactly where Osama Bin laden and the middle east terrorist wanted the U.S. The Bush administration neglected domestic policy and continued a failed war on terrorism with their invasions of Iraq. Their lack of diplomacy or diplomacy built on threats was a failure.
The Bush administration supported over consumption, but the American public can blame themselves for over consumption too. The financial crisis was born out of decades of greed, consumption and to much credit in both the public and private sector.
You only have to look inward to see how we got in this mess.
There was no big public outcry against torture. No public anti war protests. How many bought gas guzzling SUVs, over used their credit cards, bought stuff they did not need, bought houses they could not afford? How many put money in savings accounts?
It was only a crisis that woke some people up!
To those of you who walk the fine line between fantasy and outright fantasy let me inform you of some little facts which..ooops... seem to have vanished from public view the moment they occurred.
Why did it take even a moron like Bush to wait 8 minutes after being informed we were being attacked? Was he stuck in the middle of a difficult sentence such as "Billy the Goat wants his mummy?. Or did he know this was going to happen and allowed it to always knowing (not knowing that's too much for him to absorb)but having been told by his murderous minions to wait then grab his bull phone and run out to play the valorous hero. (Oooops Viet Nam is over? Damm i meant to enlist today).
Why was the air force given orders to stand down? they could have had jets in the air on the terrorists ass in a matter of minutes and shot them down if necessary.
Why was the only plane allowed to fly that evening carried an arab carrier name tag (written in arabic) and whisked off the entire Bin Laden family? And how lucky was bush to find them all ready, all packed and set to go in just a couple of hours?
And where was the 700 million sent to Afghanistan diverted to Iraq before idiot officially invaded them? Smells of impeachment to me.
When the Cuban missile crisis was going on Kennedy stayed in the white house for the entire time trying to solve the problem. Our dear beer drinking and cocaine abuser was too busy flying anywhere he thought he could be safe, sniveling little coward that he is.
First it was wmd. Nope that didn't work, even though Cheney declared he knew exactly where they were.
Hussein had ties with Bin Laden. Nope, doesn't work either. They despised each other. One was a religious fanatic while the other was secular and besides, if Hussein had let Bin Laden in Iraq he would have soon lost control of the country.
Bush made us safe. Oh goody. Now all the fanatic Arabs who want our death and who had to keep running, can now safely reside in Iraq and attract all the recruits they need and train them in safety.
Even Colin Powell, a man supposedly respected for his integrity, was infected with the vile odor of Bushism by going to the UN and spreading lies, a fact which he later admitted to having known were lies.
Hussein had long aluminum cylinders meant for building nuclear bombs. Ooops sorry, they were meant for building sewers or something.
You are for us or against us. Bravo bush and the rest of the American morons who voted for the idiot - Goebbels would have been proud of you.
He talks to God?? Really? Via Skype, cell phone of email? I was under the impression that hearing voices was an immediate invitation to the rubber room in a loony bin.
Habeaus Corpus? Don't need it. Dump it and go arrest anyone you like.
Water boarding? Oh im sorry i thought that mean recreation like surfing. Oh well we cant all be right all the time.
I could go on forever, such as Bush being the only convicted criminal to be elected president (DUI anyone?) who participated in insider trading (Daddy!!! Help)and who never once even considered reading a plea for clemency for the death sentence, even though the there were serious doubts and the legal proceedings were questionable. Let 'em fry i guess.Well this is all i can take - i am making myself sick.
Oh by the way, after he finished spending our money for a library what is he going to stock it with? Mickey mouse comics?
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
