Revisionist history...pretty soon you'll be telling us it was Ted Kennedy who carried out the 9/11 attacks.
Not possible. Ted was seen in a bar at 8:30 am. He was no where near the airport.
The administration rejected an anti-terrorism plan because it had Slick Willie's stench on it, despite the fact that the plan probably would have worked. Bush sat on the al Qaeda problem for so long, it would be easy to believe he wanted the attack to happen.
No evidence of that whatsoever. Zippo. Great posturing from the left, with the benefit of hindsight, though.
More importantly, consider this: let's remember that it was the George W. Bush administration that declared (for example) that there would be no profiling with respect to aviation security. If they did that because it was "the right thing to do," then they're stupid.
Or cowardly. Or, politically aware.
Any allusion to "profiling," or anything that might be interpreted as "profiling" would immediately be villified by several groups: the ACLU because they believe there is never a link between criminality and cultural mores, the NAACP because some mideasterners are people of color, NOW because women wearing veils might be singled out and searched and forced to disrobe, and various anti-defamation leagues, etc.
You have to recall, our liberal ways (tendency to want to make nice instead of get the job done) make us our own worst enemies. Years ago, we could have instituted many changes to improve security, but many people would be offended by those measures. Without a 9-11 to point to, those measures, particularly when instituted by a Republican administration, would have been decried as racist, draconian, xenophobic, backward, non-progressive, undereducated, and mean spirited.
Even now, more could be done. Even now, people are complaining about the no-fly list, and sure enough, the ACLU is involved.
Not profiling? Sounds like they saw a losing battle before they started one.
This is war, people. You don't win a war by playing partisan politics and settling grudges. You win it by (1) securing your nation, and (2) carrying the fight to the enemy. The Democrats who won the Second World War knew that, thank god...and I'm sure they'd be ashamed of the way our nation is prosecuting this war.
What a shame those Democrats, the ones in office during that war, are now an endangered species. The Dems have become a fractured party of ultra liberal special interests, America haters, and European style socialists. Some of the Dems here on the board don't fall into that category.
I'm glad that some of you represent the old model, the one that was often referred to as "the loyal opposition." You guys are dwindling in numbers, and that's a shame.
At any rate, Condi gave a clear explanation to every question, and was even gracious to Clinton attack dog Richard Ben-Veniste. So, the main part of the 9-11 circus is over.
Whose fault is 9-11? Clearly, it is the fault of those who preach hate, and raise up children in the ways of evil.
They aren't just in Afghanistan, gang.
