thornhappy
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Saw a column earlier this week that was interesting. It noted that after 9/11, after all the intel traffic of the previous summer showing increased risk of activity, all the warnings....Bush's ratings go to 99% positive. After all that death and destruction. (Now I expect to hear that it was really all Clinton's fault - and most of those arguments can be disproven by Snopes.) Now there's a near miss, and Obama's getting nailed to the wall. All the intel reorganization (and the creation of DHS) was done by Bush/Cheney. All those systems that were supposed to prevent this type of activity didn't work. The guy should never had made it on a plane, just based on the ticket type. Why isn't Delta/Northwest being slammed on that, by chance? We can put all sorts of spiffy systems in place but if one airline drops the ball we're all screwed. The "panty bomber" will be tried in a civilian court, just like Bush did with Reid. So was Bush soft on terrorism by trying Reid in civilian courts? Brennan visitied Yemen in March and September, working on ways to counter al-Quaeda. More drone attacks against al-Quaeda in Pakistan were carried out in the first year of Obama's presidency than in the entire Bush administration. So how's he not taking al-Quaeda seriously again? (some information came from here.) BTW Sanity, Bush said he was going to close Gitmo, too. And he released 500 guys, including a bunch to Yemen. quote:
ORIGINAL: Sanity Olbermann and the rest of the far left are reacting. They are afraid of Dick Cheney because they know that he took national security very seriously, and that's a problem for Olbermann's crowd because compared to Bush & Cheney, our government is being run by clowns right now. We nearly lost a jet full of innocent people to the panty bomber, for crying out loud. The guy was sending up every red flag there ever was and he was escorted right onto that airplane, but Obama's handpicked girl heading up Homeland Security Janet Napolitano claimed the system worked perfectly. Perfectly! And she's still got her job. So now we're supposed to be foaming at the mouth and looking cross eyed at Dick Cheney??? You're kidding, right? Dick Cheney took al-Qaeda seriously. I say give him Napolitano's job!
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