You're missing the point of his comments, I think. He wasn't slamming Bush specifically. His comments could just as easily be an indictment of Clinton's asprin-factory bombing as well.
His point was only that by calling the terrorists who brought down the towers "cowards," you underestimate them. And underestimating them might make us feel better, but is counterproductive for just that reason.
I have no problem with his comments on that issue. I prefer a cold, hard assesment of our enemies rather than mushy feel-good talk. What's to argue with that?
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BILL MAHER's labeling all our heroic Freedom-Fighting U.S. Military with the same shameful LYNDIE ENGLAND brush on National TV is designed to undercut BUSH's promise to protect us by bringing Freedom to the oppressed peoples & cultures of the world.
BILL MAHER should have exposed the CLINTON missile strikes on Afghanistan & the Sudan as the diversions they really were away from the CLINTONS own worst misbehaviors on behalf of our terrorist enemies over the decades.
That would be a more honest TV Commentary than what came out of BILL MAHER's mouth after the Attacks of September 11, 2001.
And, by the way, I wouldn't paint JetLiner highjackers who slit the throats of innocent non-weapon carrying American Flight Attendants as being anything close to courageous.
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