Posted on 09/24/2005 10:29:28 PM PDT by vadkins
That’s why troubling questions keep coming to mind: How stupid do they think we are? Don’t they realize they are creating more suspicion, not less? Why do Bush people keep protecting Clinton people from public scrutiny?
For a life-long conservative Republican and Bush voter in 2000 and 2004 like yours truly, that last question is especially galling. It was bad enough early in Bush’s first term when he signed an executive order keeping the truth about Bill Clinton’s midnight pardon spree behind closed doors. I swallowed hard and accepted the White House’s executive privilege claim on that one.
But the Able Danger hearing capped a long series of troubling decisions that tortured credulity such as Bush increasing federal spending twice as fast as Clinton, expanding entitlements at a pace only Lyndon Johnson could match, signing a campaign finance law that limits political speech and refusing to veto even the most outrageous examples of congressional pork barreling.
The last straw came the day before William Dugan, an assistant to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said to the Senate panel “I don’t know” when asked if Able Danger had identified Atta. That’s when the Pentagon barred testimony by the five officials who have said they worked on the program and recall seeing the terrorist’s name on a chart during the Clinton administration.
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Between runaway spending and Able danger Bush is loosing credibility fast.
It is not the left over fish that smells.
I don't know where I stand on connecting all those conspiritorial dots. Bad enough, in my mind, that quite simply:
One mission of the 9-ll Commission was to calm us, to reassure us all was well with our government, pre and post 9-ll. Neither Clinton nor Bush would have had to give covert instructions to Kean and Hamilton, the Commissioners knew what they had to do. Namely, protect the reputation of the U.S.Government, for our own good, and so our enemies wouldn't figure out the depth of our ineptitude.
Connecting the dots is difficult and arbitrary, the math is the segment that does not add up.
There is no end to it. And if *everyone* can be bought when it comes to Americans murdered by terrorists, there is no hope for this country. Why? Because the next time, it will be 100,000 Americans. And the next time they will again side with the enemy and look the other way.
Oh, sure. It's all about Weldon. It isn't about the fact that 3,000 Americans were murdered by terrorists that the government *knew* were operating in this country.
Yeah. I want to know why 3,000 Americans were murdered by terrorists the government knew were operating on American soil.
And I don't care which party is destroyed because of it.
"....I guess he thinks if the Hildabeast wins in '08 he will get the same treatment."
If he thinks that, he is in for a rude awakening.
I don't think it's anything other than it that it looks like a group of Poker buddies joined in August and September 2004. Of course, they may have been playing Poker well east of here.
It's right out of talking points. Only fools argue facts.
But thanks for the courtesy of spelling out the "rules" of the road.
I'm in agreement with the sentiments of this writer. I'm sick of the Bush cover-up for the Clintons. I think it was bad for Bush I to cozy up to Clinton. It only pulls Bush down and helps cleanse the reputation of a rapist-liar. Now Able Danger. Enough already.
Agree completely. However DC works like that. Someone at some point, unless Weldon is a Ron Paul or other unusual Republican whose district and he can withstand the Inside the Beltway crowd, will find what he needs.
I said virtually the exact same thing not a week ago on a different thread and was flamed mercilessly. How come you get a pass?
If DC "works" in such a way that the government can't be expected to protect American citizens from terrorists that the government knows are on American soil, I have no idea what further corruption could even be possible.
And that level of corruption is something that will destroy this country. There is no going back.
I totally agree with you. Clinton and Bush are so closely connected with Mena Airport its sickning, and neither one can afford the drugs, gun running etc that was going on or they would both be in jail, including Oliver North. It all goes back to that era, and President Bush must be taking orders from Dad.
I don't know if it's that or his respect for the office of President. His unwillingness to see any President dragged through the mud.
Forgetting the fact that which of us would really want to put our own 81 yr old father in Levenworth and the political shame it'd bring to his own party.
...and that Clinton would release all his FBI files and really throw all of D.C. overboard to save his own sorry hide.
Can you imagine state governments getting everyone's credit/debit card records into their computers, then tracking everybody who has not paid "sales and use" tax on out of state purchases. Ouch!
It takes two to blackmail!
Or more
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