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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Boeing (helicopters) is big in his district. Could it be that the V22 is in danger?
The obvious clear and present danger is The Democratic Crime Syndicate.
Bingo ! (see my about page)
I believe they've already got that figured out. The obfuscation is to fool the American people - so they don't get out of hand, and do bad things, like look to another political party or something, and throw the bums out.
I do. And I want others to know.
Brown at FEMA did a passable job in this storm -- a low B or high C grade. Bush, being fond of the Rumsfeldian A-grade quality executive found that unacceptable. Where Brown was A-grade on being a brown-noser, perhaps. Still -- he did an OKAY job. That is -- better than most would have.
Chertoff? His agency is all over the place by it's construction, and wild by that design which he had nothing to do with. Homeland Secuity is an agency that no organization chart can well describe -- it's off the charts. He runs it well, we see by small things here and there, moving it as well as any one could.
And Bush? Dubya? He continues to do a GREAT job. He ran in and saved lives where Nagin, Blanco and the rest of Louisiana officialdom were absent from and incomptent on all real responsibility, and while Landrieau and the MSM screeched like a flock of pestering jaybirds hectoring a great eagle.
Almost Biblical, eh?
Real life can be veiwed as a find-a-word puzzle.
"We complain how the government wants to keep tabs on us. Democrat or Republican, it doesn't matter. When ID cards were mentioned, we went ballistic. When anything that could truly hurt us comes before us, we rise up and say NO."
Has anyone run these names through the Bible code yet?
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.
For months thereafter, Oklahoma City investigative reporter Jayna Davis followed lead after lead and found a mountain of concrete evidence and witnesses who put an Iraqi – Hussain Al-Hussaini - at the bombing scene seconds before and after the explosion.
"They also saw the Iraqi with McVeigh numerous times in the days leading up to the tragedy...[and]... at an Oklahoma City nightclub months before the bombing... But the FBI refused to pursue the evidence...
Guess where Al-Hussaini ended up after Oklahoma City? Living in Boston near Logan Airport with two other Iraqis who provided food catering services to airlines there. Experts have said the 9/11 hijackers probably used weapons previously smuggled aboard by … food services employees."
This is SOP for Clinton. For Bush, it is unacceptable. Hopefully, the coverup is over. We will find out in 10/5, but I think we need to keep calling Senators and Congressmen between now and then. The Pentagon still may not have decided what their 10/5 strategy will be.
"Ummm ...while some spending ie "no child left behind" was political in aim most of the spending im seeing in this admin is coincedence."
Not true of the transportation bill boondoggle and much other pork. Every Conservative commentator I read agrees on this.
""I'm not sure where Weldon... thinks he's going with this". IMHO Weldon is looking for cash for some constituent project in his district....when he gets it he'll shut up."
You're a fool.
"Just back after being absent from FR for over a week ... so I'm not completely up to date ... however, there's another thread (started two days ago) that states the DoD (Pentagon) has reversed their decision and will allow the witnesses to testify."
Yes, you've got the key bit of information.
This thread is depressing. It's sort of like being on a Democratic blog.
The bureaucracy has taken the concept of inertia to a whole new level. And to think we laughed at the character of 'Cancer Man.'
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