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To: Alberta's Child; Victoria Delsoul

I thought it was really good, although it concerns me that they devoted three hours to eight years of the Clinton Adminstration, while two hours will be devoted to eight months of the Bush Administration.


42 posted on 09/10/2006 8:32:01 PM PDT by scott7278 (The War on Terror includes defending the homefront from the MSM.)
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To: scott7278

Yeah, I guess we can't expect total fairness, but as long as the facts in general get out, it will help. A lot of people don't know that these terrorists existed during the Clinton era. They didn't just surface in 2001. They were bombing us long before that – the 93 WTC bombing is just one case.


50 posted on 09/10/2006 8:45:54 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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To: scott7278
While we may not like to admit it, the truth is that the Bush administration should get some well-deserved criticism for the pre-9/11 period. The basic problem with this administration before 9/11 was that it was filled with people who probably had no idea what kind of threat al-Qaeda represented to this country. Condoleeza Rice, for example, was appointed National Security Advisor because of her expertise in Soviet/Russian issues. Donald Rumsfeld was appointed Secretary of Defense because one of the administration's key objectives was to streamline the Department of Defense (and as an independently wealthy man in his 70s with no political aspirations, he was in a perfect position to shut down pet pork-barrel defense appropriations without any fear of backlash from members of Congress).

And let's face it . . . the Pentagon was littered with incompetent and borderline-incompetent political hacks who had no expertise in radical Islam and whose only "qualification" for their positions was that they were ardent advocates of using the U.S. military to topple the Ba'athist government in Iraq. If your were to do an internet search on terms like "Paul Wolfowitz + al-Qaeda" or "Richard Perle + al-Qaeda," you'd probably be shocked at the lack of any sources of information before 9/11/2001 that would indicate they had any clue what al-Qaeda was.

60 posted on 09/10/2006 9:04:21 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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