Posted on 09/19/2008 2:54:06 AM PDT by Puzzleman
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What the president did note with some pride, however, is that beyond preventing a second attack, he is bequeathing to his successor the kinds of powers and institutions the next president will need to prevent further attack and successfully prosecute the long war. And indeed, he does leave behind a Department of Homeland Security, reorganized intelligence services with newly developed capacities to share information and a revised FISA regime that grants broader and modernized wiretapping authority.
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So unpopular that Truman left office disparaged and highly out of favor. History has revised that verdict. I have little doubt that Bush will be the subject of a similar reconsideration.
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Speaking of Homeland Security and measures the govt. has taken to keep us safe: I heard recently that a man was driving somewhere in the West or Midwest, and he got stopped by the police, who said he had radioactive material in the car. He’d just come from the vet’s...his dog had cancer and had had a radioactive pellet put in his body.
So no big deal, right? Wrong. It speaks volumes about the capability of police to pinpoint a single car with radioactive material. What amazing technology allowed them to do that, quietly put into place by the govt. after 9/11. Maybe this is one reason we haven’t suffered from a dirty bomb attack. Just a thought.
You’re spot on! Any sense of securtiy we have is due to W’s administration and their efforts to keep up safe.
I am concerned about your report. Is Al Qaeda slipping radioactive retrievers into our country to slowly poison us from within? Are terrorist terriers trying to undermine our way of life?
Wow ~ what an amazing, sobering story.
Just imagine what we don’t know, and Bush can never disclose, that we have been protected from.
Think about all the dogs and cats that have been identity chipped.
Is Al Qaeda keeping tabs on us through our beloved furry babies?
OMG - it’s terrierfying!!
Absolutely. Whatever President Bush's faults, history will judge him kindly.
When Charlie-with-his-snoot-in-the-air Gibson, asked Governor Palin about the "Bush Doctrine", I immediately thought, "Charlie, you probably have never even recognized the most important Bush Doctrine!"
IMHO, the most important Bush doctrine was the (almost) hidden one: the Bush "Bug-Zapper" Doctrine: by moving our troops into one of their buddies' sandbox, Bush lured untold thousands of the most rabid islamoterrorists in (like moths to a flame, or bugs to a "bug-zapper" light) -- and snuffed them out.
As long as those camel-turds are swarming into Iraq (and into the sights of our troops) they certainly have no time to attack us here on our own soil. And that, IMO, is the principal reason we have had no more attacks here.
Prediction: "Bush the Bug-zapper" will be one of GWB's finest legacies.
What better way to fight the war on terror than to infuriate individual, irrational terrorists into gathering in your trap -- and then eliminate them "with extreme prejudice"? BRILLIANT!!!
Every Republican and independent must share in the blame for President Bush leaving office with such a low approval rating.
We allowed the Democratic and leftist media to come out night after night and disparage him and when Republicans bothered to defend him they did it with lack of passion.
Our very independence on each issue and our inability to put lipstick on a pig has caused us to turn our backs on a President who was honest, stuck by his guns, didn’t allow polls to influence him become the target treated by the left using Alinsky’s rule number 11.
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