[sakic]

This a truly bullshit-laden posting. Blaming Clinton for this is akin to using logic that a slug is capable of. Do you blame Reagan for our Army barracks in Saudi Arabia being bombed? If you do, at least you'll be consistent in your very simple methods of thinking.

[Campion]

You're right, sakic. Your posting was truly bullshit-laden. Here's the truth you can't handle:

1. FACT: Something like Tuesday happens because of a series of massive intelligence and law enforcement failures.
2. FACT: Clinton was in charge of all intelligence and all Federal law enforcement for 8 years.
3. FACT: Clinton policies directly destroyed much of our HUMINT resources in the MidEast. That has been extensively documented here and elsewhere.
4. FACT: Clinton turned the FBI and BATF into demoralized tools of political intimidation.
5. FACT: If you have any management experience at all, you would understand that it's far more difficult to turn an incompetent organization into a competent one, than the other way around. Bush has had 8 months to undo 8 years worth of damage. It may take 8 years, or longer, to fix the mess Pigboy left.

As I said, your posting was truly bullshit-laden. Too bad you're too blind to see the truth that's in front of your face.

[Dick Bachert]

It BLOWS ME AWAY that former first b**ch, Hitlery, has the balls (which I suspect she DOES!) to say ANYTHING during this time inasmuch it was her fellow criminal, Bill, who laid the groundwork for this outrage.

Did you happen to catch CNN’s Judy Woodruff interview withTom Clancy on the evening of 9/11?

Tom brought up the subject of the CLINTON decimation of US HUMAN INTELLIGENCE capabilities – that going all the way back to Sun Tsu, SPIES are a necessary part of the information gathering process. He mentioned that if we’d had a few spies and spooks out there in this increasingly dangerous world, we MIGHT have gotten one of them close to the perpetrator and been able to interdict the MURDER of perhaps 15,000 Americans in the incredible tragedy we witnessed this morning.

I think it’s safe to say that Clancy knows a bit about the subjects on which he writes.

Tom then tagged CNN by name as one of the news agencies that greeted Clinton’s decimation of the intelligence community with approval, continuing to say that they COULD have spoken out TO OPPOSE HIM but failed to do so. Tom’s rather clear implication was that CNN played a role in today’s catastrophe.

Judy VISIBLY RECOILED – and quickly concluded the interview. Her expression made it clear that she was NOT happy with Tom.

Clancy was RIGHT ON THE MARK and until we DO beef up those assets, it’s gonna happen again – and probably sooner than later.

And do you suppose there is some sinister significance to the fact that this happened on 9-11 (911!)? Are these people THAT sick? Don’t bother responding as that was a rhetorical question.

Let’s all pray – and shed a tear or two -- for the lost firefighters, police officers, innocent citizens and their families. Until this is behind us, we must put aside as many of our partisan differences as our principles will allow.

And we must also pray that our precious Constitution does not become one of the first victims of this SICKENING and senseless act.

THE HORROR! THE H O R R O R!!!!!!!!!!

We MAY not have the ordnance necessary to blow these scumbags to Allah. 8 years of the Clintonistas IS responsible for THAT.

[doug from upland]

Nice use of language. I'll pass your articulate message on to Admiral Moorer and others in the intelligence community who agree with my assessment. They will give your opinion the value it deserves.

Ronald Reagan did not deceive a Bataan Death March survivor to save his worthless butt. He did not lie to us while running that he really had been drafted. He did not tell us how he loathed the military. He did not try to use the Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act of 1941 to keep a federal sexual harrassment charge out of court. He did not get a BJ while deciding life and death matters on the phone with a member of Congress. He did not keep world leaders waiting outside while playing with an intern, a cigar and a sink. He did not sit by idly watching our Rangers die while pleading for armored support in Mogadishu.

The barracks was bombed because of a failure in command under President Reagan. The troops genuinely loved him because they knew his love was reciprocal. Scumbag was in charge of everything. He set the tone. He decimated the intelligence community. He showed his disdain for the military everyday. They all knew how he felt about them.