Posted on 09/20/2001 11:24:03 AM PDT by Radioheart
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Is Bill Clinton Responsible for September 11?
By John Perazzo |
| Bill Clinton’s policies left America vulnerable, and set the stage for last week’s attacks. continue… |
No, he is not. The terrorists are responsible. Clinton is responsible for creating a poor security environment that made the raids possible by making stupid rules for intelligence agencies, promoting disarmed environments such as planes and schools, sticking his nose in everyone else's business while not attending to ours, and first and foremost creating such an atmosphere of distrust against government that folks were suspicious of ANY attempt of his to promote security.
Cut and paste, or click the link. Your prattle will not work any more.
The "prarie dog" dissenter/disruptor? Pops up then disappears for a while? S/he seems to be everywhere today- guess her little god The Nameless One is taking too many hits....
This says it all.
Hitler is known historically as the monster, but Chamberlain is universally despised for being the enabler.
Besides, as I said earlier, I don't think she's got the guts to show up and do anything beyond a hit-and-run. She just wants to bash the CIA, Bush, and anyone else who is not "progressive." She doesn't have the stomach for an honest debate.
No, we as a nation are responsible.
Hang on a minute now, and listen.
The terrorists were just being terrorists, doing what comes natural. They had jobs to do--killing Americans and restricting American freedom--and they did those jobs very well.
We as American citizens have an important job too--defending America and preserving American freedom--that we have been practically ignoring for decades.
Americans died on September 11th not because people in this country have too many freedoms, but because we have too few.
For example, we do not have the freedom not to spend our money on foreign aid to enemies of terrorists. The government extorts our money from us and spends it on whatever foreign aid it chooses, without Constitutional authority and without asking our permission. In a Constitutional America, all foreign aid would come from private foundations that would be voluntarily funded by people who wanted to give money to a foreign government. Only the people who funded the foundations pumping money into Israel would be targeted by terrorists, not Americans in general. (I would certainly and enthusiastically be one of those people: but it is unjust to force that responsibility upon people who haven't willingly contracted for it.)
As another example, we do not have the freedom to equip ourselves defend our lives and those of others while we're on airliners--and airline companies don't even have the freedom to give us that freedom.
Americans died on September 11th not because people in this country have too many freedoms, but because we have too few.
Who took those freedoms away? The US government did.
But who let the government take those freedoms away? We did. It is not the government's job to protect the freedoms of Americans. Just like every other government, it is our government's job to take away those freedoms and grow ever larger and more powerful. If those freedoms are to be protected, they must be protected by us, and no one other than us.
So September 11th, when Americans came under attack and had no freedom to prevent the attack, was the culmination of a job very well done by terrorists. It was also the culmination of a job very well done by the government--including Bill Clinton. The only folks who have not been doing a good job, who have been ignoring their responsibilities, who have been shirking their duty--are us. And from the looks of our lukewarm reactions to indications that the government is going to use this crisis to become much more streamlined and efficient at its job...we're continuing to do nothing.
If we had been doing our job preventing the terrorists and the government from doing theirs, then on September 11th at most 19 people would have had to die, and very few feathers would have been ruffled. But because we haven't been doing our job, now the government has to go kill a lot more than 19 people, and most of the Islamic world is going to hate us even more murderously.
No, Bill Clinton is not responsible for September 11th. He was a dishonest, corrupt, contemptible criminal, but he was just doing what came naturally to him. We were the ones who elected him and put him in a place where doing what came naturally could hurt us, and then permitted our representatives to refuse to remove him from it.
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