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I think you overestimate Bush's fear of "political fallout" from a bombing that took place in the middle of the Clinton administartion. I also believe that you overestimate the magnitude of the political fallout. The ignorant chattering class would no more wake up and be surprised by sudden press coverage of the Islamic terror connections to Murrah than they would if one of Kennedy's assassins was found alive and interviewd by Regis.

As for Senate action on Iraq, I sure hope there isn't another terror attack while the Democrats are screwing around.

Regards,
LH

PS. Maybe not all Republicans should be re-elected, but if they should not be, then they must be replaced with better Republicans. Under no circumstances should a Democrat be preferred.

"I think you overestimate Bush's fear of "political fallout" from a bombing that took place in the middle of the Clinton administartion. I also believe that you overestimate the magnitude of the political fallout."

Are you kidding?(and that's a polite way of putting it) If Bush went on TV Tuesday night and said "this is what your former leader hath wrought," the news media would be falling all over itself, and the political fallout will be enormous, here in the U.S. and abroad.

Bush would face a tremendous amount of criticism in regard to ignoring the warnings for 9/11, as well as for McVeigh's execution.

But it would be much worse for Clinton, and his hordes of supporters. He would probably come up with some off-the-wall explanation about national security and how he was "protecting the nation's interests," or, more likely, simply deny any knowledge of what occurred. And all those hordes of supporters would suddenly be silent. For a while, anyway.

But I just can't see it happening. Which is why I am highly suspect about whether Arlen Specter's motives in all of this are pure.

P.S. -- I never said anything about voting for democrats. I was referring to a comment I made on that long public thread a couple of weeks ago from Jim on how everyone should vote for republicans in November. I'm not disupting that, and Arlen Specter isn't up for re-election yet. But I do believe honesty, integrity, and morality are what we should consider while voting for political candidates, rather than always voting a straight party line. Unfortunately, there's not much of those qualities left in political circles these days.

Governments lie.

There are a whole lot of historical 'conspiracy theories' out there and at least some of them are more than likely true.

Once an administration covers up (lies) it is in the best interests of all concerned (the politicians at least) that the lie remain covered up.
Otherwise (again, from the politician's point of view) the public trust has a large hole in it.

However, since GWB has so far shown himself to be a better sort of public figure than we've seen recently; I'm hoping that, without lifting the carpet himself, enough of the evidence will see daylight and enough noise will result, so that the lid will pop off 'by itself'.

Guess I have some idealism left afterall.