[Vets_Husband_and_Wife]

MEGA PING ALERT! No matter what you think about Horowitz, this article is excellent. It explains Clintons ignorance regarding terrorists during his presidency and Al Gores ignorance when speaking out against President Bush during the war.

PLEASE PING YOUR LISTS!!! Thanks. Vets

President Bush 9/7/03 "We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength - they are invited by the perception of weakness..."

We used to know this. During the Clinton years we forgot it.

[MeekOneGOP]

President Bush 9/7/03 "We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength - they are invited by the perception of weakness..."

We used to know this. During the Clinton years we forgot it.

During the clintoon years, clintoon couldn't have cared less about defense ...

"A presidential executive order issued during the Clinton
administration hamstrung the FBI so badly that bureau
lawyers decided it would be illegal to infiltrate Osama bin
Laden's terrorist training camps in Afghanistan, a senior
FBI official during the Clinton administration said Saturday."
(June 1, 2002)

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"I don't believe 9-11 happened because of an intelligence breach," Quayle told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes."

"I think it was really a policy breach. It was the inaction of the previous administration, by and large, that al Qaeda -- and bin Laden in particular -- thought that they could hit the United States, and there would be a retaliation maybe of a cruise missile but nothing more than that," he explained.

The comments make the former vice president, who served under President Bush's father from 1989 to 1993, the highest ranking former U.S. official to suggest that the Clinton administration should get the lion's share of the blame for not preventing the 9-11 attacks.

[MeekOneGOP]

How To Look At The War On Terror

Excerpt:

There is one reason — and one reason alone — that Americans have been safe for the almost two years since the September 11 attacks.

That reason is the aggressive war that President Bush and the U.S. military have waged against international terrorism and its "Axis of Evil." The war on terrorism has been fought in the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan, and Baghdad instead of Washington and New York. By taking the battle to the enemy camp, by making the terrorists the hunted instead of the hunters, Mr. Bush and the U.S. military have kept Americans safe.

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The president vowed to stay the course, but noted that it is only recently that the United States has done so. "During the last few decades, the terrorists grew bolder, believing if they hit America hard, America would retreat and back down."

Perhaps Mr. Bush had in mind al Qaeda's attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, when President Clinton and Al Gore backed down.

Perhaps he had in mind al Qaeda's attack on U.S. troops in Somalia, when President Clinton and Al Gore backed down.

Perhaps he had in mind the attack on the Khobar Towers, a dormitory housing U.S. soldiers, where President Clinton and Al Gore backed down.

Perhaps he had in mind the attack on the USS Cole, when President Clinton and Al Gore backed down.

"Five years ago," Mr. Bush continued, "one of the terrorists said that an attack could make America run in less than 24 hours. They're learning something different today. The terrorists have not seen America running; they've seen America marching. They've seen the armies of liberation marching into Kabul and to Baghdad."

And they know and respect the difference.

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[BOBTHENAILER]

It is a dark day for Americans when one of their two leading parties cannot be counted on to support the flag when it is committed in battle,

Beautiful article...this is a must read. Wraps up the whole perspective of weakness versus righteous anger and retribution.

[Aquamarine]

Great article! May God bless the Washington Times for telling the truth!

[jonalvy44]

an excellent article...I commented on it over there at front page. read some of the reader comments. scary how some people think.