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(for the complete text of Inhofe's speech see THREAD I)
1 posted on 09/25/2001 4:29:58 PM PDT by ChaseR
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2 posted on 09/25/2001 4:31:56 PM PDT by ChaseR
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to the top again
9 posted on 09/25/2001 4:41:04 PM PDT by ChaseR
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I'm going out on a limb here I think? Here is a post that apparently got pulled - can anyone tell me why? I didn't post it but was in the middle of a reply to it (a new post) and it got yanked:

Guilty CLINTON: "It ain't my Fault" (09/11/01)

News/Current Events Breaking News Announcement Keywords: GUILTY CLINTON: "IT AIN'T MY FAULT" (09-11-01)

Source: www.Newsmax.com -Inside Cover- Article: 'CLINTON Haunted by Failure to Get bin Laden'

Published: 09/25/01 Author: Carl Limbacher/Newsmax Staff

Posted on 09/25/2001 16:10:29 PDT by [CENSORED by me}

...Seems a Guilty CLINTON has now been reduced to stopping complete strangers on the Streets of New York just to say .."It ain't my Fault".. about the nearly 7,000 Dead Americans on September 11, 2001.

...This from the ..-Inside Cover-..

www.Newsmax.com ..Article dated September 25, 2001... QUOTE:

'CLINTON Haunted by Failure to Get bin Laden' ...Acting like a man who knows he has much to answer for, ex-president BILL CLINTON is seeking out anyone and everyone who will listen to explain that the World Trade Center disaster that killed 7,000 Americans wasn't his fault.

...After telling FoX News Channel's Brian Kilmeade, NBC's Tom Brokaw and countless private audiences over the last two weeks that he did everything he could to nail prime suspect Osama bin Laden, CLINTON has taken to accosting total strangers on the street to offer his excuses.

...One such New Yorker is Saul Finkelstein, who says he was corralled by the suddenly guilt-ridden exprez Saturday while out for a bike ride with his sons.

...For a full 15 minutes the ex-Commander-in-Chief unburdened himself to Finkelstein, who reported the episode to the Washington Post's Lloyd Grove.

.."In 1998, the U.S. Navy launched a series of cruise missile attacks," CLINTON insisted to the stranger. "We missed him by an hour."

...He seemed to want the passerby to understand that if President BUSH succeeds where he failed, it won't be because tried any harder.

.."The president can't say this," CLINTON reportedly explained, "but it will not be that difficult to get bin Laden [today] because unlike 1998... the U.S. will have the cooperation of surrounding countries."

...By comparison, he said, his task was more difficult because he had to "fight this guy from 1,000 miles away." ...The bottom line, Finkelstein said, was that CLINTON wanted him to understand that "what happened on Sept. 11 could in no way be traced to some failure on his administration's part."

UNQUOT

NEVER FORGET

...The Verdit is already in ...and it is G-U-I-L-T-Y ...as it was the CLINTONS' stopping our Protector CIA -starting in 1995- from hiring the very Spies we needed to find out what was on the minds of the World's Terrorists against us...

...after stopping further investigations of Terrorist State Iraq's link to the Bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993...

...that encouraged America's Terrorist Enemies to do their worst to us on our own Home Soil. NEVER FORGET

1 Posted on 09/25/2001 16:10:29 PDT by [censored by me]

11 posted on 09/25/2001 4:53:14 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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National security bump.
15 posted on 09/25/2001 5:43:07 PM PDT by looney tune
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BIG BUMP
16 posted on 09/25/2001 5:47:19 PM PDT by Snow Bunny
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32 posted on 09/29/2001 12:19:56 PM PDT by Snow Bunny
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42 posted on 10/01/2001 3:44:46 PM PDT by ChaseR
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43 posted on 10/01/2001 3:45:01 PM PDT by ChaseR
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44 posted on 10/01/2001 3:45:26 PM PDT by ChaseR
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50 posted on 10/01/2001 3:48:06 PM PDT by ChaseR
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75 posted on 10/02/2001 6:55:37 AM PDT by ChaseR
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101 posted on 10/03/2001 4:04:33 PM PDT by DreamWeaver
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104 posted on 10/03/2001 4:07:41 PM PDT by ChaseR
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105 posted on 10/03/2001 4:08:31 PM PDT by ChaseR
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Dangerous Cuts in Military Deterrence Capabilities
Col. Stanislav Lunev
Thursday, July 5, 2001 Newsmax.com

"At the request of U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, military analysts are currently developing a new defense strategy, due in September, which will sufficiently reduce American combat readiness, defense capabilities and effectiveness. While it's very difficult to predict what could happen to America's defenses after this new strategy is implemented, there is no doubt that from that time onward the U.S. military will no longer be prepared to wage two major wars simultaneously."

Russian Defector Warns US against Planned Unilateral Disarmament Measures

143 posted on 10/06/2001 7:27:45 PM PDT by Orion78
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Consider it: Chinese could attack Taiwan

October 7, 2001

BY GEORGE WILL

The elemental lesson to be learned from Sept. 11 is that nothing is unthinkable, although many possibilities are unthought, particularly by peaceful nations. So perhaps now Americans should think about the possibility of a swift, remarkably brutal, conquest of Taiwan by the People's Republic of China.

It is U.S. strategic doctrine that the armed forces should be sufficient to successfully fight two major regional conflicts simultaneously. Forces sufficient for one are being deployed to Southwest Asia. A second such conflict could erupt in Southeast Asia, explains professor Richard L. Russell of the National Defense University. His ''devil's advocate analysis''--written before Sept. 11--appears in Parameters, the U.S. Army War College quarterly.

America's sanguine assumption is that China lacks the necessary force-projection capabilities. It is deficient in amphibious ships and other means of delivering troops by water, particularly given that Taiwan's pilots and aircraft (F-16s and Mirage 2000s) are superior to China's.

But China could confound that assumption using surprise, a ''force multiplier.'' China could use amphibious assaults only as diversions to draw Taiwanese ground forces away from the primary invasion points--air bases. And China could employ unprecedented ruthlessness--tactical nuclear weapons and chemical weapons.

Such surprise and ruthlessness may seem far-fetched--as far-fetched as the idea of using commercial aircraft as bombs to level skyscrapers would have seemed a month ago, had anyone imagined it. However, Russell notes that Pearl Harbor, Germany's attack on the Soviet Union, North Korea's invasion of South Korea, China's intervention in Korea and the 1973 Yom Kippur War were all surprises.

Besides, Russell says, a nation contemplating aggression considers the dangers of peace as well as of war. China sees that time is on the side of Taiwan's improvement of its economic strength, political links to the world and military capacity for self-defense--particularly if Taiwan acquires defenses against ballistic missiles.

Russell says China could secretively increase sealift and air transport capacity, and paratrooper training, for a conflict that would begin with a bolt-out-of-the-blue barrage of hundreds of missiles to ''decapitate'' Taiwan's military by striking command-and-control facilities. China has an estimated inventory of 240 missiles capable of striking Taiwan from the mainland.

Missile warheads loaded with persistent and nonpersistent chemical agents could incapacitate Taiwan's air and air defense forces. Hence Chinese fighter aircraft could escort transport aircraft that would deliver paratroopers. Their drops onto Taiwan's air bases would be timed to coincide with the evaporation of nonpersistent chemical agents that had disabled those bases. Once the bases were secured by Chinese paratroopers, Chinese transports could land more troops.

By striking hard and fast, even with tactical nuclear weapons, China could hope to conquer Taiwan before there could be any U.S. military buildup in the region. And Westerners might be projecting their values on China by assuming that China regards nuclear weapons exclusively as means of deterrence and weapons of last, desperate resort.

There is evidence that Chinese military doctrine, unlike America's, holds that nuclear weapons can be applicable even in wars in which less than national survival is at stake. And Russell writes that the Chinese might argue that the use of weapons of mass destruction would set no international precedent because they would be employed against a province in an ''internal affair.''

Tiananmen Square demonstrated Beijing's readiness to use violence for political objectives against Chinese who challenge it. As for the price China would pay for international disapproval of such ruthlessness, Beijing may be willing to pay the price because it would be transitory: Just 12 years after the Tiananmen Square violence was telecast to the world, China was awarded the 2008 Olympics.

Russell wrote his scenario to emphasize that ''improbable'' is not a synonym for ''impossible,'' and to induce ''a sense of caution and humility about the limits of foresight in knowing the prospects for war.'' On Sept. 11 America received a violent lesson about those limits.

The aggression Russell describes is not unthinkable. Nothing is.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/will/cst-edt-geo07.html

163 posted on 10/07/2001 9:41:23 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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RELATED THREAD


166 posted on 10/07/2001 1:34:18 PM PDT by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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I think America is finally opening its eyes and seeing what we freepers have known for 8 years or more.

What is the record for most threads on one article?

171 posted on 10/13/2001 10:03:54 AM PDT by HoustonKevin
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One for the bump list
186 posted on 10/14/2001 2:22:21 AM PDT by reformjoy
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BUMP !!
187 posted on 10/14/2001 8:05:38 PM PDT by DreamWeaver
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