Why is Tim "Missing Followups" Russert protecting the clintons, failing utterly to do his job?

TOUGH TIMES FOR TERRORISTS ^annotatedby Mia T

by RALPH PETERS

December 31, 2003 -- EVEN if terrorists attack our homeland before the stroke of midnight, 2003 will still have been a year of remarkable progress on every front in the global War on Terror - and the greatest year for freedom since the Soviet Union's collapse.

A decisive government in Washington, backed by the courage and common sense of the American people, worked with allies around the world to carry the fight to the terrorists' home ground. We continued to seize the strategic initiative from the most implacable enemies America has ever faced.

Unless we choose to defeat ourselves, there is no chance of a final terrorist victory.

hillary talks:ON TERROR
(reinstalling the clintons in the White House has one advantage over suicide)

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In 2003, a new generation of enemies learned that America not only fights ferociously, but follows through with tremendous residual power. In one of history's great paradoxes, the provocation of 9/11 - intended to humble us - unleashed our dormant might and rejuvenated the historical trend toward liberty. The Twin Towers fell, but two years later America towers over the world as never before.

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BUSH: "I will not wait on events, while dangers gather."

President's Remarks
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This country has many challenges. We will not deny, we will not ignore, we will not pass along our problems to other Congresses, to other presidents, and other generations. (Applause.) We will confront them with focus and clarity and courage...

Sending Americans into battle is the most profound decision a President can make. The technologies of war have changed; the risks and suffering of war have not. For the brave Americans who bear the risk, no victory is free from sorrow. This nation fights reluctantly, because we know the cost and we dread the days of mourning that always come.

We seek peace. We strive for peace. And sometimes peace must be defended. A future lived at the mercy of terrible threats is no peace at all. If war is forced upon us, we will fight in a just cause and by just means -- sparing, in every way we can, the innocent. And if war is forced upon us, we will fight with the full force and might of the United States military -- and we will prevail. (Applause.)

State of the Union Address by President George W. Bush

The autumn of 2001 saw our initial counterattacks, while 2002 broadened the international struggle and improved our domestic preparedness. But 2003 was our breakthrough year - 12 months of successes that changed the course of history.

Consider just a few of our achievements:

* We deposed and captured one of the world's worst tyrants, liberating 25 million people and demonstrating the inherent weakness of dictatorships.

In doing so, we destroyed a regime that had terrorized its own people and the region. We drew an unmistakable line between America's reinvigorated support for the liberation of the oppressed and "old Europe's" cynical defense of the status quo.

* The stunning campaign that took our troops to Baghdad in just three weeks made it clear to the world that no other state or combination of powers can oppose us militarily and left us with the most experienced, combat-proven forces of our time.

* Our president's courageous decision to target Saddam himself while sparing innocent Iraqis upset the traditional rules of warfare, according to which the draftees die while the ruler survives by signing a peace treaty.


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Even though our attempted "decapitation strikes" failed, the message sent to the world's dictators and sponsors of terror had far more force than Western pundits yet realize. And our ultimate, humiliating capture of Saddam left every remaining tyrant worried that he might topple next.

* As a result, Libya has opened its nuclear facilities for inspection, while Iran hastened to strike a no-nukes deal with European governments anxious to save face after their support of Saddam backfired disastrously. North Korea has grown remarkably subdued. Syria treads cautiously. No tyrant wants G.I. Joe as his houseguest.

* Even Saudi Arabia, the great incubator of terror, has become newly cooperative, both because the terrorists - predictably - bit the many hands that fed them and because Riyadh's relative importance has declined precipitously with G.I. Jane in Baghdad.

* We've continued to kill and capture terrorists by the thousands, dismantling their networks, seizing their assets and destroying their bases. Terrorism won't disappear in our lifetimes, but its reach and capabilities have been powerfully reduced.

* Our president had the sound instincts to realize that you can't treat the deep cancer of terrorism with a topical salve. Apprehending terrorists isn't enough. Meaningful treatment of this long-untended disease requires radical surgery and great risk.

Those naive or disingenuous voices insisting that our liberation of Iraq was a diversion from the War on Terror refuse to accept that the problem isn't a few deadly fanatics but a suffocating civilization.

The administration's resolve to force change in the Middle East was as crucial as it was courageous. We can't force Iraqis - or anyone else - to succeed, but we've done what no others have dared: We've given tens of millions of long-oppressed human beings a chance to live in freedom.

Much of this century will be shaped by what they make of that great chance.

* Most vitally for Americans, our government kept our country remarkably safe. Terrorists yearned to strike us massively, to punish us for our successes, while proving that they remain a potent force. Instead, our federal, state and local authorities achieved new, if still imperfect, levels of cooperation and blocked each terrorist attempt to wound us.

Politically motivated critics charge that the War on Terror has been a failure, despite the obvious proof to the contrary: Our enemies have been unable to harm our homeland. And while we will be struck again eventually - no defense is perfect - every day of safety is a victory.

hillary talks: ON MILITARY TACTICS
("The Easy Part")

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Two Thousand Three was a year that changed the world. For the better. The reverberations will echo for decades.

Not every result will please us. We will not turn broken states into little Americas overnight. Each culture has its own strengths and weaknesses. But we're making a noble effort to help the wretched of the earth make their societies better.

Perfection belongs to God. Progress is the best that humans can do.

Whether facing down Taliban remnants in Afghanistan or shaming the rest of the world into providing more assistance to Africa's struggle against AIDS, we've made an epochal break with the tradition of wealthy states embracing easy short-term solutions instead of engaging long-term problems. Future historians will regard 2003 as one of the dates when history made a great turn, as a global 1776.

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Yet 2004 is going to be a year of decision in the War on Terror. As our presidential election approaches, the terrorists remaining at large will sacrifice their last reserves in an effort to dislodge President Bush, freedom's great crusader, from the White House.

hillary talks: L'Etat, c'est moi!
(Iowa parsed)

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The terrorists will seek to convince American voters that the War on Terror is failing, paving the way for the electoral victory of a weakling and allowing them to surge back into vacuums created by an American retreat.

Their last, desperate hope will be to hit us so hard that we elect a coward in place of a hero.

A Scoundrel's Pythagorean Imperative

z = distance between flag lapel pin and chin

d = distance between midpoint of chin and jowl

y = distance between the midpoint of chin and top button

x = distance between top button and flag lapel pin

I'm betting on American guts. And glory.

Ralph Peters is the author of "Beyond Baghdad."

I suspect that, to spite us all, Arthur Schlesinger will probably live to 120 just so he can write the definitive clinton hagiography.

--------Mia T, Musings: Senatorial Courtesy Perverted

I think history will view this much differently.

-----bill clinton

...[bill clinton], a man who will be regarded in the history books as one of our greatest presidents.

-----Al Gore, at clinton's post-impeachment rally

History Lesson by Mia T

Someone--was it Maupassant?-- once called history "that excitable and lying old lady." The same can be said of historians. Surely it can be said of Doris Kearns Goodwin, the archetypical pharisaical historian, not-so-latently clintonoid, Lieberman-Paradigmatic (i.e., clinton is an unfit president; therefore clinton must remain president), intellectually dishonest, (habitually doing what the Arthur Schlesingers of this world do: making history into the proof of their theories). The Forbids 400's argument is shamelessly spurious. They get all unhinged over the impeachment of clinton, claiming that it will "leave the presidency permanently disfigured and diminished, at the mercy as never before of the caprices of any Congress." Yet they dismiss the real and present--and future!!--danger to the presidency and the country of not impeaching and removing this admittedly unfit, (Goodwin) "documentably dysfunctional," (NYT) presidency-diminishing, (Goodwin) power-abusing, psychopathic thug. Doris Kearns Goodwin and those 400 other hog-and-bow-tied-save-clinton, retrograde-obsessing historiographers are a supercilious, power-hungry, egomaniacal lot in their own right. For them, clinton validates what Ogden Nash merely hypothesized: Any buffoon can make history, but only a great man can write it.

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correction: Make that "defense."

You say the clinton administration -- you -- were "very concerned." You say you "had continuing discussions...with the secretary of defense." But you did nothing! Why??

Some Democrats proclaim their religion loudly and with great bombast from the pulpit, while Tim Russert works it into his everyday conversation, calmly and with apparently almost no effort, as he practices the faith daily and has internalized all its precepts.

The Democrat party IS the religion.

Why is Tim "Missing Followups" Russert protecting the clintons and thereby failing utterly to do his job, his duty?
Last Refuge of a Scoundrel2_PING

ratmedia does as ratmedia thinks, little thought for the truth, just protect the rat party.

IMHO Timmy is going to be paying forever for his little contretemps with her heinous way back when she was running for Senate. I believe he put up on of his famous 'quotes' and asked her if she would care to retract her statement.

Steam was rising from the she devil's ears at that time.

BUMP! We know from redundant and ongoing empirical evidence that, to regain power, the left willingly sacrifices America, but I still find it astounding that the clintonoid subset so willingly -- reflexively even -- self-immolates in the service of these two grotesqueries.
hillary's head revisited:
hillary clinton's brain (such as it is) II
by Mia T
he smartest woman in the world would relish "the raucous give and take of American democracy, " as Charles Kuralt once put it.
hillary clinton, by contrast, subsists on cozy clintonoid interviews of the Colmes kind...
In her new book, Political Fictions, Joan Didion indicts the fakery of access journalism practiced by vacant politicos like the clintons, whom she sees as "purveyors of fables of their own making, or worse, fables conceived by political strategists with designs on votes, not news."
hillary talks:
L'Etat, c'est moi! (Iowa parsed)

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More Didion: "No one who ever passed through an American public high school could have watched William Jefferson Clinton running for office in 1992 and failed to recognize the familiar predatory sexuality of the provincial adolescent."
THE HILLARY, YOU KNOW, CLINTON TRANSCRIPT: Analyzed and Annotated by Mia T January 22, 2002

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE [YOU KNOW] 'UPDATED'

ABSTRACT

Background:

Using internal polling, the clinton 'infrastructure' determined that its cozy-clintonoid-interviews-of-the-Colmes/King-kind-scheme is no longer working. The scheme, which successfully shepherded and shielded the vacuous, inept, corrupt clintons for nine years, is now, post-9/11, yielding diminishing returns--and worse--increasing ridicule.

Hence, we had the clinton 'infrastructure' interviewer recalculation last week that specified more interviewer gravitas...and less lapdog...but not more doggedness...that is to say...that specified Jeff Greenfield.

A miscalculation, as it turned out. Greenfield made up in contempt what he lacked in inexorability. Although he conducted the entire interview circumambulating on eggshells, Greenfield did eventually ask the hard-boiled questions...

ASIDE: The tough questioning was followed by Greenfield's sudden, post-interview departure from CNN, a development which will only further reinforce cozy-clintonoid-interviews-of-the-Colmes/King-kind 4th-estate malfeasance.

Analysis:

Greenfield's circuitous path to clinton depravity and failure necessitates a nonlinear analysis of the data; we will use a (nonlinear) least squares curve fitter. Proportional hazards political survival regression analysis will generate a political survival curve for hillary clinton, which will show her viability (so to speak) over time.

Political survival time is defined as the length of the interval between the initial political trial balloon and political moribundity. Political moribundity is defined as two consecutive political failures--(one in the case of 9/11), or three not-necessarily-consecutive boo-filled public appearances, or one instance of a serious proposal generating laughter.

ASIDE: Since by any of these standards, hillary clinton is already flatlined, the more interesting question for this analysis would be: "What the hell is this moribund loser doing in the political arena, anyway?"

Survival is influenced by one or more factors, called "predictors" or "covariates", which may be categorical (such as the quality of 'infrastructure') or continuous (such as intellect or eloquence or character).

Results:

clinton rigor mortis rendered any discussion of clinton moribundity moot.
Nonetheless, one of the more significant continuous predictors of political moribundity is clinton's tic-like insertion of "you know," a marker for ineloquence, vulgarity, ignorance, rube-meets-valley-girl demographics, low self-esteem, anxiety and insincerity.
clinton uttered "you know" 52 times. Greenfield eventually caught the bug and uttered six "you knows," himself--a cautionary tale for wannabe clintonoid lapdogs.
Frequency of clinton "you knows" varied directly with intensity of Greenfield contempt and inversely with magnitude of Greenfield softballs.
clinton response is consistent with Rubin complicity in a clinton coup. See "The Daschle Scheme".

GREENFIELD: Tonight, a conversation with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on the nation and the world after September 11, on GREENFIELD AT LARGE.

THE COMPLETE ANNOTATED INTERVIEW (NB: a very long, you know, download because of the, you know, clinton criminal, you know, redundancy.)

ALSO:
HILLARY CLINTON LACKS COGNITIVE CAPACITY TO LEAD TRIES TO GET QUESTIONS IN ADVANCE. . . AGAIN

missus clinton's REAL virtual office updatebump

excellent connection. do you have any links?

And yet, on 9/11, there was still no government plan, no plan sanctioned by the president of the United States, no plan directed to go after that threat of Osama bin Laden. The ship of state was on autopilot.

That really is an amazing statement. Straight out of the Clinton Playbook, "Accuse the other side of doing exactly what you are doing (or did)".

RUSSERT: Are you being blackmailed by the Clintons?

Yeah, I know, he didn't really ask that....

This is great work, Mia. No doubt, you will force a few lefties to think about it.

The Nobel as clinton Pavlovian stimulus--a timeline
(In this season of gift horses and attack dogs, let us not forget the good clinton dog, Buddy...)_bump

bttt

BUMP!

It was more pernicious, tho....
Rather than being on "autopilot," the clinton ship of state was willfully misdirected, sabotaged.

April 28, 2003, 8:45 a.m.
The Clinton Intel Record
Deeper failures revealed.

By Mansoor Ijaz

he unearthing of documents directly linking Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda organization to Saddam Hussein this weekend may have hermetically sealed the Bush administration's case that dismantling Iraq's Baathist enterprise was in part necessary to undo terrorism's dynamic duo. But closing that case may reopen a Pandora's box for ex-Clinton administration officials who still believe their policy prescriptions protected U.S. national interests against the growing threat of terrorism during the past decade.

The London Telegraph's weekend revelations raise deeply disturbing questions about the extent and magnitude to which President Clinton, his national-security adviser Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger, and senior terrorism and State Department officials -- including Assistant Secretary of State for East Africa, Susan Rice -- politicized intelligence data, relied on and even circulated fabricated evidence in making critical national-security decisions, and presided over a string of intelligence failures during the months leading up to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

Analysis of documents found in the rubble of Iraq's intelligence headquarters show that contrary to conventional wisdom, Iraqi military and intelligence officials sought out al Qaeda leaders, not the other way around, and ultimately met with bin Laden on at least two occasions. They also show that channels of communication between al Qaeda and Iraq were created much earlier and were wider ranging in scope than previously thought.

The timing of the meetings sheds important new light on how grave the Clinton administration's intelligence failures may have been....

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THE CLINTON PATTERN:
COWARDICE, FECKLESSNESS, FRAUD,
NARCISSISM, DECONSTRUCTION, PERFIDY

hillary talks:ON TERROR
(reinstalling the clintons in the White House has one advantage over suicide)

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missus clinton's REAL virtual office update
http://hillarytalks.blogspot.com
http://virtualclintonlibrary.blogspot.com
http://demmemogate.blogspot.com
http://www.hillarytalks.us
http://www.hillarytalks.org
fiendsofhillary.blogspot.com
fiendsofhillary.us
fiendsofhillary.org
fraudsofhillary.com

Is it me .. or is Timmy putting on a bit of weight? Or maybe it's all the nuts he has stuffed in his cheeks.

He, like many demRats, know it is going to be a long nukular winter for the demRats as their party gets tossed in the dustbins of history.

RE: Why is Tim "Missing Followups" Russert protecting the clintons and thereby failing utterly to do his job, his duty?

This is you at your best!

These links were blocked...

given bin Laden's repeated declarations of war against America during the clintons' tenure,

given bin Laden's repeated acts of war against America during the clintons' tenure -- attacking the USS Cole and American embassies, for example,

I really like this. You young lady, are very clever.