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Sen. Clinton Blasts Bush's Anti-Terrorism Record
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Posted on 08/14/2006 1:08:15 PM PDT by Sub-Driver

Bush's Anti-Terrorism Record

(CBS/AP) SCHENECTADY, N.Y. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a possible contender for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2008, on Monday criticized the Bush administration for failing to do enough to protect the country from terrorists.

Clinton's comments came after authorities in the United Kingdom last week said they thwarted a terror plot involving airplanes bound from Britain to the United States. Conspirators allegedly planned to blow up as many as 10 planes flying from Britain to the United States using liquid explosives, which the U.S. Transportation Security Administration's security equipment cannot detect in carry-on luggage.

"We've done some things right," the New York senator said at a community event in Schenectady. "Obviously we've beefed up airport security in some ways, but as we've learned over the last week not in every way that matters. We still have not done what we need to do to protect our ports, our borders, our bridges, our transit systems, our rail lines, it's a long list.

"I don't think our long-term strategy for homeland security is yet what it needs to be," she said.

Department of Homeland Security officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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To: Screamname

My sentiments exactly. All these critics out there...saying the President "hasn't done enough." But when you ask what they would do, well, they either have no answer or the solution they have is so lame, it's laughable. Attack, attach, attack...but offer no viable alternative.


21 posted on 08/14/2006 1:13:35 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: weegee

Re: the amusing picture:

Thank God for the pillow.


22 posted on 08/14/2006 1:13:39 PM PDT by MissNomer (If by "working through" the problem you mean "giving up" . . . .)
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To: Screamname
Hitlery doing what she does best; Complaining while saying and doing absolutely nothing.

Ditto that.

23 posted on 08/14/2006 1:13:41 PM PDT by TChris (Banning DDT wasn't about birds. It was about power.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Her Thighness' record of terror is what exactly?

That's right, she voted for the Iraq war...and...and...and...??

24 posted on 08/14/2006 1:13:51 PM PDT by MaestroLC ("Let him who wants peace prepare for war."--Vegetius, A.D. Forth Century)
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To: Sub-Driver
That POS is a hypocrite to the freakin max.

mumb ditch.

25 posted on 08/14/2006 1:14:05 PM PDT by GulfWar1Vet
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To: Sub-Driver

"We still have not done what we need to do to protect our ports, our borders, our bridges, our transit systems, our rail lines, it's a long list."

By all means tells us what Bush did wrong, and what he should have done.

She makes me sick!
Just once I would love to hear what the other plan is. If it's a good plan she can have all the credit. I don't care who makes our country safer just do it.


26 posted on 08/14/2006 1:14:50 PM PDT by GottaLuvAkitas1 (Ronald Reagan is the TRUE "Father Of Our Country".)
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To: Sub-Driver
"What sense does it make to cut anti-terrorism funding to New York by 40 percent but give tax cuts to billionaires who live in New York City?" she said.

WTF?
27 posted on 08/14/2006 1:14:56 PM PDT by maggief
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To: Screamname

I just can't wait for "ex" to preceed senator in her name.


28 posted on 08/14/2006 1:15:04 PM PDT by NCC-1701 (RADICAL ISLAM IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ELIMINATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.)
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To: MissNomer

Clinton diddled while 'Rome' burned.


29 posted on 08/14/2006 1:15:30 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: Screamname

For the luvva Pete, how do even the Dims stand her?


30 posted on 08/14/2006 1:15:33 PM PDT by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender!)
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To: samtheman

Agreed - You wouldn't think that PREVENTING ten airplanes from being blown out of the sky would be listed in Webster's under "failure." If this is a failure, I'd hate to see Mrs. Cankles definition of a success.


31 posted on 08/14/2006 1:15:44 PM PDT by ushr435
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To: NCC-1701

I'm waiting for "indicted"....


32 posted on 08/14/2006 1:15:53 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: VictoryGal

Here's the DNC talking points from BUZZFLASH.commie

http://www.buzzflash.com/perspectives/Clinton_and_Terrorism.html


33 posted on 08/14/2006 1:16:41 PM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: Sub-Driver

Reading the article, I imagined Hitlery bending over, displaying her fat backside and cankles, and letting loose a blast.


34 posted on 08/14/2006 1:17:05 PM PDT by JillValentine (Being a feminist is all about being a victim. Being an armed woman is all about not being a victim.)
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To: weegee

I've been trumped. So much the better. Nice going. :)


35 posted on 08/14/2006 1:17:06 PM PDT by NCC-1701 (RADICAL ISLAM IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ELIMINATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH.)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

August 20, 1998 - The Clinton Administration demonstrates a perfunctory response toward terrorism after the assault on two U.S. embassies in Africa. On Aug. 7, 1998. The U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, were bombed by terrorists, leaving 258 people dead and more than 5,000 injured.

The U.S. Launches cruise missiles, striking an empty terrorism training complex in Afghanistan and destroying a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Khartoum, Sudan. Both targets were claimed to have been financed by Osama bin Laden, but many feel that the ill-planned strike was simply done to deflect legal problems President Clinton was having with Monica Lewinsky. There was no follow-up and Bin Laden was buoyed by our meek approach to the growing terrorist menace.

October 12, 2000 - Terrorism strikes and almost sinks the Destroyer USS Cole in Yemen. President Bill Clinton does nothing. Reinforces the perception that the United States lacks the will to either defend itself or battle terrorism in spite of considerable loss of life. There was no follow-up.

After the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six and injured
1,000; President Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted
down and punished.

After the 1995 bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed five US military
personnel; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down
and punished.

After the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, which killed 19
and injured 200 US military personnel; Clinton promised that those
responsible would be hunted down and punished.

After the 1998 bombing of US embassies in Africa, which killed 224 and
injured 5,000; Clinton promised that those responsible! would be hunted
down! and punished.

After the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 and injured 39
US sailors; Clinton promised that those responsible would be hunted down
and punished.



36 posted on 08/14/2006 1:17:35 PM PDT by edzo4
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To: Sub-Driver
From 2004, on Hillie and the WOT...

Sen. Clinton: Bush re-election would mean loss of freedoms

37 posted on 08/14/2006 1:17:42 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: VictoryGal
For the luvva Pete, how do even the Dims stand her?

More and more dems can't stand the beast.

38 posted on 08/14/2006 1:17:47 PM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: Sub-Driver

Has a great sense of timing, eh? I can hardly wait to see her thrown overboard in 2008.


39 posted on 08/14/2006 1:17:49 PM PDT by cookcounty (Army Vet, Army Dad)
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To: Sub-Driver

She's psychotic.


40 posted on 08/14/2006 1:18:54 PM PDT by Vision (“I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me" Philippians 3:14)
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