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Yes, Bush Failed on 9/11, but Trump Would Have Done No Better
National Review ^ | 10/20/2015 | David French

Posted on 10/20/2015 8:47:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: entropy12

You live in a dream world. America is not a center right country. Urban America is socialist and California is as well. It’s not the demographics, its the citizens who make up a leftist working majority in national elections. America drifts further and further left because people like free stuff and they do not have the balls to confront dangerous foes or even acknowledge them. There is no way to reverse that left wing inertia.

A conservative may be elected in 2016 but no matter who it is the march to the left will continue inexorably.


81 posted on 10/20/2015 1:14:29 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (.)
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To: entropy12

“Here is a scary thought for Halloween...

Bush41-——gave us——BJ Clinton
Bush43-——gave us——Buraq Hussein Obama
Bush,Jeb-——what will he give us——????”

A one way ticket to h*ll.


82 posted on 10/20/2015 1:46:15 PM PDT by flaglady47 (TRUMP ROCKS)
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To: entropy12

Here is a scary thought for Halloween...

Bush41-——gave us——BJ Clinton
Bush43-——gave us——Buraq Hussein Obama

Bush,Jeb-——what will he give us——????

= = = = = =

NO BORDER WITH MEXICO!

SE HALBA ESPANOL?


83 posted on 10/20/2015 2:12:33 PM PDT by onyx ( PLEASE HELP COMPLETE THIS FReepathon THIS MONTH!)
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To: jwalsh07
"All had approved visas. Bureaucratic incompetence has no bearing on that truth."

When it comes to rubber-stamping visas for those unqualified hijackers and countless others foreignors, it was not "bureaucratic incompetence" but a deliberate government "immigration policy" begun under Clinton and not stopped by GWB.

After seeing that "immigration policy" - requiring bureaucrats to ignore the legal standards in place to screen foreigners coming to the US - advanced even further with 7 years under the Obama regime, I would think all FReepers would have wakened up to that fact!

84 posted on 10/20/2015 2:36:31 PM PDT by drpix
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To: SeekAndFind

National Review is in the tank of Jeb, Kasich, or any RINO will do. Don’t need to read anymore.


85 posted on 10/20/2015 2:55:55 PM PDT by NKP_Vet (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle,stand like a rock ~ T, Jefferson)
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To: drpix

Look, your claim is statist nonsense. Bureaucrats are mindless morons who do things like approve incomplete visa applications on a daily basis. If you think Trump can cure bureaucracy you’re crazy. Put a private entity in charge of visa applications with strict accountability clauses in the contract and you can solve that problem. Otherwise you can’t.


86 posted on 10/20/2015 3:15:15 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (.)
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To: Grampa Dave
NJLiberalDestroyer Since Oct 18, 2015 Trolling in FR? Go look in the mirror
87 posted on 10/20/2015 3:17:03 PM PDT by NJLiberalDestroyer
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To: NJLiberalDestroyer; Jim Robinson; Admin Moderator

Did Amazon fire you and you came here to troll?


88 posted on 10/20/2015 3:48:08 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Pass the popcorn, set back/and watch Russia destroy Isis in Syria and Iran doing the same in Iraq.)
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To: SeekAndFind
"Which candidate is best equipped to drag the entire national-defense apparatus — including (but not limited to) our immigration system — into the post–September 11, post-ISIS reality? Which candidate is best equipped to learn from the undeniable mistakes of the past and change the unjustifiable foolishness of the present?"

Well, let's see.

Bush wants amnesty and open borders.

Trump wants to deport all illegals and secure the borders.

Next question.

89 posted on 10/20/2015 3:54:09 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: NJLiberalDestroyer

well, bye.


90 posted on 10/20/2015 3:56:36 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Jim Robinson

:)


91 posted on 10/20/2015 3:59:01 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Who knows if Trump would have been able to head off 9/11? Trump did write and talk about major terrorism threats to this country before 9/11. He also named Bin Ladin as someone on the radar. He was critical before 9/11. Many Freepers were also critical of open borders, fearing who might come through unquestioned. I do think Trump has the right to be critical, it is not hindsight if you brought it up before the event and were ignored.


92 posted on 10/20/2015 4:17:19 PM PDT by Tammy8
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To: JimRed

We should all realize how horrible it would have been with Gore or Kerry. President Bush was without a doubt a far, far better President than either of them would have been. I respect President Bush for what he did. I have been critical of him for not seeing the real threat sooner, and for the fact he never seemed to equate an open border with security.

I do not have a problem with Trump being critical of Bush, in light of the fact that Trump did try to warn of terrorism threats.


93 posted on 10/20/2015 4:32:44 PM PDT by Tammy8
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To: Tammy8

he never seemed to equate an open border with security.


He wasn’t stupid. But he knew that security comes with a price. Evidently someone met that price and Bush made the sale.


94 posted on 10/20/2015 4:39:32 PM PDT by samtheman (2014: Voters elect Repubs to congress... 2015: Repubs defund NOTHING... 2016: Trump/(Cruz or Palin))
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To: SeekAndFind

Why would David French, or anyone else who really believes we haven’t learned anything from the immigration lapses that led to 9/11 trash a guy who obviously (and unlike the rest of the field of republican candidates save Cruz) is not beholden to the cheap labor lobby and who wants to finally do something to fix our ridiculous visa system?


95 posted on 10/20/2015 5:23:57 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: NJLiberalDestroyer

Adios mo Fo!


96 posted on 10/20/2015 6:13:39 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Pass the popcorn, set back/and watch Russia destroy Isis in Syria and Iran doing the same in Iraq.)
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