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To: ilgipper
I do not listen to Rush any more, but I do sometimes read the transcripts from his show that are posted on this forum. It appeared to me the other day that Rush was trying to defend/excuse W, and create the idea that somehow Trump's statement about W not keeping us safe was going to protect Hillary from Benghazi. I did not quite get what I considered to be rather tortured logic about that, perhaps if I had the entire discussion to read I would have. But here is what I got out of what I did read: Rush was trying subtly to damage Trump. Rush made the statement that all of the 911 terrorists were here on legal visas, which is simply not true. Many visas had expired, many were misused, and the visas applications were improperly filled out would not hold up to scrutiny, in short they should not have been granted in the first place, and 9 months into the Bush administration, these terrorists on their 6-month expired visas were STILL in this country! Secondly, Rush spoke about the holdovers from the Clinton era which Bush had retained. Rush excused this stating that Bush had done this in the spirit of bipartisanship, (which I find inexcusable.) And so the foolish Clinton policy of not allowing the sharing of law enforcement agencies to communicate with each other was STILL IN PLACE!!! It is one thing perhaps to not immediately replace personnel, but Bush could have ordered the the CIA and FBI, as well as other agencies share information, and institute other sane changes, but instead chose to continue the same policies. So, NINE MONTHS into the Bush administration, and knowing something was likely to happen, Bush, like Clinton, was not allowing information to be shared among the law enforcement and intelligence agencies. In short, Bush and Clinton had exactly the same national security policies, and I was forced to conclude, based on Rush's statements, that Bush was every bit as responsible as Clinton for 911 because his national security policies and people were exactly the same as his predecessor. If I am mistaken about this, please set me straight. If not, Trump is absolutely right.
182 posted on 10/20/2015 11:12:48 AM PDT by erkelly
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To: erkelly

I am so sorry, I did paragraph my remarks. They are very hard to read. I wrote:

I do not listen to Rush any more, but I do sometimes read the transcripts from his show that are posted on this forum.

It appeared to me that Rush was trying to defend/excuse W, and create the idea that somehow Trump’s statement about W not keeping us safe was going to protect Hillary from Benghazi.

I did not quite get what I considered to be rather tortured logic about that, perhaps if I had the entire discussion to read I would have.

But here is what I got out of what I did read: Rush was trying subtly to damage Trump.

Rush made the statement that all of the 911 terrorists were here on legal visas, which is simply not true. Many visas had expired, many were misused, and the visas applications were improperly filled out would not hold up to scrutiny, in short they should not have been granted in the first place, and 9 months into the Bush administration, these terrorists on their 6-month expired visas were STILL in this country!

Secondly, Rush spoke about the holdovers from the Clinton era which Bush had retained. Rush excused this stating that Bush had done this in the spirit of bipartisanship, (which I find inexcusable.) And so the foolish Clinton policy of not allowing the sharing of law enforcement agencies to communicate with each other was STILL IN PLACE!!!

It is one thing perhaps to not immediately replace personnel, but Bush should have ordered the CIA and FBI, as well as other agencies share information his first week in office, and institute other sane changes, but instead chose to continue the same policies.

So, NINE MONTHS into the Bush administration, and knowing something was likely to happen, Bush, like Clinton, was not allowing information to be shared among the law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

In short, Bush and Clinton had exactly the same national security policies, and I was forced to conclude, based on Rush’s statements, that Bush was every bit as responsible as Clinton for 911 because his national security policies and people were exactly the same as his predecessor.

If I am mistaken about this, please set me straight.

If not, Trump is absolutely right.


190 posted on 10/20/2015 11:20:28 AM PDT by erkelly
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