At first the conservatives at CG, and even a few liberals who still have a soul, tried to convince them to shut up. But they refused. Their screen names, if you'd like to wander over and flame them mercilessly, are NJCher, Youthful Indiscretion, SunRock and George bush-bin-Laden. The latter screen name, custom-designed for the occasion, was posting entire essays from Salon, DU and Bartcop, showing that at the left-wing hate sites, the "hate Bush, blame Bush" mantra was going full blast.
I started going around to every thread started by Youthful Indiscretion, posting a statement (with link) from Colin Powell indicating that the $43 million in aid was in the form of grain, medical supplies and other hard goods, routed directly to Red Crescent (Islamic equivalent of the Red Cross) and other relief organizations to keep it out of the hands of the Taliban. Powell also pointed out that last year we gave $114 million in aid for the Afghan refugees.
I then posed a few questions to these left-wing punks at CG: First, do you really believe that in some smoke-filled room at the White House, Bush said to Powell, "Here's an idea. Let's send $43 million in small, unmarked bills to Osama bin Laden. I hear he's planning to blow up the World Trade Center and destroy America, and that should help him a lot"?
Second, do you really think anyone else is stupid enough to believe it?
Third, did Clinton send his $114 million in the form of grain and other hard goods directly to relief organizations or did he send his boys to deliver it in small, unmarked bills to bin Laden? (Inquiring minds want to know.)
And fourth, why weren't all the liberal-sympathizing TV journalists asking the same silly questions last year?
Then I discovered that Clinton waited until Dec. 20th, 2000 to issue his last (Osama thought was empty (^:) threat, tougher sanctions in 30 days unless Osama's delivered. Now he knew this would anger not only the Taliban, but his terrorist pals across the world. He also knew that 30 days from Dec. 20th was Jan. 20th. The electoral college voted Dec. 18th, confirming President Bush. After the trouble Clinton left for our President, and the nastiness of his pals since Jan., this last bomb left intentionally on the date of Dec. 20th-set to explode in 30 days- is, to me, the cruelest trick Slick played.