You know ... I'd be willing to accept that answer if you could point to ANY indication that Ashcroft was investigating ANY of the alleged crimes (pardonGate does NOT count) in the EIGHT MONTHS prior to the WTC attack. But I don't think you can. So what was the EXCUSE in those 8 months for not even BEGINNING an investigation of such serious matters as TREASON, MURDER and ELECTION TAMPERING?
Our President and his staff have more on their plates than any of us should ever be forced to bear. He has never ignored domestic issues during this time while simultaneously staying in command of a complex military operation with our troops lives at stake.
Again, your whole argument falls apart because while all this counterterrorism activity has been going on, the DOJ and other agencies have STILL found time to pursue minor drug dealers (even the LEGAL marijuana clubs in California) and go after such heinous criminals as assisted suicide doctors (again LEGAL in the state where they decided to go after them). IF Bush/Ashcroft were AT ALL interested in pursuing these investigations they would AT LEAST have a core group of perhaps 50-100 investigators (a tiny fraction of the total) working on them. Why ... with half a dozen, "I" could blow open the whole Chinagate/Campaign Finance Scandal. I'd just exhume and autopsy Ron Brown body ... thereby proving that the Clinton Administration and the media AT THE VERY LEAST covered up a MASS MURDER.
I'm mystified that folks can't understand both the seriousness of the militant Muslim threat and the courage of our President.
But I do understand the seriousness and he has been courageous in that regard. But let's face it ... these foreign terrorists are not really a threat to the SURVIVAL of our Republic. But allowing our judicial system to be destroyed by IGNORING such serious crimes as those committed by the democRATS the last 8 years could be. Our Republic could die just like Rome's did.
President Bush never once during his campaign said that he'd go after Clinton legally. Clinton's a small man. He will always be a small man.
That's hardly an EXCUSE for ignoring these crimes. He took an OATH to defend the Constitution AND THE LAWS of this nation. Are you suggesting he BREAK that oath? Furthermore, this is NOT just about Clinton. This is about a whole party gone bad with perhaps HUNDREDS of individuals involved in major crimes the last 8 years. This is about a party trying to SUBVERT the ELECTION PROCESS ITSELF using ILLEGAL foreign cash (from our ENEMIES) and voter tampering.
Bush is trustworthy. He means what he says and isn't simply a poser. When he threatens Saddam, he means it and Saddam knows it. When he salutes the troops, he means it, and the troops know it.
Then didn't he also mean it when he took that oath to defend the constitution and our laws? Sooner or later he needs to prove it. Simply Moving-On is NOT the right to do.
Americans have every right to be angry at the Clintons, but taking it out on the current administration during wartime (that "inconvenience" that has cost us over 4000 innocent American lives - and more on the line overseas) is wrong, IMHO.
The Constitution doesn't say that a war is an excuse for not investigating and prosecuting mass murder or treason. In fact, isn't it dangerous to have such people in positions of power (and they STILL are) in wartime? Now more than ever, it seems to me, Ashcroft should be making sure that the people in power are non-blackmailable and trustworthy.
Now really, BeAC, do you believe that AG Ashcroft, or any of his Division Chiefs are going to tell you, daily, what they're doing? Do you know of Ch. Criminal Division, Michael Chertoff? Do you remember when Chertoff was the chief counsel for the Whitewater hearings? Do you remember how he exposed every wart on Hubbel's fat fanny, and stopped only when ordered to by Al D'Amato? Do you believe that Chertoff and his crew aren't doing anything, now that the shoe is on the other foot?
You need to find a hobby, or a friend to talk with, since you spend too much time whining about things that 1) you know very little about and 2) even if you do know, don't have enough sense to know that one lengthy, repetitive and meaningless post after another aren't going to change things overnight.
Yeah, about the WTC. Got a problem with what Ragtime Cowgirl pointed out that Pres Bush did before? You don't know what was done during those 8 mos re investigations. But since you think you know so much, why not do as I suggested during one of your recent Ron Brown rants--write a reasonable letter to AG Ashcroft and tell him exactly what you *know* and why he should prosecute whomever is directly responsible--I'm sure you know whom to accuse. Right?
And if you really want to point a finger and either whine or gripe, there is always the traitor, Jim Jeffords, who jumped ship so he could have a committee chair, and get more money for his VT cowherders--that is what you should be thinking about. And about damned time you start supporting the president, you ungrateful pup.