[Trueblackman]

Well before I depart for the night I would tell you to read the statement McKinney put out to www.CNSNews.com as further proof of my reasoning behind all this. It was McKinney and Hasting with the blessing of Gephardt and Daschle I would not put it pass them they helped.

[sleavelessinseattle]

Superb analysis and support from posters...I'll close with this quote from David Horowitz's "How the left undermined America's Security"

On January 20, 2001, George W. Bush was sworn in as the 43rd president of the United States. Within months of taking office, he ordered a new strategy for combating terrorism that would be more than just "swatting at flies," as he described Clinton's policy. The new plan reached the President's desk on September 10, 2001. It was "too late," as columnist Andrew Sullivan wrote, "But it remains a fact that the new administration had devised in eight months a strategy that Bill Clinton had delayed for eight years."

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