Posted on 05/17/2002 8:54:11 PM PDT by Pokey78
I have to say I'm a little angry today.
Many months after 9-11, the media suddenly want to hold President Bush accountable for what took place.
They are even invoking Watergate and the mantra of cover-up: "What did the president know and when did he know it?”
Don't get me wrong. I believe this president – and every president – should be held accountable to the American people for all the things that happen under his watch.
But I also believe the media should have demanded accountability immediately after 9-11.
In fact, they have yet to do so.
Since 9-11, congressional investigations have begun, but little has come of them so far.
It took five months – five months – before CIA Director George Tenet was brought before the Congress to testify.
He boldly told Congress there was nothing that could have been done to prevent the September tragedy.
The truth is evident for anyone with a brain: Nothing could have been done because of the catastrophic failure of our intelligence agencies, particularly the CIA and the FBI.
Immediately after 9-11, NewsMax revealed – we were the first – that during the Clinton years the CIA had stopped recruiting spies within the terrorist networks.
The media have gone to great lengths to avoid the story.
To date, they have yet to question, seriously and vigorously, Bill and Hillary Clinton for their actions in their eight years in the White House.
In President Bush's defense, he had arrived at the White House just months before 9-11.
But the media have not asked the Clintons, under whose watch the attacks were planned, why they failed us.
In this new era of Clintonian politics (and the Clintons still dominate the political scene), there is no accountability, especially if it involves Democrats.
Obviously, this is an election year, and the Democrats want to score as many points as possible against a very popular president.
Here we are witnessing the difference between the Republicans and the Democrats. Given the opportunity, the Democrats will always go for the jugular, while the Republicans will always try to take the high road.
It's not difficult to understand, then, why the Republicans are usually on the losing side.
The Democrats also have a very powerful ally in the establishment media, which always back them up.
The Roper Study found that 89 percent of the Washington press corps voted for Bill Clinton. Presumably, they would like to see Hillary in the White House as well.
The serious issue is not what the president knew and when he knew it.
The real question is why the American media gave Bill Clinton a free ride for eight years while he plundered national treasures such as the Lincoln Bedroom, politicized the FBI, gave away our nuclear and ballistic secrets to China, led the most corrupt administration in history – and yet and yet and yet, the liberal media have never viewed any of this as important.
Americans saw the results of the media's blatant failure to perform their job on 9-11.
I'm afraid that unless we take substantial action and find out who really was responsible for not preventing Sept. 11, future tragic events, more sensational than we have ever seen, will happen again. And this time we might not be so lucky.
Another "well duh" bumper sticker argument. Who the hell isn't?
It's so hypocritical of the Left that is reluctant to use military action to be asking why it wasn't used prior to 9/11.
As a result, the Office of Homeland Security was created, and the public doesn't really know what it is. More government interference has taken place in order to "protect us from terror," and we see the Constitution is being undermined even more with the powers that arrests can be made without a clear understanding of why. This goes directly against our Constitution and our Bill of Rights.
Our nation cannot fall from outside forces, only from within. Unfortunately, we are self-destructing.
So, you are accusing our government of allowing this to happen in order to advance the NWO?
I can almost see Carville and Schrum going gonzo when that Bush campaign brochure was "discovered" .... it seems like this whole media overheating is the long hoped for, and planned, opportunity to direct their NUKES at Bush. Three thousand deaths are his fault. Typical Carville bull. The atmospheric pressure in the newsrooms and studions has no connection whatsoever to the importance of the stories, however. It has been a surreal week, and I can tell Bush is big time pissed right now at the sucker punches that have been coming his way.
Good, I want to see him go off on somebody. Leahy!!!
But since that era, we have had a President that did not finish the job in Iraq, a President that gave away our military secrets for campaign money, and a President who starts off saying the right thing, but when informed of the globalist agenda, changes his tune.
The JBS is a group that claimed that fluoride in the drinking water was a communist plot, The JBS is a group that demonized Ronald Wilson Reagan as a "closet commie" the JBS is, was and forever will be a group made up of the lowest dregs of losers that blame their own lack of a life beyond their bunkers on the ever nebulous "they". You have not answered my question. DID THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ALLOW 911 TO ADVANCE ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT?"
If you actually believed that then you would use anything from the JBS as the toilet paper it is.
Besides, you are taking up the very same thing you are accusing the JBS of doing, and that is being a conspiracy theorist.
However, I do have my own oppinion. I think that you don't like the fact that they are willing to investigate the Republican's, the supposed "good guys" and disseminate the truth about them. The Democrats drive off a cliff with their foot on the gas. The Republican's drive off that same cliff with their foot hovering over the brake. Break down both party's agendas, and you see they are essentially the same in outlook. I am a conservative, and that is why I am not a Republican.
Sorry friend I don't deal in "conspiricy" I deal in what the JBS has said in their own words Here
Now if you are an honest poster you will read the entire link and acknowledge that the JBS is what I said it is.
"The real question is why the American media gave Bill Clinton a free ride for eight years while he plundered national treasures such as the Lincoln Bedroom, politicized the FBI, gave away our nuclear and ballistic secrets to China, led the most corrupt administration in history – and yet and yet and yet, the liberal media have never viewed any of this as important."
The only change I'd make is
"the most corrupt, most fraudulent, most downright criminal Administration in History..."
Again, I do not deny that Reagan was surrounded by globalists. Despite that, he had a successful Presidency, but one that certainly could have gone farther into restoring the traditional America. That is what I see to be his biggest fault. However, he was our last great President.
THAT WAS A JBS PUBLICATION!. You are, as I suspected, the newest in a line of agenda driven CINOs from the nether regions.
But you are sidestepping the issue. There is evidence that our Government knew what was going to happen. They did not do a single thing to stop it. Again, I don't believe that there is any known evidence indicating that Bush had prior knowledge, but certainly there were people in our Government who did, and did not do a thing about it or tried to do something about it but were not allowed to.
Post the "evidence" then.
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