Skip to comments.
The Left Declares Holy Jihad On The Bush Administration
PipeBombNews ^
| May 20 , 2002
| William A. Mayer - Publisher PIpeBombNews.com
Posted on 05/20/2002 2:21:29 PM PDT by johnqueuepublic
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21 next last
Had forgotten how Clinton's attack on bin Laden came only 3 days after his Paula Jones testimony.
To: johnqueuepublic
What does a liberal suicide bomber look like?
2
posted on
05/20/2002 2:22:49 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
To: TADSLOS
Kinda like a cross between Jane Fonda and Peter Jennings.
To: johnqueuepublic
Maybe "PipeBombNews" isn't such a good name for a publication these days.
4
posted on
05/20/2002 2:25:27 PM PDT
by
mondonico
To: anniegetyourgun
LOL! Now THAT'S an ugly sight!!
5
posted on
05/20/2002 2:26:47 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
To: mondonico
How about NiceGuysFinishLast.com?
lol
Maybe they like the notoriety, must get a lot of calls from the FBI though.
To: anniegetyourgun
I now understand why Jabba Nadler looks like he does, that guys is so fat his belly button is in a different time zone.
To: johnqueuepublic
I think it was the New York Post that printed the headline "Bush Knew", not the Daily News.
8
posted on
05/20/2002 2:39:21 PM PDT
by
Deb
To: anniegetyourgun
Host Gordon Peterson, an anchor for WUSA-TV, was dumbstruck: "So the New York Times and the Washington Post are all falling for a fake and bogus story. Is that what you're saying?"
Newsweek's Evan Thomas affirmed: "Yes, I think the media, that's exactly what I'm saying."
To: johnqueuepublic
They pick up anything that is faxed out of the DNC.
To: Deb
The Post carried a headline Pol - Bush Knew but it was about Mckinney claiming on NPR that Bush was involved in a conspiracy, I think all the NY papers including the New York Daily News carried similar stuff, I went back and read some of the headlines after I read this piece.
The Post is owned by Rupert Murdoch and is hated by Hilary, I think this was her way of attacking both Bush and the Post.
In the NY Mayoral race Greene wouldnt even talk to the Post.
To: anniegetyourgun
Yep
To: johnqueuepublic
When asked about Republican reaction to "What did Bush know and when did he know about 9/11" several Democrat congressman, today, said in essence, we hate to see this turn into political finger pointing. We need to make sure it doesn't happen in the future.
The Democrats are expert at making the non-accusation accusation. Mr. Bush, we know you don't beat your wife, but we need a commission to make sure you don't beat her in the future.
Wasn't it Clinton, Daschle and Gebhardt that pointed the first finger. Now they're backing off and accusing the Republicans of overreacting.
Damn they're good.
To: PolishProud
Yes they are the masters of innuendo, but in this case they got caught, Bush wasnt going to sity idly by and be smeared and Cheney told them to "cool it, especially Hillary"
Gephardt looked like a bug in a pan on Sunday as he got grilled.
To: johnqueuepublic
BARF ALERT!
the following is from todays Boston Globe Editorial. Personally, I believe that the DNC also prints this paper...
A game of politics with war on terror
By Thomas Oliphant, 5/19/2002
WASHINGTON
AS THE unconnected dots of information about attacks on Americans before last Sept. 11 multiply (and there will be more), the blame should not be pointed at the Democrats and journalists and even some Republicans asking reasonable questions about those dots.
Instead the blame should be pointed at the Republicans, starting with President Bush himself, who have countenanced a sly effort to politicize the war on terror for months.
After more than a week of disquieting disclosures of advance concerns by intelligence and law enforcement officials, some of which reached Bush in abbreviated form, it is clear how wrong it was to smugly imply almost from the beginning that America's vulnerability somehow flowed from failures by Bill Clinton.
It is also clear how wrong the president was back in the winter, when White House adviser Karl Rove urged Republicans running for office this year to take advantage of the war and of the country's rallying around Bush's decisive response to the attacks.
It is also clear how wrong the president was to sit back and let his political pals orchestrate a campaign to question the patriotism of those who urged a full national debate before follow-on targets for the war (like Iraq) are chosen. It is also clear how wrong he is to unleash Vice President Dick Cheney to question the patriotism of those asking pre-Sept. 11 questions now.
And finally, perhaps it wasn't such an inspired idea for Bush to do nothing when Republicans began giving campaign donors pictures of the president at work on Sept. 11.
None of this has anything to do with any effort to ''blame'' the president or his administration for what happened, or even to falsely claim that he ''knew'' in advance. As far as I know, there is no effort. The best place for any American to look for an understanding of what happened that awful day is still in the mirror.
Until the attacks, our collective sense of vulnerability simply didn't exist on a scale sufficient to prompt an alarmed response. The citizen whining about last summer's level of airport security was no different than the president skimming vague intelligence analyses at his Texas ranch.
The one government document that sums it all up perfectly is last spring's annual State Department report on terrorism. In releasing it, Secretary of State Colin Powell exuded an attitude of satisfaction, optimism, and continuity with the Clinton past.
Summing up, Powell said ''state sponsors of terrorism are increasingly isolated, terrorists are under growing pressure, terrorists are being brought to justice.''
There was strong hedge language, to be sure, including the likelihood of ''some setbacks'' ahead. However, the bottom line was that ''we continue to reduce our vulnerability.''
Within a week of that late April assessment, though, Cheney was installed as the coordinator of a supposedly new inter-agency group on counter-terrorism. And by late June, after a fresh burst of what officials like to call ''chatter'' about possible Al Qaeda dangers, there was a White House special team up and running. According to national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, this was at Bush's direction, with the mandate among other things to coordinate information.
Also according to Rice, this group began meeting several times a week, with the work ultimately leading to the intelligence paper given to the president on Aug. 6 that first linked the possibility of impending hijacking with Osama bin Laden.
Rice's sudden appearance at the White House last week was appropriate, but her words were not reassuring because of a decision to use political spin and fog. The spin - that Bush's briefing paper wasn't a real warning and that the topic was ''traditional'' hijacking - is patently silly; averting a traditional hijacking would have averted the disaster.
And the fog of detailed chronology doesn't obscure the key fact that beginning on July 5, Bush himself had asked for regular reports on a coordinated effort to process all the intelligence chatter. We already know that even the FBI couldn't coordinate information it had gathered in Arizona about Arabs taking flying lessons with the arrest of Zacharias Moussaoui in Minnesota. And Rice herself says no one is sure what CIA and FBI reports reached the White House in this period.
In short, there will be more. Most people will process it maturely, but the president would be well advised now to stop the politics and stop the secrecy.
Thomas Oliphant's e-mail address is oliphant@globe.com.
This story ran on page E7 of the Boston Globe on 5/19/2002.
15
posted on
05/20/2002 4:53:40 PM PDT
by
vannrox
To: vannrox
Oliphant is a light in the loafers DNC operative, this is all about politics, the left is scared and they should be.
To: vannrox
One addl observation, what with Gephardts and Daschle's quick retreat Oliphant finds himself advancing without his little army behind him.
To: johnqueuepublic; Howlin
The Clinton administration caused 9-11.Ya think Hillary knows about this?
To: johnqueuepublic
Reply to post #1: I think it's time to rip the Democrats mask completely off. I'm sick and tired of people tip-toeing around the issue of calling them what they really are. They are not Democrats, nor are they mere leftists or socialists. What they are, are communist revolutionaries, dedicated to the destruction of America, its institutions, its culture, its form of government, its values, and its way of life. Once this is accomplished they plan to set up a soviet American state. The Democratic party ( communist party)is by far the most serious threat that the United States has had to face since the civil war. They are our Country's worst enemy, a far worse threat than Al Quaida is today or than Japan and Germany was in WW-II.
19
posted on
05/20/2002 9:20:15 PM PDT
by
A6M3
To: Deb
No - the Post is conservative - but the Daily News is very, very liberal.
20
posted on
05/20/2002 9:30:06 PM PDT
by
CyberAnt
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson