Bin Laden specter gives Bush critics an opening - Democrats see flaw in president's strategy

The Dallas Morning News ^ | November 16, 2002 | By DAVID JACKSON / The Dallas Morning News

[daapfe]

I SAY Outlaw the democrat party...Just keep repeating DEMOCRATS===NAZIS=COMMUNIST
Say it enough and people will listen... That is what the Liberal media and Demonazis have been doing for 30 years....
I hope Kerry runs in 2004 i will be at every rally calling him a little commie BIATCH!!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Meekie, long time no ping! (^:

As Ann Coulter so accurately states, a very small percentage, maybe 10%, thinks the way the mainstream newsmedia, Universities and entertainment and pol "elites" think. America gets it. most Americans know why we're in this war, why we need to take out Saddam...but listening to Daschle, CNN, etc., the "will of the people" is not only being ignored, these misguided cowards are spitting on us, America and our President.

I appreciate the e-mail address.

CLINTONWORLD

Clinton's parting gift to Bush? Poking the Taliban hornet's nest...and running:

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Today, the United Nations removed all its remaining relief workers from the country, fearing a backlash from the Taliban, who will be almost completely isolated diplomatically when the resolution takes effect in 30 days, a grace period during which the Taliban could avoid sanctions by meeting the Council's demands. , Dec. 20th...2000.

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Why did Clinton wait until Dec. 19th, 2000 to push the UN for tougher sanctions against the Taliban? The grace period was set to expire in 30 days. Clinton knew this would anger not only the Taliban, but their terrorist pals across the world. The UN understood the danger...they pulled their own people out the same day, Dec. 20th, the new threat was issued. The electoral college voted for President Bush on Dec. 18, 2000. On Dec. 19th, Clinton went to the UN to push for tougher sanctions with a 30 day grace period..to go into effect Jan. 19, 2001 - President Bush's inaugeration eve.

Why would Clinton also close off ANWR those last days in office keeping us more dependent on terrorist-supporting nations for our energy needs?

Why would Clinton invite both Barak and Arafat to the White House the last days of his administration and encourage them both to make concessions that were sure to anger each and which turned their people against them at home?

Why did the press report on the pardons and the vandalism, but neglect to investigate the most damaging actions of the departing President?

Why would Clinton leave so many landmines for the new President, knowing that our national security was at stake?

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One morning at the nub end of Bill Clinton's presidency, Clinton chief of staff John Podesta walked into a senior staff meeting in the Roosevelt Room waving a copy of USA Today. Holding the paper aloft, Podesta read the headline out loud, "Clinton actions annoy Bush." The article detailed the new rules and Executive Orders the outgoing President was issuing in his final days, actions aimed in equal measure at locking in Clinton's legacy (in areas like environmental protection) and bedeviling his successor. "What's Bush so annoyed about?" Podesta asked with a devilish smile. "He's got four years to try to undo all the stuff we've done."
Link.

"We laid a few traps," chirps a happy Clinton aide.....

[Nick Danger]

The Democrats don't get it. This is not what people voted for. They are damned lucky there is not another election next week... they would be thrown out en masse for doing this. This is exactly what the Democrats were being told not to do.

This carping from the sidelines while we're all trying to figure out how to keep from being blown up is not just annoying, it is angry-making. I think the Democrats are trading a little bit of hype for their base in return for lasting enmity from the American people. If they keep this up, I think we'll start to see people changing their voting registrations. No one will want to be known as a "Democrat." It will become a term of insult.

[jwalsh07]

The funny thing is, Kerry was anti-Vietnam War before he enlisted. The guy has, I suspect, a burning ambition to follow in the footsteps of another JFK. He thinks it is his karma.

[MeekOneGOP]

[Williams]

"analysts noted ... analysts said" Who the hell is that?

We are told the American people will be sure the war is over if Bin Laden is killed? And what will they think following the next Al Queda terrorist attack thereafter? Democrats are scum. They didn't notice the conquest of Afghanistan?

IF they have some suggestions on how better to fight this war, have they offered them to the Commander in Chief? Funny, I haven't heard one.

[Wphile]

The democrats are lower than low. They are seizing upon the tape as a political opening. Not a national security issue but just political opportunism. Besides, Bush has said over and over that this will take a long time. This war will be very different than most. The American people get it, the Democrats don't. Blind ambition is a very bad thing, indeed. Just look at the democrat party. YIKES!

[MeekOneGOP]

Meekie, long time no ping! (^:

I've been without my ping list since Oct. 24th. My Dad was in an auto accident in Colorado on the 23rd, and I drove up there the next morning early. He totalled the car and is banged up a bit. It will take a while getting back to normal, but he's doing better. We got back to Texas Halloween Night.....

Dad's brother and SIL came up to watch him so I could catch up on personal stuff at my house. I retrieved my ping lists and graphics from home and forwarded it to Dad's computer while I was there.

[fhayek]

A couple of days ago, our local rag (The Buffalo News) published a chart showing 33 of the top al-Qaida leaders and lietenants. Of these, 14 have been either killed or captured. Just today, we get the report of the capture of another high al-Qaida figure. To the contrary, Mr. Daschle and Mr.Kerry, we are kicking butt.

[Ax]

I wonder if FDR had been pilloried by the opposition party when Gen. Mark Clark's Fifth Army took Italy without handing FDR Kesselring's head. Or when Patton's Army crossed the Rhine without Von Runstedt's head...

[Siobhan]

As Miss Marple said elsewhere, President Bush ought to have a Drone following Clinton 24/7.

[Victoria Delsoul]

"We're making great progress in the war on terror," Mr. Bush said. "Slowly, but surely, we are dismantling the terrorist network. We're finding their sanctuaries, we're holding people to account."

Bump.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

My Dad was in an auto accident in Colorado on the 23rd, and I drove up there the next morning early. He totalled the car and is banged up a bit.

Oh, Meek, I'm sorry. Prayers for a full recovery for your dad and peace for your family.

Brothers come in handy sometimes, don't they? (^:

[patriciaruth]

but why are so many Americans bent on proving what is presently unprovable?

Think you need to hone your thinking here. Why are so many Democrats bent on accepting as true what is presently unprovable?

Daschle: "We are losing the war on terror."

Gore: "We need to focus on the war on terror and finish it before starting with Iraq."

An real OBL tape can be used to "support" their contentions and legitimize their opposition to the Bush administration.

[go star go]

The CIA made did it. Bin Laden has been dead for a year. It is now convient for us to have him running wild in other terrorist countries so we can kill the murdering cowards there also in a quest for Bin laden...

[go star go]

See. Bin laden's in Yemen so we get to kill all the murdering cowards in Yemen...

[patriciaruth]

The CIA faked the tape?

LOL! Makes a good fantasy script for a Democrat TV show, but this is not reality in a Bush administration.

Thank you for reminding me to watch that new hunk, Jason O'Mara as Stiles, on The Agency, CBS at 10pm tonight. I think this is the night they accuse the President of covering up a murder. Democrat must see TV.

[go star go]

You're funny. We will keep Bin laden on ice and use his memory to destroy every last murdering coward in his cult. Watch and see...

[go star go]

and when the Demonrats pin all there hopes on Bin Laden not being caught BAMM! he's caught dead and they have egg on their face yet again.

[joonbug]

And what exactly have any of the Democrats done in the war against terror??