Originally posted by jay_too+Feb 17 2005, 03:28 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(jay_too @ Feb 17 2005, 03:28 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-ChiGuy123@Feb 17 2005, 06:01 AM
The Clinton Administration chose to ignore Al Qaeida numerous times....from the first WTC bombings to the US Embassy bombing in Kenya....and nothing was really done about it, and BAM, we got hit hard on Sept. 11.
Going into Iraq was clearly not thought out as well as it could have been, but Sadaam has used chemical weapons on his people before GW's time,
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Dude..
Where were you during the 1990's? Oh yea, that was the decade when you were into inhalant powders and not reading the newpapers or watching the evening news. Get your ass to the bookstore or the library and pick up a history of those go-go years and you will read about the Clinton administration's trying to kill the big O with cruise missiles and bombing O's factories in Sudan to hopefully cut off the flow of money and reduce his ability to produce chemical/biological products.
Should more have been done? Undoubtedly. However, remember the major focus of the last few years of the Clinton administration was handling the impeachment [or as the French would say "Much Ado about a Blow Job"]. This was distraction was okay according to the Gingrich who said that we lived in a world that was unique, one that was free of foreign dangers. This was some years after the 1993 of the World Trade Center. Republican leadership assured America that Clinton was seeking to turn their attention from the impeachment to an invalid foreign threat.
One of the stories of the past week is the conviction of the Blind Shiek's lawyer for passing information to his followers. Yea, the Sheik is still in prison.
I agree that Dubya gets failing marks for not listening to credible technical sources about the evidence of WMDs and for inept [think crimminally] execution of the war.
About Social Security, as much as 40 percent of the annual payout from Social Security is for disability and child survivor benefits. So it is not all for old people...or for your retirement years.
jay
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Bravo! It's all well and good to have opinions, but uninformed opinions simply dissipate into the ether. Saying Clinton did nothng is ludicrous, right-wing stupidity, not to mention intentional misrepresentation of the facts as they occured (clue- you can't change history by lying about it), but none of this is surprising, as I'm sure he read it on a right wing propaganda site. Grrr.
You can't have it both ways, the man wasn't allowed to function as President due to his ongoing impeachment, and that following the Whitewater scandal. We should not be able to sue a sitting president unless he is a threat to our nation's well-being, it's too stupid for words. I realise I'm saying "stupid" so much I probably sound stupid, but that's just where our country is right now, I resent deeply beng represented by such a stupid leader, surrounded by such stupid followers, and having to deflect such utter nonsense by people who believe they have a point.
Flamethrower retracted now.