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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (888826)9/18/2015 1:09:03 AM
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>> He was told the threat was growing and he did no thing.

There is nothing he could have done. At all. Everyone has admitted it save for a couple of idiot reporters who, of course, are totally biased.

>> Bush wanted to be a war time president.

Reality is if Bush hadn't moved against Iraq given the information he had available at the time he would have been grossly incompetent. You would have beat him to pieces over it. You would STILL be bitching about it today, even if Saddam were in a damned nursing home.

>> Like doing nothing about the Cole.

Hell, Clinton knew before he left office bin Laden had done it and he didn't do a damned thing about it. You're going to blame Bush? Clinton knew where bin Laden was and could have scooped him up with ease.

I have no interest in defending Bush on this. It has been determined and redetermined there was plenty of blame to go around, and Clarke wrote a first-rate memo on Day One of the Bush administration advising that he considered AQ to be a substantial threat. Clarke considered the retribution for the Cole incident a difficult one, no doubt (more difficult than AQ generally -- and this was 8 months before the 911 strike). But there was nothing to suggest it couldn't be handled with efficiency.

You are acting like tejek and Al here. No rational analysis of the situation; a totally political interpretation.
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