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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (426841)	7/14/2003 3:32:00 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Should Bush be impeached for lying about Iraq and other matters of grave national security import? Clinton was impeach for lying about sex. Double standard by the GOP. What is more important? War or sex?

To: American Spirit who wrote (426841)	7/14/2003 3:32:14 PM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

>>Please no lies. So you're calling me a liar? Prove it's a lie!

To: American Spirit who wrote (426841)	7/14/2003 3:37:30 PM
From: Andy Thomas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

at one point clinton had a chance to extradite bin laden but didn't bother to

To: American Spirit who wrote (426841)	7/14/2003 3:47:50 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

you are acting like you are ignorant..are you really that ignorant???...EVERYONE knows how clinto dismantled the intelligence agencies. Tuesday I received an e-mail from a recently retired high-ranking CIA official. I will identify him as "Harry": Here's what Harry said: "... Reacting effectively and justly to this [attack] makes us hugely dependent on intell [intelligence] capabilities that failed us miserably. This is an enormous liability, which we shall not be able to fix before we have to react. Payback time for the last eight years!" He continued: "There were clearly enormous failures here. This operation was ingenious in its simplicity, which would have limited the size (number of people, actions) of the operation and hence detectability. But it could not have been that small for at least a dozen men to hijack four carefully chosen aircraft (routes, fuel load) with carefully coordinated timing. And to get through security with knives big enough to subdue four relatively large crews. If the intell and security systems claim that this challenge is simply too hard for them, they have to be replaced, root and branch. Because this challenge is the challenge. It is now pretty self-evident that claims of reform and adjustment [at the intelligence agencies] to new realities that we've heard over the past eight years or so are hollow." Of course, it's obvious why the media doesn't want any finger pointing. Guess who ran the U.S. government and was responsible for our national security for the past eight years? Yes, you got it: Bill Clinton, Hillary's husband. Clinton Responsible for Unpreparedness The Clintons were supported vociferously by the media through the worst imaginable scandals. During that time I was one of the lead reporters opposing the Clintons. I was mocked and vilified by my colleagues for doing so. I said throughout that period that Bill Clinton's personal corruption was wholesale and mirrored how he was corrupting America's national security. I wrote articles and said repeatedly that America, sadly, may end up paying a heavy price for Bill Clinton and the major media's complicity. I don't believe the worst has passed with the incidents of today. We remain vulnerable and weak. Brutally, we witnessed our weakness today. During eight years, Clinton decimated America's military. Our forces were cut almost in half under his stewardship. Research and development on all new weapons systems were brought almost to a halt as other nations continued to build. Clinton destroyed nearly our entire arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons. Monsters like Saddam flourished as Clinton bombed aspirin factories, tent cities in Afghanistan and worthless radar stations in the Iraqi desert. These are open facts, easily verifiable. Clinton, the Ever Clever Bastard But Clinton, the ever clever bastard, was more insidious. Little, systematic changes were undertaken to destroy America's intelligence agencies. Let me explain. A regular NewsMax reader, "Roger," was a CIA spy in the Mideast. I met him almost two years ago. Roger wanted to tell me why a gung-ho American quit the CIA in disgust. Roger said the CIA was not interested in recruiting spies. Clinton and company knew they could not just tell the CIA to stop recruiting spies. That would look stupid and embarrassing. So they just changed the rules of how spies are recruited, raising the bar on requirements to such a high degree that the most valuable spies could never meet CIA standards and couldn't work for us. Previously, I wrote how Clinton effectively stopped the recruitment of Chinese nationals by demanding that only high-ranking embassy officials could be recruited – knowing this is almost impossible. Roger told me that. Roger reminded me again of this today. He noted that Clinton policies reached their zenith under CIA Director John Deutch and his top assistant, Nora Slatkin. The pair ran Clinton's CIA in the mid-1990s and implemented a "human rights scrub" policy. Here's how Roger described it in an e-mail Tuesday evening: "Deutch and Nora, Clinton's anti-intelligence plants, implemented a universal 'human rights scrub' of all assets, virtually shutting down operations for 6 months to a year. This was after something happened in Central America (there was an American woman involved who was the common law wife of a commie who went missing there) that got a lot of bad press for the agency. "After that, each asset had to be certified as being 'clean for human rights violations.' "What this did was to put off limits, in effect, terrorists, criminals, and anyone else who would have info on these kinds of people." Roger says the CIA, even under new leadership, has never recovered from the "Human Rights Scrub" policy. newsmax.com