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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (9717)	3/23/2004 11:55:49 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

Re: GW Bush: Thanks for dividing our nation. As far as "dividing the nation" goes, I'm afraid US public opinion was, and still is, divided already.... That guy, Rev Rich Lang, capsuled it cannily: Message 19930461 Keep in mind that the 45+ million Evangelical freaks were not conjured up overnight by George W. Bush! Nor was GW Bush responsible for the serial wedding of gays and lesbians in San Fransisco a coupla weeks ago.... GW Bush ain't responsible for pitting America's arch-liberals against right-wing nuts from the Bible Belt! Then there's the weight of the US's bloated military establishment.... Sometimes I think of the US military as an unruly pit bull of sorts whose master must constantly come up with another bone to keep it happy --lest the pit bull turn against its master... Well, right now, the master enjoys a breathing break so to speak: he sent his pit bulls fetching in Afghanistan and Iraq... better to have the military freaks messing around over there than over here, huh? Note: A Second Civil War? Message 19741697

To: stockman_scott who wrote (9717)	3/23/2004 12:21:39 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Bush officials, meanwhile, failed to act immediately on increasing intelligence chatter and urgent warnings in early 2001 by its counterterrorism adviser, Richard A. Clarke, to take out al-Qaida targets, according to preliminary findings by the commission reviewing the attacks. "From the spring of 1997 to September 2001, the U.S. government tried to persuade the Taliban to expel bin Laden to a country where he could face justice," the report said. "The efforts employed inducements, warnings and sanctions. All these efforts failed." Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told the commission that President Clinton and his team "did everything we could, everything we could think of, based on the knowledge we had, to protect our people and disrupt and defeat al-Qaida." The preliminary report said the U.S. government had determined bin Laden was a key terrorist financier as early as 1995, but that efforts to expel him from Sudan stalled after Clinton officials determined he couldn't be brought to the United States without an indictment. A year later, bin Laden left Sudan and set up his base in Afghanistan without resistance. www.sfgate.com