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

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (10658)	3/29/2004 9:49:05 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

He missed Al Qaeda all together. Even worse, he has now created a new situation where the AQ is after him in Iraq. The primary message that the Clinton administration tried to get to the Bush administration was the Al Qaeda was a huge threat...and intel indicated an imminent threat. Bush did nothing. That is a under statement. Bush told Bob Woodward that he could not comprehend the gravity of threat posed by AQ and consequently he did not give it the priority that the Clinton folks gave. So the cat and mouse game that Clinton was engaged in when he handed it over to Bush fizzled because Bush was away having a good time at his ranch and still in the process of recovering from the realization he became President with only 5 votes. Cheney was away holding clandestine meetings with his energy buddies and figuring out how to tap the Alskan oil reserves etc. etc. And to our shock and dismay, the AQ struck while the US fell asleep.

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (10658)	3/30/2004 8:09:42 AM
From: H-Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

More BS. Clinton was using all the tools in the fight on terror. He was more focused on the fight against terror than Bush was. It took 9-11 to blow Bush off the pot...talk about reactive! We are talking about 1996, where Clinton took a law enforcement approach to terrorism. It did not work. Yes I said, The important lesson is that handling it as a law enforcement matter does not work. Please show me where I said it was either or, as you have stated. Kerry proposes that he will deal with terrorism as primarily a law enforcement and intelligence issue. That was the basic Clinton and Bush pre-9/11 policy. All the rest of your post is rhetoric, which you are welcome too, but it is nothing more.