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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (51068)	9/12/2006 1:54:56 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

A little history coorrection: 911 happened in 2001. Bush ran against Gore in 2000 and won. He ran against Kerry in 2004. The truth? NEITHER would have caught him. I think those people love to underestimate the difficulty of catching someone who is being sheltered by a sympathetic population that is also terrified of being the people who turned the perp in. Remember how long it took the FBI to run the SLA to ground? And they didn't have nearly the sympathy OBL has. I'm not sure Clinton got REALLY concerned about OBL till 1998, when the embassy bombings took place. Still, in at leat 2 years, he didn't even get close.

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (51068)	9/12/2006 2:24:50 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 90947

"Why does anyone think that Kerry would have been better at leading the US going after bin Laden than Clinton?" The current hard position of the Dems is that 'We would go after terrorists where they are'. This is supposed to stand in contradiction to the Bush approach of setting up fronts and letting the terrorists come out of their caves etc to where we are ready for them. When pressed to answer a question like, "So, you would invade Pakistan where OBL is believed to be hiding, right?" The answer we get is something like "There are other ways of going after people." No specifics to back up the postition of 'going after them where they are'.