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

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (749445)	9/16/2006 7:05:39 PM
From: Jamey	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

So now it's Clinton's fault that Bush attacked a sovereign nation causing tens of thousands of innnocent civilian deaths and bankrupting our national treasury. Way to go! Is that your platform? Santi

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (749445)	9/17/2006 10:15:26 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Re: "Losing Bin Laden" Would that be at Tora Bora? Or earlier, with the WH approval for the 'Airlift of Terror'? Oh... earlier? (Re: "doing nothing in response to the Cole attack"?) How about even EARLIER STILL... like when Reagan called off the US retaliatory naval air strikes against Hizbollah (with the fighters loaded and on the aircraft carrier's flight line!), right after Hizbollah blew up our Marines in Lebanon? (You see, Floppy, that's the 'problem' with history... when you start digging into it it's like an onion, layer after layer, it just keeps going....)

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (749445)	9/26/2006 11:06:11 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Al Qaeda in Iraq? How Could This Be? "A senior Al Qaeda operative who engineered a brazen escape from a high security American prison in Afghanistan last year was killed in a predawn raid by British soldiers in a quiet, wealthy neighborhood in southern Iraq on Monday," the New York Times reports: Two companies of about 250 soldiers wearing night goggles and carrying night-vision rifles stormed a house in the neighborhood of al-Tuninnah in Basra, intending to capture the operative. The spokesman for the British military in Iraq, Maj. Charles Burbridge, I [sic] identified the operative as Omar al-Faruq. But they were fired upon as they entered and shot back, killing Mr. Faruq. Major Burbridge said Mr. Faruq was "a terrorist of considerable significance" who had been hiding in Basra, but he declined to say whether this was the same man who escaped from the American military detention center in Bagram, Afghanistan, last July. Mr. Faruq's identity was confirmed by an American official in Washington and by an official in Basra, who was not authorized to speak on the subject. But we thought al Qaeda had nothing to do with Iraq! All right, all right, we know the argument is that if Saddam Hussein hadn't been toppled, Faruq wouldn't have been in Iraq. That is, he wouldn't have been in Iraq where allied troops could kill him. This is supposed to be an argument against our presence there? opinionjournal.com