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To: LindyBill who wrote (180964)	9/28/2006 11:36:43 PM
From: Sdgla	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

<The Bush Cheney Adminstration not only failed to stop 9/11 from happening, but for five years failed to bring Osama bin Laden to justice even though they had him cornered at Tora Bora --they yanked our special forces out of there to send them into Iraq. We witnessed the growth of additional enemies.> Looks like the Dems, having created their own reality, can no longer separate fact and fiction.

To: LindyBill who wrote (180964)	9/29/2006 12:48:00 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793964

If the Dems win, the US will just have to pack up, get our soldiers home, and get ready to be hit in this country again. And perhaps again and again. The Dems don't know what end of a stick to use, let alone a gun. If we think this Adm has made some mistakes, JUST WAIT till we see what the Dems can and can not do. Wonder if we have any air to air defense yet? The bill passed the Senate 65 to 34, but the voters must focus on those 34, and the positions of power they will hold if George Allen, Conrad Burns, Bob Corker, Mike DeWine, Rick Santorum, and Jim Talent lose their seats. With Reid as Majority Leader and Leahy as chair of Judiciary, the terrorists' rights caucus would waste no time in paralyzing the war effort and intelligence gathering.

To: LindyBill who wrote (180964)	9/29/2006 1:52:28 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

Tony Snow: Previous presidency hurt terrorism fight Bill Sammon, The Examiner Sep 28, 2006 2:00 AM (20 hrs ago) Current rank: # 1 of 6,929 articles WASHINGTON - The White House took a swipe at former President Clinton on Wednesday, just days after he accused President Bush of doing “nothing” to catch Osama bin Laden before Sept. 11. White House press secretary Tony Snow told reporters that Clinton spent his presidency “dramatically” slashing military and intelligence assets that are vital to fighting global terrorism. “Even with the buildup since September 11th, we are only now beginning to achieve the same sort of levels that we had — in terms of intelligence assets — that we had at the beginning of the Clinton administration,” Snow said. Last weekend, Clinton said Bush administration officials “did not try” to kill bin Laden before Sept. 11. “At least I tried,” he angrily told Chris Wallace on Fox News Channel. “That’s the difference in me and some, including all the right-wingers who are attacking me now. They ridiculed me for trying. They had eight months to try. They did not try. I tried. So I tried and failed.” Asked on Tuesday to respond to Clinton’s criticism, Bush said he would not engage in “finger-pointing” over the failure to capture or kill bin Laden. But on Wednesday, Snow seemed to suggest the Clinton administration did not try hard enough to counter the rising threat of global terrorism in the 1990s. “In the previous administration, we had an attack on the World Trade Center, on Khobar Towers,” he said. “We had attacks on both embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, an attack on the USS Cole. “Also, Osama bin Laden in February of 1998 made it clear that he not only intended to wage war on the United States, but he wanted to use Iraq as a central battleground,” he said. “In short, there was a gathering threat. In those years, bin Laden noticed that the United States had, in fact, been cutting back dramatically on intelligence assets and on military assets.” Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., who is expected by many to run for president in 2008, suggested Tuesday that Bush did not heed a warning about bin Laden that he received a month before Sept. 11. “I’m certain that if my husband and his national security team had been shown a classified report entitled ‘Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States,’ he would have taken it more seriously than history suggests it was taken by our current president and his national security team,” she told reporters on Capitol Hill. bsammon@dcexaminer.com Examiner