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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (10275)	4/25/2007 10:52:23 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 224750

Liar. AL Qaida didn't even exist until 1995, and it wasn't known as a guilty terrorist group by the US until 1996. It was actually more like 1997 until the FBI knew for sure Bin laden was responsible for the embassy bombings. Immediately upon getting that evidence, Clinton went on the attack and launched 150 Cruise Missiles at Al Qaida training sites and other hide-outs and assets. At the time some on the rightwing mocked Clinton for trying to "change the subject from Monica Lewinsky" by going after Bin Laden. The GOP was split on supporting both these bombing attacks and those on Saddam's suspected weapons sites. Clinbton then set up a 24/7 Al Qaida only office in the White House which reported to Sandy Berger and they STOPPED the 1999 LAX bombing attempt. Since I live 15 miles from LAX I am eternally grateful, but sgrangely rightwingers give Clinton and Berger no credit for that. Why not I wonder? The USS Cole attack was not known to be Al Qaida until February 2001 on Bush's watch. Bush did nothing about it, disbanded Cliknton';s Al Qaida desk and then went on to ignore several major alarming warnings before 9-11. Bush and his people mliterally did nothing. Nothing. They let it happen.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (10275)	4/26/2007 1:11:13 PM
From: Richnorth	Respond to of 224750

Only one in ten dead soldiers in Iraq is reported in the news; this is not surprising as the number of dead soldiers do not include US mercenary forces who were killed by Iraqi insurgents and Al-Qaeda. Furthermore, the Pentagon like to have Americans at home (and some sympathetic Canadians) believe the Iraq War is not making a forbidding toll on American soldiers and it is therefore a very "affordable" and "do-able" war, and so Bush is right about "staying the course". He-he-he! ------------------------------------------------- Only One In Ten US Dead In Iraq Are Reported The Green Zone Follies 4-25-7 BAGHDAD -- "Six days ago, I was in an armed convoy driving through the McCain-safe streets of Baghdad when a non-existent rocket, made right here and not in Tehran, blasted into a truck carrying fifteen GIs. We had to stop, could not turn around because there were vehicles behind us, frantically trying to flee in all directions, and so I saw what were the shredded remains of all fifteen soldiers littering the street and smoldering. Not the sort of thing to look at, or smell, after breakfast or before lunch. There was not a word of this in our media at home and the official casualty lists, posted on the net didn't mention any of them. There are fifteen that never got reported. Fellow in the next building from me does the casualty reports for transmitting back to the States and he says they publish the names of one in ten. This has been a very bad month with over 300 known dead! That doesn't cover those with faces missing or legs up on a local roof, feeding the birds. This place has become a living hell, what with occasional snipers shooting our men inside the "really safe" Green Zone, setting off bombs in the "heavily guarded" Iraqi government compound and blowing up the hand puppet legislators at lunch, mortar rounds from the "defeated insurgents'" slamming down at all times of the day and night, and so on. This crazy Bush 'surge 'is not working because we have had to withdraw all our troops from outlying provinces and they have been replaced with local religious crazies who shoot anything that moves. The insurgents have virtually destroyed the power grids so Baghdad gets electric power a few hours a day (at the very best); the water supply has been "interfered with" so the locals get shit-infested water from the river but we, who are Bringing Bush Democracy to the benighted heathens have our own generators and our own water, carefully filtered of shit and body parts, so we can cheerfully, and proudly, show the world how better the locals are off with our brand of vicious tyranny as opposed to Saddam's. They ought to bring Bush and Cheney over here, strip them buck naked and use them as decoys and then we'd see a rapid withdrawal for certain! And hear loud cheers as the GIs would be struggling with the locals to pick up presidential and vice presidential body parts as souvenirs."