Another for the "It's Clinton's Fault" Files:

[zbdent]

All the people that defend Bush and this misAdministration are falling all over themselves using W's statements that he "didn't have a time or place" of the 9/11 attacks.

Also, they like to remind us that Bush was "tired of swatting flies".

Aren't these the same people that criticize Clinton for not doing enough on far spottier data that Bush had, even though he was "swatting at flies"; in other words, Clinton was acting on credible evidence of terrorist camps in Afghanistan. The very same stuff that was fodder for Bush to claim that he "wouldn't send a million dollar missile to take out a $10 tent and hit a camel in the butt". I guess that if you decide to send a message that you're taking terror seriously, the best way (with Bush's logic) is to totally ignore legit info so that the terrorists can see that nobody's going to do anything to them.

[KensPen]

1. Don't you listen to Rummy?

There are NO good targets in Afghanistan,
our only choice was to wait for an act heinous enough to let us invade Iraq.


commie america hater!

[Wetzelbill]

2. My friend insists that Clinton dropped the ball by not taking out Osama

when Clinton at least took a few shots out of it and was roundly accused of a "Wag The Dog" strategy. So when I brought that up to him, he says:" Yeah, like liberals are accusing Bush of a "Wag The Dog" war in Iraq."

Huh?

The truth is Clinton didn't do enough. Definitely. He could have done more. But where Big Dog didn't do enough, Bush didn't do anything at all. Not to mention going after terrorist finance networks. Clinton went slow on that, but Bush has seized following the money trail completely, and that's after 9-11! Can't get too close to those embarassing Saudi-Texas Oilman contacts, can we? Mr. Bin Laden, Mr. Mahfouz, Sheik Baksh, The Family Bush. Pretty cuddly and cozy group there.

[zbdent]

3. I point out to people that what Bush would call "swatting at flies" would

be considered by the actual terrorists involved as "Hey, they're still watching us."

It would make them realize that they were still on the radar.

Kinda like you know that a nice neighborhood has routine police patrols. After a while, you notice that the police haven't been patrolling. Period. Makes that Porsche that some trusting idjit leaves out all the time look a lot easier to steal.

That's the kind of "attention" W gave to the terrorists. "Oh, I can't be bothered with the little guys. I need to focus on somebody who committed his atrocities while Daddy was Veep."