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gulliver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-02-09 09:16 PM
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Bush setting us up for an act of terrorism again?
Edited on Fri Jan-02-09 09:33 PM by gulliver
Bush is letting everyone in the ME get all riled up again right before Obama and the Dems take over. The current Gaza conflict reminds me of the first months of Bush's presidency just prior to 9/11. That is when he introduced his award winning "do nothing" (that Clinton would do) approach to the ME.

You just know that if Arab anger boils over into a terrorist act against the United States next month, the Republicans will blame Obama. The Dems should be warning Bush to do something or run the risk of increased terrorist activity in the coming months. Dems need to inoculate themselves against blame if nothing else.

On edit: No, this isn't a LIHOP or MIHOP post. Letting crises drift is the Bush MO. He just does it because he is worthless; it's not on purpose. If Bush were creating problems on purpose, we could rest assured we would have none.

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Idealism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-02-09 09:18 PM
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1. Yeah, Clinton did nothing
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gulliver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-02-09 09:28 PM
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2. Bush did nothing. Clinton, of course, did a lot.
That was my point. In Bush's first months prior to 9/11, he let the I/P situation spiral downward. Bin Laden started publicly sympathizing with the Palestinians. Here we go again with Bush. Arab anger rising. Bush doing nothing but making pro-Israel lip service announcements.
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Idealism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-02-09 09:57 PM
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3. This sentence confused me
That is when he introduced his award winning "do nothing" (that Clinton would do) approach to the ME.
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gulliver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-02-09 10:04 PM
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4. Sorry about that.
Tried to squeeze too much snark into one sentence. Made it incomprehensible. It's really a critique of Bush doing nothing that Clinton would do.
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