Posts by WhyNow2000

Conservative columnist Andrew Sullivan, in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, blamed the Clinton administration. "The decision to get down and dirty with the terrorists, to take their threat seriously and counter them aggressively, was simply never taken," wrote Sullivan. Senator Orrin Hatch referred in 1996 to the terrorist threats, threats which compelled Clinton to attempt the passage of a comprehensive anti-terrorism bill that would have gone a long way to stopping 9/11, as "Phony threats." After September 11, he joined the 'Blame Clinton' chorus.

During his administration, Clinton offered legislation that would give the Treasury Secretary broad powers to ban foreign nations and banks from accessing American financial markets unless they cooperated with money-laundering investigations that would expose and terminate terrorist cash flows. The legislation was killed by Texas Republican Senator Phil Gramm, who was chairman of the Banking Committee. At the time, he called the bill "totalitarian." It was revealed later, of course, that Gramm killed the bill because it would have blocked Enron officers from laundering stolen stockholder money through the same offshore conduits the terrorists were using. Gramm, from Texas, was beholden to Enron, and killed the bill at their behest. Of course, he joined the 'Blame Clinton' chorus after the attacks, and never mind the facts.

There was Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell blaming the attacks on gays, feminists and the ACLU a couple of days after the horror. They claimed the attacks were God's justice being levied against America for tolerating such people. No one quite explained the glaring hole in this logic - if the terrorists were acting as an instrument of God's justice, doesn't that mean the terrorists themselves are blameless instruments of the Lord? - but in the end, the message was clear. Liberals like Clinton were to blame for the attacks.

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Daddy, why did we have to attack Iraq?

by Larry in

daddy, why did we have to attack iraq?.

questions and answers about foreign policy (and the u.s. invasion of iraq).

anyway, saddam hussein came to power through a military coup, so he's not really a legitimate leader anyway.

WhyNow2000

CLINTON 8 years = less than 80 died due to terrorism

BUSH 9 Months = more than 3,000 and counting died due to terrorism CLINTON in office when 93 attack took place?.......38 DAYS BUSH in office when 2001attack took place?.......8 months

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George Bush's Vietnam

by WhyNow2000 in

that's what sen edward kennedy of massachusetts called it.

do you agree?.

washington (reuters) - u.s. senators argued on wednesday over whether the conflict in iraq was becoming another vietnam and some republican supporters of president bush suggested he consider extending a june 30 deadline for the handover of power there.

WhyNow2000

We were in Vietnam for a decade and we lost 56,000+ people. We've been in Iraq for a year and we've lost 500 people.

Well, more US troops have died in Iraq in one year since the US war began than were killed during the first three years of the US war in Vietnam.

Kennedy is a lying asshole and his argument is a strawman.....Kennedy is an old, bitter and burned out LOSER who couldn't form a good argument if his life depended upon it. After his "magical" acquittal for his Chappaquidick murder, he thinks he can get away with anything. Kennedy's are like that.
Even Capitol Hill considers him to be a joke. Only the liberal press will give him the time of day.

Thank you for sticking to the point.

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George Bush's Vietnam

by WhyNow2000 in

that's what sen edward kennedy of massachusetts called it.

do you agree?.

washington (reuters) - u.s. senators argued on wednesday over whether the conflict in iraq was becoming another vietnam and some republican supporters of president bush suggested he consider extending a june 30 deadline for the handover of power there.

WhyNow2000

But I don't think it has been disasterous yet.

What would you call it?

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George Bush's Vietnam

by WhyNow2000 in

that's what sen edward kennedy of massachusetts called it.

do you agree?.

washington (reuters) - u.s. senators argued on wednesday over whether the conflict in iraq was becoming another vietnam and some republican supporters of president bush suggested he consider extending a june 30 deadline for the handover of power there.

WhyNow2000

That's what Sen Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts called it.

Do you agree?

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. senators argued on Wednesday over whether the conflict in Iraq was becoming another Vietnam and some Republican supporters of President Bush suggested he consider extending a June 30 deadline for the handover of power there.

"I think we would be wise to re-evaluate the June 30 deadline. There are so many unanswered questions, not the least of which is to whom will we be turning over power," said Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine.

Her comments echoed those recently made by one of the Senate's most powerful Republicans, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar of Indiana.

With spiraling violence, Collins said it "suggests strongly to me that this is not the time to be drawing down our troops unless we can replace them with troops from other countries."

In the last three days, 35 American and allied soldiers and at least 200 Iraqis have been killed in the heaviest fighting since the fall of Saddam Hussein nearly a year ago.

U.S.-led forces battled Sunni Muslim guerrillas and a spreading Shi'ite uprising, as Iraqi anger was inflamed by a U.S. bombing of a mosque compound that witnesses said killed 25 people.

Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain called comparisons between Iraq and Vietnam "totally false." But he said more troops were needed "because we haven't got sufficient troops to pacify the divisive elements in Iraq."

McCain, who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam, said Iraq was different from Vietnam because there "is desire on the part of the people of Iraq to have their own democratic government ... and we have the capability militarily and politically to prevail and we did not in Vietnam."

But Democratic Sen Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts said, "Vietnam ended up in a quagmire. Iraq is as well."

In a speech on Monday, Kennedy called Iraq "George Bush's Vietnam," referring to the war that drove Lyndon Johnson from the presidency.

West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd, a Democrat who has been one of Bush's harshest critics, said deploying more troops "will only suck us deeper into the maelstrom of violence," and the Bush administration "should instead be working toward an exit strategy."

Sen. Joseph Biden, a Delaware Democrat, said increasing violence in Iraq "is communicating a similar fear to the American people" that he saw after Vietnam's 1968 Tet offensive -- that "we don't have control there, we don't have a plan."

Biden said the situation could be salvaged if Bush acted quickly to get the United Nations and NATO involved in Iraq's transition to sovereignty.

"I think that the president needs to produce a plan to ensure that we know exactly what it is that we're transitioning to. We don't have that today," said Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, a South Dakota Democrat.

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner, a Virginia Republican, said the June 30 deadline must be met "irrespective of the increased insurgency, because I feel that it affects the credibility of the coalition forces and, particularly, the United States and Great Britain." (additional reporting by Thomas Ferraro and Jackie Frank)

Copyright 2004, Reuters News Service

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Powell admits Iraq evidence mistake

by Simon in

the truth always comes out eventually.

i hate to say "i told you so" but all those who were extremely critical of those who questioned the 'evidence' do, i think, need to re-evaluate the faith they put in the powers that be and perhaps owe some people an apology.

remember?

WhyNow2000

This is mean:

"LIE CLOCKS"

A man died and went to heaven. As he stood in front of St. Peter at the
Pearly Gates, he saw a huge wall of clocks behind him. He asked, "What are
all those clocks?"
St. Peter answered, "Those are Lie-Clocks. Everyone on Earth has a
Lie-Clock. Every time you lie the hands on your clock will move."
"Oh," said the man, "whose clock is that?"
"That's Mother Teresa's. The hands have never moved, indicating that she
never told a lie."
"Incredible," said the man. "And whose clock is that one?"
St. Peter responded, "That's Abraham Lincoln's clock. The hands have moved
twice, telling us that Abe told only two lies in his entire life."
"Where's Bush's clock?" asked the man.
"Bush's clock is in Jesus' office. He's using it as a ceiling fan."

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Powell admits Iraq evidence mistake

by Simon in

the truth always comes out eventually.

i hate to say "i told you so" but all those who were extremely critical of those who questioned the 'evidence' do, i think, need to re-evaluate the faith they put in the powers that be and perhaps owe some people an apology.

remember?

WhyNow2000

Check out the "misery indicator" used to gauge people's overall economic situation and optimism for the future (in today's Wall Street Journal).

An index combining the unemployment rate and inflation rate. The index is used to measure the political significance of the condition of the economy, as well as consumer confidence.

The rate is low because inflation rate is low. Unemployment is high.

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Powell admits Iraq evidence mistake

by Simon in

the truth always comes out eventually.

i hate to say "i told you so" but all those who were extremely critical of those who questioned the 'evidence' do, i think, need to re-evaluate the faith they put in the powers that be and perhaps owe some people an apology.

remember?

WhyNow2000

If you want to live like a Republican, vote for a democrat.