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That the Clinton administration took Richard Clarke and the threat of al-qaeda seriously and the Bush administration didn’t. Also Condi lied when she said they never knew they had to worry about al-qaeda.

Noneya on January 29, 2009 at 8:14 PM

God you have no idea what you are talking about.
To say Clinton took Al-Qaeda seriously shows just how ignorant you are on this subject.

Richard Clark is on tape saying that the Bush administration has taken a proactive and serious approach to al-qaeda.It was widely reported nationally during his testimony in the 9/11 hearings.

But it is good that you are such a big fan of Richard Clark since he said himself that there is no doubt that Saddam and al-qaeda were working together on WMD’s.This was their reasoning for bombing the “aspirin” factory.

Clinton let Osama go no less than 8 times.He even turned down and offer to have him handed over on a silver platter from the Sudan.
HE TOOK NO ACTION.
This might be “taking al-qaeda seriously”to you,but the people in touch with reality view this as one of the worst cases of ignorance by a President in American history.

Osama had already declared war on the US,attacked our embassies,attacked the twin towers,and eventually the Uss Cole.
Yea,that’s some real serious action there genius.

Baxter Greene on January 29, 2009 at 8:26 PM

can you tell me how many airplanes were hijacked and flown into buildings while Clinton was president?

Noneya on January 29, 2009 at 8:35 PM

So in liberal land,al-qaeda pulling a truck up into the twin towers and trying to blow it up is no big deal.
How many would they have had to kill for it to be important to you.

How many battleships have been blown up while Bush was President?

How much Video do we have of Osama running around free as a bird since Bush became President?

How many offers has Bush turned down to have him handed to us on a silver platter?

Bush has brought terrorism down around the world over 40%,Freed over 50 million people from some of the worst terrorist regimes known to man,and there have been no attacks on American interests abroad and on our homeland in 5 years.

Which years did Clinton keep America and it’s interest free from attack?

How many terrorist dictators did Clinton bring down?

Did he defeat al-qaeda in the central battleground in the War on terror?

Why can’t you defend your liberal hero instead of laying out ignorant liberal talking points that you can’t back up.

Do you support your hero’s Richard Clark’s assessment that Saddam and Al-qaeda worked together on WMD’s?

Are you going to back up your liberal drivel from the previous posts are continue to spout idiotic talking points?

Baxter Greene on January 29, 2009 at 8:48 PM

“Data compiled by the RAND Corporation show that the global rate of terrorism, as measured by the number of people killed per year, increased by almost fivefold during the Bush presidency.“

Noneya on January 29, 2009 at 8:43 PM

This data is bogus,they included war casualties.These two studies confirm this:

B.C. researchers find decline in global terrorism, question previous data
1 day ago
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iJciaxCBODpiOZKXuLS73Q0gpaBA

VANCOUVER — A group of researchers from Simon Fraser University says global terrorism is on the decline, despite previous data and public perceptions that suggest otherwise.
The university’s Human Security Report Project says fatalities from terrorist attacks around the world have, in fact, decreased by 40 per cent since 2001.

Iraq figures distort terrorism statistics: study
Wed May 21, 2008 1:57pm EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2139567720080521?feedType=nl&feedName=ustopnewsevening
By Louis Charbonneau

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – A study released on Wednesday reports a decline in fatal attacks of terrorism worldwide and says U.S. think-tank data showing sharp increases were distorted due to the inclusion of killings in Iraq.

“Even if the Iraq ‘terrorism’ data are included, there has still been a substantial decline in the global terrorism toll,” said the 2007 Human Security Brief, an annual report funded by the governments of Canada, Norway, Switzerland, Sweden and Britain.

Are We Safer?
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/05/020600.php

Empirically, however, it seems beyond dispute that something has made us safer since 2001. Over the course of the Bush administration, successful attacks on the United States and its interests overseas have dwindled to virtually nothing.

1988
February: Marine Corps Lt. Colonel Higgens, Chief of the U.N. Truce Force, was kidnapped and murdered by Hezbollah.
December: Pan Am flight 103 from London to New York was blown up over Scotland, killing 270 people, including 35 from Syracuse University and a number of American military personnel.

1991
November: American University in Beirut bombed

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1993
January: A Pakistani terrorist opened fire outside CIA headquarters, killing two agents and wounding three.
February: World Trade Center bombed, killing six and injuring more than 1,000.

1995
January: Operation Bojinka, Osama bin Laden’s plan to blow up 12 airliners over the Pacific Ocean, discovered.
November: Five Americans killed in attack on a U.S. Army office in Saudi Arabia.

1996
June: Truck bomb at Khobar Towers kills 19 American servicemen and injures 240.
June: Terrorist opens fire at top of Empire State Building, killing one.

1997
February: Palestinian opens fire at top of Empire State Building, killing one and wounding more than a dozen.
November: Terrorists murder four American oil company employees in Pakistan.

1998
January: U.S. Embassy in Peru bombed.
August: Simultaneous bomb attacks on U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania killed more than 300 people and injured over 5,000.

1999
October: Egypt Air flight 990 crashed off the coast of Massachusetts, killing 100 Americans among the more than 200 on board; the pilot yelled “Allahu Akbar!” as he steered the airplane into the ocean.

2000
October: A suicide boat exploded next to the U.S.S. Cole, killing 17 American sailors and injuring 39.

2001
September: Terrorists with four hijacked airplanes kill around 3,000 Americans in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
December: Richard Reid, the “shoe bomber,” tries to blow up a transatlantic flight, but is stopped by passengers.
The September 11 attack was a propaganda triumph for al Qaeda, celebrated by a dismaying number of Muslims around the world. Everyone expected that it would draw more Muslims to bin Laden’s cause and that more such attacks would follow. In fact, though, what happened was quite different: the pace of successful jihadist attacks against the United States slowed, decelerated further after the onset of the Iraq war, and has now dwindled to essentially zero. Here is the record:

2002
October: Diplomat Laurence Foley murdered in Jordan, in an operation planned, directed and financed by Zarqawi in Iraq, perhaps with the complicity of Saddam’s government.

2003
May: Suicide bombers killed 10 Americans, and killed and wounded many others, at housing compounds for westerners in Saudi Arabia.
October: More bombings of United States housing compounds in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia killed 26 and injured 160.

2004
There were no successful attacks inside the United States or against American interests abroad.

2005
There were no successful attacks inside the United States or against American interests abroad.

2006
There were no successful attacks inside the United States or against American interests abroad.

2007
There were no successful attacks inside the United States or against American interests abroad.

2008
So far, there have been no successful attacks inside the United States or against American interests abroad.

The facts are clear to anybody in touch with reality.

Bush has made us safer.

That is probably why Obama is keeping so many of his policies and people genius.

Baxter Greene on January 29, 2009 at 8:58 PM

after we invaded it? yup

Noneya on January 29, 2009 at 9:10 PM

Are you right about anything?
You make a bigger fool out of yourself with every post.

Here is what your democratic heroes on the hill concluded about al-qaeda working with Saddam in Iraq before we invaded.

WaPo: Bush “substantiated by intelligence” – UPDATED
http://theanchoressonline.com/2008/06/09/wapo-bush-substantiated-by-intelligence/

But dive into Rockefeller’s [Intelligence Committee] report, in search of where exactly President Bush lied about what his intelligence agencies were telling him about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, and you may be surprised by what you find.

But statements regarding Iraq’s support for terrorist groups other than al-Qaeda “were substantiated by intelligence information.”

Statements that Iraq provided safe haven for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and other terrorists with ties to al-Qaeda “were substantiated by the intelligence assessments,”

and

statements regarding Iraq’s contacts with al-Qaeda “were substantiated by intelligence information.”

http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/03/still_more_journalistic_sanity.asp
Still More Journalistic Sanity on Iraq and al Qaeda

former New Yorker writer Jeffrey Goldberg, now with the Atlantic Monthly, discusses the new Institute for Defense Analyses report on Iraq and Terrorism. Unlike, virtually every other reporter, he appears to have read it. “Before the war,” he writes, “I believed that Saddam was a supporter of terrorist groups.“

The report on Saddam’s terrorist ties released last week by the Joint Forces Command confirms this (not that you would know it from the scant press coverage of the study). The study, citing captured Iraqi documents, indicates that Saddam’s regime supported various jihadist groups, including Ayman al-Zawahiri’s, and including Kurdish Islamist groups, about whom I have reported. But read the study for yourself; it’s actually quite an achievement of translation and analysis.

Democrats from all over confirm that Saddam worked with al-qaeda and other terrorist groups well before we invaded.

The cased checks from the suicide bombers families given to them by Saddam confirm this also.

But ever since Bill Ayers came on the scene,bombings are now just “acts of Vandalism” right noneya.

Baxter Greene on January 29, 2009 at 9:25 PM

With yet another round of “FREE ELECTIONS” coming up in Iraq thanks to President Bush’s leadership, it is good to see yet more progress being made:

Iraqi Women Vie for Votes and Taste of Power
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/world/middleeast/29election.html?_r=2&hp
By SAM DAGHER

In Basra, where until a year ago banners warned women that they would be shot if they wore too much makeup or ventured out of their homes without a veil, another female candidate, Ibtihal Abdul-Rahman, put up posters of herself last month. Encouraged by security improvements throughout the country, thousands of women are running for council seats in the provincial elections.
Of the estimated 14,400 candidates, close to 4,000 are women.

Progress in infrastructure,schools,hospitals,electricity,free trade,international relations,security and many more areas shows the roots of Freedom starting to produce in Iraq:

Taking the Field
A roundup of the past two weeks’ good news from Iraq.
By ARTHUR CHRENKOFF
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122822954104172435.html?mod=#

Yet progress continues to be made on the ground in Iraq, even during the most dangerous of times and often against the odds that we–so insulated by the safety, comfort and predictability of life in the West–can hardly even begin to comprehend.

Bush deserves that type of reception where ever he goes.

He was a strong leader and a great liberator.

Baxter Greene on January 29, 2009 at 10:21 PM