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Old 04-26-2009, 12:58 PM   #166
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"Attacks that was being planned on LA and JFK Airport were both stopped due to these techniques."

Reference?
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Old 04-26-2009, 02:28 PM   #167
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Dr. Horse -- Kindly remember that under Clinton the criminals responsible for the 1993 WTC bombings were captured, tried (legally) and jailed. Can you say the same for Mr. Bush?
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Old 04-26-2009, 03:24 PM   #168
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I do not blame Bush for 9-11, but I also do not give him credit for "keeping us safe" anymore than I give credit for Clinton "keeping us safe".
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Old 04-26-2009, 04:08 PM   #169
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Yes he had just became president and the past 8-10 years a massive attack was being planned. Under Clinton with his decrease in funding for both military and security as well as his ridiculous foreign policy, was most likely the cause for 9/11.

Attacks that was being planned on LA and JFK Airport were both stopped due to these techniques. While they should be illegal, like BO has said they are necessary it times of crisis.
Bush was nearly a year into his presidency.

Yet Obama's barely within a 100 days and you're ready to jump him?

Partisan hack.
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Old 04-26-2009, 07:37 PM   #170
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Dr. Horse -- Kindly remember that under Clinton the criminals responsible for the 1993 WTC bombings were captured, tried (legally) and jailed. Can you say the same for Mr. Bush?
They were Dead.

Then again you forget the slew of attacks under Clinton. Bush doesn't seem that bad. So id say Clinton's neglect is the very reason we had so many attacks under and after his presidency.



Oct. 12, 2000 - A terrorist bomb damages the destroyer USS Cole in the port of Aden, Yemen, killing 17 sailors and injuring 39.

Aug. 7, 1998 - Terrorist bombs destroy the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In Nairobi, 12 Americans are among the 291 killed, and over 5,000 are wounded, including 6 Americans. In Dar es Salaam, one U.S. citizen is wounded among the 10 killed and 77 injured.

In response, on August 20 the United States attacked targets in Afghanistan and Sudan with over 75 cruise missiles fired from Navy ships in the Arabian and Red seas. About 60 Tomahawk cruise missiles were fired from warships in the Arabian Sea. Most struck six separate targets in a camp near Khost, Afghanistan. Simultaneously, about 20 cruise missiles were fired from U.S. ships in the Red Sea striking a factory in Khartoum, Sudan, which was suspected of producing components for making chemical weapons.

June 21, 1998 - Rocket-propelled grenades explode near the U.S. embassy in Beirut.

July 27, 1996 - A pipe bomb explodes during the Olympic games in Atlanta, killing one person and wounding 111.

June 25, 1996 - A bomb aboard a fuel truck explodes outside a U.S. air force installation in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. 19 U.S. military personnel are killed in the Khubar Towers housing facility, and 515 are wounded, including 240 Americans.

Nov. 13, 1995 - A car-bomb in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills seven people, five of them American military and civilian advisers for National Guard training. The "Tigers of the Gulf," "Islamist Movement for Change," and "Fighting Advocates of God" claim responsibility.

April 19, 1995 - A car bomb destroys the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and wounding over 600.

February 1993 - A bomb in a van explodes in the underground parking garage in New York's World Trade Center, killing six people and wounding 1,042.


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Bush was nearly a year into his presidency.

Yet Obama's barely within a 100 days and you're ready to jump him?

Partisan hack.
Who is jumping on him. I am agreeing with him. Its not a secret BO has said numerous times torture is acceptable in extreme circumstances, just not casual use.



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Old 04-26-2009, 08:20 PM   #171
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Then again you forget the slew of attacks under Clinton. Bush doesn't seem that bad. So id say Clinton's neglect is the very reason we had so many attacks under and after his presidency.
Seriously? You're including overseas attacks? You realized these happened all the time under Bush and now?
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Old 04-26-2009, 08:29 PM   #172
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Mr. Payne -- If you mean the people who planned and carried out the 1993 WTC bombing are dead, you are wrong. 1993 World Trade Center bombing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 04-26-2009, 08:34 PM   #173
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"Seriously? You're including overseas attacks? You realized these happened all the time under Bush and now?"

I'm curious as to which ones killed american citizens.
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Old 04-26-2009, 08:41 PM   #174
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I'm curious as to which ones killed american citizens.
You try to count them.

iraq bombing "american troops" - Google News Archive Search
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Old 04-26-2009, 09:26 PM   #175
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Only American deaths count? A good few of the dead of 9/11 were not American citizens. Shall we discount them?
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Old 04-26-2009, 10:24 PM   #176
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In terms of what Dr. Horse is referring to yes. Its the job of the president of the US to protect US citizens. I don't think Bush was trying to protect citizens of Spain in railroad cars. Do you think its Obama's duty?? Of course when an attack is on our soil that's another matter.
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