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07-23-2004, 05:33 PM
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Berger
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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
So...
If the reports are accurate, Kerry's presumptive candidate for Sec'y of State nixed an attack on Osama bin Laden prior to 9/11.
OK, no PR disaster there.
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Read Clarke's book. Clarke says that this assault on bin Laden's compound (if that's the one you're thinking about) was nixed at his recommendation and that of George Tenet because the raggedy-ass light infantry skirmishers they had watching and chasing bin Laden were judged to be no match for the tanks and machine-gun emplacements at his little fortress. As Clarke put it [Paraphrase] -- "All we'd have done is get every CIA asset in Afghanistan slaughtered for nothing."
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07-23-2004, 05:35 PM
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#332
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Confidential to Ty
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Originally posted by sgtclub
With Hank gone, you guys may actually get a few wins today.
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Hank's my bitch.
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07-23-2004, 05:39 PM
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#333
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Just for You Ty
The Dems can play the repubs favorite censorship game any time they please.
Kerry against Moms, Apple Pie, and Pizza |
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07-23-2004, 05:40 PM
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#334
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
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Berger
This is old news. Read Clarke's book.
eta: stp
But you have to admire the GOP damage control of responding to the 9/11 commission report by recycling tired stories about Clinton, as if he were running for President again.
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Last edited by Tyrone Slothrop; 07-23-2004 at 05:45 PM..
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07-23-2004, 05:47 PM
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#335
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Moderasaurus Rex
Join Date: May 2004
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Just for You Ty
When those poor suckers in West Virginia got nailed for their anti-Bush shirts, I didn't blame on the White House. And they were hauled off -- this guy still has his sign up.
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的t was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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07-23-2004, 05:55 PM
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#336
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Just for You Ty
Quote:
Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
When those poor suckers in West Virginia got nailed for their anti-Bush shirts, I didn't blame on the White House
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Hmm. Could have fooled me:
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Apparently they've got Justice Scalia's bodyguards doing the security at Bush events now.
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Source
The ambiguous "they" was referring to a third party connected neither with Bush nor Scalia (and his acolytes)? |
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07-23-2004, 06:01 PM
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#337
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judicial jedi
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: a law library far, far away
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Confidential to Ty
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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
Hank's my bitch.
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When is it that the RNC is going to send a squad of clean-cut kids in "I (heart) BUSH" T-shirts to take over MTV's TRL, exactly?
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07-23-2004, 06:07 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
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Just for You Ty
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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Hmm. Could have fooled me:
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The ambiguous "they" was referring to a third party connected neither with Bush nor Scalia (and his acolytes)?
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(1) It was a joke, re the woman protecting Scalia (a federal marshal -- not a White House employee) who seized a tape recorder at a Scalia speech. I think even the good justice said she screwed up.
(2) I doubt the White House (or the Kerry campaign) is giving political direction to the Secret Service -- I'm thinking the Secret Service just doesn't go for that sort of thing.
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(3) Recall that I later said: "And I didn't say the White House made the call here. I just said it was wrong."
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07-23-2004, 06:10 PM
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#339
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Just for You Ty
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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
It was a joke
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we're all jokers here, Ty. Personally, I blame Dukakis for this one. Or Willie Horton. |
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07-23-2004, 06:21 PM
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#340
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Moderasaurus Rex
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Tell me, all you conservative opponents of affirmative action, why is it that the Treasurer of the United States has to be a Hispanic woman?
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的t was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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07-23-2004, 06:29 PM
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#341
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Hello, Dum-Dum.
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07-23-2004, 06:32 PM
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Consigliere
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Berger
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Tyrone Slothrop
This is old news. Read Clarke's book.
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That's ok. I just picked up the 9/11 Commission Report for a fun weekend read.
From all accounts so far, the report doesn't make Clarke look nearly as forthright as he purports to be in his book. Quite the contrary. |
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07-23-2004, 06:34 PM
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Moderasaurus Rex
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Old news. Bush already released all of his records. These can't be new.
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的t was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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07-23-2004, 06:35 PM
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#344
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Moderasaurus Rex
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Berger
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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
That's ok. I just picked up the 9/11 Commission Report for a fun weekend read.
From all accounts so far, the report doesn't make Clarke look nearly as forthright as he purports to be in his book. Quite the contrary.
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Que? On the one hand, unless it's talking about his 12" python of love, it couldn't possibly put him in as favorable a light. But what do you mean about "forthright"?
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的t was fortunate that so few men acted according to moral principle, because it was so easy to get principles wrong, and a determined person acting on mistaken principles could really do some damage." - Larissa MacFarquhar
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07-23-2004, 06:39 PM
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Hello, Dum-Dum.
Join Date: Mar 2003
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Quote:
Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Old news. Bush already released all of his records. These can't be new.
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They once wuz lost, but now are found.
As NBC says about its re-runs, "It's new to you!" |
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