Politics: J'accuse!

[Not Me]

Originally posted by sgtclub
http://www.nationalreview.com/commen...0404050847.asp

One major screw up by the Clinton admin was treating terrorism as a criminal act instead of an act of war.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Not Me
One major screw up by the Clinton admin was treating terrorism as a criminal act instead of an act of war.

Be so kind as to provide the coordinates of the camel's ass at which we should have lobbed $1M cruise missiles in each of the following years: 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000.

For each of the years between 1994 and 2001, please be so kind as to provide the names of each GOP member of Congress who would have supported the commitment of ground troops to invade Middle Eastern nations to subdue AQ training camps.

Extra credit if you can explain how we could have invaded Afghanistan at any time before 9/11, without making it look like we were impersonating the Soviet Union. The fat, embarrassing Soviet Union circa 1979, not the thin Soviet Union during its prime.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
[lots o'nothing]

Are you the guy with the moutain up his ass or is that someone else?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Not Me
One major screw up by the Clinton admin was treating terrorism as a criminal act instead of an act of war.

Most of counterterrorism is more like police work than military combat. That's a nice little RNC talking point you've got there, but the truth is the things Bush did after 9/11 are the things the Clinton Administration suggested on the way out.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
That's a nice little RNC talking point you've got there, but the truth is the things Bush did after 9/11 are the things the Clinton Administration suggested on the way out.

Suggested on the way out, exactly. What was happening during the time between the WTC bombing and the way out?

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Most of counterterrorism is more like police work than military combat.

No, it is more like intelligence/counterintelligence work, which is vital to any military campaign.

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
the truth is the things Bush did after 9/11 are the things the Clinton Administration suggested on the way out.

Clinton suggested invading Afghanistan and Iraq?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by sgtclub
Suggested on the way out, exactly. What was happening during the time between the WTC bombing and the way out?

If you're not going to bother yourself to read Clarke's book to find out, I'm not going to summarize it. Your argument appears to be: Clinton did nothing, and I know this because I have not bothered to read the accounts of what he did.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Not Me
Clinton suggested invading Afghanistan and Iraq?

It's a little-known fact that Clinton was elected over 41 in 1992 precisely because voters trusted the Dems to finish the job 41 wouldn't --- or couldn't. The immediate plans to topple Saddam were sidetracked by the more pressing need to murder high-ranking Administration officials in public parks, and to pull strings to get Chelsea admitted to the short list of tony Quaker schools in the District. Oh, and the importance of faggoting up the armed forces took precedence.

I admit, however, that actually invading rugged, mountainous subcontinent nations was, sadly, "important" but not "urgent" during the Clinton years. It was only after Clinton's controversial "don't ask don't tell" compromise really took root in the highest levels of the Pentagon that we actually strapped on a pair and began the hard work of nation building.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
It's a little-known fact that Clinton was elected over 41 in 1992 precisely because voters trusted the Dems to finish the job 41 wouldn't --- or couldn't.

That or because Perot was in the race and siphoned off Bush votes.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Not Me
That or because Perot was in the race and siphoned off Bush votes.

So we go from the "I'm a black woman who just doesn't give a fuuuuuuuck" schtick to the "I'm a completely earnest and humorless white woman?" Usually a transition like that requires one to logout and delete cookies.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Not Me
That or because Perot was in the race and siphoned off Bush votes.

Now tell us how we would have won in Vietnam had the lefties not undermined the war effort.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
So we go from the "I'm a black woman who just doesn't give a fuuuuuuuck" schtick to the "I'm a completely earnest and humorless white woman?" Usually a transition like that requires one to logout and delete cookies.

Whiff.

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
If you're not going to bother yourself to read Clarke's book to find out, I'm not going to summarize it. Your argument appears to be: Clinton did nothing, and I know this because I have not bothered to read the accounts of what he did.

What is your devotion to that book? I have read a ton of other accounts during and after the relevant time period.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by sgtclub
What is your devotion to that book?

It supports his position ergo it must be true.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Not Me
Whiff.

Glad to see you got your humor back. All of it.

Link to trenchantly satirical politics blog thread. Recognize anyone?