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Dr. Rice Kicked Your Fat Derrieres, DEMO-SLUTS!
"Wyatt Earp" wrote in message
... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Thursday mornings public testimony by the President's National Security Adviser Dr. Condoleezza Rice before the 9/11 commission went beautifully for Dr. Rice, as she answered the questions posed to her. But partisan demosluts failed miserably as they managed to trip up only themselves, while Dr. Rice skated right over the top of em! This November 2nd election will so utterly wreck the hopelessly-rabid and self-aggrandizing demo- sluts, that they might as well concede defeat now and abolish their disgraced demoslut-party once & for all. Made in America, Daniel Joseph Min Danny, my boy! You should never feed the trolls. But more than anyone else I have seen on the internet (even Nancy Leider), you annoy the crap out of me. I'm quite amazed your post isn't about anti-Christian and anti-Xian thoughts, or the killing of those people, as you have advocated in the past. As usual, you've cross posted this message to a bunch of newsgroups that have nothing to do with each other, except that they are flooded with your bull****. And while I would not, nor should I attempt to refute your whole world of thought, I think I'll take a crack at this one. And I'll use some facts and links for proof, rather than mindless ranting. This is not my work, but the work of the Center for American Progress, http://www.americanprogress.org/. But I could not hope to improve on the work done to put this article together, which can be found at http://www.americanprogress.org/site...RJ8OVF&b=44887. Elwood Blues ---------- Claim vs. Fact: Condoleezza Rice's Opening Statement April 8, 2004 CLAIM: "We decided immediately to continue pursuing the Clinton Administration's covert action authorities and other efforts to fight the network." FACT: Newsweek reported that "In the months before 9/11, the U.S. Justice Department curtailed a highly classified program called 'Catcher's Mitt' to monitor al-Qaida suspects in the United States." Additionally, AP reported "though Predator drones spotted Osama bin Laden as many as three times in late 2000, the Bush administration did not fly the unmanned planes over Afghanistan during its first eight months," thus terminating the reconnaissance missions started during the Clinton Administration. [Sources: (1) Newsweek, 3/21/04; (2) AP, 6/25/03] CLAIM: "The strategy set as its goal the elimination of the al-Qaida network. It ordered the leadership of relevant U.S. departments and agencies to make the elimination of al-Qaida a high priority and to use all aspects of our national power -- intelligence, financial, diplomatic, and military -- to meet this goal." FACT: 9/11 Comissioner Jamie Gorelick: "Is it true, as Dr. Rice said, 'Our plan called for military options to attack Al Qaida and Taliban leadership'?" Armitage: "No, I think that was amended after the horror of 9/11." [Source: (3) 9/11 Commission testimony, 3/24/04] CLAIM: "We bolstered the Treasury Department's activities to track and seize terrorist assets." FACT: The new Bush Treasury Department "disapproved of the Clinton Administration's approach to money laundering issues, which had been an important part of the drive to cut off the money flow to bin Laden." Specifically, the Bush Administration opposed Clinton Administration-backed efforts by the G-7 and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that targeted countries with "loose banking regulations" being abused by terrorist financiers. Meanwhile, the Bush Administration provided "no funding for the new National Terrorist Asset Tracking Center." [Source: "The Age of Sacred Terror," 2003] CLAIM: "We moved quickly to arm Predator unmanned surveillance vehicles for action against al-Qaida." FACT: According to AP, "the military successfully tested an armed Predator throughout the first half of 2001" but the White House "failed to resolve a debate over whether the CIA or Pentagon should operate the armed Predators" and the armed Predator never got off the ground before 9/11. [Source: (4) AP, 6/25/03] CLAIM: "We increased funding for counterterrorism activities across several agencies." FACT: Upon taking office, the 2002 Bush budget proposed to slash more than half a billion dollars out of funding for counterterrorism at the Justice Department. In preparing the 2003 budget, the New York Times reported that the Bush White House "did not endorse F.B.I. requests for $58 million for 149 new counterterrorism field agents, 200 intelligence analysts and 54 additional translators" and "proposed a $65 million cut for the program that gives state and local counterterrorism grants." Newsweek noted the Administration "vetoed a request to divert $800 million from missile defense into counterterrorism." [Sources: 2001 vs. 2002 Budget Analysis; (5) NY Times, 2/28/02; (6) Newsweek, 5/27/02] CLAIM: "While we were developing this new strategy to deal with al-Qaida, we also made decisions on a number of specific anti-al-Qaida initiatives that had been proposed by Dick Clarke." FACT: Rice's statement finally confirms what she previously - and inaccurately - denied. She falsely claimed on 3/22/04 that "No al-Qaida plan was turned over to the new administration." [(7) Washington Post, 3/22/04] CLAIM: "When threat reporting increased during the Spring and Summer of 2001, we moved the U.S. Government at all levels to a high state of alert and activity." FACT: Documents indicate that before Sept. 11, 2001, the Bush Administration "did not give terrorism top billing in their strategic plans for the Justice Department, which includes the FBI." Gen. Henry H. Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff until Oct. 1, 2001, said during the summer, terrorism had moved "farther to the back burner" and recounted how the Bush Administration's top two Pentagon appointees, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz, "shut down" a plan to weaken the Taliban. Similarly, Gen. Don Kerrick, who served in the Bush White House, sent a memo to the new Administration saying "We are going to be struck again" by al Qaeda, but he never heard back. He said terrorism was not "above the waterline. They were gambling nothing would happen." [Sources: (8) Washington Post, 3/22/04; (9) LA Times, 3/30/04] CLAIM: "The threat reporting that we received in the Spring and Summer of 2001 was not specific as to...manner of attack." FACT: ABC News reported, Bush Administration "officials acknowledged that U.S. intelligence officials informed President Bush weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks that bin Laden's terrorist network might try to hijack American planes." Dateline NBC reported that on August 6, 2001, the President personally "received a one-and-a-half page briefing advising him that Osama bin Laden was capable of a major strike against the US, and that the plot could include the hijacking of an American airplane." Rice herself actually admitted this herself, saying the Aug. 6 briefing the President received said "terrorists might attempt to hijack a U.S. aircraft." [Sources: (10) ABC News, 5/16/02; NBC, 9/10/02] Links: (1) http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040321/nysu007a_1.html (2) http://www.helenair.com/articles/200...1062503_04.txt (3) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Mar24.html (4) http://www.helenair.com/articles/200...1062503_04.txt (5) http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/trans...e% 20Dept.htm (6) http://foi.missouri.edu/terrorismfoi/whatwentwrong.html (7) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2004Mar21.html (8) http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...¬Found=true (9) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedi...,5099504.story (10) http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/Da...emo020516.html Transcript of Dr. Rice's testimony on April 8, 2004: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2004Apr8.html Dr. Rice quote of the day: RICE: I remember very well that the president was aware that there were issues inside the United States. He talked to people about this. But I don't remember the al Qaeda cells as being something that we were told we needed to do something about. BEN-VENISTE: Isn't it a fact, Dr. Rice, that the August 6th PDB warned against possible attacks in this country? And I ask you whether you recall the title of that PDB? RICE: I believe the title was, "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States." (Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" responded to that sound byte with, "You've got to be ****ing kidding me.") |
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Dr. Rice Kicked Your Fat Derrieres, DEMO-SLUTS!
"Richard Johnson" wrote in message ... [snip ranting] These are the (in)actions of an administration you think is doing a good job? There has only been one thing that makes the taking of Aircraft (Commercial Airlines) safer. It does not involve the Government in any way. It is now a fact you try it you either get beaten half to death, or all the way to death should you try to highjack the plane. The passengers will stop it. Before 9/11, the passengers believed there was a very good chance that they would live through it and would cooperate and were told so by the flight crew. Now, if you try it you will have to kill 200 passengers one at a time before you get a chance to gain the controls. Even a force of 10 or 15 would find that a real problem. Even if you managed to kill the first few you would run out of energy and would get overwhelmed. The passengers know they are dead unless they succeed and won't stop if you kill one or two. In fact that would energize them to be more aggressive. That one reason and only one reason is why flying is safer than it has ever been. (Don't say nonsense, it has been proven several times already.) Nothing else would have stopped those flights. The first tact would have been to try to negotiate before 9/11. Remember we were in "Police" mode then. We are now in War mode. There is no way the public would have tolerated or excepted an intercept/shoot down of a commercial airliner prior to 9/11. So, get real. Excellent point Richard! I fly 2-3 times per month and as I sit there, I'm perfectly prepared to pummel anyone who makes a move for the flight deck. You're point is spot on. The model of the pennsylvania crash is still very clear in everyones mind and after the past two years of seeing the cowardly and merciless methods of the terrorists, it is clear that direct action is about the only thing that stands between passengers and a plane becoming a lawn dart. Even if they would succeed in getting a couple, the survival instincts of the rest of the passengers would drive them to overwhelm them. Especially since the flight deck is barricaded, they'd simply end up cornered in the front of the plane. O' |
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