Comment by ballbuster — February 25, 2007 @ 12:33 am

Oh, STFU. What did Bush do once al Qaeda was fingered as being the group who bombed the Cole? NOTHING.

When did the Bush administration finally take terrorism seriously and have their first cabinet-level meeting on the subject? A week before 9/11.

You want to complain about what past administrations did with the enemy? Huh, big boy?

Who sold the Iranians, our enemy, weapons for cash, in violation of U.S. law? That would be the Reagan administration.

And who provided support for the Contras, also in violation of U.S. law? That would be the Reagan administration.

And speaking of Clinton, he tried to get Congress to expand the wiretapping program to track terrorists (legally, through the FISA court, I may add) and they said no.

Clinton wanted to use tagents in explosives so that they could be traced back to any terrorists using them. Congress laughed at him.

Under Clinton, a major terrorist attack on LA International Airport was thwarted when the intelligence agencies picked up increased “chatter” that led to the arrest of an al Qaeda operative, who was stopped at the border with Canada driving a car full of explosives. Clinton took action when this chatter was detected.

When similar chatter was picked up prior to the 9/11 attack, the Bush administration did nothing.

Makes sense he’d go bike riding if something got attacked. Completes the “I’m the worst president in the history of mankind” trifecta.

Have a cow? You think we’re having a cow? You’re too generous. Really.

No. We’re just revelling in the idiocy of this “trying to be a President” Bush. (and that’s his quote.)

I, as a battalion-level commander in the Army, participate in my staff’s exercises only on the outside edge, giving my intent and guidance and letting them run with it.

Say what? You don’t go bike riding or jogging when there’s an exercise going on? You actually participate? Oh, go on!

Seriously…Just what is the point of your post? At least you participate. Bush doesn’t think so, but he works for the American people. Even the ones who did not vote, or did not vote for him. He is our employee, see. So yeah, we have a right to complain if we feel that he’s displaying a sub-par performance. What would your superiors say to you if you skipped out on an exercise to go bike riding? I’m sure you could have been briefed about the whole thing, too. Would that be the same as being involved, though?

Maybe that’s why President-attempt Bush (my new title for him) sat in that Florida classroom for 7 minutes after being told a SECOND jet had crashed into the WTC. Maybe he and his handlers who were along for the trip just didn’t know what the f*ck to do. Maybe they had skipped out on a few exercises, too.

Comment by paul — February 25, 2007 @ 10:06 am

Let me try again…I think the filters caught my bad word.

Once again, Paul shows his love of ignorance. Yep. Presidentin’ is hard work. Or, as Bush once put it, “trying to be President.”

You know, Paul, I think Bush could have postponed this one bike ride to participate in a mock attack on the U.S. Bush himself has said basically that we are still not totally safe. But as we saw with the administration’s actions (or lack of) from the time Bush was sworn in up until 9/11, he just doesn’t give a f**k.

Comment by Wayne — February 24, 2007 @ 10:56 pm

They may wake up, but my first impression is that it will not matter at all until Bush and Cheney are out of the WH. And I mean before Jan. 2009.

This is news? Come on TP, you can do better than that.

Bush said he had no reason to beleive the levee’s would be breached.

Remember that one?
He said that AFTER he was briefed that they had already been breached.

How about not kowing about a possible attack on 911. Oh, that’s right , he was briefed on that as well but they didn’t provide the exact time, date and place so NOTHING WAS DONE. Not even a meeting until a week before the attack.

Bush also had no idea there would be an insurgency. Not because he was not told but because he had already committed himself to his “we will be greeted as liberators” fantasy. He’s still hoping to bring that one back.

Per Bush, If we ever leave Iraq we lose but we really mean to leave someday. If the British leave it’s a good thing for some reason. The enormous bases we built are not permanent. Right?

That’s some classic Bush logic.

“In response to criticism for Katrina and the Iraq war the White House held a bomb scare drill. There were several security flaws discovered in the plan but the White House stated that this is an indication that progress is being made.”

That was the gist of it.

So in grasping for anything that might make them look the least bit competent on “security” they do their little drill and don’t even get that right. The oblivious chimp is off on his circus bike somewhere and SIX years after 911 they may be making progress with security at the White House.

Bush couldn’t secure the lid on a can of peanuts.

Bush get’s off on bike riding at such a time as a bomb drill and casually and cooly goes about his own business because HE will be the one to order the strikes against the US.

He is just “calibrating fire” (fine tuning the apparatus) to find any and all weakenesses in the “system” so HE can exploit them at a time of his choosing and blame it on “Iranian” terrorists this time.

Then the attacks on Iran will begin.

Watch and see, 9-11 with a twist is coming up in the very near future.

They used to call it Operation Northwoods, but I don’t know what they call it anymore.

My name for it?

Operation KlUsTeRfU*cK.