I swear, it makes me crankier than listening to Bush’s lies.

Let’s not forget the intent of the post. Bush is guilty of inaction because he failed to act on the warnings in the memo. And others here have commented that Bush is a coward because he didn’t act for seven minutes after he found out about the bombings.

I am asking one simple question. Besides complaining about Bush policy, what initiatives have been spearheaded by democrats to either pursue terrorists abroad or help protect us from terrorism at home since 9/11?

Comment by paul — August 7, 2007 @ 7:18 am

crickets chirping…

Comment by paul — August 7, 2007 @ 10:19 am

long pause. then more crickets chirping…

Let’s not forget the intent of the post. Bush is guilty of inaction because he failed to act on the warnings in the memo. And others here have commented that Bush is a coward because he didn’t act for seven minutes after he found out about the bombings.

I am asking one simple question. Besides complaining about Bush policy, what initiatives have been spearheaded by democrats to either pursue terrorists abroad or help protect us from terrorism at home since 9/11?

Good point and well-stated, Marlow.

Some of the hijackers were, in fact, wiretapped. But due to the lack of competent translators of Arabic in the various US intelligence agencies, the Sept. 10 conversation referring to “our day of glory tomorrow” didn’t get rendered into English until after the fact. Despite all this, the Bush administration has still not seen fit to train an adequate number of translators of Arabic, Urdu, and other languages that Muslim terrorists are likely to use, and there is a backlog of hundreds of thousands of hours of intercepted calls/e-mails that remain untranslated, shameless idiot!

And I extend my condolences to you for having a bastard Repug child.

Anyway, Bill Clinton held cabinet-level counterterrorism meetings three times a week up until when he left office, often attended by Richard Clarke, the counterterrorism chief, as well as top officials from our intelligence agencies.

So, before 9/11, how many cabinet-level counterterrorism meetings did the Bush administartion hold?

ONE.

And this ONE meeting was held ONE week before the 9/11 attacks, ONE month after the August 6th PDB that Bush was briefed on while taking a month-long vacation that Osama bin Laden was determined to strike inside the United States.

Condi Rice has stated that this ONE meeting wasn’t held to address the al Qaeda threat, but was held to discuss a broad, region-wide strategy (i.e., they met to discuss the Bush administration’s plans for invading Iraq).

ONE damn Bush meeting, while the Clinton administration was holding three a week.

So, GitMORules’ Mother, your list doesn’t surprise.

And it is quite obvious to any patriotic American that Republicans got 3,000 U.S. citizens killed on 9/11, both in obstructing Bill Clinton’s counterterrorism initiatives and in their blowing off of the al Qaeda threat before 9/11 while they plotted their attack on Iraq.

And it is also obvious to any patriotic U.S. citizens, whether Democratic or among the few Republicans that remain not seduced by evil, that the Bush administration diverted men and materials from the actual “war on terror” being fought in Afghanistan in 2002 so that these Bush cretins could initiate their “scheduled” attack on Iraq, a country that had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks nor represented any real danger at all to the United States.

So now, the Republicans have the blood of over 3,000 of our troops on their hands, in addition to the blood of the 9/11 victims, as well as the blood of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.

So, who needs a “war on terror” when we have so many blood-stained Republicans to contend with, who have as much blood on their hands as al Qaeda, if not more?

Whether you agree with them or not, Bush has taken very tangible steps since 9/11 to pursue terrorists around the world and protect us from terrorists here at home. Many (or most) of those initiatives have been scrutinized by liberals and decried as illegal acts.

Bush has acted. Again, can anyone here present just one liberal initiative (spearheaded by democrats or progressives) to pursue terrorists abroad or protect us from terrorists at home?

With all the bravado here, there should be at least one example. Anyone?