1 - GOP was better at reacting to 9/11
Rove:
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to...
Answers:
- Why wasn't he Bush Administration prepared for an attack at the WTC and Pentagon ? Why did the GOP only acted AFTER the 9/11 disaster ?
- And conservatives prepared for war with whom ? We know that Bush was discussing with Blair a war with Iraq only 6 months after 9/11
- And what is the net result of all this "preparations" by conservatives Where is OBL ?
2 - Democrats words put troops at higher risk
- "Bring it on"
- Armor
- Flycatcher: Using troops as terrorist 'bait'
- Abuse at Abu Ghraib
- 1/4 of marines has NO armored Humvees
- Going Alone
- "Crusade"
1 - GOP was better at reacting to 9/11
Rove:
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to...
Answers:
We know that Bush was discussing with Blair a war with Iraq only 6 months after 9/11.
This April 2002 decision was made between Bush and Blair at a summit in Crawford, Texas.(
(1) When did those talks actually begun ? And why did Bush Bush's syphoned about $700M for Iraq from 9/11 fund only 9 months after it ?
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And what is the net result of all this "preparations" by conservatives Where is OBL ? Where is Al Qaeda operating from now ? Why were they allowed to attack one of our allies (Spain) ?
2 - Democrats words put troops at higher risk
Rove: Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin..
Answers:
- "Bring it on" was broadcasted by Al Jazeerah too. As Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J. said, the president's language was "irresponsible and inciteful." "I am shaking my head in disbelief," Lautenberg said. "When I served in the Army in Europe during World War II, I never heard any military commander -- let alone the commander in chief -- invite enemies to attack U.S. troops." (5)
- Armor
2 years later and troops sent as "bait" still don't have armor.. Need I say more ?
- Flycatcher: Using troops as terrorist 'bait':lawnorder: Wouldn't that mean essentially using U.S. soldiers as bait?In Iraq moreover we're dealing not just with regime remnants but also . . . terrorists and foreign fighters who have entered the country .. they .. pose an opportunity because Coalition forces can deal with the terrorists now in Iraq instead of having to deal with those terrorists elsewhere, including the United States.. Donald Rumsfeld Speech to the VFW, August 25, 2003
- Abuse at Abu Ghraib
- 1/4 of marines has NO armored Humvees about a quarter of the Humvees used by the Second Marine Expeditionary Force's Humvees lack sufficient armor to protect troops against roadside bombings, including 1,000 vehicles that have yet to be fitted with armor plates to protect the undercarriage. t r u t h o u t - Marine Units Lack Equipment
- Going Alone .. there seems to be only one reason we are in this endeavor alone, having to use more American troops, spending more American taxpayer money, and destroying a world order and alliances that were decades in the making: to keep all of the rebuilding money and power over future oil contracts within the Bush/Cheney Huston-based Axis of Oil buddies. http://www.moderateindependent.com/v1i3inept.htm
- "Crusade" - This politically and religiously charged term has been used repeatedly by Bush and his administration, inflamating Middle East public opinion