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 TR> BUSH'S AMERICA: 100 PERCENT AL-QAIDA FREE SINCE 2001
 TR> June 11, 2008

 If so, why are all those Americans being arrested and tried for
 terrorist ties?

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 TR> the man responsible for keeping
 TR> Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American
 TR> soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as

 Which is not true.

 TR> Produce one person who believed, on Sept. 12, 2001, that
 TR> there would not be another attack for seven years, and I'll
 TR> consider downgrading Bush from "Great" to "Really Good."

 There was not one foreign terrorist attack on American soil
 between Feb 26, 1993, one month and 6 days after Clinton took
 office, and Sept 11, 2003, seven months and 22 days after Bush
 took office.

 Funny, Clinton has been critized endlessly for his part in an
 attack that took place just over a month after he took office.
 Bush gets kudos for an attack that took place over 7 months
 after he took office.

 TR> Merely taking out Saddam Hussein and his winsome sons Uday
 TR> and Qusay (Hussein family slogan: "We're the Rape Room
 TR> People!") constitutes a greater humanitarian accomplishment
 TR> than anything Bill Clinton ever did -- and I'm including

 Taking out Saddam took a handful of rapist out of the rape
 room, and turned Iraq into a Rape country for 6 years.

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 TR> But unlike liberals, who are so anxious to send American
 TR> troops to Rwanda or Darfur, Republicans oppose deploying
 TR> U.S. troops for purely humanitarian purposes. We invaded
 TR> Iraq to protect America.

 Well, The Shrub invaded Iraq for oil and votes. Sending troops
 to Rwanda or Darfur for humanitarian purposes would be
 justified. Invading Iraq for oil and votes was not.

 TR> It is unquestionable that Bush has made this country safe
 TR> by keeping Islamic lunatics pinned down fighting our troops
 TR> in Iraq.

 Where they have killed over 4000 Americans and created hatred of
 America throughout much of the world.

 TR> In the past few years, our brave troops have
 TR> killed more than 20,000 al-Qaida and other Islamic
 TR> militants in Iraq alone. That's 20,000 terrorists who will
 TR> never board a plane headed for JFK -- or a landmark
 TR> building, for that matter.

 And just how does she know that? We do know body counts tend to
 be inflated with those not among our enemies. And "other"
 militants?

 TR> We are, in fact, fighting them over there so we don't have
 TR> to fight them at, say, the corner of 72nd and Columbus in
 TR> Manhattan

 A statement of cowardice from Coulter.

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 TR> The Iraqis have a democracy --

 Iran has a democracy. Egypt has a democracy. Both as effective
 and democratic as Iraqs.

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 TR> (Guess what Bill Clinton's campaign theme was in 1992? You
 TR> are wrong if you guessed: "bringing dignity back to the
 TR> White House." It was "change." In January 1992, James

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 BIG GOVERNMENT.* In his North Carolina victory speech, among
 other things, Sen. Obama uttered the words *"We dont need Big
 Government"*. Whether you agree with that or not, remind your
 Republican friends that Pres. Bill Clinton's National
 Performance Review reduced the federal civilian workforce by
 250,000 positions (ones they will consider, rightly or wrongly,
 to be useless tax-sucking bureaucrats).  This makes the last
 Democratic administration the only presidency since Eisenhower's
 to leave office with a smaller federal workforce that he started
 with - again, Bush, Bush, Reagan, Ford, and Nixon
 notwithstanding. But, the real stones Obama brings to the table
 on this issue are his formative years on the south side of
 Chicago, doing meaningful community social work through
 voluntary, faith-based, non-governmental community
 organizations, rather than government bureaucracies.  Yes, We

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 TR> Monthly casualties in Iraq now come in slightly lower than
 TR> a weekend with Anna Nicole Smith. According to a CNN report
 TR> last week, for the entire month of May, there were only 19
 TR> troop deaths in Iraq. (Last year, five people on average
 TR> were shot every day in Chicago.) With Iraqi deaths at an
 TR> all-time low, Iraq is safer than Detroit -- although the
 TR> Middle Eastern food is still better in Detroit.


 TR> Al-Qaida is virtually destroyed, surprising even the CIA.
 TR> Two weeks ago, The Washington Post reported: "Less than a
 TR> year after his agency warned of new threats from a
 TR> resurgent al-Qaida, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden now
 TR> portrays the terrorist movement as essentially defeated in
 TR> Iraq and Saudi Arabia and on the defensive throughout much
 TR> of the rest of the world, including in its presumed haven
 TR> along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border."

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 TR> The U.S. and Australia have been working closely with the
 TR> Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia, sending them
 TR> counterterrorism equipment and personnel.

 TR> But no one notices when 9/11 doesn't happen. Indeed, if we

 Had Bush accepted Clinton's plans for anti-terrorism, and given
 anti-terrorism the focus Clinton did, 9-11 might not have
 happened.

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 TR> John McCain should be so lucky as to be running for Bush's
 TR> third term. Then he might have a chance.

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 McCain vocally disagrees with the successful CIA program to take
 out al Queada leadership when located in northwest Pakistan
 without alerting the local tribal authorities and Pakistani
 Intelligence, who have always warned off our targets in the
 past. Sen. Obama, by contrast, opposes giving al Queada
 sanctuary in Pakistan and ardently supports this initiative.
 When McCain attacked Obama as niave for "wanting to bomb an
 ally", the very next day the CIA took out the #3 leader in al
 Queada with just such a raid, with a missile fired from a
 Predator drone.  Coddling Pakistan's corrupt dictator for these
 eight years hasnt made us safer, and John McCain's simplistic
 continuation of this weak policy is just being *Soft on
 Terrorism*, no way around it.

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BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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