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Administration Ignored Bin Laden Intel
gettin-bored noted a nice article running in very high priority on the Washington Post, right up there on page 17 of the print edition, where it's revealed that the CIA Director warned Rice about Bin Laden two months before 9/11. And strangely, the meeting was never mentioned during all the 9/11 commission reports making you really question what exactly they were actually hearing that was more important than the CIA director telling the National Security Advisor that Bin Laden was going to attack Americans.
If you let Bin Laden attack America, you can do ANYTHING YOU WANT after that! It's like a blank check! All you have to do is write "three thousand New Yorkers" on the second line, and "Pay To The Order Of Bin Laden / George Bush" up top. It's BULLETPROOF!
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Yeah, But only Bush could have GIVEN INTO Bin Ladin's demands to withdraw troops from Saudi Arabia, AND turn the US into the Moral Equals of Nazis, with respect to the rule of law.
TODAY, tossing someone in a cell FOR LIFE, without Equal Protection of the Law is PERFECTLY LAWFUL. What about Tomorrow?
In Nazi Germany, gassing and shovelling Jews into Ovens was PERFECTLY LAWFUL, too.
You going to let it get that bad?
DO you THINK you still have a voice? Or is it too late?
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Great! Post as AC and call me names. What class. But this is what I've come to expect from liberals. When you know you're beat, you just start yelling and name calling. Go ahead, call me a Nazi, you know you want to.
The important distinction is that Reagan was Bush Sr's puppet. Bush Sr ran the country for 12 years. The CIA he recovered from its complicity in Watergate and Vietnam (by running it after he ran the Republican Party under Nixon) was the CIA which allowed Iran's revolution and created the Afghanistan Mujahideen (including Osama and his Qaeda).
Bush knew. He ran the whole operation. And now, while his son diverts $3 TRILLION a year to his Carlyle Group global businesses, he's (still) cashing in while building an unmatched American dynasty.
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It was 1987. At a lecture the other day they were playing an old news video of Lt.Col. Oliver North testifying at the Iran-Contra hearings during the Reagan Administration.
There was Ollie in front of God and country getting the third degree, but what he said was stunning!
He was being drilled by a senator; "Did you not recently spend close to $60,000 for a home security system?"
Ollie replied, "Yes, I did, Sir."
The senator continued, trying to get a laugh out of the audience, "Isn't that just a little excessive?"
"No, sir," continued Ollie.
"No? And why not?" the senator asked.
"Because the lives of my family and I were threatened, sir."
"Threatened? By whom?" the senator questioned.
"By a terrorist, sir" Ollie answered.
"Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare you that much?"
"His name is Osama bin Laden, sir" Ollie replied.
At this point the senator tried to repeat the name, but couldn't pronounce it, which most people back then probably couldn't. A couple of people laughed at the attempt. Then the senator continued. Why are you so afraid of this man?" the senator asked.
"Because, sir, he is the most evil person alive that I know of", Ollie answered.
"And what do you recommend we do about him?" asked the senator.
"Well, sir, if it was up to me, I would recommend that an assassin team be formed to eliminate him and his men from the face of the earth."
The senator disagreed with this approach, and that was all that was shown of the clip.
By the way, that senator was Al Gore.