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Re: Help me with the math
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Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:24:51 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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Well, Bruce, it took many men many months and many million $$$ to gather
that information-- how unfair to expect a new administration to be on top of
that. Why wasn’t that information assembled by Clinton? I think it is more
than fair to hold the officeholder for the previous 8 years a little more
accountable than Bush!
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Not particularly unfair at all. Bush had enough to go on. And Clinton, for
the umpteenth time, is not running for re-election. Quit using him as the
universal excuse.
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I’m usually wrong about how to reason with John, so maybe I should just shut up.
But would it make things easier if those of us who think that Bush was seriously
negligent in his handling of the intelligence regarding the 9/11 attack admitted
that Clinton was also? I mean, of course he was! And at least some of us have
been saying so for years. But that doesn’t change the fact that Bush sat on his
hands for eight months.
John’s making it out like eight months isn’t enough time, but frankly, there was
no single more important thing that he should have been attending to. Nothing.
I’d grant any president a month to find his feet. If it had happened during his
first month, I’d side with John. But eight months later? He dropped the ball.
And lots of people died.
And he reacted. And he’s been reacting ever since. The only proactive stuff he
seems to have done has been bad.
Chris
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| (...) John said "Bush is brilliant" and that is what I am arguing about. Not "Clinton is an idiot". John is playing a game: Bush is not responsible for anything that has gone wrong, it's all Somebody Else's Fault. Essentially, he's trying to drag (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) That would be included in what I said. However, there are no WoMD and no Al Qaeda connections. Bush can believe what he wants, but I am saying he should be held accountable for his mistakes. (...) He just released a new claim that America is (...) (20 years ago, 10-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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