Ogami said:
Sarek (and Rafterman) asked:
Where's Bin Laden?
Who cares? Bush and Rumsfeld clearly answered this question back in December 2001, check their speeches and comments to reporters. Slapping a pair of handcuffs on Bin Laden would not end the war on terror, that's sophistry. While it would be nice to get him, ending him won't end Al-Queda. Islamic terrorism is much bigger than he is.
Any strategist will tell you, one of the quickest and most effective ways to defeat an enemy is to decapitate him. Take out the head of an organization and the body recoils in chaos. Sometimes long enough to deal the mortal blow.
But, I guess we’ll never know as Bush put a higher priority on bringing Saddam Hussein to justice thinking it would end the reign of terror that Saddam was inflicting on the west and the Iraqi people would rise up in joy and profound thanks to the great Bush for bringing them freedom and democracy.
I bet Bin Laden is sitting in a cave somewhere laughing his ass off over that one.
It's a standard Democrat WHINE that we haven't gotten Bin Laden, no matter how many Al-Queda leaders we kill or take into custody. Again, it's just griping from the sidelines from the party out of power and the party that plans to stay out of power, apparently.
I’ll grant you that one. Clinton should have taken care of it when he had the chance. He failed. But that’s been the Republican whine for the last 6 years now. Clinton should have taken care of it! Sadly, it appears the Republicans are to stupid to take the lessons of history to heart and have repeated it.
Bill Clinton suggested this week that Bush talk to Iran's Mullahs. Clinton, of course, had eight years to talk to them, and never did. Whether it's North Korea, Iraq, or Al-Queda, George Bush has had to clean up Bill Clinton's messes.
He’s done a good job on the clean up too. We’re trillions of dollars in debt, most of the Muslim world hate us and want to kill us and a good majority of the rest of the world wants to help. Or at least not hinder it.
Thank goodness the Clinton team solved the 1993 World Trade Center bombing with a few arrests and subpoenas! That really cowed them.
But it was a tangible result for the effort put forth.
You may think I’m a strong advocate for Clinton and the Democrats, but I’m not. He had his problem just like any other president does. But his problems, lies, mistruths, blindness, what ever you want to call it, didn’t launch us into two different wars, cost thousands of American lives and trillions of dollars or result in 2/3 of the planet wanting to exterminate us.
Defend the guy all you want, but to me, a lying, cheating failure is just that. No matter the party.