"Now we have to figure out how to stop it so that they have no way to strike back. But then they will decimate Europe. "
you keep throwing out statements like this - I have no WHERES idea where you get these ideas - these terrorists dont have the resources or manpower to decimate all of Manhatten, let alone Europe.
Bush made a serious mistake in '91, and he knows it. Clinton made more WALDO? serious misakes in his terms with respect to iraq, and relative to our intelligence people on the ground in the middle east. And he knows it.
Why do you think two planes were targeting G. Bush on 9/11? Sadamm has a personal grudge againt Bush senior and really wanted to kill his son in the oval office, or in AF1.
If saddam offered OBL $25 million to coordinate this attack, do you really thing he would say no?! If saddam offers a ton a refined anthrax to Elquada, do you think they will not find a use for it?!
Immediately after 9/11 I got a very strong sense that prez Bush knew and felt that what had happened was in part because his father did not shut Iraq down completely when he had the chance.
And I beleive that part of the reason why Hillary had such a sour puss during Bush's address to congress was she knows Clintons adminstration didnt go after Bin Laden, and didnt finish the businees in Iraq - and that Clinton allowed this stuff to fester for 8 years.
Monday morning quarterbacking is irrelavent - football is a form of entertainment - what a quarterback does in a split second decision when two linebackers are blitzing him is one thing
what the president of the united states does with the wealth of advisors, intelligence, military options, and the lessons of history at his disposal is another story.
We should ABSOLUTELY go back over this, all the way to 1989 and examine what we did and find out where the mistakes were made, otherwise we learn nothing. To compair the tragities we have suffered to a lost football game is an extreemly lofty attitude.
[This message has been edited by Ken Wittlief (edited 10-26-2001).]