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Originally posted by Colin
First of all, I think Clinton was a fine president. I have always said that. But in this game we call politics it is easy to do what I am saying.
If you're a Democrat or a liberal, you take everything and twist it, conveniently leaving out all factual evidence against that particular point of view or dismiss it for some other innocuous reason. Republicans do the same thing. This is exactly what politics has become.
For example, a lot of Democrats like to say that Bush is ignoring the Constitution and has violated international law. These are the two most popular examples today. What they don't mention is Clinton (maybe mistakenly) bombing a factory in Sudan based on CIA intelligence only and signing CDA and COPA - both of them violations of the constitution. You could also throw that Kerry voted for the Patriot Act in there.
Another example I can give is Democrats saying "Bush invaded Afghanistan and didn't get Osama". That is true. Maybe that is because of ineptness or maybe Osama is just that good. But in the game of party politics, if you are a Democrat, you say "Bush is inept". Conveniently left out, in order to win the argument, is the fact that Osama declared war against the US in 1998. What is usually not mentioned is that launching a few missiles into the desert in Afghanistan and into a factory in Sudan didn't get Osama either. Forcing Sudan to expel Osama didn't do any good either and - in the Sudan government's opinion - just made matters worse.
This is the kind of story-telling that I don't really like about party politics.
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No, this is something Republicans do, don't smear both parties with the same brush. They are not the same.
As someone who reads the papers, unlike your President, you know DAMN well that the outgoing Clinton team stressed to the incoming team that Osama should be treated as the HIGHEST priority regarding national security, and you know damn well that the Bushies just weren't interested.
Osama would NEVER have been able to pull off 9-11 with Clinton in office, they had to wait for a guy like Bush. You also know that with the faux patriotic fervor sweeping the nation, fomented by demagogues on the right, it would have been political suicide to vote against the Patriot Act at that time. After all, the Congress and the nation was forced to trust the bad intelligence that we now know was manufactured by the Bush administration to justify the Iraq invasion.
Can you say 'Yellowcake' and 'Valerie Plame'? Yes, I thought you could.