As a Republican, I'm proud to say I don't really give a damn about the environment or the people in the Gulf. As long as this disaster doesn't lead to increased fuel costs for me or a effect my bottom line I could really care less. I care about two things as a Republican, my image and my wallet. So long as neither of those are affected by this minor spill I could care less, I don't live in Louisiana.

its ridiculous to blame the government for this disaster. BP & Transocean drilled the fucking hole.

suggesting the government has blame shows how people think the government is responsible for every wrong in the world, & is responsible for solving all the worlds problems.

Get a clue. The true rulers are the illuminati, wall street bankers, & secret elements of the military industrial complex. They are to blame.

proper safety gear that was a direct consequence of deregulation?

i understand the desire to be fair, but the bush admin is responsible for the deregulation

And of course only 8 months into his first term, it was all Bush and his admin that set every one of those systems up. You blame Bush for airport security policy 8 months into his term while letting Obama slide 14 months into his for oil policy? Or if you want to compare apples to apples, how about that asshole that got onto a plane with a bomb recently? Is that Obama's fault or Bush's fault? Be consistent.

To address another question brought up (not by you), the Palin vs. Obama question is flawed because she was a large reason for McCain losing to begin with...not that he had much of a chance given his senility and Obama's massive fundraising/momentum build, but when the choice is Obama for 4 years or McCain for potentially only months and "hockey mom" taking over afterwards...I mean I'm a centrist generally (aka hate all sides equally, lol) but probably lean slightly republican between rep/dem and I'd even take Hillary over Palin. Republicans are going to find themselves with a "Kerry" situation going in 2012 if Palin's still the only one making any significant noise...so many people will be against Obama but the other major candidate will suck so he'll win anyways.

He's just mad Obama is fucking up more in 2 years than Bush could have in 8...Very nearly as much rather.

Idiots. . . .

Well said ... that sums it all up ... :thumbsup

That's TSA's fault. TSA was created by the Bush Admin after 9/11. So any bombs on planes today are a direct result of Bush's failed policies and the inept TSA.

As far as Obama "sliding" 14 months... it's not his oil policy, it's Bush's. And he's kind of been dealing with a lot of shit these last 14 months don't you think? Like fixing the financial collapse that G.W. put us in.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Up041Zm6HI8

I think all can be blamed. Time to get rid of that dependance on oil.

now make your own mind up ...

Spring 2001: Military and government documents are released that seek to legitimize the use of US military force in the pursuit of oil. One article advocates presidential subterfuge in the promotion of conflict and "explicitly urge[s] painting over the US's actual reasons for warfare as a necessity for mobilizing public support for a conflict." [Sydney Morning Herald, 12/26/02, more]

May 2001: US security chiefs reject Sudan's offer to turn over voluminous files about bin Laden and al-Qaeda. Sudan has made this offer repeatedly since 1995. [Guardian, 9/30/01, more]

May 2001: Secretary of State Powell gives $43 million in aid to the Taliban government. [Los Angeles Times, 5/22/01, CNN 5/17/01] This follows $113 million given in 2000. [State Dept. Fact Sheet, 12/11/01]

May 2001: The US introduces "Visa Express" program allowing any Saudi Arabian to obtain visas through their travel agent instead of appearing at a consulate in person. [US News and World Report, 12/12/01] Five hijackers use Visa Express to enter the US. [Congressional Intelligence Committee, 9/20/02]

May-Aug 2001: A number of the 9/11 hijackers make at least six trips to Las Vegas. These "fundamentalist" Muslims drink alcohol, frequent strip clubs, and smoke hashish. Some even have strippers perform lap dances for them. [San Francisco Chronicle, 10/4/01, Newsweek, 10/15/01]

June 13, 2001: Egyptian President Mubarak through his intelligence services warns the US that bin Laden's Islamic terrorist network is threatening to kill Bush and other G8 leaders at their July economic summit meeting in Italy. The terrorists plan to use a plane stuffed with explosives. [NY Times, 9/26/01]

June 28, 2001: CIA Director George J. Tenet has been "nearly frantic" with concern. A written intelligence summary for national security adviser Condoleezza Rice says: "It is highly likely that a significant al Qaeda attack is in the near future, within several weeks." Rice will later claim that everyone was taken by complete surprise by the 9/11 attack. By late summer, one senior political appointee says, Tenet had repeated this threat "so often that people got tired of hearing it." [Washington Post, 5/17/02]

July 4-14, 2001: Bin Laden reportedly receives kidney treatment from Canadian-trained Dr. Callaway at the American Hospital in Dubai. Telephoned several times, the doctor declines to answer questions. During his stay, bin Laden allegedly is visited by one or two CIA officers. [Guardian, 11/1/01, Sydney Morning Herald, 10/31/01, Times of London, 11/1/01, UPI, 11/1/01, more]

July 10, 2001: A Phoenix FBI agent sends a memorandum warning about Middle Eastern men taking flight lessons. He suspects bin Laden's followers and recommends a national program to check visas of suspicious flight-school students. The memo is sent to two FBI counter-terrorism offices, but no action is taken. [New York Times, 5/21/02] Vice President Cheney says in May 2002 that he opposes releasing this memo to congressional leaders or to the media and public. [CNN, 5/20/02]

July 24, 2001: Larry Silverstein's $3.2 billion 99-year lease of the WTC is finalized. Silverstein hopes to win $7 billion in insurance from the destruction of the WTC towers. [NY Times, 02/16/03, Newsday, 09/25/02]

July 26, 2001: Attorney General Ashcroft stops flying commercial airlines due to a threat assessment. [CBS, 7/26/01] He later walks out of his office rather than answer questions about this. [AP, 5/16/02, more]

Late July 2001: The US and UN ignore warnings from the Taliban foreign minister that bin Laden is planning an imminent huge attack on US soil. The FBI and CIA also fail to take seriously warnings that Islamic fundamentalists have enrolled in flight schools across the US. [Independent, 9/7/02, more]

Summer 2001: Intelligence officials know that al Qaeda both hopes to use planes as weapons and seeks to strike a violent blow within the US, despite government claims following 9/11 that the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks came ?like bolts from the blue.? [Wall Street Journal, 09/19/02, CNN, 9/12/02]

Summer 2001: Russian President Putin later says publicly that he ordered his intelligence agencies to alert the US of suicide pilots training for attacks on US targets. [Fox, 5/17/02]

Late summer 2001: Jordanian intelligence agents go to Washington to warn that a major attack is planned inside the US and that aircraft will be used. Christian Science Monitor calls the story "confidently authenticated" even though Jordan later backs away from it. [CS Monitor, 5/23/02]

Aug 5-11, 2001: Israel warns US of an imminent Al Qaeda attack. [Fox News, 5/17/02]

Aug 6, 2001: President Bush is warned by US intelligence that bin Laden might be planning to hijack commercial airliners. The White House waits eight months after 9/11 to reveal this fact. [New York Times, 5/16/02] Titled ?Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US,? the intelligence briefing specifically mentions the World Trade Center. Yet Bush later states the briefing ?said nothing about an attack on America.? [Washington Post, 4/12/04, White House, 4/11/04, CNN, 4/10/04, Intelligence Briefing, 8/6/01, more]

Aug 22, 2001: Top counter-terrorism expert John O'Neill quits the FBI due to repeated obstruction of his al-Qaeda investigations and a power play against him. He was the government's "most committed tracker of bin Laden and al-Qaeda." The next day he starts a new job as head of security at the WTC. He is killed weeks later in the World Trade Center during the 9/11 attack. [New Yorker, 1/14/02]

Aug 24, 2001: Frustrated with lack of response from FBI headquarters about detained suspect Moussaoui, the Minnesota FBI begins working with the CIA. The CIA sends alerts calling him a "suspect 747 airline suicide hijacker." Three days later an FBI Minnesota supervisor says he is trying to make sure that Moussaoui does not "take control of a plane and fly it into the World Trade Center." [Senate Intelligence Committee, 10/17/02] FBI headquarters chastises Minnesota FBI for notifying the CIA. [Time, 5/21/02] FBI Director Mueller will later say "there was nothing the agency could have done to anticipate and prevent the [9/11] attacks." [Senate Intelligence Committee, 9/18/02, more]

Sept 10, 2001: A particularly urgent warning may have been received the night before the attacks, causing some top Pentagon brass to cancel a trip. ?Why that same information was not available to the 266 people who died aboard the four hijacked commercial aircraft may become a hot topic on the Hill." [Newsweek, 9/13/01] "A group of top Pentagon officials suddenly canceled travel plans for the next morning, apparently because of security concerns." [Newsweek, 9/24/01, more]

Sept 10, 2001: Former president Bush is with a brother of Osama bin Laden at a Carlyle business conference. The conference is interrupted the next day by the attacks. [Washington Post, 3/16/03]

Sept 10, 2001: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld announces that by some estimates the Department of Defense "cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions." CBS later calculates that 25% of the yearly defense budget is unaccounted for. A defense analyst says, ?The books are cooked routinely year after year." [DOD, 9/10/01, CBS, 1/29/02] This announcement was buried by the next day?s news of 9/11.

Sept 11, 2001: Warren Buffett, the second richest man on Earth [BBC, 6/22/01], schedules a charity event inside Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. A small group of business leaders attend, including at least one who would otherwise have died in the WTC. [SF Business Times, 2/1/02, Forbes 10/15/01] Bush flies to this same base that day, where there is an underground command center. [CNN, 9/12/01, CBS, 9/11/02]

Sept 11, 2001: Recovery experts extract data from 32 WTC computer drives revealing a surge in financial transactions. Illegal transfers of over $100 million may have been made through some WTC computer systems immediately before and during the disaster. [Reuters, 12/18/01, CNN, 12/20/01, more]

Sept 11, 2001: In what the government describes as a bizarre coincidence, a US intelligence agency (the National Reconnaissance Office or NRO) was all set for an exercise at 9 AM on September 11th in which an aircraft would crash into one of its buildings near Washington, DC. [AP, 8/22/02] Four wargames were also in progress at the time of the attacks. [C-SPAN Congressional Testimony, 3/11/05, more]

Sept 11, 2001: The entire continental United States is defended by only seven air bases and 14 military jets. [CNN, 9/9/03, Newsday, 9/23/01]



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Since we're playing the blame game, don't environmentalists share in the blame by pushing exploration and oil extraction to areas that are inaccessible/hard to do remedial actions yet impacts large populated sections (ie., offshore?) Compare if there's a disaster at ANWR versus the BP oil rig disaster...

Just asking :)

I don't know where to place the blame.

Faggot liberals, lets blame Bush for everything..

Why don't we blame Obama. What if I said Obama was behind this entire disaster to push his own agenda? What if his horrible response to this crisis is intentional?

Obama uses oil spill to push Climate Change Agenda

Yes, messiah, push for cap and trade..

http://superstore.wnd.com/store/images/items/W0243.jpg

It wasn't directly related to the oil spill, but the two postings above, by directfiesta, were pretty fucking interesting!

Thanks directfiesta!

What is astounding to me is that there are still people that believe some drunken "terrorists" pulled it all off.