Two For Tuesday
- wadE
In response to Wade's gambit from yesterday.
No, no, yes, no, yes, no, yes, no.
In other news...there isn't much. The local paper has
articles about Billy Bob Thronton saying he had a good marriage to Angelina Jolie, Jessica Simpson and Nick
Lachey are getting their own variety show on ABC (no wonder they are slipping behind FOX), and the big news
that Denny Green is coming back to MN as coach of the Arizona Cardinals for a preseason game against the Vikings.
Wow, must be a slow news day if these are the headlines.
Most interesting to me is the recent book published by former "Terrorism Czar" Richard Clarke. Clarke's
book hits the Bush administration with some heavy charges. Basically more of the same "they don't have a clue
what they are doing" charges that other defectors (republican defectors I might add) have leveled against the
Bush administration.
I honestly don't know how Bush is going to get reelected this fall, but I just know he will. As a Republican
Oil Man he's doing a horrible job. Gas prices are through the roof, and he's spending like crazy. I'd honestly
settle for a different republican in office at this point.
The one thing I won't blame Bush on is not getting Bin Laden. Most of us don't remember the before September
2001 this country would not have put up with a government that would just go after some arab guy that they hadn't
heard of before. Clinton didn't want to upset the peace talks he was brokering in Israel, and we weren't
(officially) in the business of assassinations. It was all about bringing people to justice. There was no
reason to kill Bin Laden.
While the revelations in Clarke's book (if true) are startling, Bush will get past this. The Republican
spin/attack machine will go to work on Clarke with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch. He just better hope
he doesn't have a single skeleton in his closet. Otherwise Karl Rove will make sure it's found and makes its
way to the front page of every paper in the country.
Don't you just love politics?
UPDATE:
"'There should have been no confusion that our personnel were authorized to kill bin Laden,'
Albright told the panel." So I was wrong. Guess we were trying to kill him. In that case both Clinton and
Bush are responsible since there was predator drone evidence of Bin Laden's whereabouts during each of their
adminstrations. While I harp on the fact that people don't take responsibility for their actions (or
inactions) anymore. It doesn't help to search for a scape goat. No one person is responsible. No one had
any idea of the large scale of attacks that were being planned. Sometimes all you can do is learn your lesson
and move on.
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