tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30969459.post7575792372431684919..comments2023-10-05T05:39:34.163-04:00Comments on The Drawn Cutlass: At Least Bush Kept Us SafeBobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11402651457453813639noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30969459.post-80191915667134837462009-01-10T02:45:00.000-05:002009-01-10T02:45:00.000-05:00Ya, read the article, 3 times now. I left a comme...Ya, read the article, 3 times now. I left a comment with Peggy about an hour after it was posted to the wsj. http://tr.im/3d4n This article touches a nerve. Bush absolutely did not 'keep US safe'. My personal opinion is that Bush, et al, were and continue to be negligent. They ignored the warnings, it's a matter of historical record. It's criminal. They had to be forced to setup a commission to figure out what happened. http://tr.im/3t6y It's treasonous. To say that Bush 'kept us safe' is deceptive and conveniently excuses his administration's failure to prevent 911. Cheers to you for posting my dissenting opinion.sime0nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07021195096131162226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30969459.post-56557745503944670082009-01-09T22:44:00.000-05:002009-01-09T22:44:00.000-05:00Ok, sime0n, a couple of last points:1. Tsunami. ...Ok, sime0n, a couple of last points:<BR/><BR/>1. Tsunami. Sri Lanka is a sovereign country and the US has no business telling it how to run its internal affairs.<BR/><BR/>2. <I>Americans are not satisfied with Republican's Orwellian 'strategery'. ie - War is Peace.</I> That's right, so they peacefully changed their leadership, as has been done in this country for over 2 centuries. Hopefully Obama will keep us as safe for the next 8 years as President Bush has for the last 7. That was the point of the article I was linking to, if you bothered to read it.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11402651457453813639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30969459.post-79338460786460703542009-01-09T21:51:00.000-05:002009-01-09T21:51:00.000-05:00Arr matey! Avast yer name callin! Troll huh? Ho...Arr matey! Avast yer name callin! Troll huh? How about, 'concerned citizen & patriot no longer willing to listen to neoCon BS like this without letting you know (1) self-deception is real: http://tr.im/3p13 and (2) I am glad that your ilk has been marginalized'. <BR/><BR/>@tsunami - We stood aside as the Sri Lankan government confiscated the property of fishing families to build luxury hotels after the tsunami. Just like Katrina! http://tr.im/3n9s<BR/><BR/>@Katrina - This was not a natural disaster, it was a disaster created by systemic failure of the Army Corps of Engineers over decades. Google: "largest civil engineering disaster". "This is the largest civil engineering disaster in the history of the United States." http://tr.im/3n1f<BR/><BR/>@911 - Yea maybe you're right. Maybe I too would have sat there for 9 minutes with a blank stare while Flight 93 was plunging and the WTC was burning. Then again, maybe I would have excused myself in the name of "National Security". <BR/><BR/>@Generals - General Shinseki was right about troop levels and was fired for not spewing Bush's propaganda, which of course had a chilling effect on the rest of the Generals. Aka, Rumsfeld's way or the highway, competance be damned. <BR/><BR/>@Lincon finding a general to 'prosecute the war to his satisfaction' - Americans are not satisfied with Republican's Orwellian 'strategery'. ie - War is Peace. Cheney's answer? "So!!" This is a Republican war built on lies. As General Powell said, "You break it, you bought it".<BR/><BR/>@economy - "...you have periods of growth and periods of loss".. Well yea, it's just that this 'period of loss' is unmatched in recent history. You have to go back to the 1940's to find a comparable situation. But even from recent history: unemployment under Clinton vs. unemployment under Bush = http://tr.im/3n3a Deregulating financial markets was / is a dumb idea, obviously. When your presidential candidate says the economy is 'fundamentally sound' right before a collapse and his Chief Economic Adviser calls America a 'nation of whiners'... what else is there to say? Republicans are fundamentally out of touch and live a faith based reality. Keep you head in the sand for as long as you want, the rest of US are moving on.<BR/><BR/>Though I digress. Ultimately this is not about Left vs. Right, Liberal vs. Conservative, Good vs. Evil. This is about the limits of power, imperialism and the end of American Exceptionalism. http://tr.im/3nr3 <BR/><BR/>As Bacevich points out: Book of Second Kings, chapter 20, verse one. "Set thine house in order."sime0nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07021195096131162226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30969459.post-16516513568232650402009-01-09T03:51:00.000-05:002009-01-09T03:51:00.000-05:00Hey, look! A stupid leftist troll shows up! Hi, tr...Hey, look! A stupid leftist troll shows up! Hi, troll!<BR/><BR/>As for your talking points, troll:<BR/><BR/>1. Indonesian tsunami. Bush isn't president of Indonesia and didn't cause the tsunami. He offered aid, both monetary and personnel. What more did you want of him?<BR/><BR/>2. Katrina. Again, Pres. Bush isn't responsible for causing natural disasters. First response to a natural disaster in one of the United States is the responsibility of the local and state governments, both of which failed the people of New Orleans. Levees had gone neglected for decades, not something Bush could be held solely responsible for. While the federal (FEMA) response left much to be desired, the primary responsibility for the Katrina disaster lay with the response by local and state officials.<BR/><BR/>3. 9/11. No one can speak of how they would respond to being told of an attack until they are actually tested themselves. You can talk of "stupors" if you like, but President Bush was in the middle of reading a story to young schoolchildren when he was informed of the attack. He finished the story without making a scene or otherwise scaring the children, then spent some time thinking about what he'd been told, and probably was considering options, since he was away from the White House and most of his advisors. I'm sure you would have done better. /sarcasm<BR/><BR/>4. Iraq Insurgency. Abraham Lincoln had to go through a half-dozen generals before he found one (Grant) who was capable of prosecuting the Civil War to his satisfaction. Was Lincoln an incompetent, too?<BR/><BR/>5. Economy. In any economy, you have periods of growth and periods of loss. Just as Clinton got credit for a booming economy based on savings from slashing defense costs, Bush gets the blame for an economy crippled by war costs and other factors, such as home loans given to borrowers with bad credit, which was a policy of Democrats, not Republicans. There's more than enough blame to go around for the economy, although as President, Bush has to shoulder the blame.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11402651457453813639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30969459.post-76286207844674648372009-01-09T03:07:00.000-05:002009-01-09T03:07:00.000-05:00"The destruction of an American city isn't worth m..."The destruction of an American city isn't worth making political points over."<BR/><BR/>Such restraint! ps - Bush sat in a glazed stupor for nine minutes after being told, literally, that America was under attack. The Indonesian tsunami. The Iraq insurgency. Katrina. The economic meltdown. I could go on. <BR/><BR/>@brigid Fluffy words = misunderestimated, bring it on, mission accomplished, heck of a job.sime0nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07021195096131162226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30969459.post-18801692796453116082008-12-06T12:23:00.000-05:002008-12-06T12:23:00.000-05:00Iran worries me. Iran's claims that its nuclear p...Iran worries me. Iran's claims that its nuclear program is peaceful, claims that our upcoming administration seems to have taken at face value. Yet in addition to incredible coal and oil reserves that make nuclear energy not even necessary in the foreseeable future, Iran does not have enough indigenous uranium resources to fuel even one power-generating reactor over its lifetime. Oh, but it does have enough uranium to make several nuclear bombs.<BR/><BR/>We're going into frightening times and it's going to take more than lots of fluffy words and expensive suits to keep us safe.Home on the Rangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03836315423040719919noreply@blogger.com