Think Progress: Bush Blames Carter, Reagan, Clinton for 9/11

[understandinglife]

Bush Blames Carter, Reagan, Clinton for 9/11

August 30, 2005

As his poll numbers sink, Bush is getting desperate. From his address today in San Diego:

They looked at our response after the hostage crisis in Iran, the bombings of the Marine barracks in Lebanon, the first World Trade Center attack, the killing of American soldiers in Somalia, the destruction of two U.S. embassies in Africa, and the attack on the USS Cole. They concluded that free societies lacked the courage and character to defend themselves against a determined enemy… After September the 11th, 2001, we’ve taught the terrorists a very different lesson: America will not run in defeat and we will not forget our responsibilities.

Link:

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/08/30/bush-blames

Facts are, Georgie boy, you've expanded the ranks of the terrorists more effectively than any President in the history of the USA.

And, let's read what one of our brave, and now dead, soldiers has to say about you and your neoconster fellow criminals at the Pentagon.

Before he died when his truck overturned during combat in Baghdad, Sgt. Thomas Strickland, 27, posted an entry on his weblog sharing his anger about the situation in Iraq.

In a weblog he fatalistically titled One Foot in the Grave, Strickland asked, "What kind of fucktarded plan have we been half-assedly executing?" -- two days before he was killed on August 13, 2005:

The insurgency is on the rise in our area, with a most impressive coordinated assault on one of my sister FOBs (St. Joe) under their belt. Apparently they have enough folks and sophistication in my back yard where they can simultaneously place accurate mortar rounds on three seperate locations (at least 30k apart) to tie up any ground mounted quick reaction forces, as well as offer up multiple RPG strikes on the guard towers at Joe. These RPG attacks really bring out the QRF who face their own ambush as they come out the gate, at least 12 insurgents occupying buildings with an overwatch position to Joe's only entrance armed with more rpg's and small arms. The only possible responses are tanks or Apaches. Luckily we have both on call. 12 dead insurgents, destroyed buildings, a compromised FOB, sustained, accurate and unaswered indirect fire and lots o unanswered questions later... I'm here.

What the fuck has my chain of command been doing? We were winning somewhat when I left. And now we're being pinned down in our own fucking homes? Insurgents are pushing locals out of their homes and taking over my area at will? What kind of fucktarded plan have we been half-assedly executing? Obviously the kind that neglects sound contact with locals. Obviously the kind that gives further distance to unbridged gaps between soldiers and locals. Obviously the kind that has shown enough weakness when confronted by the insugency that it has been encouraged to grow.

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Back home (the USA kind) I have no home, no job, and my commander in chief is on vacation (he's about 20 days behind Ronald Reagan right now in the race to become the most vacationing president ever. Hey W! we all got our fingers crossed! Here's to you and two more years of presidency...er vacationing!).

Link at Drudge Retort:

http://www.drudge.com/news/72550/soldier-challenged-fucktarded-war-plan#discuss

Out now. -- Out of Iraq; Bush and the neoconsters out of our government.


Peace.

[Imagevision]

1. Being that wtc's were hit 93 days after Clinton took office you have

to give some credit to George H.W. Bush

[understandinglife]

3. Exactly. TP noted that little inconsistency in georgie boy's rant ...

... as in he kinda forgot the old man had some skin in the game.


Peace.

[RobertSeattle]

2. The Bush Administration is the one that refused to attack after the Cole

By the time the Perp's of the Cole attack were determined, Shrub was in charge. Tax cuts for the rich were far more important than a reprisal attack.

[understandinglife]

4. Yeap. Exactly.

Peace.

[Uncle Joe]

5. And let us not forget

the loyal Republican opposition's response after the African Embassies were bombed by Al Qaeda. As the Clinton Administration attempted to take out Osama with cruise missile strikes in retaliation they said to the American People "It's all about Monica".
The Republican witch hunt of the nineties aided by the corpwhorate owned media,led directly to putting the neocons and their lackey Bush in to power in the first place, which in turn led to 9/11.

[understandinglife]

6. Lampley: The Height of Shamelessness

The Height of Shamelessness

by Jim Lampley

August 30, 2005

His ship increasingly buffeted by the storm, today Captain Ahab and his handlers saw fit to compare the Iraq War to World War II. More precisely, W linked his own commitment to an ill-chosen invasion of a country peripheral to the central conflict to the courage and leadership of the nation's greatest Twentieth Century President, FDR. Guess no one told W FDR was a Democrat, and how the hell was he supposed to remember something like that?

Hell, it's been sixty years, right? Something like that.

This W is a glutton for punishment. He made this speech in the same town where he made his ill-fated "mission accomplished" appearance on the deck of an aircraft carrier. He did it with World War II veterans in attendance, as if they don't know the difference between legitimately defending freedom against well-defined enemies and fighting an entrepreneurial aggression on carefully concocted false pretenses. W is less than one month away from looking at one of the most massive protests the Mall has ever seen, if he just happens to be in or near Washington September 24, but then why would we expect that? He's the President, right, and he doesn't really think he has to worry what the people think.

Link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-lampley/the-height-of-shamelessne_b_6469.html

He must be removed.


Peace.

[DemReadingDU]

7. nominated

and thanks for tying these articles together