Keys to winning Election 2006: ''Bush Failed to Protect America''

[Octafish]

When warned Osama bin Laden was determined to attack in the United States, Bush failed to protect America.

When warned Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11 and was no threat to the United States, Bush failed to protect America.

When warned Hurricane Katrina was going to devastate New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, Bush failed to protect America.

When warned his tax cuts were benefitting only the wealthy, Bush failed to protect America.

When warned American jobs were disappearing overseas, Bush failed to protect America.

What was he doing?



He was hard at work on vacation.

Bush is a miserable failure, to put it nicely.

[billbuckhead]

1. Bush keeps failing America

This chimplike fratster, National Guard and corporate board of directors drop out has failed upward more magnificiently than any man in history. A tribute to the stupidity and cowardice of America. We have actually made bad Roman emperors look better with the unfolding escapades of the Bush/Cheney misadministration. They say a nation deserves the government it gets. Today's America deserves Bush/Cheney.

[Octafish]

3. That and his Poppy was head of the Gestapo.

Oops. I mean "secret state police."

[Proud2BAmurkin]

2. jowly fuck nt

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[Octafish]

5. Normally I don't criticize people for their physical shortcomings...

...in the case of mass-murdering dry-drunk traitors, I will make an exception.



The guy never gets tired to telling every toad in Corporate McPravda how his main job is to protect America.

He's failed at every turn.

[savemefromdumbya]

4. Why don't Democrats hammer this? Repeat, repeat, repeat

I always get the feeling that Democratic party is infiltratd with repulicans

[Octafish]

6. ''Bush failed to protect America'' coulda won Kerry the Presidency.

I tried to tell him, but he wouldn't listen.

More accurately, his "people" wouldn't listen.



Must've been how I told them.

Really appreciate that you get it, savemefromdumbya.

If enough people spread the word, America will dump the chump.

CHIMPEACH the WARMONKEY

[savemefromdumbya]

7. Each democrat needs to take turns to issue press releases on this

each democrat needs to get onto TV, radio to keep saying this over and over and over again. What is the democratic manifesto? GOp is fighting this election with the terror and fear thing, nothing else - it hasn't got anything else!

[Octafish]

8. This Path to 9-11 Bushwash pollutes the national mind...

Thanks, savemefromdumbya. The DEMs on the radio, TV, Internets each bring up a PART of the big picture -- from the raid on Social Security to mortgaging the future to the failed war on terra to the enormous criminality of the Bush gang. What is needed is the unifying sauce: one phrase that sums up what Bushco is about, the antidote to "Bush the Hero of 9-11," the Truth -- Bush has failed to protect America.

Psyop types know that the first to get an idea into a person's head has the easiest job. It's always much harder to substitute with a new idea, even when it is the truth. In the case of that movie, a large chunk of America and the world, FWIU, are being infected with another big lie: Bush has done all he can to protect us.

We need some kind of bushbidet of the national psyche. And that means hitting the lying fascist bastards with everything we got. We're armed with what they fear most -- the Truth. That's why they are so busy talking up the Big Lie.

[savemefromdumbya]

9. Dems need a leader(s) to bring them to victory

pity we couldn't have the primary now for 2008 and then get the act into gear.

The Kerry campaign seemed to be in slow motion. This time we need to be ahead of the game, no deals.

For Nov 2006, the 2 people who need to hit the airwaves are the Demcratic leaders of house and senate, Pelosi and Reid. Dean is doing quite a bit but he can't do everything. Need focus.

I love that phrase bushbidet of the national psyche!

[Octafish]

10. I would have done everything in my power to protect the American people...

After the Aug 6 PDB became public, what Bush said: "Had I known the enemy was going to use airplanes to kill on that fateful morning, I would have done everything in my power to protect the American people."

A bad call?

The White House is on the defensive over revelations that it had been warned of possible terrorist hijacks before 11 September - and that the FBI knew al-Qaeda was training pilots.

Ed Vulliamy in Washington
Sunday May 19, 2002
The Observer

The note was passed to the President on the afternoon of 6 August last year, while he was on vacation at his beloved ranch at Crawford, in Texas.

George Bush was taking a break; he had a lot on his mind: an energy crisis in California, a drought on the high plains and opposition to his plans to allow Mexican trucks to carry goods across the border down the road.

The memo came as it did every day: the 'President's Daily Briefing'. Whether or not the President read the note that particular day, nobody knows. Hindsight reveals just how explosive were its contents: an assessment of the current activities and menace of the al-Qaeda terrorist organisation of Osama bin Laden.

SNIP...

The Post quotes sources attributing a crucial line in the memo to British intelligence: a report from London in 1998, says the newspaper, showed that al-Qaeda members talked about using a hijacked airliner to negotiate the release of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, who had been convicted of plotting to blow up landmarks in New York City.

Other intelligence and FBI reports gathered from the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Centre specified that al-Qaeda was out to hit the Pentagon and White House using crashed planes packed with high explosives.

On Friday, FBI Director Robert Mueller made things even worse for his own bureau, admitting that it 'should have more aggressively pursued warnings' from one of its agents in Minneapolis about Zacarias Moussaoui, another flight school student known to have connections to al-Qaeda who had been picked up prior to 11 September - and who is currently standing trial.

Mueller testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee to say that he disagreed that the FBI 'ignored a clear warning about ...11 September by not responding properly' to the agent's memorandum. However, he confirmed that his agent's report 'mentioned the possibility of Moussaoui being that type of person who could fly something into the World Trade Centre'.

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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,,718264,00.html

BUSH KNEW. AND HE DID NOTHING.

[karynnj]

13. Kerry's speech on this and the TV he's done around it

have been more focused than any that I've seen. Johnkerry.com has the text of the National security speech.

The Kerry campaign wasn't on slow motion - it wasn't covered. Had the last month of rallies been covered like they were in 1992 - the momentum that actually developed with almost no "tv oxygen" would have been amazing. I saw both only on tv (Kerry on CSPAN) - and Kerry was by far the more charismatic. (I know that counters most opinion, Kerry was a much more a hero and statesman than Clinton was in 1992.)

[blm]

14. Kerry did win, Octa - RFK article is pretty compelling reading.

We need to make sure DNC fully understands how serious the machine rigging and vote purging are to the resultant vote count.

[dogday]

11. When other countries were warning

them weeks in advance that this could happen... Something is stinking in their stories....

[Octafish]

12. Here’s evidence of Bush’s awareness

Stuff Corporate McPravda once addressed, but was told to STFU about...

Why would Osama bin Laden want to kill Dubya, his former business partner?

By James Hatfield

Editor's note: In light of last week's horrific events and the Bush administration's reaction to them, we are reprising the following from the last column Jim Hatfield wrote for Online Journal prior to his tragic death on July 18:

July 3, 2001—There may be fireworks in Genoa, Italy, this month, too.

A plot by Saudi master terrorist, Osama bin Laden, to assassinate Dubya during the July 20 economic summit of world leaders, was uncovered after dozens of suspected Islamic militants linked to bin Laden's international terror network were arrested in Frankfurt, Germany, and Milan, Italy, in April.

German intelligence services have stated that bin Laden is covertly financing neo-Nazi skinhead groups throughout Europe to launch another terrorist attack at a high-profile American target—his first since the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen last October.

According to counter-terrorism experts quoted in Germany's largest newspaper, the attack on Dubya might be a James Bond-like aerial strike in the form of remote-controlled airplanes packed with plastic explosives.

SNIP…

In June 1977, Dubya formed his own drilling company, Arbusto Energy ("arbusto" means "bush" in Spanish), in Midland, Texas. Like his father before him, Dubya founded his oil business with the financial backing of investors, including James R. Bath, a Houston businessman whom Dubya apparently first met when they were in the same Texas Air National Guard unit. (Interestingly, both Dubya and Bath were both suspended from flying in August and September 1972, respectively, for "failure to accomplish annual medical examination.")

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http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Hatfield-R-091901/hatfield-r-091901.html

Some more on the Genoa warnings…

Plot to assassinate Bush – reports

MOSCOW, Russia -- Osama bin Laden has threatened to assassinate U.S. President George W. Bush at a G8 meeting in Italy, the head of Russia's Federal Bodyguard Service has said, according to reports.

The Associated Press said Yevgeny Murov was quoted by Itar-Tass news agency as saying: "Bin Laden is threatening the American president, but we know what international terrorism is today and therefore all the bodyguard units concerned are preparing for this.

"We view the threats as totally serious, but hope that with joint efforts we can solve all the problems."

The Group of Eight summit is meeting between July 20-22 in Genoa, Italy. Leaders from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States are expected to attend the summit.

Murov -- Russian President Vladimir Putin's chief bodyguard -- did not elaborate on the threats. He said agents from Russia's Federal Bodyguard Service have travelled to Genoa to coordinate with their counterparts from the other nations taking part in the summit to investigate the threats.

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http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/06/20/russia.binladen/

So the PHALANX was on the fritz? Heh.

Missiles to protect summit leaders

Rory Carroll in Rome
Wednesday July 11, 2001
The Guardian

Italy has installed a missile defence system at Genoa's airport to deter airborne attacks during next week's G8 summit, fuelling hysteria about looming violence.
A land-based battery of rockets with a range of nine miles and an altitude of 5,000 feet has been positioned in the latest security measure against perceived threats from terrorists and protesters.

Unidentified planes, helicopters and balloons risk being shot down should they drift too close to the heads of state from the group of seven leading industrialised nations and Russia.

Colonel Alberto Battaglini, of the ministry of defence, said the precaution was not exces sive. "The measure, which was planned by the previous government, may seem open to criticism, but in reality it is merely to act as a deterrent against any aerial incursion during the summit.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation/story/0,7369,519925,00.html

Gee. What was Boosh so afraid of? He won’t tell us, but it would seem he did tell AG Johnny Ashcan…

Ashcroft Flying High

WASHINGTON, July 26, 2001

Fishing rod in hand, Attorney General John Ashcroft left on a weekend trip to Missouri Thursday afternoon aboard a chartered government jet, reports CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart.

In response to inquiries from CBS News over why Ashcroft was traveling exclusively by leased jet aircraft instead of commercial airlines, the Justice Department cited what it called a "threat assessment" by the FBI, and said Ashcroft has been advised to travel only by private jet for the remainder of his term.

"There was a threat assessment and there are guidelines. He is acting under the guidelines," an FBI spokesman said. Neither the FBI nor the Justice Department, however, would identify what the threat was, when it was detected or who made it.

A senior official at the CIA said he was unaware of specific threats against any Cabinet member, and Ashcroft himself, in a speech in California, seemed unsure of the nature of the threat.

"I don't do threat assessments myself and I rely on those whose responsibility it is in the law enforcement community, particularly the FBI. And I try to stay within the guidelines that they've suggested I should stay within for those purposes," Ashcroft said.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/07/26/national/main303601.shtml

DIM. DRUNK. WARMONGER.

And a TRAITOR.