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Offline Sandman

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« on: August 06, 2002, 06:02:37 PM »
They Had a Plan (Time.com)

You hear that sucking sound? That's Condaleeza Rice's future...
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« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2002, 06:11:13 PM »
Had we had a "First Strike" policy on Japan, there would have been public outcry...I don't see that being much different than a pre-strike on Al Queda...can you imagine the liberals like yourself? Oh my!

Unfortunatley, sometimes it takes death to wake people up.
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Offline GRUNHERZ

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« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2002, 06:25:59 PM »
Sandman if Bush had attacked Al Qaeda in Afghanistan sometime in early 2001 you would have been the first to run here screaming about his stupid arrogance and alterior motives.

Respectfully shut the hell up.  Or is this to be excused as yet another troll?  :rolleyes:
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Offline Maverick

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« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2002, 06:35:18 PM »
Nice bobber but the bait was pretty tainted. You might pick up some catfish with it.....:rolleyes:
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Offline majic

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« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2002, 06:41:54 PM »
What's your point Sandman?  (Didn't the previous administration have OBL offered to them on a silver platter?  I seem to recall someone posting that here a while ago.)
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Offline Jack55

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« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2002, 06:53:56 PM »
It was being polished since the first attack on the WTC (1993), along with the best of intentions.  I'll bet it was something.
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Offline Sandman

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« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2002, 06:58:34 PM »
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What's your point Sandman?  (Didn't the previous administration have OBL offered to them on a silver platter?  I seem to recall someone posting that here a while ago.)


According to the article, the Clinton administration considered an attack, but decided against it. One reason given was that they didn't want the attack to be seen as just another way to help the Gore campaign.

Oh... the point? The point is that we could have quite possibly avoided the attack on 9/11.
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Offline Fishu

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« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2002, 07:35:04 PM »
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Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
Sandman if Bush had attacked Al Qaeda in Afghanistan sometime in early 2001 you would have been the first to run here screaming about his stupid arrogance and alterior motives.

Respectfully shut the hell up.  Or is this to be excused as yet another troll?  :rolleyes:


Just as european, I'd like to state that I wouldn't have cared much if someone had wiped Talibans before :>

...neither do I care if they decide to attack Iraq, only would squeak about that why the job wasn't done already last time when it was possible.
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Offline majic

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« Reply #8 on: August 06, 2002, 08:05:20 PM »
"Oh... the point? The point is that we could have quite possibly avoided the attack on 9/11"

That's pretty easy to say in retrospect.  Do you really feel that an attack on Afghanistan would have even been possible before 9/11.  Keep in mind, that it is a landlocked country and Pakistan was one of the only countries in the world that had diplomatic ties to the Taliban, so they probably would not have let us use their airspace or set up any bases in their territory.  After 9/11, they were te only one who grudgingly let us conduct offensive operations from or over their territory IIRC.  We may have had a chance after the embassy bombings, but the former administration opted for cruise missile attacks.  The only other viable option I can think of would have been to use the Northern Alliance against them;  but, as we have seen, to be effective, they needed our air power to be successful.


Question:  Do you support an attack on Iraq?
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Offline easymo

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« Reply #9 on: August 06, 2002, 08:15:47 PM »
To many alleged one on one's. No witness's. Im not real happy with Jr.'s administration at this point either.  But this sounds like election year BS.

  BTW..  If you look into miss Rice's background.  She has more snap than most of the folks that have been around thee for some time.
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Offline Thrawn

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« Reply #10 on: August 06, 2002, 08:34:09 PM »
If Clinton had had these plans, the conservatives on this board would be screaming bloddy murder.
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Offline Elfenwolf

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« Reply #11 on: August 06, 2002, 08:40:48 PM »
No, the Conservatives would have claimed it was a smokescreen to cover yet another investigation into his morals. Anyway Bill Clinton got his arse spanked in Somalia and that was probably the biggest reason he didn't act accordingly. After all it does seem pretty weak to claim now that No-Toke failed to react to a legitimate threat against this Nation due to political considerations. If he had information and didn't act while he had the chance then the case could be made that Clinton was more culpable than GWB for 911.
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Offline GRUNHERZ

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« Reply #12 on: August 06, 2002, 10:17:46 PM »
If Clinton had had these plans, the conservatives on this board would be screaming bloddy murder.


Isnt at least one liberal screaming bloody murder in this very thread about this very thing?

Idiots....
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Offline weazel

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« Reply #13 on: August 06, 2002, 10:31:49 PM »
This article vindicates observations I made a few months back.

 I wonder what other "liberal crackpot" observations I've made will be shown to be correct in the future? :D
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Offline easymo

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« Reply #14 on: August 07, 2002, 12:38:36 AM »
Thinking that an article in a leftie rag, like Time magazine, vindicates anything.  Vindicates my opinion of left wing crack pots.
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