WASHINGTON, June 29, 2008
Lieberman: U.S. May Be Attacked In 2009
McCain Supporter Says Terrorists Have Tested New Presidents By Launching Attacks In First Year Of Term
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"Our enemies will test the new president early," Lieberman, I-Conn., told Face The Nation host Bob Schieffer. "Remember that the truck bombing of the World Trade Center happened in the first year of the Clinton administration. 9/11 happened in the first year of the Bush administration."
Lieberman nonetheless distanced himself from remarks by McCain chief strategist Charlie Black, who came under criticism for suggesting in an interview that McCain's election chances would be improved if a terrorist attack occurred before November.
"Sometimes even the best of them say things that are not what they intended to say," Lieberman said. "Certainly the implications there I know were not what Charlie intended. And he apologized for it. Senator McCain said he didn't agree. And, of course, I feel the same way.
"But here's the point. We're in a war against Islamist extremists who attacked us on 9/11. They've been trying to attack us in many, many ways since then."
A former Democratic nominee for vice president, Lieberman endorsed McCain for president because, he says, the Democratic Party he joined in the early 1960s is not reflected by the party's current leadership.
He also said that he feels McCain is better prepared to be commander in chief than Barack Obama. "[McCain] knows the world," Lieberman said. "He's been tested. He's ready to protect the security of the American people."
Lieberman also assailed Obama and fellow Senators who called for a timetable of withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq and opposed the "surge" of additional U.S. forces pushed forth by President Bush.
"It's now working," Lieberman told Schieffer. "If we had done what Senator Obama asked us to do for the last couple of years, today Iran and al Qaeda would be in control of Iraq. It would be a terrible defeat for us and our allies in the Middle East and throughout the world. Instead, we've got a country that's defending itself, that's growing economically, where there's been genuine political reconciliation, and where Iran and al Qaeda are on the run. And that's the way it ought to be."
However, McCain's readiness was disputed by retired General Wesley Clark, who is backing Obama for president, despite McCain's storied military experience in Vietnam. "Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president," he said.
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"And I think what we need to do, Bob, is we need to stop talking about the old politics of left and right, and we need to pull together and move the country forward. And I think that's what Barack Obama will do.
“Because in the matters of national security policymaking, it's a matter of understanding risk. It's a matter of gauging your opponents and it's a matter of being held accountable. John McCain's never done any of that in his official positions. I certainly honor his service … But he hasn't held executive responsibility."
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See all 1868 CommentsPosted by USMCVET3 at 07:00 PM : Jul 01, 2008
Well, I could only assume that Gore would not have gone after Saddam for something that bin Ladin did.
Simply put, Bush had a score to settle with Saddam and he used 9/11 to settle it.
Speaking of courage, Bush lacked the courage to fight in Vietnam (as did Cheney) and chose to protect the skies of Texas instead.
And, speaking of response, what did Reagan do when over 200 of your Marine brothers were killed in Beirut?
And finally, speaking of a "perfume general:" Look up "Operation Ajax" and you will have a better understanding of why we are hated in the middle east.
Maybe not skipping your history classes would have helped you.
Now the dollar is worth about half of the Euro. Gas is at $ 5.00 per gallon and unemployment is over 5%. What happened in January 2007 to make those changes. The democrap party assumed control of the Congress. They did all of this damage in 18 months. What can the future hold?
I have read your four submissions and can tell you are a poor suffering liberal. You can not voice your opinion without insulting someone. You call them traitors or insult their physical features. Basically you do not have the ability to hold a conversation with someone that you disagree with over any subject without insulting them. Maybe staying in school after the 3rd grade would have helped you.
I will pray for you.
As for any comment by Wesley Clark. I can only quote a great soldier, now deceased, who referred to Clark as a "Perfume General". For those who do not understand that statement a perfumed General is similar to a street prostitute. Both try to hide what they really are so the smell does not turn you away.
After watching how the general screwed up the war in the old Yugoslavia I would not want him to organize a camp out. I sure as heck would never take his advice and if Obama picked him as a running mate this country is doomed.
Opps I meant fall on it''s own
Posted by mr2258 at 10:17 AM : Jul 01, 2008
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Sales of US flags priceless
Posted by mr2258 at 12:09 PM : Jul 01, 2008
Yes Thanks George
Now can you please mail me a check Karl Traitor Rove
Posted by mr2258 at 12:09 PM : Jul 01, 2008
McCain Supporter Says
Yellow, Red or Green Alert JOE HOOKNOSE?
Bushs plans falter, al Qaeda establishes new base of operations
By: Steve Benen @ 5:30 AM - PDT
In late 2007, Bush administration officials drafted a secret plan, giving the Defense Department%u2019s Special Operations forces greater ease to go into the mountains between Pakistan and Afghanistan, with the goal of targeting al-Qaida%u2019s top leaders.
The plan sounded very encouraging on paper %u2014 it would sidestep turf wars between Washington and Islamabad, and target high-value targets where we know they are. So what happened? More than six months later, the plan has not yet been executed, and the Special Operations forces are still standing by, waiting for orders. Bureaucratic disputes within the administration have slowed the whole initiative down to a stop.
The New York Times reports that it%u2019s all part of a broader problem with Bush%u2019s counterterrorism strategy.
After the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush committed the nation to a %u201Cwar on terrorism%u201D and made the destruction of Mr. bin Laden%u2019s network the top priority of his presidency. But it is increasingly clear that the Bush administration will leave office with Al Qaeda having successfully relocated its base from Afghanistan to Pakistan%u2019s tribal areas, where it has rebuilt much of its ability to attack from the region and broadcast its messages to militants across the world %u2026
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Just as it had on the day before 9/11, Al Qaeda now has a band of terrorist camps from which to plan and train for attacks against Western targets, including the United States. Officials say the new camps are smaller than the ones the group used prior to 2001. However, despite dozens of American missile strikes in Pakistan since 2002, one retired C.I.A. officer estimated that the makeshift training compounds now have as many as 2,000 local and foreign militants, up from several hundred three years ago.
Publicly, senior American and Pakistani officials have said that the creation of a Qaeda haven in the tribal areas was in many ways inevitable %u2014 that the lawless badlands where ethnic Pashtun tribes have resisted government control for centuries were a natural place for a dispirited terrorism network to find refuge. The American and Pakistani officials also blame a disastrous cease-fire brokered between the Pakistani government and militants in 2006.
But more than four dozen interviews in Washington and Pakistan tell another story. American intelligence officials say that the Qaeda hunt in Pakistan, code-named Operation Cannonball by the C.I.A. in 2006, was often undermined by bitter disagreements within the Bush administration and within the C.I.A., including about whether American commandos should launch ground raids inside the tribal areas.
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Inside the C.I.A., the fights included clashes between the agency%u2019s outposts in Kabul, Afghanistan, and Islamabad. There were also battles between field officers and the Counterterrorist Center at C.I.A. headquarters, whose preference for carrying out raids remotely, via Predator missile strikes, was derided by officers in the Islamabad station as the work of %u201Cboys with toys.%u201D
The article went on to explain that many of the top, experienced intelligence officers who would have been assigned to the al Qaeda hunt weren%u2019t available. As one official put it, %u201CThose people all went to Iraq. We were all hurting because of Iraq.%u201D
So the war in Iraq created an opportunity for al Qaeda to recruit more terrorists and, at the same time, made it harder to go after al Qaeda terrorists.
Posted by mr2258
What color is the sky...in your world?
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