George W. Bush

[Mr. Shaman]

you guys are so amusing when you go all richard clarke !

....Yeah...documents and all!!!!!!!!!!!​

"Mr. Clarke was seeking a high-level meeting to decide on a plan of action. Dr. Rice and other administration officials have said that Mr. Clarke's ideas did not constitute an adequate plan, but they took them into consideration as they worked toward a more effective strategy against the terrorist threat.

The proposal and an accompanying three-page memorandum given to Dr. Rice by Mr. Clarke on Jan. 25, 2001, were discussed and quoted in brief by the independent commission studying the Sept. 11 attacks and in news reports and books last year. They were obtained by the private National Security Archive, which published the full versions, with minor deletions at the request of the Central Intelligence Agency, on its Web site late Thursday.

Under the heading ''the next three to five years,'' Mr. Clarke spelled out a series of steps building on groundwork that he said had already been laid, adding that ''success can only be achieved if the pace and resource levels of the programs continue to grow as planned.''

He said the C.I.A. had ''prepared a program'' focused on eliminating Afghanistan as a haven for Al Qaeda.

It would feature ''massive support'' to anti-Taliban groups like the Northern Alliance and the destruction of training camps occupied by terrorists. ''We would need to have special teams ready for covert entry into destroyed camps to acquire intelligence for locating terrorist cells outside Afghanistan,'' he wrote, saying that this would either require Special Operations troops or some other ''liaison force capable of conducting activity on-the-ground inside Afghanistan.'' Predator drones, some of which could be armed, would support those forces, he wrote."

 

[Mr. Shaman]

no, a bureaucrat hack who thinks he knows it all and tried to explain sunni etc to Dr Rice, whose PhD in polisci was centered on Russian studies which are shot through with muslim implications.

....But, more about OIL.

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[Mr. Shaman]

Yes, we are in danger and no doubt the radical Islamists will hit us again....​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

And there was no need to hunt OBL down, he was offered up for free and Bubba said no thanks.

No....that was Lil' Dumbya.....again...

 

[Mr. Shaman]

George Bush was eight years of disaster, ending in econo0mic collapse, a mediocre President, at best. He finished neither war he started, created enemies as fast as he could go, and alienated much of the rest of the world. We were making no progress in Iraq, and losing in Afghanistan, under GWB.

Ya' gotta understand.....The Idiot Son was one o' those "special"-people.


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"Even Freud might have struggled with this case study."​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Of Course the SEXUAL PERVERT Clinton rode the coat tails of REAGANS GREAT ECONOMY.

Yeah....that's what happened.

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[Mr. Shaman]

Clinton benefitted from Bush I's recovery that was covered up by the media till after election day.....

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight......

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"Here’s what conservative politicians said about the 1993 deficit reduction legislation that raised taxes on the top 1.2% of our wealthiest citizens:

"Clearly, this is a job-killer in the short-run. The impact on job creation is going to be devastating." — Rep. Dick Armey, (Republican, Texas)

"The tax increase will…lead to a recession…and will actually increase the deficit." — Rep. Newt Gingrich (Republican, Georgia)

"The deficit four years from today will be higher than it is today, not lower." — Sen. Phil Gramm (Republican, Texas)

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"Not only was the entire national deficit eliminated after raising taxes on the wealthy in 1993, but the economy grew so fast for the remainder of the decade that many conservative economists thought that the Fed should raise the prime interest rate in order to slow it down."

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Bush pretty much wrapped Iraq up by the time he left office, but the one he really needed to finish was Afghanistan, and he didn't. No excuse.

Please.

There was No OIL, in Afghanistan.

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[dogtowner]

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight......

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you boys cant seem to ever remember Clinton had a Dot Com boom fall in his lap. as well as the Dot Com bust that fell into Dubya's.

 

[laughinatreps]

you boys cant seem to ever remember Clinton had a Dot Com boom fall in his lap. as well as the Dot Com bust that fell into Dubya's.

ROFLMAO!!!!! Are you serious?

<--------shakes head in disbelief.........

dot com bust......that's good stuff....

 

[dogtowner]

ROFLMAO!!!!! Are you serious?

<--------shakes head in disbelief.........

dot com bust......that's good stuff....

perhaps they didn't teach you that in school

 

[Mr. Shaman]

you boys cant seem to ever remember Clinton had a Dot Com boom fall in his lap. as well as the Dot Com bust that fell into Dubya's.

Yeah.....that's what happened.

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"Repeatedly, President-elect, and then President, Bush talked about how the economy was in trouble. Arriving in office following the longest continuous economic upturn in generations, President Bush seized on a stock market that had faltered some in the uncertainty following the 2000 Presidential election.

The "bad" economy, he talked about. Again and again. The "bad" economy.

You know what happened as a result? I can tell you from my personal experience, the CFO of the corporation I was working for called a meeting and said, "The President keeps talking about the economy being 'bad.' Now, things don't seem bad, but let's just hold off on any new hires until we see how this pans out. And, let's hold off on all non-vital purchases, just for the time being."

And you can see right there how simply the words of President George W. Bush started slamming the breaks of the economy.

This, of course, all snowballed."

.....And, Georgie C-Student Munchausen forgot to "come to the rescue".

LEGACY = -0​

 

[asur]

We had an economy under Bush, now it's just a joke called change with
millions of unemployed people and more to come, thanks to Obama's policies.

Of course Bush was more educated when it came to business.

When he was elected in 2000, George W. Bush became the first U.S. President to have earned his master's in business administration (MBA).

 

[rationalist]

Are you on the pipe?

 

[OldTrapper]

Are you on the pipe?

More then likely you are unless you want to disagree with most economists that the recession Bush faced began in April of 2000.

Of course, you would rather follow the lie that Gore kept presenting during the debates that Bush was "talking the economy down" even though he knew it was falling. In January the growth was 2.8%, and by December it was down to 0.5%.

So, you have blamed Bush for the recession we now face as you did in 2001 holding Clinton blameless (and crediting him with a surplus that did not exist due to the recession), and ignoring the fact that Bush had not even presented an economic policy; you want to hold him accountable for 911 leaving Clinton blameless; you want to blame him for the FBI, and CIA, not catching the terrorists before the attack on 911 ignoring that it was the Clinton administration that issued the decree that the FBI, and the CIA, could not share information; and again the list goes on.

If one were to use the same irrational "logic" you use then Obama is responsible for everything that has happened since January 21, 2009.