Take the billions of dollars being spent in the war of choice and spend on... gee, I don't know... Securing our: borders from illegal entry; nuclear plants; chemical plants; water/food supply; ports; incoming (fedex like) cargo; transportation; national id certification; etc; etc; etc; .... The list of what to do, that hasn't been done, besides what's being done wastefully, is quite large, imo. -kt
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wrt clarkes interview, this is just my opinion, but i think focusing on the semantic difference between a plan, strategy etc or the lack thereof from the clinton admin is not a great reason for any presidential administration to justify a lack of effective action. whether there was such a thing as effective action is a diff argument that's interesting about the fivefold increase in covert ops spending due for october and new intention to eliminate al qaeda, i wasn't aware of that
http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa092502a.htm Pre 9-11 FBI memo warned of al Qaeda in US flight schools What is the Phoenix Memo? On July 10, 2001, an FBI agent in Phoenix sent a memorandum to FBI headquarters in New York listing evidence that Osama bin Laden was helping his operatives in the U.S. attend flight training schools. That memo, now known as the "Phoenix Memo" was ignored, according to congressional investigators. Flight school leads dated to 1998 Ms. Hill further testified that as early as 1998, an FBI pilot in Oklahoma City submitted a memo stating his concern about the number of Middle Eastern men enrolled in flight training schools who "could be planning a terrorist attack." "No one will ever know whether a greater focus on the connection between these events would have led to the unraveling of the September 11 plot," testified Hill. "But, clearly, it might have drawn greater attention to the possibility of a terrorist attack in the United States, generated a heightened state of alert regarding such attacks, and prompted more aggressive investigation and intelligence gathering regarding the information our government did possess prior to September 11."
Description of Straw Man The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position.
In all honestly don't remember the republicans behaving the same way after WTC 1, the USS Cole and the embassy bombings. I dont' remember the head of the RNC saying it was an inside job or some of the other nutty conspiracies that come out of the left. I think Clinton would have caught a lot of heat but some of the garbage that comes out of the left really makes them look stupid. I personally am so absolutely disgusted with our politicians collectively I find it hard to even watch a minute of the news.