OK, Horseman. I'm sorry for the hostility, but with the nature of all your other posts in these forums, you were pretty much borderlining on it coming to you some time. You've slung around some scathing and racist comments as easily as if you just talked about them as if you were talking about the weather. I thought you could take the heat.
I'll calmly state my points here:
1. We were talking about France in the Revolutionary War. You've quoted yourself from a response to user
tnt_dynamite on the 3rd page of this thread, when I've been focusing on your responses to my posts.
I also gave you a link so you could further your knowledge on the trials and tribulations of the War.
2. Bush has publicly announced that he has been spying on US Citizens. If you watch the news, watch C-Span, listen to the radio, look at news online, or read the newspapers, it's there. He publicly announced that he was wiretapping without Consent of the FISA laws. He
broke the law. Even though he didn't place the taps himself, in the nature of a Chain of Command, it was His order to the NSA to do so, and therefore it is His responsibility.
It's even worse because the nature of his wiretapping would've been agreed upon and passed by the FISA court judges, and that would've taken just a few hours. I cannot make that any simpler.
3. It doesn't matter that "everyone was on Something" back in the 60s and 70s. The point I was making was that Bush didn't do anything but fly around in Texas due to some manipulation by his parents while Kerry was piloting swift boats in Vietnam. That's all. While Kerry was serving his country, like our soldiers in Iraq are currently doing, he was gaining experience in leadership skill and learning first-hand why diplomacy should be reached first before just diving into combat. Bush just served in the Texas National Guard, acted very irresponsibly, and had his parents try to start him up as a businessman, to which he drove every company he ran into the ground. It's a solid point about the success and the backgrounds of each of the 2004 Presidential candidates.
4. You've mis-quoted me on the Waco thing. You are actually quoting
Homeschtar from page 4 of this thread. I haven't been involved with the Waco thread at all, so I'll be disregarding that part of your response.
5. Yes, 6 is greater than 4, and is therefore more than half of the attacks you listed. When you are vague about what you are posting, it seems like you don't care, nor have really checked up on it all. You could've easily just said 6 of the terrorist actions were done under Clinton's watch, or only just posted the 6 attacks themselves without the rest of them.
- You mentioned the wrong attack about the Pan Am flight, so we'll let that one go.
- I fail to see how you "eviscerated" my truthful response at how Clinton arrested the people responsible for the WTC 1 attacks. I'm sorry, but he did arrest them.
- Nothing wrong with Khobar.
- Tanzania/Kenya - I said "
one of the targets in Sudan" which you've interpreted as meaning "The ONLY target in Sudan." Retaliation was completed for both of the bombings. We just happened to hit one wrong building during the strikes in Sudan.
- USS Cole - I have proven it. I posted my sources, and summarized what the sources say. When you identify an enemy, you don't just go in guns a'blazin' to kill him. You scope the situation out first, and find the smartest way to attack him without straining your resources and leaving you in a good position to move on unharmed.
Clarke did his research and found the best way to bring down al Qaeda. Unfortunately, the bombing of the USS Cole happened in Clinton's last year, and scoping out the enemy takes a bit of time when it as deeply entrenched as al Qaeda. The responsibility was passed on to Bush, who had other things on his mind despite Clarke's pleas.
Please give me links to the stories about Clinton passing up the opportunities to apprehend bin Laden. I'd like to read them.
Last edited by Marconius (2006-01-20 00:20:21)