Perry Logan Truth Squad Strikes Again
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The documents removed were copies; the National Archives retained the originals."
You've definitely been hanging around conspiracy guys too much. Their hypothesis is precisely that Clinton was in on it, helping to protect Osama, etc.
Unfortunately, Clinton hadn't seen any of Alex Jones' videos:
It's like this: the most incompetent admnistration in U.S. history let 9/11 happen through sheer ineptitude. The Republican Congress helped out by blocking Clinton's anti-terrorism proposals.
If you like 9/11, thank a Republican.
Yes, Perry, Bush's eight months in office contibuted more than Bubba's eight-year daze. Nah, you don't think like a twoofer. By the way, tell us more about the "criminality" that led to the jihadist attacks.
Sandy Berger's crime, largely ignored by the Democrats' media lapdogs, was the theft of documents that may have contained revelations embarrassing for the Clintons. Perry is, of course, lying when he pretends that everyone knows the contents of the stolen documents. A few people know what was in those documents and they decided that the contents were important enough to warrant destroying them.
Perry, for some reason, neglected to reply when I last responded to his laundry list of Clinton-worshiping fantasies. I'll give him another shot.
Here is my response to Perry's lunacy, posted last week:
Wow! I guess the reason Clinton did nothing in response to real al Qaeda attacks is that he was exhausted from all this imaginary stuff.
I love the one about Bubba detecting and destroying al Qaeda cells in over twenty countries (C'mon, Perry, you can do better--it's all "pretend" stuff anyway. Just say "hundreds of countries." What the hell's the difference?).
"PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON developed the nation's first anti-terrorism policy, and appointed first national coordinator of anti-terrorist efforts."
Gee, that was
some policy, wasn't it? The people who kept attacking us were undoubtedly impressed.
By the way, Perry, a few of us might notice that if Clinton had really done some of the things you conjure up,
you wouldn't have supported him.
I do applaud Clinton's efforts to assassinate bin Laden. It's a shame that when they had Osama in their sights, he couldn't interrupt his golf game long enough to order pulling the trigger.
From
Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years, by Rich Lowry:
"The irony was that Powell wanted a larger military that would do less, while the Clinton team wanted a smaller military that would do much more, as it engaged in humanitarian interventions the world over.
The military roughly declined by half in the 1990s, with the Army getting sliced from eighteen divisions to ten and the Air Force from thirty-six fighter wings to twenty (a total of fifteen wings were used just in the first Gulf War). Whenever the Clinton administration bragged about reducing the deficit or the federal workforce, it was effectively talking about how it had cut the military. Alan Blinder and Janet Yellen write of the 1997 balanced budget negotiations, 'discretionary spending had already declined roughly 11 percent in real terms between 1992 and 1997. Further progress would be difficult because the entire cut had, to that point, come from the defense budget.' This, not the 1993 budget deal, was Clinton's big contribution to deficit reduction--taken directly out of the hide of America's military."
The chapters in Lowry's book on the Middle East and Terrorism paint a picture that sharply contradicts Perry's fantasies, which appear to have been inspired by the radical kids who write Al Franken's books.
I voted for Bush because the Democratic Party simply does not
get the threat of Islamic fundamentalism. If I ever felt the need to fabricate glowing accomplishments for Bush, I'd lie down for a while and then find another hobby. I supported the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, but I now fear that the enterprise has been badly bungled. Perry lives in the conspiracists' world where everything is either good and noble and capable of perfect execution, or profoundly evil and done for the basest motives. In the world we are stuck with, sometimes a commendable vision gets spoiled by contact with reality. Neither Perry nor his intellectual kin, the 9/11 fantasists, can comprehend that the Bushies were just government officials who thought they were doing the right thing. They didn't launch two wars to line the pockets of Dick Cheney's cronies. I wish I could have enjoyed a good laugh at the expense of the hate-America left, but, unfortunately, it didn't work out that way. If I were Perry, I'd be spinning fantastic yarns showing that it did. I'm not Perry, however. I'm deeply disappointed with our efforts to introduce democracy to the Middle East.
The Democrats are still demagogic hypocrites who are unable to think beyond transient political advantage.
