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Looks like Walker is the first Republican primary candidate to start the wacky comments that they will try ans walk back in a general election. That is the best take, the other possibility is he really believes it which would be much worse.
It was founded by a Jordanian, true, but it still began in Iraq.
Outside of Kurdish controlled areas, it wasn't operating in Iraq until 2004. In fact, Saddam was hostile to the group:
Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/phaseiiaccuracy.pdf
He's a liberal. He believes that if it were Obama he would have been taking out potential hijackers with flying side kicks and nun chucks before the sunset on the day Moussaoui was arrested.
This is patently false. Moussaoui was picked up for immigration violations by the FBI and the agents requested that his laptop be searched on a hunch by the investigating agents. What kept that from happening was FISA restrictions. The FBI agent therefor never had more than a hunch and at the time Moussaoui was nothing more than an illegal alien with an interest in flight simulators.
What did you want the FBI to do on a hunch? Round up all of his acquaintances and throw them in prison?
Isn't the Obama administration's policy on illegal immigrants is "amnesty"?
Wow, now they're suggesting Bush was a failure because he didn't do what they themselves have fought, kicked and screamed about not to do......
How the **** to people get that confused without substances?
There was one of those political bias studies done a few years ago, the kind that tries to show the real differences between the "liberal" and "conservative" minds. I found this one interesting because it stated that "liberals" have the ability to maintain two contradictory beliefs at the same time. While the discussion boards I frequented then had liberals trumpeting the findings as proof of the complexity of liberal thought I couldn't help but see the hilarious irony of them trumpeting a study that essentially called liberals hypocrites. :lamo
But yeah, iguanaman essentially demands that the Bush administration act contrary to the liberal line on immigration, and contrary to the liberal line of FISA courts in order to stop the 9/11 attack based on the hunch of an FBI agent. It's like in iguanaman's mind the show 24 is a documentary.
Bush didn't leave Iraq, Obama did. Are you saying Obama left an unstable Iraq?
This is patently false. Moussaoui was picked up for immigration violations by the FBI and the agents requested that his laptop be searched on a hunch by the investigating agents. What kept that from happening was FISA restrictions. The FBI agent therefor never had more than a hunch and at the time Moussaoui was nothing more than an illegal alien with an interest in flight simulators.
What did you want the FBI to do on a hunch? Round up all of his acquaintances and throw them in prison?
What the hell difference does that make???
They were still a terrorist organization well before the second Iraq war started.
He's a liberal. He believes that if it were Obama he would have been taking out potential hijackers with flying side kicks and nun chucks before the sunset on the day Moussaoui was arrested.
Bush signed the agreement that got us out of Iraq. Obama tried to get it extended but Maliki would not.
Are you saying that the FBI should not have checked the records of the other flight schools when the CIA had already given warnings that "Al Qaeda was determined to strike the US" and when Bush's daily brief included this ominous quote " We have not been able to coorborate some of the more sensational threat reporting such as that from a ----- service in 1998 saying that Bin Laden wanted to hijack US aircraft...."
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB116/pdb8-6-2001.pdf
Bush didn't leave Iraq, Obama did. Are you saying Obama left an unstable Iraq?
Also a complete and utter lie. The results of the US pullout of Iraq laid entirely on Obama's administration. In fact Maliki wanted more troops to remain in Iraq, but Obama offered fewer troops and a misguided attempt at power sharing. Gates and Maliki wasn't something closer to 16,000 troops, Obama pushed Gates to back 10,000, and then out of the blue Obama dropped the offer to 1,500 troops. This would force Maliki into a position where he would have to deal with the hardliners in Parliament for keeping American troops while getting no one of the security benefits Maliki knew he needed.
Obama killed the negotiations. Nobody else. Read the NYT account. Obama's abysmal performance is detailed in the section "Another Obstacle" (aka. President Obama)
Iraq’s Government, Not Obama, Called Time on the U.S. Troop Presence | TIME.comBut ending the U.S. troop presence in Iraq was an overwhelmingly popular demand among Iraqis, and Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki appears to have been unwilling to take the political risk of extending it. While he was inclined to see a small number of American soldiers stay behind to continue mentoring Iraqi forces, the likes of Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, on whose support Maliki’s ruling coalition depends, were having none of it. Even the Obama Administration’s plan to keep some 3,000 trainers behind failed because the Iraqis were unwilling to grant them the legal immunity from local prosecution that is common to SOF agreements in most countries where U.S. forces are based.
Hunch?
On August 16, 2001, Moussaoui was arrested in Minnesota by the FBI and charged with an immigration violation. He aroused suspicion over his flight training courses that he took in Eagan, Minnesota.
Zacarias Moussaoui - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Obama left Iraq on the time table that Bush agreed to. I suspect that we would have left by the terms of that agreement, regardless of who was POTUS.
Obviously Iraq was still somewhat unstable, but no one was predicting that ISIS would move in like they did.
Are you saying that the FBI should not have checked the records of the other flight schools when the CIA had already given warnings that "Al Qaeda was determined to strike the US" and when Bush's daily brief included this ominous quote " We have not been able to coorborate some of the more sensational threat reporting such as that from a ----- service in 1998 saying that Bin Laden wanted to hijack US aircraft...."
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB116/pdb8-6-2001.pdf
Outside of Kurdish controlled areas, it wasn't operating in Iraq until 2004. In fact, Saddam was hostile to the group:
Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/phaseiiaccuracy.pdf
He took us to war based on a lie, with no plan on what to do after Saddam was out of power, and absolutely no exit strategy. And after he signed the SOFA agreement requiring all of our troops to be out of Iraq by the end of 2011, it was only a matter of time before some radical Islamic group tried to take over Iraq. - See more at: ISIS is Just Another Problem Caused by Bush that Republicans are Blaming on Obama
If he served what difference does it makes? At least he's not a chickenhawk.
We live in weird times. Unlike Vietnam the civilians kiss our arses and say everbody in uniform is a hero, or thank us for serving, or put worthless yellow ribbons on their car windows. But our fellow veterans treat each other like crap at times.
Saddam Hussein was hostile to every terror sponsored group, because he wanted to control Iraq, totally.
I did a Google search using this simple phrase (how bush destabilized the middle east) and this is one of the articles found in the search;
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So basically, removing Saddam Hussein was the beginning of the ruination of Iraq. One big mistake.
Saddam Hussein was hostile to every terror sponsored group, because he wanted to control Iraq, totally.
I did a Google search using this simple phrase (how bush destabilized the middle east) and this is one of the articles found in the search;
Snip
So basically, removing Saddam Hussein was the beginning of the ruination of Iraq. One big mistake.
Saddam Hussein was hostile to every terror sponsored group, because he wanted to control Iraq, totally.
I did a Google search using this simple phrase (how bush destabilized the middle east) and this is one of the articles found in the search;
Snip
So basically, removing Saddam Hussein was the beginning of the ruination of Iraq. One big mistake.
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