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whomod said:
I don't have time to get into Clinton's antiterrorism record right now so i'll get back to that. Still, 'doing nothing' is a gross and inaccurate slander of his record which I hear reepeated too often by the usual suspects.



isn't that slander happily returned in duplicate? like... all over this forum?

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whomod said:
the interview was a lot more lengthy, damning, and meaty than the YAHOO story.



perhaps (and, to note, the white house has since released a point-for-point press release, in an effort statements to squash the attacks)

but the point remains, clarke placed the blame on two presidential terms, claiming to have been ignored by clinton for years (when, comparably, at worst, dubya ignored him for months).

again, i'm not trying to say ignoring someone for an hour is less harsh than ignoring them for two hours. but i certainly wouldn't say the opposite.

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in both president's defense, i hate all this "i told you so" bull shit. if clinton or dubya reacted to every threat declaration or probability, 90% of the globe would already be smoldering.

further, it just seems people want to blame dubya a bit too much.

he didn't get rid of al qaeda before they struck, and he's blamed. he got rid of saddam before he struck, and he's blamed.

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