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The exception and the rule

November 12, 2008 - 2:41 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Tony
2008-11-12 20:11:38

Have you ever met a liberal person or a Democrat who has read “The 9/11 Commission Report” and is willing to admit it? Of course not.

The Bush Administration did more in its first 8 months to confront Al Qaeda in depth and detail than the Clinton Administration (Richard Clarke in charge) had accomplished in 8 years.

The simple history of the matter, that is the attacks on US embassies, ships, plans for 9/11 all went virtually unanswered during the Clinton time. Read the book – for example – they didn’t respond to the act of war against the USS Cole because it would interfere with the election!

Bush, with the majority support of all Democrats in Congress, launched a far-ranging “War on Terror” and has been vilified for it ever since.

Compare the success of Al Qaeda under Clinton to the defeat of Al Qaeda under Bush.

I am so happy the Democrats are completely in charge, and I wish godspeed to my President Obama.

I feel like I hear our enemies in Al Q, Russia, China, Euro … licking their lips in anticipation.

I hope Obama will be strong, and will not be the next Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton. Some of our strongest war-time presidents have been Dems. Well, at least two of them, FDR and Truman.