On 9/16/07, Dana wrote:
>
> But is it one of the top five problems, lol. If it's not a problem in
> Iraq, is this perhaps just maybe because we have started a whole other
> set of problems there than al Qaeda and the Taliban? Hello, we have
> the Taliban in Afghanistan.


And as I said, the Taliban is unable to defeat the government. Maybe we have
a stalemate, but that's good enough for the short term. The Pakistanis have
to suck it up and invade their tribal territories and clear out Taliban and
Al Qaeda. That is the only workable long term solution.

wait wait wait now -- weren't you defending the Plame leak tactic a while
> back?


The White House didn't out Plame, remember? That was accomplished by the
biggest gossip in DC, Dick Armitage. Wilson lied about what he reported to
the CIA. Had he just kept his pie-hole closed, or at least told the truth
about what he reported, none of that would have happened. I didn't like the
use of reporters to spread the story, though. That was a Cheney move.

>
> Silly me. There I thought they worked for the American people. Didn't
> we just go through this at DOJ?


What, leaked classified documents in time of war? I think not.

Some arrogant fools at the CIA have been leaking classified documents to the
media for years, solely to settle political scores because they don't agree
with what the Administration is doing. That should never happen under any
administration. They can report anything they need to report to Congress.
But they don't want to do the right thing, they want to strong-arm the
President. They deserve jail time.

>
> Considering all
> the possibilities of the Patriot Act, we are going to have the War on
> Terror a mighty long time.


Yes, we are going to have the War on Terror a long time. Al Qaeda still
wants to destroy the U.S. Iran still wants to destroy the U.S. The Taliban,
as you pointed out earlier, are still in Afghanistan/Pakistan. Those are
real enemies with real guns who want to do us real harm.

>
> Campaign against Hilary if you like but let's please just deal with
> what is happening right nwo without defensiveness or partisanship.
> "Well --- my guy suspended civil liberties, but the  *ther* guy got a
> blowjob." Come on.
>

We are dealing with what is happening now because the Clinton Administration
failed to act on numerous occasions when they could have captured or killed
Bin Laden, but the Clinton Administration saw the whole thing in terms of
criminal acts, not acts of war, and their responses over the years reflected
that outlook. We don't need more of that.


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