Lets look at the real Conservative Republican record on terrorism? And is conservatism a mental illness?

Question

Republicans and or conservatives. Nixon CUTS and RUNS from Vietnam. Iran blackmails Reagan with hostages (Carter got tough and sent in special forces until chopper was shot down) so Reagan arms Iran and the Contras.

Reagan CUTS and RUNS from Hezbollah in Lebanon when they bomb a marines barracks. Reagan and Bush arm, train, finance Bin Laden and his boys in Afghanistan (the CIA operative who was the go between said on p.b.s that he warned Reagan and Bush to stop dealing with Bin Laden, but they ignored him thus ending any excuse of “we were helping him to destroy the Russian occupation”. http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/091701a.html

Reagan, Bush, Rumsfeld give Saddam chemical weapons. Hundreds of thousands die during this long ordeal (including an estimated 90,000 infants and toddlers which is more in that time span then abortions for a decade) Saddam runs out and then we stop arming him. That’s why we knew there were no WMD’s in Iraq.

Reagan, Bush arm and finance the Taliban. Bush’s go into business with the Bin Ladens (Carlyle Group). Bush’s become great friends with the Saudi Royal family, the same family which has financed terrorism for years. Dubya ignores Presidential Daily Brief which says “Bin Laden determined to strike U.S.”. George Tenant Begs Bush to be on alert for airplane hijackings from Arab students who are being trained to fly aircraft, but not how to take off or land. Congress wants a budget of 3 million to combat terrorism, Bush squashes this and gives zero, that’s zero dollars to terrorism. Richard Clark constantly warns Bush about terrorist attacks that will be coming soon, Bush ignores him. 9/11/01 We are hit on Bush’s watch and Bush looks like an idiot on TV when he finds out we are under attack, and operation blame Clinton because Bush is an idiot begins.

Bush protects the Bin Laden family before 9/11 when the FBI was told to back off Bin Ladens brother who was funneling money to Al-Qaeda http://www1.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/articleshow?art_id=1030259305after 9/11. Bush tries handing over port security to countries linked to terrorism. Bush cuts a deal with Pakistan, a country to be well known to be a safe haven for terrorism. Now Pakistan has cut a deal with Al-Qaeda.

Bush tries handing over our ports to countries linked to terrorism. Bush is opening up our borders to Mexico and Canada soon allowing terrorists free reign in America, and handing over a hundred thousand jobs to Mexicans to be in charge of our cargo security, and all importing and exporting (this one is from Conservative Republicans http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=14965 )

People start making excuses “we haven’t been attacked in five years. Experts then ask “what about five years and one month, this shuts up Republicans.

Americans invent a new drinking game called “if in doubt blame Clinton”. Whenever a nut case Republican or conservative tries to put blame on Clinton to divert attention away from the Republicans terror record (see above, or read your high school history books) take one shot of whiskey.

The question is do you still feel safe? And will Republican conservatives quit arming, training, financing all our enemies?

Answer 1

Let's stand back a little, and take a look at the bigger picture.
Party politics is simply in place to enable people to believe that there is some form of democracy.

This is not the case. Behind elections and government is something considerably more powerful and insidious.

Take a look at this page for a little enlightenment, and then search around the site to fill in many blanks.

http://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/fourthreich/rockroth.html

Answer 2

I'm not nearly as good as you are at re-writing history to support polical motivation, so I'll just stick with reality.

It's obvious you blame Bush for everything wrong in the world. You are a half-step away from saying you think Bush attacked the United States and terrorists had nothing to do with it.

Here's some information you don't seem to be aware of: terrorists (and not politicians of either party) attacked the United States on September 11, 2001.

You claim Bush "ignored" the warnings about Bin Laden. You seem to think out of the literally hundreds of pieces of intelligence that come in each and every week, there should have been some miraculous and psychic ability to predict which ones were and were not valid and specific threats. Hindsight is always 20/20.

You completely ignore Clinton's contribution to the mess which was mostly in his systematic dismantling of all human intelligence sources that US operatives had built up in the Middle East. It took almost two decades to build that up, but Clinton destroyed it in under two years. It's possible (but not guaranteed) that if Clinton had simply left that system alone, then 9/11 could have been prevented.

Clinton has admitted his regret for not killing Bin Laden when he had the chance. However, at the time Clinton had the opportunity, Bin Laden had not yet coordinated any major attacks. Therefore, Clinton also would have had to be psychic, so he's no different.

All of the world's major governments support their allies by arming them to allow them to fight their enemies. In the Middle East in the late 1970's, the U.S. armed the Taliban because the Soviet Union had already invaded Afghanistan to steal their oil. Reagan (and the Democrat-controlled U.S. Congress) was simply trying to restore order to the region and unfortunately, the Taliban was the only option to make that happen.

Are you saying you would rather that the Soviets had slaughtered and/or subjugated all of the Afghan people? That was their intent. But I guess that would have been OK with you.

I guess it doesn't really matter, though. From your writing it's clear that you've let one side of the political battle COMPLETELY brainwash you into thinking the other side is EVIL. Nothing I write here has a prayer of changing that.

If you would consider taking any advice from a moderate Republican, I would offer the following few items: Look at the bigger picture. Don't let one side convince you that they have exclusive possession of moral authority (they're all do bad things as well as good things, too). Try to discern the facts from the news and the history books. Think for yourself.

Good luck and God Bless you.

Answer 3

Is this a question? I will try this. Bill Clinton cut a deal with Korea and it went something like this: We will supply you with energy, if you stop any nuclear activity. Korea said OK and Bill believed them. Bush is now dealing with that result.

Bill Clinton stated repeatedly that Iraq had WMD, but failed to act on any of this information. 9/11 happened and Bush acted on this information and we all know that this information was not accurate. Thanks Bill for signing the act that didn't allow our intelligence agency to pay informants - lost our best source of information.

By the way, Richard Clarke - He failed to print the correct year of the Sudan attack in his book. Off 1 year. Maybe that is why he couldn't convince Bush?

Either way, the public should work as a team to resolve this! I've never come across a situation where infighting had a positive result. Well, maybe that is the plan?

Answer 4

Well written question. At the time of writing my answer there were only two responses both from unintelligent right wing, conservative, red neck wallies. That tells a story of apathy and brainwashing, does it not?

We have all the same things happening here in Australia except our bloke just follows Bush down the toilet instead of pulling his own chain. Selling Aussie jobs overseas, importing cheap labour, supporting wars that are not supportable etc, etc, etc.

If we don't get rid of these conservative nit wits and drongos quickly we're all off to hell in a hand basket.

Actually, to answer your question, HELL NO!! I thought we were better off with Saddam than the power vacuum we have now. America's foreign policy and aggression is largely to blame for terrorism in the first place and how does Bush deal with it? You've got it, by doling out more of the same conservative drivel. God help us all.

I'll go now and brace myself for the torrent of right-wing abuse and psycho-babble that will come in the wake of this answer. Keep up the good fight.

Jules, Australia.

Answer 5

Bravo! well said and well backed. I believe it was Adolph Hitler that said " It is easier to fool the masses with a big lie then it is to fool them with a small lie." It seems that the republicans have worked this to the death, and as long as they can convince the uneducated masses they will!

Answer 6

How about all the times Clinton cut and ran in the 1990's? You are playing Monday Morning Quarterback with this one. We had no idea how bad the problem was going to get 20 years ago.

Answer 7

Yawn, listen you moronic liberal, conservative leaders are the only ones fighting terror in the last 20 years.
Quit taking our quotes too, because LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER. We came up with that first, thank you Mr. Savage.

liberals: Dumb, no talent, whiny hacks.

Answer 8

Conservatism in the USA right now is more like a plague. And for the people that have it, there is no cure.

Answer 9

Hell, conservative Republicans ARE terrorists. After 800 years of Western European legal protection, they go and habeas corpus out the window.

Answer 10

with a record like this i would hide in a cave and wait for the next ice age.