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First, Clinton is a liar. Kerry is a liar. Both have lied and flip-flopped on almost every issue imaginable. The President has not caused massive job losses. 9-11 and the corporate scandals as well as the usual economic cycles caused the loss of jobs. Not to mention the fake dot-bomb economy that collapsed as Clinton was leaving office. The unemployment rate is the same as it was under Clinton in 1996. Enemy millitary combatants can be held indefinitely, as enemies to this nation should. Actually, they should be executed.
i'm disregarding meaningless blanket statements about clinton and kerry because they carry no factual load. what? monica? come on.
bush's tax and budget policy are responsible for the drastic economic decline. care to know how many jobs came off the rolls since he took office? 3+ mil. unemployment rate went up by 43% under bush. peruse bureau of labor statistics site evey once in a while. who knew that the wealthy would save rather than spend the money they got from tax cuts? oops. and easy with the executions there. one day you may end up on ashcroft's black list for surfing to the al-jazeera website. or on a "no-fly" list for checking out the book on explosives in the library. this is just the beginning and that's why bush and co. must be stopped.
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Second, the President relied on the same intelligence that the United Nations Security Council relied on. They voted 15-0, including France and Russia, to approve the use of military force to remove Saddam if he didn't comply. (UN resolution 1441). President Cinton and Sentor Kerry believed that Saddam had weopons of mass destruction. Thats why Clinton bombed Iraq on dozens of occasions throughout his Presidency. The FBI, CIA, NSA all believed Saddam had weopons of mass destruction as did the intelligence agencies of Great Britain, Spain, Italy, Isreal, Australia and dozens of additional coalition nations.
resolution 1441 did not authorize the automatic use of force in any form, no pretext for war, none, try again. and even if there was a belief that iraq had wmd (thanks, colin, for the wonderful satellite pictures of dump trucks), what the hell are we still doing there now that it's clear there are no wmd? why did the premise change from "we're here to find non-existent wmd" to "we're here to liberate you"?
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Third, Kerry and the Senate Intelligence Committee get the same intelligence briefings that the President does as does the rest of the Senate. Richard Clark, whom I believe to be an opportunistic liar, admitted under oath that had the White House enacted all of his alleged proposals it would still have not prevented 9/11. Bush and Cheney will both be appearing before the 9/11 committee.
so let's not enact anything? clarke did his job, it was perfectly clear from his testimony and from the commissioners' reactions. the commission's objective is to determine who did their job and who didn't, not to play "what if" with events that can no longer be changed. i wonder why bush and cheney insist on a private meeting without any oaths...