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The Nixon administration came up with the right answers on terrorism......but after "Watergate"...and the subsequent Democrat presidency of Jimmy Carter.....it was all "let go" and forgot about. All those years that Democrats controlled our Congress and Senate....they failed us. Wonder where all the Dems will be on this latest news in regards to their "blame game?"
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JP There are many issues that I do agree with you on but when you try to blame all the problems of 9/11 on the Democrats and "the Democratically controlled congress" that is not supportable.
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Where did I say I blamed it "ALL" on them? I didn't....and I don't. But you have to admit, many Democrats have tried to blame it all on Pres. Bush. And that's why I bring this up and post this new finding. As you can see.....ignoring the threat of terrorism began decades ago. I NEVER see any of them admit they have any responsibility for it.
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That type of blame game is no better and is just as childish as the Democrats who claims that Republicans want "children to starve" if Reps block increases in the school lunch program.
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I agree. That's why I've alwas felt it was childish when they tried to blame Bush for 9/11. And you must admit.....many did and still do.
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I will grant you that after Watergate there was a horrendous over-reaction to the intelligence agencies and the FBI and the pendulum swung way too far. That was very wrong. Frank Church should have probably been investigated for treason. Intelligence committee chair.
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That doesn't really justify their ignoring that panels' findings about terrorism and never addressing the problem. But yes, there was definitely an overreaction.
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Yet it is very very wrong when Republicans who try to defend Nixon and call the WATERGATE break in a " third rate burglary". The truth is that Watergate was only the tip of the iceberg for Nixon's treachery. For those of us who lived in those times Nixon behaved as if he was Chairman of the Soviet Union rather than a U.S president.
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I did live during those times. And I didn't like Nixon....but for different reasons....having little to do with Watergate....although I didn't respect him for that either.
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Since Nixon and before Bush II the years of Democratic and Republican control of the White House is equal.
To blame all the ills that happen to this country since 1972 on the Dems, but to take credit for the Reagan years is disingenuous.
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Again.....you misunderstand. I point out the part about the Democrats...ONLY because Democrats never do. The Democrats in power right now don't seem to think Democrats ever had a thing to do with it. They seem to think it was all George W. Bush. I posted this new finding to simply point it out.
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Example : The blame game has been played by both camps with equal stupidity. Blaming Bush alone for 9/11 after he was only in office for months is just as stupid as blaming Clinton for the first World trade center bombings which occurred one month and a few days after Clinton took office.
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Difference is....I never blamed Clinton for the first WTC attack....and I still don't. And I never heard any other Republicans in power blame him either. What I DO blame Clinton for is not realizing the extent of that attack and what he didn't do afterwards to prepare for this new threat on our home soil.
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The blame for 9/11 can be spread over many years and can fall into many laps. Let's work on fixing it and not pointing the finger of blame.
I say that to both Democrats and Republicans.
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I totally agree. And that's what I've said and believed all along. But from what I hear.....MOST Democrats don't. And this is a new news story that backs us up. It's about time to STOP blaming Pres. Bush when he was in office for only 230 days....when all these decades before NO ONE on either side of the aisle or from either party addressed the problem. That's my point.