Clinton was criticised by republicans in congress incessantly for the money he was diverting towards anti-terrorism efforts. Don't say it was job 102 to him. He was perceived and portrayed as a terrorism whacko by congress.
Bill made the plan in direct respons to the USS Cole bombing.
Again, please pick up the book "Against All Enemies : Inside the White House's War on Terror--What Really Happened " By Richard Clarke, Clintons counter-terrorism czar. Bush liked him so much he used him for Cyberspace security.
I agree completely with what both Scipio and nanofever said.
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People say that Bush lied to us about WMD's. The liberation of Iraq was not just about that. It was about liberating a country that lived in fear. Americans have the biggest ego. They put their own unemployment aboves the lives of thousands of innocent people. When you are poor in America, you are still fat. But when you are poor in Iraq, you die of starvation. Please put your petty egos behind yourself.
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Bush doesn't CARE about people, he doesn't care about international human rights. Liberating the Iraqis and stopping the torture and murders DID NOT FACTOR into why we went into Iraq.
I have proven that with the way we are acting with Uzbekistan and Equatorial Guinea.
(Do a search on it on this site, you will find plent of information)
And for an update on that sorry nation....
http://www.uzland.uz/2004/february/14/09.htm
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"The elderly mother of a religious prisoner allegedly boiled to death by Uzbekistan's secret police has been sentenced to six years in a maximum security jail after she made public her son's torture.
Fatima Mukhadirova, 63, a former market vegetable seller, is the mother of Muzafar Avazov, who died in the notorious Jaslik high security jail in 2002. She was convicted of attempting to "overthrow the constitutional order".
An Uzbek judge yesterday said she had "set up an underground cell of women propagating the ideas of [banned Islamic fundamentalist group] Hizbut Tahrir". The secret police had found "incriminating" pamphlets in her flat, a common occurrence in arrests of group members.
The British ambassador to Tashkent, Craig Murray, last night told the Guardian: "This is appalling. She took photographs of her son's corpse which she gave to the British embassy. The Foreign Office sent them to the University of Glasgow pathology department. Their forensic report said the body had clearly been immersed [in boiling water] because of the tide marks around the upper torso." He said that Ms Mukhadirova's continuing campaign seemed to explain why she had been targeted by the authorities. She now had a sentence of hard labour. "The chances of her surviving that are very limited," he said.
Uzbek prison authorities maintain that Mr Avazov died after inmates spilled hot tea on him. But the forensic report said that his teeth had been smashed and his fingernails torn out. His body was covered in burns.
Mirzakayum Avazov, Ms Mukhadirova's youngest son, said: "My mother was simply trying to defend her sons and looked for justice. She only wanted those guilty of Muzafar's death to be punished."
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Britains ambassador to Uzbek gave a speech criticizing the Uzbek govt over its human rights record.
He was recalled by Britain after the Uzbeks and members of the US government put pressure on Britain to shut him up because the brutal Uzbeks and our administration didn't like what he was saying
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DON'T. EVER, think you can give Bush the moral high ground and project a bleeding heart for human rights onto his sorry frame.