Re: Is Clinton Still President?

[Scott Dredge <sdredge@yahoo.com>]

--- Tim Lohrmann <timlohr@yahoo.com> wrote:
-- SNIP on some excellent commentary by Tim --
-- (by the way Tim...keep up the good work! --
> war had ALREADY
> been declared on the US years ago by the Al Qaeda
> network. It's just that the Clinton administration
> chose to do little or nothing about apprehending
> these characters.
> -- More snipping --            
> War
> is not peace just because one
> side chooses to call it that. 
> 

Declarations of War are not made by the White House,
they are made by Congress.  Why didn't the Republican
controlled Congress declare war on Al Qaeda if this
was such a no brainer of the right thing to do?
Maybe if they hadn't been so preoccupied with
trying to destroy Clinton along with trying to get
their petty legislative issue passed (ie, attempt
to ban partial birth abortion, attempt to mandate
Christian prayer in public schools, attempt and
moderate success at banning homo marriages albeit
little success at disallowing them similar rights
as married couples, banning homo boy scout leaders,
overturning affirmative action, eroding the Americans
with Disabilities Act, etc., etc., etc.) then maybe it
would have dawned on them that Osama bin Laden and Al
Qaeda was the real enemy.  Instead they just wanted to
attack the Democratics and the top dog in the White
House.

Don't get me wrong Tim, your points are well
taken.  I think there is plenty of credit to
go around for both Clinton and the Republican
Congress for the successes between 1994 and 2000
and there is also plenty of blame for both for
actions that could have been taken in terms of
national security and the terrorist attacks against
that were perpetrated against the USS Cole and the
American embassy.

Like it or not, these two political forces need to
work together on the important issues like keeping
America and Americans safe from terrorism and they
need to fight each other on the petty issues that
smolder from the extreme factions of each party.
And that's pretty much what we have.  I think it's
a shame that things got so personally ugly in
Washington over something as nationally unimportant
as Monicagate when there was potentially so much
more constructive work that could have been
accomplished.  It's amazing how trivial Rudy
Guliani's scandalous personal life became after
September 11th.  Why was it so important to
Americans during the days and weeks before the
wake up call?

-Scott

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