A few words to Howard Dean

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Registered: 04-08-2003
A few words to Howard Dean
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Tue, 08-03-2004 - 11:12am
Howard Dean is showing he's back to true form (if he ever left) yesterday when offering his explanation to the Terror Warnings in NYC/DC.

He actually says that Bush is using Ridge and these alert warnings as a political tool to deflect attention away from the news items that have been released of late.

Howard, I have 4 words for you (As much as TOS allows):

Teresa's 2 + Cheney's 2

In a time when Kerry supporters want a frank discussion of the Bush Administrations short comings when it comes to Homeland Security, he has to start playing the Republican game.

Who remembers Republican senators doing the same thing when Clinton Bombed Afghanistan and Sudan in 1998?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 08-03-2004 - 12:04pm
All I have to say is that I have never really been a DEAN fan. However, I do respect him for saying what he believes is the truth. He came out against the war when it was clearly not a popular thing to do and now he calls crap when he sees it. Yesterday when they made all these announcements no one ever said that the surveillance info was 3-4 years old! That should have been included when they gave the warning. Now Ridge comes out this morning and says yes it is 3-4 years old (pre-911) but that there were updates as late as Jan of this year. Then reporters came on and said that there were not anymore surveillance or pictures since before 911 but something was saved on the computer about one of the buildings and they are considering that the update. If they were truly concerned about getting the truth out they should have said, "Hey..we have this information that just came to us. They were watching the buildings before 911. They could still be interested so we want you all to keep an eye out just in case. We wanted to bring this to the American public so that you would be alert. ETC" All of us KNOW that Al Quaida is coming after us without a doubt. All of us know that they would like to hit us during election season (according to the last warning). Now we know that there are specific buildings we need to consider since they were looked at in the past. However, I think having all the guards and stuff around is kinda pointless. They know that we are on to those locations so they are not going to hit those locations. They like SURPRISE! Maybe, they were considering those places instead of WTC and the Pentagon, pre-911 and decided to hit the WTC and Pentagon instead? Who knows? I do know that if the Bush administraton keeps crying WOLF without solid proof of imminent danger(not something from 3-4 years ago) then pretty soon people will stop listening to the warnings and brush them off.