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"Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )" wrote in
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> Mitchell Holman wrote:
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>> "Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )" wrote in
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>> > Bokonon wrote:
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>> >> "Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )" wrote in
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>> >> > I've explained to you that Bush was developing a plan to eradicate
>> >> > bin Laden and his merry band of crazies.
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>> >> Which is complete bullshit.
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>> > /xarchives/ ?p=washfile-english&y=20
>> > 04& m=March&x= #begin quote
>> > Once in office, we quickly began crafting a comprehensive new
>> > strategy to "eliminate" the al Qaeda network. The president wanted
>> > more than occasional, retaliatory cruise missile strikes. He told me
>> > he was "tired of swatting flies."
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>> > Through the spring and summer of 2001, the national security team
>> > developed a strategy to eliminate al Qaeda -- which was expected to
>> > take years. Our strategy marshaled all elements of national power to
>> > take down the network, not just respond to individual attacks with
>> > law enforcement measures. Our plan called for military options to
>> > attack al Qaeda and Taliban leadership, ground forces and other
>> > targets -- taking the fight to the enemy where he lived. It focused
>> > on the crucial link between al Qaeda and the Taliban. We would
>> > attempt to compel the Taliban to stop giving al Qaeda sanctuary --
>> > and if it refused, we would have sufficient military options to
>> > remove the Taliban regime. The strategy focused on the key role of
>> > Pakistan in this effort and the need to get Pakistan to drop its
>> > support of the Taliban. This became the first major foreign-policy
>> > strategy document of the Bush administration #end quote
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>> From your own source:
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>> "During the transition, President-elect Bush's national security
>> team was briefed on the Clinton administration's efforts to deal
>> with al Qaeda. We adopted several of these ideas. We committed
>> more funding to counterterrorism and intelligence efforts."
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>> FACT: Before 9/11, Attorney General John Ashcroft de-emphasized
>> counterterrorism at the FBI, in favor of more traditional law
>> enforcement. And according to the Washington Post, "in the early
>> days after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Bush White House cut
>> by nearly two-thirds an emergency request for counterterrorism
>> funds by the FBI, an internal administration budget document shows."
>> [Source: Washington Post, 3/22/04; Congressional Quarterly, 4/6/04]
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> Ashcroft wasn't running FBI.
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The FBI is part of the Justice Dept, remember?