The Bush Administration has a pre 9-11 mindset

[PurityOfEssence]

Lest we forget, THEY were the ones who ignored Clinton's and Berger's warnings, they were the ones who ignored Hart-Rudman, they were the ones who re-opened negotiations with the Taliban for their pipeline, and Cheney saw such little import in his Terrorism Task Force that he never even called it to meet before 9-11.

The Pre-9-11 mindset about which they rage is their flaw more than anyone else's.

Taking the war abroad so we don't have to fight them here is similarly hollow: the Clinton Administration was fighting them abroad; what the Bush Administration has done is create hatred for us and enemies of us where there were none before.

Somehow these rejoinders are never uttered; even Joe Lockhart can't seem to hit them back with these issues. The pre-9-11 mindset is precisely the fixated and unbending willfulness that typifies the Bushies. THEY are the ones who can't adapt, and they are the ones who are too preposessed with their own self-interest to even notice bothersome reality changes. Much as the Republicans tout their practicality, they are so hamstrung with prejudices that they are useless even if they tried to be objective and effective.

They were "pre-9-11". They were the ones who made that mistake; to fob that off on others is pure deception. The Republican Party has no grounds upon which to base a presumption of "realism" or "fairness"; their minds have long since been made up, and facts only exist to prove what they've already determined.

[apnu]

1. The media will never call the Chimp on 9/11

They hopped in bed with him and it would end the media if they turned on him now about it.

It would be funny tho... to see CNN contradict CNN.

[MsTryska]

2. damn straight.

this nation-state ground war crap is old-fashioned. this administration is making the same mistake the Brits did in the French and Indian War.