Laura Ingram wants to know why we didn't react in the 1990s to terrorism.

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She's on MSNBC and she wants to know why we didn't react to terrorist attacks in the 1990s.

Laura Ingram has the inside information on why we didn't react and I'm having a great deal of trouble this morning keeping expletive deletives out of this post.

So, how many other media personas from the 1990s who made it impossible for Clinton to pursue a strong military response because of media claims of Wag the Dog, are coming out and wondering why we didn't respond stronger?

Let's start with Laura Ingram.

[opihimoimoi]

1. Just WHO is she that she would ask?

Forget her. Its all Spin

[kentuck]

2. She and others were too busy reacting to Clinton's penis....

But the bottom line is, Clinton did a better job at protecting our nation than the Boy King, even as he was fighting off right-wing attacks from every angle, including from Laura Ingram.

[Disturbed]

5. Another

Lying Media Whore. Not as repugnant as Annthrax but I click to another station as soon as she appears

[booksenkatz]

9. Our boy could multitask

Remember the terrible Y2K terrorist attacks? Neither do I. Clinton sure as hell musta done something right. Not many guys can run the western world, get hummers, and fight off berserk right wingers at the same time! I happen to appreciate most of what President Clinton did, but even if you can't stand him, you have to admire his ability to multitask. The grinning, kill-happy Appointed-President Bush can't even chew pretzels and blink at the same time.

[chelsea0011]

15. The penis is mightier than country

If these fake blond republican blonds could have come up for air from the President's crotch, this country's business would have moved forward.

Remember the right wing wacko response to the Cole attack. No one was demanding a strike. The talk was "WHEN will Clinton do something to try to pump up Gore's run for President". That was the talk.

[rooboy]

3. Laura Ingraham can sit in her little corner...

and play her MC Hammer cd's all she wants. She's longing for a time when the boys used to fancy her...

[TexasProgresive]

4. How do you do it?

I've on heard Ingram twice and it was all I could do to keep from throwing up. She had fellow traveler and true believer hannity on once and I forget who the other time. Both shows were an incredible waste of our broadcast bandwidth. There were the usual diatribes against Liberals mostly directed against their personal appearance and really nothing of substance against their positions.

Keep up the good work monitoring the slime level - my hat's off to you.

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11. I feel like I've been waiting for six years for this moment.

My political awakening came during the Clinton trials in 1998. The Republican-led House of Representative's impeachment was the final straw for me. Though I wrote my first letter to the editor, I realized early that though the polls were on my side the number of people willing to speak up and defend Clinton were in the minority. And who could blame them? The media was too busy bashing Clinton and putting downpayments for high real-estate purchases with the money they received for their sell-out. Who was going to go up against the media who has the strongest First Amendment Rights in this country? They also have the best lawyers. A common citizen's voice was drowned during this period of American history.

So, like Clarke, I waited. In my case, I waited to see if my worst fears would be realized -- that we would suffer greatly for the division created by a Republican politically motivated witch hunt, and which the media made worse by crying, "Fire!"

And now that my worst fears have been realized, I'll be damn if I sit quietly as these media whores cry "Fire!" once again, without being held accountable. We should call them on the carpet and remind everyone of what they were doing in the 90s. They were derelict in their duty as reporters, and they're doing it again. Today the focus should be on Bush. If they want to look in the past, the only stones left unturned is why THEY didn't help President Clinton in the fight against terrorism.

[Atman]

6. We DID!

According to Clarke on CNN this morning...under Clinton, 50 Americans were killed by terrorists, and the Clinton admin stopped planned attacks on 2000 New Years Eve, took out several terrorist targets in Afghanistan, etc, etc.

Contrast to Reagan and 41...hundreds killed under BOTH their watches (embassy bombing, Lockarbie, etc.), with NO retaliation. None. Keep those talking points in mind next time a whiny republican like Ingram starts pissing on your loafers.

[VolcanoJen]

22. Clarke was outstanding on CNN This Morning.

Atman's right... everyone should remember these excellent Clarke talking points the next time a ditto-monkey regurgitates a fantasy falsehood to you.

[Racenut20]

7. But But But !!!!!

Laura was a political intern straight out of college. (You get that post with daddys money)..So she knows STUFF!!!!!!!!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

8. Ms. Ingram should be directing this question toward the...

...Reagan/Bush administrations. They are the ones that refused to honor the committments made by Carter to those fighting the old Soviets in Afghanistan. Can anyone say "blowback"?

[aprilgirl]

10. Clinton did react to terrorism...on every occassion...he just didn't get O

The attacks were unsuccessful as far as getting OBL but Clinton admin sure blasted a few terrorist camps, stopped several attacks, caught and prosecuted the culprits behind WTC-1, Kobar towers, and the OKC bomber and the letter bomber. I think it is time for the Democrats to publicize the anti-terrorism actions and successes of the Clinton administration...some of which the public was never told about. Perhaps more could have been done had the Congress and members of the Intelligence Committees had their heads on the terrorism issue and out of Clintons fly!

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13. And now we're learning that Osama isn't even the top man.

At least that's the latest information, according to 60 minutes.

[snippy]

12. Because the republican semen sleuths controlled Congress.

Why worry about terrorism when the republican impeachment of Bill Clinton was possible?

[bpilgrim]

14. POPPY and RAYGUN got records too

not to mention 911 happened on * watch

peace

[leesa]

16. So the ONLY way to react to terrorism is the dead wrong way...bombing

The very least effective way of dealing with terrorism is the only way these idiots will accept that progress is being made. Captures of the real criminals, trials, nothing to these fools...they want BOMBS dropped!

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19. And the Clinton Administration banned trade with Afghanistan about 1996.

The Clinton Administration already saw the Taliban as a liability about one year after they got into power so he along with Margaret Albright enforced trade embargoes. And what did the Bush Administration do after they got into office in 2001? They shut up the one man (Clarke) who could have continued this embargo in order to allow the Bush oil cronies to negotiate with Afghanistan for an oil pipeline.

I have stated from the beginning that those Cheney energy meetings and 9/11 were connected. I believe the 9/11 attacks were retaliation for secret negotiations between the Taliban and the Bush Administration's business buddies that went awry.

That's also a good reason why Bush would want to take attention away from Afghanistan by putting Iraq on the agenda. Have you heard anyone talk about the pipeline since we attacked Iraq? Nope. What happened to connecting the dots? And as long as idiots like Laura Ingraham keep dragging us back to the 1990s, we'll never focus on the time period that is most critical: January 2001 to September 11, 2001.

[City Lights]

17. Here's her email:

Send those expletives here:

[email protected]

[Pobeka]

18. Why *was* the RW more concerned with Clinton's penis than terrorism?

Damn good question, Laura. Imagine what the GOP could've done for the country, for the world if the goal was to improve the country -- the world, instead of engaging in the pettiest of partisan politics.

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21. And this lack of media attention was brought up by Gary Hart when

he came out and told everyone that in January 2001 his Senate subcommittee had handed the Bush Administration a bi-partisan recommendation for couunter-terrorism. It got nearly no press. Why doesn't the media take responsibility for that?

[UTUSN]

20. Because She Was Having an Affair with Asa HUTCHINSON?

It makes as much sense as her question. My question, how come her coversion to wingnut fundamentalist religion hasn't made her more spiritual, Christian, or kind?