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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGov. Rmoney You Have Many Advisors On Your Staff That Ignored The Threats Of 9/11 Before....
it happened. They were George Bush's advisors. They had insight and information from intelligence briefings that said that Al Quida and Bin Laden where planning attacks on our country and they didn't advise George Bush to do anything to try and stop them.
Isn't that bad judgement on your part that you are including these same people that could have prevented 9/11 as your foreign advisors? Shouldn't the American People be concerned about your judgement - if you are using the same people to advise you?
This is one way to club Rmoney with the new info that came out in the NYT on 9/11 today.
All of MSM should be asking Rmoney this question. It should be asked of him at the upcoming debates. Put Rmoney on the defensive about this. Keep the pressure on him with this and then ask him about his sheltering his money in other countries. Ask him where are his tax returns.
This guy is not qualified to even be on the stage with President Obama at the debates - let alone be given the chance to run for the presidency. He will be a puppet just like G. W. Bush.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... I can only rec this once.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)AzDar
(14,023 posts)No Thanks.
clangsnwhoops
(41 posts)Because of his failure to heed prior warnings,I hold George W Bush responsible for the 9/11 attacks and the deaths of 3000 people.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Catastrophes happen! People get hurt!
But the Bush administration never prepared for anything.
Too intent on transferring the cash in our treasury to their fatcat friends.
Besides, when will the American people understand that the Republican Party is not reality based at this time. Eisenhower believed in the same reality in which the rest of us live our lives. But Rove, Bush and Romney, Ryan, etc. do not. They construct the world based on some idea they have and then they call that "reality." But it is not real. It is not reality. It is a figment of their imagination.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)citizen blues
(570 posts)Clinton left Bush a pile of intelligence on the danger of Bin Ladin and Al Qaeda. Then Bush promptly defunded the intelligence gathering and ignored what he already had! Now after Obama has dealt some serious blows to Al Qaeda, the Teapublicans just want another patsie in the Whitehouse who'll look the other way - again. That way they can justify another dirty little war and attack Iran or Syria or maybe both.
We do need to keep the heat on Romney for the tax returns. I don't believe the Romneys ever had any intention of releasing their completed 2011 tax return. Ann Romney said as much on national tv, "You people have everything you're going to get from us." The 2010 tax returns were bad enough and showed that Romney paid taxes to foreign governments, then filed four "Foreign Tax Credit" forms to deduct almost half a million dollars off the taxes he owed the IRS! That sleeze bag off-shores jobs, off-shores his investments, off-shores his bank accounts, and off-shores paying taxes!
You're right! Romney is completely unqualified to even debate Obama, let alone be president.
Romney is the most un-patriotic and anti-American candidate we've every had!!!
global1
(25,263 posts)not only his tax returns and his record at Bain during those years that he resigned retroactively or such. But we know very little of what type of president he would be - his policies and how he would shape this country - because he's been behind every opinion on either side of the issues at some time or another.
This guy is dangerous and he is unqualified to be president. The American People need to wake up and realize this before it is too late.
siligut
(12,272 posts)And it would seem some of those people are employed in government positions.
JHB
(37,161 posts)His foreign policy statement is called "An American Century," a term originally coined by Henry Luce in a 1941 Life magazine editorial, but more recently associated with the neocon think tank Project For A New American Century whose membership transferred almost en masse into the Bush Administration, led by founding member Dick Cheney. They'd been harping for getting rid of Saddam since 1997, so it's little surprise they used an attack by Saudi and Egyptian nationals with an organization based in Afghanistan as a pretense to launch an invasion of Iraq. And believed all their own hot air about "cakewalks" and the rest.
Romney's "Special Advisors":
Christopher Burnham
Michael Chertoff
Eliot Cohen
Norm Coleman
John Danilovich
Paula J. Dobriansky
Eric Edelman
Michael Hayden
Kerry Healey
Kim Holmes
Robert Joseph
Robert Kagan
John Lehman
Andrew Natsios
Meghan OSullivan
Walid Phares
Pierre Prosper
Mitchell Reiss
Daniel Senor
Jim Talent
Vin Weber
Richard Williamson
Dov Zakheim
ThinkProgress highlights a few:
Just months after the war in Afghanistan began, Eliot Cohen who was closely affiliated with the circle of hawks who surrounded Vice President Dick Cheney was agitating for a war in Iraq, calling it the big prize. As a co-founder of the Project for A New American Century, a neoconservative pressure organization critical to the development of the Iraq War, Cohen helped push the case for toppling Saddam. Though critical of the execution of the Iraq War, Cohen appears to have drawn only the most limited of conclusions, as he was seen as recently as 2009 making the case for a new war in Iran.
COFER BLACK
The Daily Beast described former C.I.A. officer Cofer Black as Mitt Romneys trusted envoy to the dark side: he often acts as the campaigns in-house intelligence officer. When the two first linked up during Romneys first campaign, Black still had his position as a vice chairman of the controversial security contractor known then as Blackwater. In 2007, Romney refused to rule out torture of terrorism suspects, and said hed have to consult with Black about it. Black led the C.I.A. counterterror shop when the harsh interrogations were carried out and he took the lead on President Bushs secret rendition program. His speakers bureau bio says Black conceived, planned and led the CIAs war in Afghanistan. In a history of the C.I.A., Tim Weiner wrote that Black was the man who vowed to bring Osama bin Ladens head to George W. Bush on a pike and did not make good on that promise.
WALID PHARES
When youre too controversial for Congressman Peter Kings hearings on terrorism among American Muslims, that ought to be a warning flag for any prospective employers. Yet Walid Phares, a Lebanese Christian with a long history of involvement in violent militias back home, is prominently listed as a special adviser in official Romney campaign literature. Investigations into Phares role in the brutal Lebanese Civil War suggests he was personally responsible for infusing Christian theology into the official ideology of the sectarian Lebanese Forces, an important fighting group in the war. Phares also has numerous links with the Islamophobic anti-Sharia movement.
The neocon chickenhawks want to be "more equal than others" again.