FBI's top counter-terrorists lacked basic knowledge about terrorists

[RMNIXON]

Originally Posted by Thorgrim

After the first WTC bombing, there was no large outcry for anti-terrorism...the GOP in 1994 didn't run on it and didn't act on it in 1995...

But the GOP was not in the White House before or after the 1994 attack. Where is the leadership? It is not like the Clinton Whitehouse took marching orders from the GOP now is it?

[Thorgrim]

The same leadership that had Nixon's man Kissenger cut and run from Vietnam like pussies and Reagan cut and run like a pussy in Lebanon

Looks like we are about to cut and run in Iraq from either Bush or he'll pass the back to the next president which is just as cowardly

Before all this Eisenhower cut and run from Korea, and they're now threatening us with nukes

Last two wars we actually won were by Democrats, go figure

Unless you want to count little two week trips to Panama or a few months in sand

[Scrum]

Originally Posted by Thorgrim

Last two wars we actually won were by Democrats, go figure

Unless you want to count little two week trips to Panama or a few months in sand

You forgot Grenada.

[Phantom]

The Dems are getting off to a great start in this area as well, starting with their incoming chair for the House Intelligence [ignorance?] chariman Reyes.

The dialogue went like this:
Al Qaeda is what, I asked, Sunni or Shia?
“Al Qaeda, they have both,” Reyes said. “You’re talking about predominately?”
“Sure,” I said, not knowing what else to say.
“Predominantly — probably Shiite,” he ventured.

And Hezbollah? I asked him. What are they?
“Hezbollah. Uh, Hezbollah...”
He laughed again, shifting in his seat.
“Why do you ask me these questions at five o’clock? Can I answer in Spanish? Do you speak Spanish?”
“Poquito,” I said—a little.
“Poquito?! “ He laughed again.
“Go ahead,” I said, talk to me about Sunnis and Shia in Spanish.
Reyes: “Well, I, uh....”

full article here: CQ.com

Great job Dems, replace the clueless idiots with more of them same. There should be no surprise that our foreign policy is garbage, the people making the decisions (in both parties) don't have a clue as to what is going on.

[AVengeance]

Since the American and international governments created Osama and are behind 9/11, it really doesn't matter whether Osama is a Sunni or Shiite, now does it?

If I created a bogeyman to scare my children out of going into my bedroom closet, does it matter if the bogeyman is Catholic or Lutheran? C'mon.

[Donkey®]

While the sniping in here is fantastic, I have yet to see ANY competence by Republicans OR Democrats in the world of anti-terrorism.