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Post #12,415
by mmoffitt
10/9/01 10:48:44 AM
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New STATE DEPARTMENT
I have heard the FAA criticized ad nauseum. I have heard Flight Schools criticized ad nauseum. Make all new and existing Student and Private Pilots PAY for FBI/CIA background checks, yes, I've heard that too.

What I have not heard is any criticism of the real problem here: the US Dept. of State. Those morons let known terrorists receive student visas (apparently one even used his real name). Where is the criticism of the State Department? Oh, I forgot, Colin Powell is in charge of that. No, no, we can't ask Colin about that, nor his involvement in atrocities committed in Viet Nam, no, no. He's a Murican hero.
Post #12,459
by wharris2
10/9/01 2:30:16 PM
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New Re: STATE DEPARTMENT
My statement about agency heads rolling would apply to the state department, too - especially the specific assholes in the embassies who issued the visas. And anyone involved in setting policy that *allowed* someone to not make background checks. All the way up to the top, although you do realize that the terrorists entered on Clinton-policy visas?

But no, I won't neglect Colin Powell. He's been a naysayer from the word go, going off on a tangent from whatever Bush has said. The first time he opened his mouth after the bombing, he should have been summarily dismissed.

I guess I add him to the CIA recruitment policies as one of the two things Bush could/should have done differently prior to the plane bombing.
Who knows how empty the sky is
In the place of a fallen tower.
Who knows how quiet it is in the home
Where a son has not returned.

-- Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966)
     Admitting a mistake - (Fearless Freep) - (41) - Oct. 2, 2001, 12:17:09 AM EDT
         Re: Admitting a mistake - (wharris2) - (18) - Oct. 2, 2001, 12:59:38 AM EDT
             dunno - (boxley) - Oct. 2, 2001, 10:08:25 AM EDT
             Oh Sure. Sure. Keep telling yourself that. - (deSitter) - (16) - Oct. 3, 2001, 01:27:46 AM EDT
                 self-generated crisis? - (wharris2) - (15) - Oct. 3, 2001, 05:13:49 AM EDT
                     YOU IDIOT! PRAISING REAGAN??? - (deSitter) - (14) - Oct. 3, 2001, 11:29:50 PM EDT
                         Self generated crisis? - (bepatient) - (11) - Oct. 4, 2001, 12:08:45 AM EDT
                             Re: Self generated crisis? - (pwhysall) - Oct. 4, 2001, 01:46:09 AM EDT
                             Some sources disagree... - (Simon_Jester) - (8) - Oct. 4, 2001, 12:40:15 PM EDT
                                 Haven't seen them... - (bepatient) - (7) - Oct. 4, 2001, 12:53:31 PM EDT
                                     See if I can find it but.... - (Fearless Freep) - Oct. 4, 2001, 01:40:13 PM EDT
                                     According to the sources I read (I'm looking for them...) - (Simon_Jester) - (5) - Oct. 5, 2001, 01:58:40 PM EDT
                                         Source I was thinking of... - (Simon_Jester) - (4) - Oct. 5, 2001, 02:11:13 PM EDT
                                             Still... - (bepatient) - (3) - Oct. 5, 2001, 02:26:28 PM EDT
                                                 Here's one supporting this... - (Another Scott) - (1) - Oct. 5, 2001, 02:55:16 PM EDT
                                                     Good one... - (bepatient) - Oct. 5, 2001, 04:45:26 PM EDT
                                                 A very long time.... - (Simon_Jester) - Oct. 5, 2001, 10:22:42 PM EDT
                             Not a bad plan... - (jb4) - Oct. 5, 2001, 08:57:43 AM EDT
                         Re: YOU IDIOT! PRAISING REAGAN??? - (wharris2) - Oct. 4, 2001, 12:34:12 AM EDT
                         ? - (JayMehaffey) - Oct. 5, 2001, 09:22:52 AM EDT
         Earnest, perhaps a tad premature. - (Ashton) - (7) - Oct. 2, 2001, 07:10:14 AM EDT
             Bush's greatest asset - (jb4) - (4) - Oct. 2, 2001, 08:57:44 AM EDT
                 Thank God - (deSitter) - (3) - Oct. 3, 2001, 01:45:51 AM EDT
                     Wilson - The president who brought Segregation to - (Another Scott) - (2) - Oct. 3, 2001, 08:31:48 AM EDT
                         Idiotic Polemics. The man wanted world gov't. - (deSitter) - (1) - Oct. 3, 2001, 11:31:51 PM EDT
                             You're pretty predictable yourself.... -NT - (Another Scott) - Oct. 3, 2001, 11:33:11 PM EDT
             Nit re: 'great skill with language' - (drewk) - (1) - Oct. 2, 2001, 10:07:48 AM EDT
                 There's a distinction. - (Ashton) - Oct. 3, 2001, 06:45:35 PM EDT
         Idiocy -NT - (deSitter) - Oct. 3, 2001, 01:25:36 AM EDT
         I'm really, really, really sick of this. - (mmoffitt) - (12) - Oct. 8, 2001, 03:50:06 PM EDT
             Umm.. He didn't end the planet...yet anyway. - (hnick) - (4) - Oct. 8, 2001, 06:15:43 PM EDT
                 Just wondering... - (jb4) - Oct. 8, 2001, 06:36:32 PM EDT
                 Sad commentary is: he's given credit for Not - (Ashton) - (2) - Oct. 8, 2001, 08:31:28 PM EDT
                     You think that credit is owed to him? - (mmoffitt) - (1) - Oct. 9, 2001, 10:37:59 AM EDT
                         Our hope lies in a Fact: - (Ashton) - Oct. 9, 2001, 08:37:05 PM EDT
             And what the fuck do/did you expect him to do? - (wharris2) - (6) - Oct. 8, 2001, 10:11:54 PM EDT
                 FAA especially - (Ashton) - (2) - Oct. 9, 2001, 04:56:43 AM EDT
                     STATE DEPARTMENT - (mmoffitt) - (1) - Oct. 9, 2001, 10:48:44 AM EDT
                         Re: STATE DEPARTMENT - (wharris2) - Oct. 9, 2001, 02:30:16 PM EDT
                 My point. - (mmoffitt) - (2) - Oct. 9, 2001, 10:44:11 AM EDT
                     You don't win a war by bombing - (wharris2) - (1) - Oct. 9, 2001, 02:41:09 PM EDT
                         Firebombing Kabul - (kmself) - Oct. 9, 2001, 06:28:38 PM EDT

That sounds like a venereal disease.
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