Shoes for Journalists

Hi Rrhain, He was probably thinking, "Man this is going to get a million hits on youtube".

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"All great truths begin as blasphemies""I smoke pot. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your mouth."--Bill Hicks"I never knew there was another option other than to question everything"--Noam Chomsky

What we need to do is teach journalist how to throw. He's 10 feet away and he misses...twice!We need to send journalist to a bunch of county fairs and get them to throw shoes at the Dunk-booth. So, the next time a self-important politician is talking shit they'll be able to crack him/her right in their stupid forehead.

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"All great truths begin as blasphemies""I smoke pot. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your mouth."--Bill Hicks"I never knew there was another option other than to question everything"--Noam Chomsky

The Coffee House is a good place for political wars, lol. Which part was "left wing drivel", the facts...? In fact, which part was "left wing"...?

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"All great truths begin as blasphemies""I smoke pot. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your mouth."--Bill Hicks"I never knew there was another option other than to question everything"--Noam Chomsky

Hi RAZD, I think you may have some facts confused, RAZD. Both the Clinton admin and the Bush admin, by default, are responsible for the delays and lack of info.TIME MAG CHARGES: BUSH ADMIN 'DELAYED' CLINTON PLAN TO ATTACK AL QAEDAFrom Time Mag:

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Draft Presidential Directive to Eliminate al Qaeda

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Approved By National Security Principals Sept. 4, 2001 ”Just One Week Before 9/11

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Plan Developed in Last Days of Clinton Administration, Presented to Bush Administration in January 2001

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Proposals Were "Everything We’ve Done Since 9/11"

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New York - A bold plan for the U.S. to attack al Qaeda was delayed by a Bush administration "policy review process" and was approved just a week before September 11, a TIME special report reveals. The plan, developed in the last days of the Clinton administration, was passed along to the Bush administration in January 2001 by Clinton National Security Adviser Sandy Berger and Richard Clarke, a career bureaucrat who had served in the first Bush administration and risen during the Clinton years to become the White House’s point man on terrorism. In the words of a senior Bush administration official, the proposals amounted to "everything we’ve done since 9/11."

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TIME’s special report offers the fullest account of how ambitious the plan was, and how the Bush administration delayed the plan.

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On Dec. 20, 2000, Clarke presented a strategy paper to Berger and the other national security "principals." But Berger and the principals decided to shelve the plan and let the next administration take it up. With less than a month left in office, they did not think it appropriate to launch a major initiative against Osama bin Laden. "We would be handing [the Bush Administration] a war when they took office on Jan. 20," says a former senior Clinton aide. "That wasn’t going to happen." "If we hadn’t had a transition," says a senior Clinton Administration official, "probably in late October or early November 2000, we would have had [the plan to go on the offensive] as a presidential directive." Now it was up to Rice’s team to consider what Clarke had put together.

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Plans to capture bin Laden tied up in politics: After the U.S.S. Cole was bombed, the secretive Joint Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, N.C., drew up plans to have Delta Force members swoop into Afghanistan and grab bin Laden. But the warriors were never given the go-ahead; the Clinton Administration did not order an American retaliation for the attack. In fact, despite strong suspicion that bin Laden was behind the attack in Yemen, the CIA and FBI had not officially concluded that he was, and would be unable to do so before Clinton left office. That made it politically impossible for Clinton to strike”especially given the upcoming election and his own lack of credibility on national security. "If we had done anything, say, two weeks before the election, we’d be accused of helping Al Gore," a former senior Clinton aide told TIME.

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Now, given that the thread is about shoes, I feel Clinton deserves a size 12 right across the grill too.

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"All great truths begin as blasphemies""I smoke pot. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your mouth."--Bill Hicks"I never knew there was another option other than to question everything"--Noam Chomsky

Well thats because they got cool flags to put on their cars(pick up trucks) and bumper stickers with "If you don't like it you can leave it" catch phrases that made them feel warm inside.Plus, Toby "douche-bag" Keith got a number 1 song (on the country charts) from it. Debatable only by those unwilling to accept the fact that we have no interest in Saudi Arabia other than greed.Note to all "gun-happy patriots": I'm not making a case for the support of the attacks, only for Bin Ladens' reason. That is considered blasphemy by most of the liberal left, but preach on. Just be cautious, Rrhain lurks about. For them I reserve steel toed boots. No! Not the messiah!? You mean to tell me that Obama is just going to continue to support a war crime such as the invasion of Iraq? But...we were told...this can't be...

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"All great truths begin as blasphemies""I smoke pot. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your mouth."--Bill Hicks"I never knew there was another option other than to question everything"--Noam Chomsky