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Perino: "No terrorist attacks on our country during Bush"

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HuffPo wrote:Dana Perino, recently nominated by President Obama to the Broadcasting Board of Governors, made an odd claim Tuesday night.

On Fox News, the former press secretary suggested President Obama was playing politics by refusing to describe the massacre at Fort Hood as a terrorist attack. "We should call it what it is," she said.

"We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term," she told Sean Hannity. "I hope they're not looking at this politically. I do think that we owe it to the American people to call it what it is."

For those with memories as spotty as Perino's, President Bush took office on January 20, 2001. On September 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 people were killed in the U.S. in terrorist attacks coordinated by al-Qaeda. Five people were killed later that year in the anthrax attacks.
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I see that the 8-year case of Conservative amnesia is still strong and getting more aggressive in forgetting everything that happened between Jan. 20, 2001 and Jan 20, 2009.

I wonder how much longer it will be until conservatives forget who he was at all and then "rediscover" him several years later and paint this rosy picture of what his administration was like, having forgotten anything that reflected badly on him.

(aka what happened to Ronald Reagan)
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I wonder how much longer it will be until conservatives forget who he was at all and then "rediscover" him several years later and paint this rosy picture of what his administration was like, having forgotten anything that reflected badly on him.
Well the man did free a country from fascism, in a period of weeks.

He was an approachable man. A man you could have a beer with. As long as you were a confirmed legacy member of one of the many, many country clubs he was a member of.

He was the type of guy who took it easy, spending fully over a third of his 8 year administration on vacation.

He made sure terrorists did not attack our country a third time.

His administration was willing to do anything to protect the country from terrorism, even if it was necessary to create connections linking actual terrorists to people who looked like terrorists and therefore were terrorists.

He monitored the phone calls and emails of dangerous Americans for the public safety, not risking compromise by notifying proper channels and the custodians of the legal system.

He passed legislation that made school systems raise an entire generation of students that where experts at memorizing facts and regurgitating them onto sheets of paper, even when they didn't really understand the relevance of those facts or how to appropriately and consistently attribute and develop their conclusions.

He made sure that the entire global community understood that America was an uncompromising beacon of just-us, willfulness, and righteousness.

He brought faith back into the office by holding weekly conferences with righteous men of the cloth; who had personally taken it upon themselves to experience the depredations and perversions of the world to better understand the essence of sin.

Oh, and fags didn't get married, nipped that turd soon as it breached: defending this country from an endless flow of bestiality, pedophilia, necrophilia, robotphilia, and any other perversion of Gods obvious design for what you should be doing with your genitalia in a committed relationship.

He and his administration raised the dialogue of this country to red-white-and blue phallus-wavery, that measured the mettle (A.K.A Masculinity) of arguments, ideas, and policy by how. . .Deluged with nationalism it's supporters were: never hesitating to label critics and nay-sayers as traitors and rebels for having the audacity to disagree on how to monitor, regulate, order, and develop a 13,000,000,000,000 dollar country: with the mightiest military the world has ever seen. Especially when those critics and nay-sayers had fought in a war that Bush, Cheney, and other members of his cabinet sought dozens of deferments from having to enter conflict: That they might hold a more unbiased view of the sacrifice of American lives in times of armed freedom-growing missions.

He also carefully oversaw the coming of the recession, and acted valiantly to ward it off by opening an endless spigot of money to wash away the filth that bogged down our investments: not wasting valuable time in developing oversight or pointless regulation brackets that would sap the freedom and potency of the glorious free market.

He passed laws that made sure that the obscenely rich got to keep obscenely vast sums of money, even after death to hand down to deserved children who would never have to work a day in their lives or ever develop value to society, as opposed to investing that money in soft liberal, socialist, communist faggot shit like more public-transportation, more hippy, satanic, academia, research, voodoo, or greedy money-grubbing bureaucracy laden public-works.
And poor people got to keep more bread-crumbs as well.

He passed laws that defended the natural order from the depredation of science even when people begged the federal government for funding of a treatment that could potentially keep countless citizens healthy and productive: thereby depriving insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and coffin companies from profits.

Indeed this country would be fucked if not for the foresight and wisdom of the younger Bush. The Reading president. Who was so magnificent in his stewardship of our country that he totally saved us from that Black Muslim fella that came next and got bogged down in two wars, and oversaw one of the highest levels of unemployment this country had ever seen, and oversaw legislation which cost almost a sixth of our economy! Oh, and his wife dressed like a stripper.

Truly, he was an American Hero. Up their with Reagen, Taft, Cleavland, Nixon, or Washington.

God bless our War-Hero President. Our School Reformer. Our Free Market Capitalist.

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I think he meant to say after 9-11 and the incidents around it, which is correct IIRC.
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CJvR wrote:I think he meant to say after 9-11 and the incidents around it, which is correct IIRC.
No, it isn't. Because if you're going to call rampages by mentally ill lone gunmen 'terrorism', the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007 killed nearly three times as many people.
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Starglider wrote:
CJvR wrote:I think he meant to say after 9-11 and the incidents around it, which is correct IIRC.
No, it isn't. Because if you're going to call rampages by mentally ill lone gunmen 'terrorism', the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007 killed nearly three times as many people.
Don't forget the D.C Sniper.

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Robert Steinhaseur

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Carl Charles Roberts IV

Louisian Technical College for Nursing (Only Two dead, but a woman did it.)

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So ya. Underneath the new definition of terrorism Obama has about 10 more terrorist attacks to go ( about about 3500 bodies). And that guy up and Maine, the skinhead with the dirty bomb? He was definitely acquiring his supplies for that weapon on the Boy-Kings watch.
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If we're using the new GOP definition of Terrorism, which is "any mass murder by a Muslim", then, quite, the D.C. sniper throws that claim of Perino's into ludicrous, absolute fallacy.. Even assuming that she meant what she probably intended, i.e., nothing after September the Eleventh.
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Don't forget the LAX gunman. I saw that right at the Terminal when it happened, on July 4, 2002. This really is a ridiculous, bizzare claim. Oh, and the Anthrax scares.
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CJvR wrote:I think he meant to say after 9-11 and the incidents around it, which is correct IIRC.
She may have thought that, but I seriously doubt it. It's an odd mistake (for someone whose job involved regular public speaking) to make.

No, they are just trying to re-write history.

Oh, and Perino, nice way to show gratitude to Obama after being nominated by him to a position of some note. I guess I would have just, I don't know, expected more than a baseless and purely political series of clichéd attacks after that? HAHA!
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Nephtys wrote:Don't forget the LAX gunman. I saw that right at the Terminal when it happened, on July 4, 2002. This really is a ridiculous, bizzare claim. Oh, and the Anthrax scares.
no that was murder for profit, not terrorism. A guy working for the CDC patented a new Anthrax vaccine, and decided to start a mass mailing spree to sell his vaccine?
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Isn't terrorism the killing of innocents for a political gain? The DC sniper was trying to cover up his wife's murder.
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CaptainChewbacca wrote:Isn't terrorism the killing of innocents for a political gain? The DC sniper was trying to cover up his wife's murder.
Terrorism is usually defined as the killing of innocents for coercive purposes, especially political ones.

The problem is that every conventional bombing campaign could be construed as "terrorism", including "proper military" bombings. The argument for strategic bombing was predicated from the beginning on the premise that you could weaken the enemy's resolve by killing his civilians.
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Darth Wong wrote: Terrorism is usually defined as the killing of innocents for coercive purposes, especially political ones.

The problem is that every conventional bombing campaign could be construed as "terrorism", including "proper military" bombings. The argument for strategic bombing was predicated from the beginning on the premise that you could weaken the enemy's resolve by killing his civilians.
The strategies concocted during WW2 were predicated on the idea that destroying houses and forcing the enemy to repair massive damage would bring his economy to a standstill. That kind of worked too. Killing civilians actually made such tactics less effective as most would be people who didn’t work anyway (factories tended to have the best air raid shelters as companies funded them prewar). Then all the enemy had to do was burn the bodies using piles of wooden debris they had to clean up anyway. Sick but true. Prewar ideas very much did emphasis killing fuckloads of people, but that was only practical because of grossly inflated projections of the lethality of air raids and the assumption that you’d be able to use poison gas on top of it all. The only people to really put a kill-kill-kill strategy like that into sustained practice were the Japanese against the Chinese, which included ever so ineffective biowarfare bombardments. That didn’t work out at all either.

Anyway terrorists do more then kill people, and the classic end result of terrorist campaigns is supposed to be the generation of a public backlash against an increasingly oppressive government which generates the mass support the terrorists could not otherwise muster. Not a pile of dead bodies. This is why many early terrorist campaigns emphiaised attacks on infrastructure, such as the IRA sabotage campaign in the 1930s which heavily targeted bridges and power and phone lines (the bridge busting largely failed because of poor training in explosive placement to demolish such structures)

The problem is that the whole backlash thing never works out; the people just let themselves be oppressed and it’s a rare terrorist group that can balance its resources to sustain a campaign of sufficient intensity for a worthwhile period.
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Already mentioned that, and though it was a "Terrorist Style Attack" it was really taking "Viral Marketing" to a new level, to sell a vaccine. god talk about sociopathic business models....
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