August 20, 2005
Blatant GOP Hypocrisy*
Originally Posted: Dec. 2003
Final Revision/Posting: Dec. 2004
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton failed to even TRY and prevent the 9/11 attacks because he turned his back on the al-Quaeda warnings given to him by the previous admistration, ignored the threats that were coming in from our intelligence agencies and was obsessed with Iraq and missile defense...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton's General in charge of the war against al-Quaeda repeatedly said that bin Laden wasn't the "focus" of our military operations in Afghanistan...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton pulled troops and resources out of Afghanistan to go on a wild goose chase in Iraq, allowing the war lords to regain control of the country, the Taliban to reform, the opium (heroin) crop to flourish and al-Quaeda to commit over 20 attacks in the 3 years since 9/11, after committing just 4 during the 9 years before...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton admited that airplane hijackings were still a possibility more than two years after 9/11...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton opposed Congressional and independent inquiries into the intelligence failures leading up to 9/11...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton wouldn't hand over documents to these 9/11 investigations....
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton wouldn't testify before the 9/11 committee unless he appeared alongside Al Gore, with neither under oath and no formal transcript of their testimony to be taken...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton didn't show any anger, didn't fire anyone, and did everything possible to avoid investigations into both the 9/11 and Iraqi WMD intelligence failures...(intelligence HE relies on to keep our country safe!)...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton called for an invasion of Iraq based on a document that turned out to be a forgery (Africa's "yellow cake") and on the word of Ahmad Chalabi, who was already known to be a notorious liar, thief and con man...that turned out to be a double agent spying for Iran who we were paying $300,000 a month to...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton called for a war in Iraq because of an imminent threat that Saddam Hussein and his WMDs posed, but he was either lying, exaggerating or couldn't have been more wrong...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton said that Iraq tried to get uranium from Africa in his SOTU speech so he can strengthen his case for war, but he was either lying or wrong...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton said that most of the costs for the war and rebuilding the country would be paid by Iraq's oil revenues, but he was either lying, again, or couldn't have been more wrong...again...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Madeline Albright said that Iraq had "between 100 and 500 tons of chemical weapons agent" and an "active nuclear program," but she was either lying or couldn't have been more wrong...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton used the lives and limbs of our brave soldiers like political poker chips by having the Democrats purposely schedule the Congressional "debate" and ensuing vote on the Iraq war resolution just prior to the midterm elections...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if the Clinton White House deliberately leaked the cover of a secret CIA agent because they had a political ax to grind...and then imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton had Janet Reno "investigate" the matter to see who leaked it...who then waited months to step down before naming a special "in house" prosecutor to take over the investigation...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if this was Clinton's war in Iraq with all these casualties and chaos...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Al Gore said that our troops in Iraq would be greeted with hugs and roses - Hey Repubs, WORDS MEAN THINGS! - but instead had to dodge mortars, shoulder fired missiles, RPG's, IED's and car bombs...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton totally bungled the wars aftermath because he (incredulously!) didn't even plan for it...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton never had an exit strategy in Iraq...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton landed on an aircraft carrier, declared "major combat operations ended" in a fancy photo-op - hey Repubs, WORDS (and actions) MEAN THINGS! - and months later when casualties started to mount, tried to spin it by saying he "didn't mean the war was over"...(oh wait, we know EXACTLY what the GOP would be screaming. They'd go ballistic just like they did after the disaster in Mogadishu because Clinton had that photo-op on the White House lawn a few months before declaring that the mission was over.)...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton declared "Bring it on" in regards to the insurgents fighting back, and then called our casualties proof we're making "progress..."
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton didn't do bubkis when Iraq started to fall apart during the summer of 2003 because he was on the golf course...(had Bush done anything about the growing insurgency at the time, it would have moved our mounting casualties to the front pages, resulting in a drop in his poll numbers. So is it possible that he deliberately ignored the situation to make sure he remained popular enough to run for reelection?)...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Bill Cohen said, "We know where (the WMDs) are" when the war started - Hey Repubs, WORDS MEAN THINGS! - but 18 months later, they have yet to turn up...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton split hairs about his justification for the war and the WMDs that don't exist by saying he "never used the term 'imminent threat'"...(then why did we invade? To give our troops an extended vacation in the Iraqi desert?)...
(oh wait, we know EXACTLY what the GOP would be screaming because the GOP had a field day every time Clinton parsed his words to wiggle out of something he said!)
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if, before the war, Clinton said, "We know that the (Iraqi) regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas (and) VX nerve gas" - hey Repubs, WORDS MEAN THINGS! - but when none of it turns up, tries to spin his way out of it by saying "they could have been moved, buried or hidden"...(how the hell do you move, bury or hide "THOUSANDS OF TONS" of anything, let alone highly toxic chemicals...that were all set up and ready to be fired within "45 minutes"...practically overnight...and not know about it when our satellites were watching every inch of Iraq in the weeks and months prior to the invasion?! Aug. 2009 insert: Oh wait, since Republican talking points never contradict - and these weapons were really moved - it means that Bush was too stupid to use our satellites to trace these dangerous WMDs and wound up losing them. So imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton was too stupid to use our satellites and lost these dangerous WMDs!)...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming (laughing hysterically, actually) if Democrats used a corroded RPG shell at least 15 years old that once contained sarin gas as proof of Iraq's WMDs and therefore justified Clinton's pretext for the war ("thousands of tons" of WMDs!)...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if soldiers Clinton sent to Iraq who were wounded, had to pay for their meals at the hospital...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if a Chinook helicopter in Clinton's war, which was shot down leaving 16 dead and 26 wounded, wasn't equipped with (properly working) measures to protect itself against a shoulder fired missile...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if some troops Clinton sent into Iraq didn't have the proper Kevlar protective vests...and the soldiers family's had to buy the vests themselves and ship them over...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if the humvees Clinton sent to Iraq weren't protected with the proper armor, and soldiers were killed and wounded as a result...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton allowed Iranian diplomats to negotiate a cease fire...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if the military had tracked down al-Quaeda linked terrorist al-Zarqawi - who is not only responsible for these ruthless beheadings, but many of the terrorist attacks in Iraq - a few times in 2002 and had drawn up plans to go after him, but Clinton was unable to give them the green light to pull the trigger because he was preoccupied with Iraq...(oh wait, we know EXACTLY what the GOP would be screaming because they had a cow when they learned that Clinton passed up a an opportunity to grab bin Laden even though that's a GOP lie
Originally Posted: Dec. 2003
Final Revision/Posting: Dec. 2004
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton failed to even TRY and prevent the 9/11 attacks because he turned his back on the al-Quaeda warnings given to him by the previous admistration, ignored the threats that were coming in from our intelligence agencies and was obsessed with Iraq and missile defense...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton's General in charge of the war against al-Quaeda repeatedly said that bin Laden wasn't the "focus" of our military operations in Afghanistan...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton pulled troops and resources out of Afghanistan to go on a wild goose chase in Iraq, allowing the war lords to regain control of the country, the Taliban to reform, the opium (heroin) crop to flourish and al-Quaeda to commit over 20 attacks in the 3 years since 9/11, after committing just 4 during the 9 years before...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton admited that airplane hijackings were still a possibility more than two years after 9/11...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton opposed Congressional and independent inquiries into the intelligence failures leading up to 9/11...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton wouldn't hand over documents to these 9/11 investigations....
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton wouldn't testify before the 9/11 committee unless he appeared alongside Al Gore, with neither under oath and no formal transcript of their testimony to be taken...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton didn't show any anger, didn't fire anyone, and did everything possible to avoid investigations into both the 9/11 and Iraqi WMD intelligence failures...(intelligence HE relies on to keep our country safe!)...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton called for an invasion of Iraq based on a document that turned out to be a forgery (Africa's "yellow cake") and on the word of Ahmad Chalabi, who was already known to be a notorious liar, thief and con man...that turned out to be a double agent spying for Iran who we were paying $300,000 a month to...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton called for a war in Iraq because of an imminent threat that Saddam Hussein and his WMDs posed, but he was either lying, exaggerating or couldn't have been more wrong...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton said that Iraq tried to get uranium from Africa in his SOTU speech so he can strengthen his case for war, but he was either lying or wrong...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton said that most of the costs for the war and rebuilding the country would be paid by Iraq's oil revenues, but he was either lying, again, or couldn't have been more wrong...again...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Madeline Albright said that Iraq had "between 100 and 500 tons of chemical weapons agent" and an "active nuclear program," but she was either lying or couldn't have been more wrong...Hey Repubs, WORDS MEAN THINGS! Rush Limbaugh said that every day when Clinton was President and I assumed that would apply to Republican Presidents and their administration as well. Silly me.
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton used the lives and limbs of our brave soldiers like political poker chips by having the Democrats purposely schedule the Congressional "debate" and ensuing vote on the Iraq war resolution just prior to the midterm elections...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if the Clinton White House deliberately leaked the cover of a secret CIA agent because they had a political ax to grind...and then imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton had Janet Reno "investigate" the matter to see who leaked it...who then waited months to step down before naming a special "in house" prosecutor to take over the investigation...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if this was Clinton's war in Iraq with all these casualties and chaos...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Al Gore said that our troops in Iraq would be greeted with hugs and roses - Hey Repubs, WORDS MEAN THINGS! - but instead had to dodge mortars, shoulder fired missiles, RPG's, IED's and car bombs...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton totally bungled the wars aftermath because he (incredulously!) didn't even plan for it...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton never had an exit strategy in Iraq...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton landed on an aircraft carrier, declared "major combat operations ended" in a fancy photo-op - hey Repubs, WORDS (and actions) MEAN THINGS! - and months later when casualties started to mount, tried to spin it by saying he "didn't mean the war was over"...(oh wait, we know EXACTLY what the GOP would be screaming. They'd go ballistic just like they did after the disaster in Mogadishu because Clinton had that photo-op on the White House lawn a few months before declaring that the mission was over.)...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton declared "Bring it on" in regards to the insurgents fighting back, and then called our casualties proof we're making "progress..."
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton didn't do bubkis when Iraq started to fall apart during the summer of 2003 because he was on the golf course...(had Bush done anything about the growing insurgency at the time, it would have moved our mounting casualties to the front pages, resulting in a drop in his poll numbers. So is it possible that he deliberately ignored the situation to make sure he remained popular enough to run for reelection?)...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Bill Cohen said, "We know where (the WMDs) are" when the war started - Hey Repubs, WORDS MEAN THINGS! - but 18 months later, they have yet to turn up...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton split hairs about his justification for the war and the WMDs that don't exist by saying he "never used the term 'imminent threat'"...(then why did we invade? To give our troops an extended vacation in the Iraqi desert?)...
(oh wait, we know EXACTLY what the GOP would be screaming because the GOP had a field day every time Clinton parsed his words to wiggle out of something he said!)
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if, before the war, Clinton said, "We know that the (Iraqi) regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas (and) VX nerve gas" - hey Repubs, WORDS MEAN THINGS! - but when none of it turns up, tries to spin his way out of it by saying "they could have been moved, buried or hidden"...(how the hell do you move, bury or hide "THOUSANDS OF TONS" of anything, let alone highly toxic chemicals...that were all set up and ready to be fired within "45 minutes"...practically overnight...and not know about it when our satellites were watching every inch of Iraq in the weeks and months prior to the invasion?! Aug. 2009 insert: Oh wait, since Republican talking points never contradict - and these weapons were really moved - it means that Bush was too stupid to use our satellites to trace these dangerous WMDs and wound up losing them. So imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton was too stupid to use our satellites and lost these dangerous WMDs!)...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming (laughing hysterically, actually) if Democrats used a corroded RPG shell at least 15 years old that once contained sarin gas as proof of Iraq's WMDs and therefore justified Clinton's pretext for the war ("thousands of tons" of WMDs!)...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if soldiers Clinton sent to Iraq who were wounded, had to pay for their meals at the hospital...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if a Chinook helicopter in Clinton's war, which was shot down leaving 16 dead and 26 wounded, wasn't equipped with (properly working) measures to protect itself against a shoulder fired missile...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if some troops Clinton sent into Iraq didn't have the proper Kevlar protective vests...and the soldiers family's had to buy the vests themselves and ship them over...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if the humvees Clinton sent to Iraq weren't protected with the proper armor, and soldiers were killed and wounded as a result...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton allowed Iranian diplomats to negotiate a cease fire...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if the military had tracked down al-Quaeda linked terrorist al-Zarqawi - who is not only responsible for these ruthless beheadings, but many of the terrorist attacks in Iraq - a few times in 2002 and had drawn up plans to go after him, but Clinton was unable to give them the green light to pull the trigger because he was preoccupied with Iraq...(oh wait, we know EXACTLY what the GOP would be screaming because they had a cow when they learned that Clinton passed up a an opportunity to grab bin Laden even though that's a GOP lie. In fact, it was Bush who turned the offer down!)...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if a "lib" aired the audio of an American getting beheaded on his radio show to make a political point (a point that couldn't have been more wrong because we went into AFGHANISTAN - not Iraq! - to go after "terrorists like this!")...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton allowed a former Saddam Hussein Baathist General to be put in charge of Falluja...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if our troops in Clinton's war were not allowed to take out a Mosque that was not only firing on them but had a stockpile of weapons...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Secretary of Defense Bill Cohen allowed Iraqi prisoners to be abused and mistreated at the Abu Ghraib prison...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton said that Bill Cohen was doing a "good job"...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Al Gore went up to Capitol Hill and told the Democrats to "get off" Cohen's "back" in regards to the cover-up at the prison...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Democrats spun/minimized the soldiers killed in Iraq by saying it's less then those killed in WWII, less than those killed on 9/11, or less than the number of murders Detroit has in a year...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton's incompetence and lack of planning caused such a disaster in Iraq, that our only hope for the short term is to avoid a civil war...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton promised a secular democracy in Iraq, but Madeline Albright said we might have to settle for an Islamic Theocracy instead...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Al Gore's company sold $73 million worth of oil field equipment and services to Saddam Hussein while he was CEO from 1997-2000...then lied about it during his Vice Presidential campaign...and then as VP, blasted countries that had done business with Iraq...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Gore's former company was handed Iraqi rebuilding contracts...and then ripped off the American tax payer with overcharges...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton had the nerve to use footage of a fireman's flag draped remains being carried out of the WTC wreckage in his campaign ads...but barred the media from showing flag draped coffins of our soldiers being brought back from Iraq...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton - and a Democrat controlled Congress - that already ran up a $300+ billion deficit, requested $87 billion to fund this mess in Iraq and then asked for $25 billion more...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton said we needed "regime change" in Iraq to make us safer, but even after Saddam Hussein's capture, security at the airports is higher then it's ever been, flights had to be canceled because of credible threats and there's more terrorist attacks around the world...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton, who couldn't have been more wrong about everything, was too arrogant to admit a single mistake...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if the Democrats impeached a Republican President for lying under oath in a civil deposition, but chanted "4 more years, 4 more years!" in support of a Democrat President that lied, exaggerated and mislead the country into a totally unnecessary war that turned into a colossal disaster...
What BLATANT HYPOCRISY from the GOP and their mindless and gullible base! Because if this was all Clinton's doing - ah, misdoing - you KNOW the Republicans would be having a conniption fit and would not only be screaming - SCREAMING! - for impeachment, but they'd also be looking to prosecute Clinton criminally so they can put him in jail...for life!
I guess when a Republican President misleads the country into a senseless and very costly war, with no end in sight, the GOP and their moronic base sees nothing wrong with it.
What phonies! I'd sooner trust a $3 bill then these hypocrites!
I'd love to see how base Republicans spin this blatant hypocrisy. What are you gonna do, call me a "liberal?" Or will you try and refute everything I've said and stick up for your brainless, arrogant, incompetent President? Well, "bring it on" because you'll be proving my point, exactly.
If this really was Clinton's misdoing, can you imagine Tom DeLay, Trent Lott and the rest of the Congressional Republicans, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the conservative lapdogs on TV and radio, and the Republican base - many of whom post on these boards - saying: "Clinton's passive approach to al-Quaeda is fine with me...Clinton didn't lie or mislead the country into a war in Iraq at all...he's shown great leadership, honesty and character and has done such a wonderful job making the world safer, that he deserves four more years..."
What a nauseating bunch of phonies.
August 2007 insert:
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if there were over 3500 American soldiers killed, over 25,000 soldiers wounded and roughly 250,000 Iraqi casualties during the first 4 1/4 years of an unnecessary war that Bill Clinton lied the country into...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if there was no end in sight to this colossal disaster...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton's "course change" was sending more troops to Iraq...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton demanded that a Republican controlled Congress allow this "surge" with no time frames, no benchmarks and no strings attached...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton kept spinning the "progress" the "surge" was making...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if the troops Clinton was sending to Iraq were on their second, third or even their fourth tour of duty...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if two, three, four years after Clinton's war began, American soldiers still didn't have the proper body armor and armored protection on their vehicles...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton had been saying all along that "Iraqi's are being trained" and "will stand up so we can stand down," but after four years we're still waiting for them...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton cut a deal with insurgent Sunni's that had been attacking our troops...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton gave them weapons so they can go after "al-Qaeda-Iraq" and later used it as proof that the "surge is working"...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if this "deal" emboldened the Sunni's and they eventually turned the weapons Clinton gave them on our troops...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if 200,000 American guns in Clinton's war went missing and were possibly being used to attack American soldiers...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if billions of dollars were spent on Iraq's infrastucture in Clinton's war but there was nothing to show for it except overcharges, scandal, corruption and ceilings that leak sewage...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if billions of dollars went missing in Clinton's war and probably wound up in the hands of the insurgents...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton didn't do anything about all that except ignore it, spin it and blame it on others (like everything else)...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton accused Republicans of wanting to "cut and run" from Iraq...(oh wait, we already know because it was alright for Ronald Reagan to "cut and run" from Beirut in 1984)...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if the wounded coming back from Clinton's wars had to endure horrible, disgusting conditions at Walter Reed Hospital....
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton treated the colossal disaster that Iraq is with nothing but spin, a shrug and a surge...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton allowed Afghanistan to become the disaster it is six years after 9/11...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton said in the years following 9/11 we had "al-Qaeda on the run" but almost 6 years after the attack, they're as "strong" as they were before the attack...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton wrecked the military...(oh wait, we already know:
"We have seen a steady erosion of American power and an unsteady exercise of American influence. Our military is low on parts, pay and morale [bold mine for its chutzpah]. If called on by the commander-in-chief today, two entire divisions of the Army would have to report, 'Not ready for duty, sir.'"Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton was wiretapping Americans without a warrant...(oh wait, we have a good idea: since criminals could switch phones very easily, Clinton wanted to make warrants "attach" to the person instead of the phone. But the Republicans wouldn't allow it because it would be an infringement on fourth amendment rights and -- get this -- "government power run amok" or words to that effect)...
- George Bush, in his acceptance speech at the 2000 Republican Convention)...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton demand that a Republican controlled Congress give him more power to wiretap communications...(why do I get the impression that Republicans wouldn't have rolled over like the sappy, afraid-of-their-own-shadow Democrats did?).
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton fired eight US Attorney's in his sixth year in office and replaced them with Democratic political hacks just to investigate Republicans and dig up dirt on prospective GOP presidential candidates...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if the Clinton administration stonewalled and obstructed the Republicans' Congressional investigation into the firings...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Janet Reno testified on the firings but lied, contradicted herself or couldn't remember anything....
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton said in regards to the "outing" of a secret CIA agent, "if there’s a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is...if the person has violated law, that person will be taken care of" -- but didn't mean it (hey, I thought "words mean things")...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton promised a full internal probe into the leak but there never was one...
Imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Al Gore's Chief of Staff had been convicted of perjury - "lying under oath in a legal proceeding" (hmm, where have we heard that before?) - in connection to the case...and then imagine what the GOP would be screaming if Clinton immediately commuted his prison sentence...(oh wait, we have a good idea on that one too:
"I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors." - President George H.W. Bush, 1999).I've said it many times: if hypocrisy was dirt, the Republican Party would be the biggest mountain in the world.
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