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By Nathan Nance
Guest post by Nate Nance
After I saw today's quote about the trade defecit, "That's easy to resolve," Bush said. "People can buy more United States products if they're worried about the trade deficit.", I thought about all the Bushisms we've heard over the years.
But he's said some things that made perfect sense at the time, they just turned out to not be entirely true. Like, for instance, when he said "I will never give another country veto power over our national security." Remember that little response to Kerry's 'Global Test'? Well,
Pakistan does not permit American military and intelligence forces in Afghanistan to cross the border to go after militants.
This prohibition on cross-border "hot pursuit" makes it relatively easy for Taliban and Qaeda fighters to initiate attacks on American bases in Afghanistan, and then quickly escape to the safety of Pakistan.
American soldiers have complained about being fired on from inside Pakistan by foreign militants while Pakistani border guards sat and watched.
As a result of the restrictions, American military and intelligence personnel in Afghanistan are no longer really hunting for Mr. bin Laden, an intelligence official said.
Really? I guess we misunderestimated him again.
This is a guest post by Nathan Nance. Nate is a sports/news clerk at the Waco Tribune-Herald and writer/editor of Common Sense a Texas-based Democratic Web log. He can be reached at nate_nance@yahoo.com.
Posted by Nathan Nance at December 15, 2004 08:42 PM
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He said he really was not that concerned with finding OBL - then he said he did not say it. Of course, if he really were concerned about it he might do something. But then again, OBL determined to strick within the US meant nothing to him either. So buy American. Except you can't because it is all from China. And China owes a lot of our IOU's and if the Goverment has to pay SS back the IOU's then SS will be broke, except it won't because the Gov will fix it so they don't ever have to pay us back. Don't cry for me Argentina!
