Blair: Bush is 'highly intelligent'

[Ramo]

Seeing as how I haven't met the guy, it's hard to say whether or not Shrub is stupid.

There are indications, however, that he's amazingly ignorant considering his position. The whole "are there blacks in Brazil?" comment, for instance.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Ned
1) We sign Kyoto and place a $5/gallon tax on gasoline.
2) We raise, not lower, taxes. The surpluses rise and the deficit shrinks.
3) We junk Missile Defense and keep Russia at bay as the Euros wanted.
4) We respond to OBL and 9/11 with 75 cruise missiles and tough talk.
5) We lift sanctions and make nice-nice with Saddam, even as his support for al Qa'ida deepens. Saddam gives OBL some anthrax.
6) Washington is crippled with a massive anthrax attack. Thousands die and the city is rendered unihabitable.
7) Gore fires 76 cruise missles and issues more tough talk.
8) New York, Chicago and LA go next.
9) Gore escallates. He fires 78 cruise missiles this time.

And so on and so on.

This is not even revisionist history. This is what is called fiction, yes? Pretty boring as far as fiction goes.

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by Ramo
There are indications, however, that he's amazingly ignorant considering his position. The whole "are there blacks in Brazil?" comment, for instance.

[Ned]

Originally posted by Trajanus



Oh my god Ned, I thought you were smarter than to write down this utter and complete nonsense...

"4) We respond to OBL and 9/11 with 75 cruise missiles and tough talk. Eh, cruise missiles, and who are we trying to kill here?

Clinton used 75 cruise missles on OBL the last time he struck and killed a lot of Americans. OBL blew up two embassies. In response, Clinton used cruise missles. He did the same when Saddam kicked the inspectors out. He did the same when Saddam tried to assassinate Bush I.

Why would we expect his VP to be any different from cruise missile Clinton?

Many Democrats in the initial stages after 9/11 refused to accept that we were at war. They wanted to strike back at OBL. But invading Afghanistan. NEVER! Gore would have been true to his party's pacifist roots. To even for a moment think that a Democrat would act with the balls of George Bush is laughable.

[Az]

Gore is a master diplomat.

let us just describe him as a ... listener type.

[Ned]

Originally posted by Odin
If Gore was president we would of gotten the whole world on our side in Iraq, even though it would of taken an extra year; Gore wouldn't screw the UN because of Chirac, Gore would of be a master diplomat and humilliate Chirac by showing his dealings with Saddam, France would capitulate real quick. The Iraqis wouldn't be telling us to get out if the UN was with us. We would also have an independent Kurdistan, Gore wouldn't give a crap about Turkey's worthless complaints.

Bush is a cowboy hick, Gore is a master diplomat.

You guys forget what a Democrat is: a pacifist. What this means is that Gore would have done nothing at all about Saddam and would have only fired cruise missles at OBL, just like Clinton. Gore was highly critical of GWB's tough talk on Iraq. Remember?

[Rogan Josh]

Plenty of complete idiots went to Harvard and Yale (and Cambridge and Oxford....). Getting into one of these schools is no measure of intelligence but it is also no measure of stupidity (there have been a few bright ones going to these schools too).

[Traianvs]

How can you fire cruise missiles at Osama if you don't even know where he is..

[Ned]

Trajanus, Precisely. Clinton fired and missed in '98. He had reliable info just before he left office, but held his fire. He explained that he was reluctant to again shoot into Afghanistan unless the data were completely reliable, remembering his first experience.

Special opps may have been able to take out OBL. A guy on a hill targets OBL's tent, relays the info to a stealth fighter or two, who then drop a couple of big ones right on the tent using GPS.

The only problem with decapitation of al Qa'ida is that it does not dismantle the organization. Clinton, and Gore, were not thinking clearly. Or, perhaps they were, but were instead not willing to do what was necessary to effectively go after al Qa'ida.