Osama bin Laden Not Found in National Security Adviser's Speech
By Alex Kingsbury, Washington Whispers
National Security Adviser James Jones did something this week that would have been unthinkable during the Bush administration. He gave a major policy address on national security without mentioning either Osama bin Laden or 9/11. The name al Qaeda came up only once during his speech to the Atlantic Council. In it, Jones offered a comprehensive rebuttal to former Vice President Dick Cheney's recent media blitz alleging that the current administration is making the country less safe. In a speech earlier this month to the conservative American Enterprise Institute, Cheney evoked 9/11 more than 25 times.
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Tags: 9/11 | Osama bin Laden | Dick Cheney | al Qaeda | Jim Jones
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National Security....
Yes, I would imagine that Bin Laden was not mentioned. I am willing to be global climate change was though!
Liberals act as if 9/11 was a movie and "The Day After Tommorrow" was real life!
Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney: strong-willed and unrestrained, self-righteous, opinionated but not hampered by reality, sincere but ethically-challenged, powerful by default. Troublesome characteristics in a VP, but cataclysmic when the President is ineffective. I'm sorry to say I voted for Bush/Cheney twice. My apologies. Bush won't go down as the worst president of all time, but he'll make the top 15. Believe it or not, there were much worse (e.g., James Buchanan who facilitated the Civil War by looking the other way as the South spread slavery). Bush/Cheney (emphasis on Cheney) make the top 5 worst of the last 100 years, in my opinion. Eisenhower, notwithstanding his weak civil rights record, would be a good model for Republicans to check out if they want to survive as a party. The single-handed destruction of a political party may be what Bush/Cheney is most remembered for.
Rip Van Cheney?
Is he befuddled after being exhumed from his undisclosed bunker location under the White House after 8 years of hiding?
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