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EV_Ares Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 10:46 PM
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Gingrich quips Bush should have allowed some 'reminder' attacks
During an appearance at a Long Island bookstore last month, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich was asked by a member of the audience why the United States has not been hit again since 9/11.

"I honestly don't know," Gingrich replied. "I would have expected another attack. I was very, very worried ... when we had the sniper attacks, because the sniper attacks were psychologically so frightening. ... I was amazed that the bad guys didn't figure out how to send ten or twelve sniper teams."

"This is ... one of the great tragedies of the Bush administration," Gingrich continued. "The more successful they've been at intercepting and stopping bad guys, the less proof there is that we're in danger. And therefore, the better they've done at making sure there isn't an attack, the easier it is to say, 'Well, there never was going to be an attack anyway.' And it's almost like they should every once in a while have allowed an attack to get through just to remind us."

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Purveyor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 10:59 PM
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1. I'm glad his statement has been memorialized. This alone shall render him unelectable in any future
national elections...

All is 'good'!
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notesdev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 11:59 PM
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3. He was unelectable anyway
and this statement is on par with Hillary's assassination comment, a betrayal that when it came down to it, he'd sacrifice the interests of the country and the lives of his countrymen for the advancement of his own personal agenda.

Damning self-incrimination, if you ask me.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-29-08 11:02 PM
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2. Newt exposes a flaweed mind...that many of us knew he possesses
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dysfunctional press Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-30-08 12:39 AM
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4. iraq is one big long reminder of the attack on our constitution...
will that work for you, newty?
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