18 USA Intel Agencies are fine. But what has Putin and FUX News Channel concluded?
All 18 USA Intel Agencies just came to the same conclusion on this that Fauci held all along:
[b]USA Intel agencies split on Covid origins, offer no high-confidence conclusions.[/b]
[URL]https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/27/covid-origin-report-us-intelligence-agencies-are-divided.html?__source=androidappshare[/URL]
[QUOTE]"All agencies assess that two hypotheses are plausible: natural exposure to an infected animal and a laboratory-associated incident, the nations 18 intelligence agencies wrote in the unclassified report.
The report, compiled by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, found that the virus was not developed as a biological weapon.[/QUOTE]Of course, Traitor Trump, his 74,000,000 cult followers and his slavishly devoted fellow Repub Traitors in Congress will defer to whatever the Russian intel agencies or rather, Putin personally, has to say about it over all 18 of the USA Intel Agencies.
One guy in charge and one guy to blame
[QUOTE=Golfinho;2597983]These so-called Wars on Terror were begun with the near unanimous support of all political sides, in case you've forgotten or are oblivious. Credit to Biden for simply trying to follow through with Trump's determined initiative to end this forever war. Unfortunately, telling your enemy what date you're going to be gone is not exactly the best strategy. Especially when you neglect to tell your own people, leaving them stranded when you disappear in the middle of the night. Better to have the media say nothing, and just do a quiet prisoner exchange later on. And if any American brides choose to stay with their new Taliban husbands, well that's their decision, isn't it?[/QUOTE]There is only one president Biden who is in charge. There were no attacks during Trump presidency and there were no attacks from Jan 20 to August. Only a fool would close the military base and send back almost all the groups before he got the citizens out. And a fool he is. He had 8 months to get the people out and waited until last month. He was still allowing Americans to go into Afghanistan in July and August when he should have already had everyone out but the military. Only a fool would blame a past administration and obviously you are. Even the democrats are saying this is a Biden disaster and will hurt all of them.
The Authorization for Use of Military Force, Yes. The Bush Doctrine, No
[QUOTE=Golfinho;2597983]These so-called Wars on Terror were begun with the near unanimous support of all political sides, in case you've forgotten or are oblivious.
...[/QUOTE]I think you are conflating the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force in response to the 9/11 attack, which, rightly, did get near unanimous support of all political sides, with The Bush Doctrine, which did not become established until 2002 after we had boots on the ground and was not voted on by anyone.
Bush was going to invade Afghanistan without a Congressional vote on the matter. I doubt it even occurred to him that one might be useful. Which, BTW, he had every right and power to do in the face of credible intel of actionable planning or the imminent threat of a domestic attack. In such a case, the Commander-in-Chief does not have to wait until Congress is called in to convene, debate and vote on the matter. He can just mobilize the military or bombers and go. And in the wake of 9/11 there was definitely the possibility of such credible intel coming in at any hour of the day or night.
In fact, Biden was one of the Senators who convinced Bush to hold off for a Congressional vote on whether or not to use military force. That isn't because Biden, Kerry, Clinton or anyone else who voted Yes on that Authorization thought Bush couldn't or wouldn't go through with it without their vote. All the Dems and Repubs who voted Yes knew he would. Biden wanted the vote because, without it, he knew Bush had zero chance of showing enough "unity" among the American people and their representatives for the purpose and the mission to convince other nations to form a meaningful coalition with us to accomplish it, should we need them.
See, without a Congressional vote on the matter, other countries know one numbskull Commander-in-Chief's brainstorm to do this or that could at any time be defunded by Congress, who never committed to it in any way, the minute those other nations put THEIR boots on the ground, constituents' lives and reputations at stake. The Congressional vote was the only assurance to other countries that we were all in on it. That is what most of those members of Congress were voting for. Not "for the war", but for an acknowledgement to the world that we were unified in supporting our Commander-in-Chief to take action against a clear and present threat.
Therefore, even though fate had dictated that this was another one of those unfortunate times when a minority of the American electorate on the strength of the rigged Electoral College system in cahoots with 5 winger Repub-appointed Supreme Court Justices had gotten tired of the Peace and Prosperity the Clinton Administration had produced by the end of the 1990's and were hungry to have all hell break loose in one colossal fuck up after another by placing the Repub George W. Bush in the White House, he was the only Commander-in-Chief we had at the time. Maybe he wouldn't totally fuck it up like Repubs generally do with everything they touch. It was a gamble we essentially had no choice but to take right after 9/11 even though he had practically given al-Qaeda an engraved invitation to commit that attack.
Voting Yes on that Authorization was the right thing to do because NOT showing the world we were "unified" on the mission was ensuring it would fail. And it DID lead to the accomplishment of the mission to bring those responsible for 9/11 to justice and death. Yes, imo, Obama would have been wrong to vote No on that Authorization had he been a USA Senator at the time.
Now, The Bush Doctrine was something else entirely. That was the way numbskull Bush decided to prosecute the war starting in 2002. And it was not up for a vote. It was the idea of him, his administration and generals that, as long as they had boots on the ground and classic Mission Creep was taking over, a major element of their new mission ought to be to turn places like Afghanistan into "free and open societies." In other words, Nation Building.
