First off, this isn't really an appropriate topic for flyertalk. Secondly, I made the mistake of reading too far down and have to respond to the above.

Within one month of taking office, George W. Bush canceled all existing executive orders dating from the Clinton administration authorizing the relevant branches of our government to hunt down Bin Laden. It seems that he was trying to work an oil pipeline deal with the Taliban for UNOCAL. Whether his father's business partnership with the Bin Laden family had anything to do with it is up to your speculation. Did you know that our installed Afghani leader Kharzai has zero credibility or respect among the Afghans and that he spent both the Soviet invasion years and the Taliban years as a London-based lobbyist for--you guessed it--UNOCAL and without the "Pretorian Guard" of Green Berets that we provide for him would have the life expectancy of a firefly.

Also, what exactly was Clinton supposed to do? Seeing as he was hounded by the Republican Senate and Congress if he so much as sneezed. Everytime he did try and put US troops in somewhere, they went all ballistic, screaming that it would be another Somalia (a situation inherited from Bush the Elder), that he was just trying to divert attention from his impeachment and so on.

And finally W. is a dummy! Look, anyone that speaks in public is going to mangle grammar and syntax. But, referring to Spanish as the "Mexican language," referring to Greeks as "the Grecians," that's just the actions of an imbecile.

[This message has been edited by csb (edited 01-27-2003).]