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P-SWAT means PoliSat.Com's
War Against Terrorism
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Updates start below in reverse chronological order-- i.e., most-recent first.
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May 16--21, 2002 P-SWAT Update #01. (www.PoliSat.Com's War Against Terrorism) ™© 2002.
Did pre-Nine-Eleven intelligence show it? Or, what did Bush know & when did he know it?.
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  To stop Nine-Eleven, could Bush have done more if he had just added the 2's to get 4?
5-16-02.
  To Hill'ry & Daschle & Gephardt:   A challenge to put-up or shut-up.
5-17-02.
  On-Daschle & Gephardt & Hill'ry & Willie-- continue pronouncements that make you look silly.
5-18-02.
  Still waiting for "put-ups" or "shut-ups" from Hill'ry & Daschle & Gephardt. 
5-19-02.
  No self-esteem "E" just for effort... for Hill'ry or Daschle or "Gepper". 
05-20-02.
  The questions 3/4ths of the Gang of Four's posing:  
            "Just what did Bush know and just when did he know it?". 
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May 16, 2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020516-01.™©.2002.
To stop Nine-Eleven, could Bush have done more...
... if he had just added the two's to get four?.
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    "To stop Nine-Eleven, we could have done more
    if only we'd added the two's to get four"*--            *[
This is a paraphrase of current criticism.]
    Such critics' apostasy
    is blatant hypocrisy
    by those who opposed such addition before.

    'T'was long-ago Congress enacted some laws
    designed to save freedom from government's paws:
    Domestic intelligence
    and foreign intelligence
    were kept on the opposite sides of a wall.

    And what was the reason for for making that wall?
    To minimize risks that our freedom might fall
    if both were to be
    our own "KGB"
    becoming "Big Brother" as knower of all.
    
    So what can we do to resolve this dilemma
    in making intelligence better and trimmer
    for finding the bad-guys
    and leaving the good-guys
    while not making lights of our liberties dimmer.
    
    I wish I could claim that I know the right answer.
    For terror, the cure, is for freedom a cancer.
    Demanding perfection
    in terror protection
    would weaken our rights as vaccine for the cancer.
    
    And so, like the Brits, in the Battle of Britain,
    who all faced the risks they'd be pers'nally smitten,
    we all must accept
    the risks can't be kept
    at zero or else it's our freedom that's smitten.

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Inspired by the patent hypocrisy and transparent apostasy of claims that the Bush administration could have, and would have, prevented 911 if only it had added two and two to get four in light of the fact that many who make such claims are the same ones who insisted years ago that we maintain a wall of separation between domestic and foreign intelligence to protect us from the evolution of a KGB type authority that could, and would, threaten our liberties.  --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.....
Direct link for this 05-16-02, Political-Satire Daily Update:   http://polisat.com/du2002/du020531.htm#20020516-01.™©.2002..
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May 17, 2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020517-01.™©.2002.
To Hill'ry and Daschle and Gephardt:  A challenge to "put-up" or shut-up!..

    I have an assignment for critics who roar
    the claim, "Dubya could've or should've done more
    to stop Nine-One-One"--
    Your time has now come 
    to specify how you'd-a handled that chore:  

    Pretend years-ago Congress hadn't installed
    domestic and foreign intelligence walls,
    and Nine-One-One clues
    could all have been viewed
    by one special team without breaking the law.

    You next must pretend last July you reviewed
    the total collection of terrorist clues
    which now you're contending
    were keys for preventing
    attacks on New York and the Pentagon too.
    
    Assume your review of the clues made it plain
    that Arab fanatics would hijack a plane
    and kill or subdue
    the airliner's crew
    to knock-down a building by flying the plane.

    Assume in addition the clues made it plain 
    they wouldn't attempt to take guns on the plane
    but prob'ly would use
    a knife or a ruse
    for seizing the cockpit to pilot the plane.

    Assume that the clues made it clear in addition
    that early September's the time for the mission
    with targets to be
    New York or DeeCee,
    and now tell me how you would thwart such a mission.

    I'll give you 'til Sunday to tender submissions
    of things you'd have done to have thwarted their missions,
    but if you return
    on Sunday you'll learn
    the reasons you wouldn't have thwarted their missions.

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Inspired by the shallow, naive, sanctimonious and self-serving criticisms of those-- among the worst of whom have been Daschle, Gephardt and Hillary-- attempting to imply that 911 probably wouldn't have occurred absent negligence, inattentiveness, or insufficient intellect on the part of Bush-- especially in light of their having long occupied in so sanctimonious a way that part of the political spectrum most ardent in the desire to maintain separation of foreign intelligence and domestic intelligence activities.  Although I certainly want to avoid concentration of sufficient intelligence authority to increase the risks of a KGB type service evolving, I'm willing to accept the fact that one of the prices a free society must pay to minimize that risk is an inherent diminution of its ability to prevent terrorism.  That's why Rumsfeld is right-- in the age of mass-destruction weapons coupled with the existence of people with sufficient expertise and fanaticism to use them as weapons of terror, the only effective "defense" is comprehensive and unrelenting offense.   --Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.....
Direct link for this 05-17-02, Political-Satire Daily Update:   http://polisat.com/du2002/du020531.htm#20020517-01.™©.2002..
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May 18, 2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020518-01.™©.2002.
On-Daschle; On-Gephardt; On-Hill'ry; On-Willie...
Continue pronouncements that make you look silly.
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    On Daschle, on Gephardt, on Hill'ry, on Willie
    Continue pronouncements that make you look silly
    expressing your views
    that Bush ignored clues--
    I'm waiting to learn what you'd do that he didn't.

    I hope you don't wait for a polling alignment
    to send me your plans per the latest assignment*
    to you-all from me
    on May Seventeen.
    For your brilliant minds, it's a simple assignment.

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*.See my assignment to Hill'ry, Daschle, and Gephardt in my May 17, 2002, Daily Update at .http://polisat.com/du2002/du020531.htm#20020517-01.--Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.....
Direct link for this 05-18-02, Political-Satire Daily Update:   http://polisat.com/du2002/du020531.htm#20020518-01.™©.2002..
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May 19, 2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020519-01.™©.2002.
Still waiting for "put-ups" or "shut-ups" from Daschle & Hill'ry & Gephardt..

    To emulate "libr'al" professors,
    I must be a lenient assessor
    allowing more time
    for deadlines assigned* 
    to Daschle and Hill'ry and "Gepper.".

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*.See my assignment to Hill'ry, Daschle, and Gephardt** in my May 17, 2002, Daily Update at .http://polisat.com/du2002/du020531.htm#20020517-01**By the way, shouldn't the "ph" be pronounced like the "ph" in "phantom"?--Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.....
Direct link for this 05-19-02, Political-Satire Daily Update:   http://polisat.com/du2002/du020531.htm#20020519-01.™©.2002..
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May 20, 2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020520-01.™©.2002.
No self-esteem "E" just for effort ... for Daschle or Hill'ry or "Gepper"..

    When Daschle and Gephardt and Hillary roared
    the claim, "Dubya could've or should've done more
    to stop Nine-One-One,"
    I said, "Don't be mum--
    Please tell us how you would've handled that chore."

    Now Daschle and Hill'ry and Gephardt
    have quit after taking a head-start
    contending Bush should've
    and they, of course, would've
    brought Nine-One-One plans to a dead-stop.

    Since Daschle and Hill'ry and "Gepper"
    have not sent by word or by letter
    a single submission*,
    I can't even give 'em
    a self-esteem "E" just for effort.

    Tomorrow, I'm planning to mention
    the grades they deserve for contentions
    that timely review
    of all of the clues
    would prob'ly have led to prevention
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*.See my assignment to Hill'ry, Daschle, and Gephardt in my May 17, 2002, Daily Update at .http://polisat.com/du2002/du020531.htm#20020517-01.--Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.....
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May 21, 2002 PoliSat.Com's Political-Satire/Commentary Daily Update #20020521-01.™©.2002.
The questions 3/4ths of the Gang of Four's posing:
"Just what did Bush know and just when did he know it?".
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    When Daschle and Hill'ry and Gephardt were posing:  
    "Just what did  Bush know ... and when did he know it?"
    Their "trumpets" were clear
    not knowing we'd hear
    their horns as political flatulence blowing.

    The posings by Daschle and Hill'ry and Gephardt
    with sinister questions in hopes for a head-start
    as Two-Thousand-Four's
    replacement for Gore
    resembled the south of some northward-bound centaurs.

    By quickly denying intent to imply
    that Bush knew the danger from planes in the sky,
    they hoped to evade
    they mess they had made,
    but we still demanded they tell us their "why's."

    We gave them assignments*:  Assume that you knew
    the scope of the clues you imply that he knew,
    then stand in the limelight
    and tell us your hindsight
    on how terror would've been thwarted by you:  .

    Assume laws for homeland and foreign intelligence
    allowed F-B-
I / C-I-A the convenience
    of agents and snoops
    exchanging the fruits
    of files like that note from the agent in Phoenix.

    And also assume that the agents and filers
    shared data procured on that man, Zacarias
    and theorized too,
    but yet couldn't prove,
    his plan was to serve as a hijacking flier.

    Assume you deduced that he wasn't alone
    with plans to control where a plane would be flown
    and brilliantly knew
    the weapons they'd use--
    not pistols or rifles but blades finely honed.

    Assume you had foresight to rightly deduce
    as missiles is how hijacked planes would be used
    in early September
    in plans they would enter
    New York and DeeCee as the targets they'd use.

    To stop 'em you'd have-to have kept on the ground
    all planes for New York and for Washington bound--
    despite accusations
    you'd panic the nation--
    'til all of the hijacking plotters were found.

    But even Draconian measures like that
    would not guarantee that their plans would fall flat
    'cause soon they'd decide
    to take diff'rent rides
    and pick other cities for terror attacks.

    To guard against that you'd instruct all the crews
    to stay in the cockpits, ignore what they do
    and make the plane land
    as soon as you can
    and then call the morgue for the people they slew.

    Before Nine-One-One, they would not have obeyed
    a theory all hijackers' plans are the same.
    Instead they'd have tried
    to save people's lives
    believing they'd not lose control of the plane.

    Before Nine-One-One altered everyone's role
    not even the heroes like Beamer would "roll"
    to crash their own plane--
    They'd think it insane
    to risk death of all of the folks on the plane.

    You thus should've known if you only would ground
    the planes for New York and for Washington bound,
    you merely would change
    the targets of planes
    and elsewhere make "zero" the name of the ground.

    We're sure you would know that adopting a plan
    to close all the airports throughout all the land
    would lay the foundation
    for making the nation
    a hostage to all of the terrorists' plans.

    So what could be used as a secular missal
    for thwarting the plans to use airlines as missiles?
    We're sure you'd reject
    an plan to eject
    all men from the lands in the East we call Middle.

    I thus say to Daschle and Hill'ry and Gephardt: 
    To alter your visage as back-sides of centaurs,
    you ought to admit
    your words were unfit
    and also find smarter political mentors.
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*.See my assignment to Hill'ry, Daschle, and Gephardt in my May 17, 2002, Daily Update at .http://polisat.com/du2002/du020531.htm#20020517-01.--Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.....
Direct link for this 05-21-02, Political-Satire Daily Update:   http://polisat.com/du2002/du020531.htm#20020521-01.™©.2002..

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