How times have changed

[n2doc]

A decade ago, a terrorist group wanted to blow up 11 US bound airplanes over the pacific, with liquid explosives.

http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=13149584&src=rss/worldNews
Dr Peter Neumann, director of the Center for Defense Studies at London's King's College, said the plot bore many similarities to one in 1995 by Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, convicted of planning to blow up the World Trade Center.

"He actually planned to blow up 11 planes over the Pacific with a liquid explosive," Neumann told Reuters. "This is almost exactly the same type of plan we see emerging in this particular instance."

more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oplan_Bojinka

Now...did Clinton tell us that we had to be afraid, that we had to suddenly take fruit juice from babies and threaten to stop all carry-on luggage? Did he tell us that we needed to be subject to warrentless spying to keep us safe? Did he tell us that the opposition Republican-led congress was"on the side of the terrorists"? Later that year was the Oklahoma City bombing,so there was a major terrorist attack on US soil that very spring. Did we hear that the constitution needed to be set aside so that Clinton could save us from the mighty Terrorist threat?

Of course not. Clinton did what responsible leaders do: He attacked the problems using the tools available to him, and did not try to destroy the rule of law in the country to "save us". We did not live in fear, then.

Just a reminder, the top stories of 1995 from CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/year_in_review/us/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/timeline/
December 14-With the stroke of a pen, peace comes to Bosnia
November-December - Two partial government shutdowns in as many months
November 4- Israeli prime minister assassinated
October 16- Million Man March
October 3 - "Trial of the Century" ends with Simpson's acquittal
September 4 - Rape threatens survival of U.S. bases in Japan
July 29 - Susan Smith gets life in prison for drowning sons
April 19 - Bomb blast kills 169 in Oklahoma City

[Monkeyman]

1. Four weeks paid but must split it up

[Retired AF Dem]

2. Monkey you haven't been drinking have you

wrong thread. :)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. I wonder how that compares to the top ten of 2005?

I found 2003

This year began with all eyes on Iraq as U.S. and coalition forces prepared for war and ended with the capture of Saddam Hussein. In between, public interest widened from troop movement to other high profile stories that spotlighted social issues like child abduction, legal action surrounding sex charges, civil rights for gays, safety in space exploration, the spread of global diseases and the upcoming 2004 U.S. presidential election.

1. War in Iraq
2. Loss of space shuttle Columbia
3. California gubernatorial recall
4. Terror war
5. Massive August 14 blackout
6. Spread and consequences of SARS
7. Gay civil rights issues
8. Celebrities and sex charges
9. Recovery of Elizabeth Smart
10. Deaths of Qusay and Uday Hussein