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Candidate Debates
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St. Anselm NH debate
June 13, 2011 |
Faith & Freedom Conference
June 4, 2011 |
South Carolina debate
May 5, 2011 |
NRA Conference
May 1, 2011 |
CPAC Conference
Feb. 11, 2011 |
Candidate Books
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Mitt Romney: The Man, His Values and His Vision, by Lisa Ray Turner and Kimberly Field
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Real Change, by Speaker Newt Gingrich
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The Revolution: A Manifesto, by Ron Paul, published April 2008
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Tim Pawlenty: The Sam's Club Republican, by J. A. McClure
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The Audacity of Hope,
by Sen. Barack Obama (D, IL)
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Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics, by Joe Biden
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Withdrawn Candidates
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The America We Deserve, by Donald Trump
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Do the Right Thing, by Mike Huckabee
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Leadership, autobiography by Rudolph Giuliani
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America by Heart, by Sarah Palin
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Book Reviews |
(from Amazon.com) |
(click a book cover for a review or other books by or about the presidency from Amazon.com)
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The 9/11 Commission Report, the official United States government investigation of the events of September 11, 2001, released July 2004.
Click here for 20 full quotes from the 9/11 Commission Report
OR click on an issue category below for a subset. |
Foreign Policy
- Make a long-term commitment to supporting Pakistan. (Jul 22)
- Expand Saudi relations from oil to anti-extremism. (Jul 22)
- Multilateral coalition for Muslim youth outreach. (Jul 22)
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Government Reform
- Replace CIA director with new National Intelligence Czar.
- End secrecy about national intelligence appropriations.
- Replace "need-to-know" culture with "need-to-share".
- Congressional oversight for intelligence is dysfunctional.
- No new domestic intelligence agency-use FBI.
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Homeland Security
- No connection between Iraq and 9/11.
- Focus on potential terrorist sanctuaries like Saudi Arabia.
- US majority support among Muslims on 9-11 collapsed by 2003.
- Must defeat ideology of terrorism, not Muslim people.
- Support "Cooperative Threat Reduction" on Soviet nukes.
- Continue targeting terrorist financing; add terrorist travel.
- Screen for individual terrorists at borders, no profiling.
- Guidelines, supervision, & oversight of new security powers.
- Fund better communications between emergency responders.
- Improve human intel with racial and linguistic diversity.
- Several missed opportunities to disrupt 9/11 hijackers.
- Most important failure on 9/11 was one of imagination.
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The above quotations are from The 9/11 Commission, the official United States government investigation of the events of Sept. 11, 2001, released July 2004.
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