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Originally Posted by wolf

I have several times asked the question why we (the US) have not become subject to a suicide-boming-a-day like in Israel, or faced multiple other terrorist incidents out of the Al-Quaeda playbook?

Like it or not, my personal belief is that the answer is Bush.

Now we come to the mental midget president who is accused repeated from non-partisan and Republican authors of not even reading his own memos. How can a president make America safe if he does not even know the basic facts. The 9/11 Commission Report makes it bluntly obvious. He was told on 6 Aug that an attack was immenent involving buildings and planes. When the planes began striking the WTC and when the president is told, "America is under attack", then what does he do. He sits there for seven minutes without even asking if anyone is in control.

We know know the military desperately needed Administration orders to defend America - and yet George Jr just sat there for seven minutes. Those pilots never got permission to defend America - from a president that Wolf trusts? Wolf. Do you read before you make conclusions? He just sat there. He did not even ask one question.

And as so many who have worked with him now suspect - George Jr does not make decisions. He does not have sufficient knowledge to make decisions. He sat there for seven minutes waiting for someone to tell him what to do.

He could not even testify before the 9/11 Commission without help. Cheney had to be there to answer the real questions. This is a leader we can trust?

So now we ask what George Jr did to maintain the protection provided by Clinton.

again from Richard Clarke
In general, the Bush appointees distrusted anything invented by the Clinton Administration and anything of a multilateral nature - so the internaltional terrorist financing effort had two strikes against it. The new Bush focus in early 2001 was on confronting China, withdrawing from various multilateral obligations, and spending much more money on an antimissile defense system - not in looking into al Qaeda's financial network. Will Wechsler quit Treasury within monhts of the change of administration.

Wechsler is credited with discovering how Muslim Brotherhood organizations finance their operations - the hawala system. He also demonstrated that bin Laden was not financing his own al Qaeda network; that is was a major international financing system. All these investigations came to an immediate halt with George Jr - the man who makes America safe from terrorists.

When al Qaeda had just recently earned respect as more than a financing network, instead George Bush and Dick Cheney discussed the antiballistic missile treaty and Iraq as if they were the terrorist threats. IOW they could not be bothered to learn how the world had changed in 10 years. Their ideology does not permit them to learn new concepts until forced to by earthquake events.

Now Condi Rice was in charge. She appeared to have a closer relationship with the second President Bush ... As I briefed Rice on al Qaeda, her facial expresssion gave me the impression htat she had never heard the term before, ....

Rice looks skeptical. She focused on the factd that my office staff was large by NSC standards (12 people) and did operational things, including domestic security issues. She said, "The NSC looks just as it did when I worked here a few years ago, except your operation. It's all new. It does domestic things and is not just doing policy, it seems to be worrying about operational issues. I'm no sure we will want to kepp all of this in the NSC."

Rice viewed the NSC as a "foreign policy" coordination mechanism and not some place where issues as terrorism in the US, or domestic preparedness for weapons of mass destruction, or computer network security should be addressed. I realized that Rice, and her deputy Steve Hadley, were still operating with the old Cold War paradim from when they had worked on the NSC. ... It stuck me that neither of them had worked on the new post Cold War security issues.

I tried to explain: "This office is new, you're right. It'spost Cold War security, not focused on nation-state threats. The boundaries between domestic and foreign have blurred. Threate to the US now are not Soviet ballistic missiles carrying bobms, they're terrorist carrying bombs. Besides, the law that established theNSC in 1947 said it should concern itself with domestic security threats too."

Rice decided that the position of National Coordinator for Counterterrorism would also be downgraded. No longer would the Coordinator be a member of the Principals Committee. No longer would the CSG report to the Principals, but instead to a committee of Deputy Secretaries. No longer would the National Coordinator be supported by two NSC Senior Directors or have the budget review mechanism with the Associate Director of OMB. ...

Within a week of the Inauguration I wrote to Rice and Hadley asking "urgently" for a Principals, or Cabinet-level, meeting to review the imminent al Qaeda threat. Rice todl me that the Principals Committee, whcih had been ther first venue for terrorism policy discussion in the Clinton administration, woudl not address the issue until it had been 'framed' by the Deputies. ... Instead, it meant months of delay.

Again lets go back to George Jr sitting their for seven minutes in a FL school room waiting for someone to tell him what action to take. One of those persons who does that is Condi Rice. Same person who decided terrorism was not a major problem. Even after two simultaneous embassy bombings, Khobar Towers, etc, this administration is too driven by ideology and policy to see the operational facts? Yes. These are the people who tell George Jr what to think.

Don't believe me? Even his cabinet meetings are preceeded by memos telling each cabinet secretary what he will say, when he will say it, and how much time he is permitted to say it. Who issued these memos? Karl Rove and the president's political staff.

We know this president had a memo written by two CIA agents so concerned about the immenent attack on the US that they boldly and intentionally entitled it "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US." Unlike Clinton, George Jr did nothing - just as the thinking of Rice demonstrates. Had George Jr done what Clinton did, then FBI agents on the trail of 11 September attackers - in AZ, IL, MN, and now we have learn about two lady agents in NY - would have been empowered to follow up their investigations and uncover the 11 September attack. Instead George Jr built an antimissile defense system to protect us from terrrorists launching missiles.

This is the intelligence and attitude that Wolf says makes America safer? She must not read beyond the Daily News to come to that conclusion.

How are your sources of information. If you are using propaganda, then you actually think Iraq is getting better. Dexter Filkin in an interview with Charlie Rose last night. Charlie said his feelings were that things are getting a little worse every day every where. Dexter confirmed this citing his recent interview with a Sunni cleric who hates American. Even Sadre City is still open to Americans, but Dexter said he expects that to change in the next few months. Elections will not be possible at all in the Sunni Triangle. Electricity is still less than when Sadam was in power. It was suggested that the Saddam trial may be pushed up from January for reasons that include the 7,000 mile screwdriver. Decisions made for political reasons in the White House rather than operational reasons in Iraq.

IOW even both Iraq and Afghanistan are slowly falling apart. What George Jr calls terrorist - and what are really nationalists - now control most every town north and west of Baghdad including the desert all the way to Jordan. Yes, the US Army could take control. But then we have VietNam all over again - we must burn the village to save it.

How can anyone think America is safer under George Jr - except if brainwashed by lies - half truths - from Rush Limbaugh. This mental midget president cannot even complete the two wars he has started. He cannot even read the PDBs that warn of terrorist attacks. He cannot even ask questions when both questions and answers were desperately needed - as the US was attacked while fighter pilots remained without orders to defend America. To say that America is safer under George Jr is to say the poster is easily brainwashed by ideologues.

It is impossible to be intelligent and say George Jr makes America safer. Because George Jr's actions, it is not safe or advisable to announce you are American even among some of America's closest allies. Best to let them believe you are Canadian because George Jr has so perverted American safety all over the world. Stop listening to lies from Rush Limbaugh. This president is not just bankrupting America (because as Cheney said in the meeting, "Reagan proved that deficiets don't matter). He is also making America a target of Muslim Brotherhood (al Qaeda being only one example).

Yes plenty of details. And I provide more. Those who like the mental midget as president either found much of this to be new information or will not read it because they too are ideologues - facts and operational knowledge be damned.

How safe will you be when this mental midget president attackes Iran on or after 2006?