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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Scumbria who wrote (255475)5/16/2002 9:56:13 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
I don't know that if a "Democrat <had> been in the White House on Sept. 11, ...the Republicans would have started impeachment proceedings." - perhaps our politics have not yet sunk to such crassness, such hypocrisy.

But - hypothetically now - there may be a difference in what could have been done in similar circumstances with a different experience level at the very top....

Imagine two different scenarios:

One in which a President has long experience of daily Presidential intelligence briefings, of dealing with the US intelligence infrastructure, in other words a President in the 3rd., 4th., 5th., 6th., etc. year of his service, who has completed the 'on-the-job training' initial portion of his term....

And the other possible situation, in which a newly-elected ex-governor (governors not being generally known for foreign policy or intelligence expertise) is at the helm and looking at the same sketchy data.

Isn't it reasonable to expect that our Presidents learn on the job? We as a people are certainly always commenting about how much they appear to age on the job....

This need not be a Democrat / Republican thing. Perhaps any new President would have deferred to those around him with more experience in these areas. Perhaps it's more the experience, not the ideology.
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