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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: nolimitz who wrote (487736)11/5/2003 8:25:44 PM
From: mph  Read Replies (2) of 769667
 
consider this analogy.

The situation leading to the California wildfires
(i.e., dead trees from beetle infestation,etc.)
presented the potential for disaster.

The threat was not "imminent" until the first arson or accidental fire was lit.
By then it was too late to take proactive measures, such as clearing out the dead brush.

Based on the text of Bush's speech, he was referring to
clearing the forest before the fire started not after
the careless match was tossed or, in more specific terms,
after the hijackers were already
enroute for another run at the Pentagon.

The threat is imminent when the planes are commandeered
or the missiles are ready to be deployed.

I'm frankly surprised that this has become an issue.
My understanding was that the war on terror would take years and that we as a
country were taking a proactive
stance to eradicate the sources of terror before each
threat could become, not only imminent, but actually
in play.

The true irony, it seems to me, is that the same
people who are now parsing the speeches to find proof
of a misrepresentation of an imminent threat are largely
the same ones who blamed the President/Administration
for failing to prevent 9/11.

I have to wonder exactly how anyone could have prevented
9/11, if they did not take proactive measures in advance
of the problem becoming an imminent threat.
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