Thanks for being so quiet.
Clarke (a republican who voted for Shrub, BTW) is relatively low level. Not in the chain of command, not in the presidential succession chain, not in the military chain of command.
Decisons on running the country fall to the president.If he is incapacitated, for whatever reason, Veep is next. If Shrub couldn't make any decisions in the air, with all the money we have put out for communications equipment on AF 1, Cheney should be given command. Von Rumstadt is also over Clarke. In fact, according to Cheney, Clarke wasn't even in the loop, so why was he running things? Bound to make mistakes. It's not his job. They barely even remembered to tell the Russians we were going on high alert.
Look, you said Clarke screwed up by letting OBL's fambily escape. It's not a decision he should be making. That should be way over his head. When all planes are grounded, Clarke has no authority to do something like that. He even, with Gen Myers, could have pushed the button and started a nuke war. He shouldn't have been there; the chain of command failed.
I'm glad he was, tho.
Hell, the country freaked when Al Haig said "I'm in charge." How would we have felt if Clarke said that? Huh? Who's he? Is the pres, VP,Cabinet, and Congress wiped out? Is our military wiped out?
(Of course, Shrub and Cheney would have let them go, anyway.)
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