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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: JohnM who wrote (51904)6/28/2004 5:13:39 PM
From: aladin  Read Replies (1) of 793902
 
JohnM,

I guess you view the Presidency as a kind of Saturday Night Live parody of the Jimmy Carter term? You know the one where Jimmy micromanages every action in every department?

I wonder how long FDR knew about the attacks before he personally directed all the actions of WW2. You can bet it was more than 7 minutes.

In general though its interesting to see the left in this country removed from reality enough to be reduced to the Godwin's Law paradox - anyone who doesn't believe as I do is Hitler (or in the case of Bush - worse than Hitler).

Apart from some really far-out rw sites - no mainstream Republicans do the same, yet Kerry and the DNC Leadership seem to be Godwinized...

And your support of this drivel is what? Reduced to finding a 7 minute gap in Norad defenses? Is our National Defense setup so that only the President can order a response?

Of course not, only the President can order a nuclear strike, but all our defense systems assume local tactical control (at Norad, Southern Command, Nato etc). This bit of warfare, was simply off the reservation and our system of responses failed. As it was can you imagine how hard it was to give the order to shoot down commercial airliners? And that was done, simply too late (given that the passengers on Flight 93 decided to take their destiny into their own hands).

John
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