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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (183367)	9/18/2001 2:25:14 PM
From: Srexley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

"So you (phyxter) say duhhhhh, could the Airforce not protect AF1. Well protect AF1 from what? If one cannot define the threat then only stupid people would suggest ignoring threats and proceeding along normal protocol." His stupidity in this regard seems unlimited. I am trying to determine whether it is EXTREME STUPIDITY or worse, actual support for the enemy. When stupidity of this magnitude is displayed, I have to wonder. Scott

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (183367)	9/20/2001 2:11:26 AM
From: phyxter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

What a morass! Trying to figure out what you're saying beyond that you can't stomach the fact that someone might dare, dare, disagree with your chest-pounding is a challenge, but I'll give it a shot ... > ... wise actions of my President ... My President, too, and my country's President. He's the only one we got, and I think he could be doing better. You obviously don't. Why do you have such a limited sense of Bush's potential as President? > to make certain that the helicopters that carry the > President back to the White House could travel a very > secure route. I notice you grant the point that AF1 could get to Andrews AFB safely, and that the difficulty is getting to the White House. Or do you still insist that the AF is inept in protecting AF1 over US soil? From what? The WH story is hijacked airliners targeting Washington. But Cheney's story was also that the AF had orders to shoot down airliners that threatened Washington. The President should have gone to Washington. Being sent to Nebraska was a misjudgment. Sending to our enemies the message that our President cannot be protected over our own soil was unfortunate, and a tacitly recognized as such by the flimsy rationalizations the WH felt obligated to put out afterwards. Cheney steered Bush wrong. Bush should have taken charge and gone where his Office requires. The President was needed in Washington, not in Nebraska.