To: Razorbak who wrote (8166 ) 9/18/2001 11:51:53 PM From: cnyndwllr Respond to Razorbak, my criticism of President Bush is muted. I did, you will recall, say that I thought he had conducted himself well with a couple of exceptions. One you referred to and the other was the "dead or alive" statement. The criticism I had of the impromptu comments to the rescue workers was not that it was ineffective or harmed his image, it was that it could be seen as revealing anger and revenge. Those are honest and justified emotions. In my view, they are not emotions that should be reflected in the statements of the man who will, in all likelihood, call down some serious damage on a Muslim country that will result in the loss of innocent life there. When that happens it should be understood that we did so with regret and sadness and only because our hand was forced.
