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

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (240231)	3/20/2002 4:36:47 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 769670

Could be! <vbg>. It's questionable how much good has been done so far. Some people feel we have more to fear from our government than terrorists. (Perhaps not people who live in tall buildings...) The combined military and domestic intel services certainly didn't defend us against 9/11, or previous terrorism. That was better done by heads-up civilians, nothing to do with government or military, saying, "Let's Roll!" It's questionable what all the bombing has done, in spite of the claims of killing Al Queda. It may have done nothing substantive, only for political show. The combined might of US and allied armies failed to find bin Laden. Mr. OBL knew in advance hours before every bombing run against his cave. Where did he get that information? The only lame excuse has to be "well, it would have been worse." The problem is the passion for secrecy with withheld documents, flight recorders, FBI and intel information, previous presidential documents going back to Reagan era, etc., prevents any independent verification of threat. It may well be the mil-indust apparatus does more harm than good, not because they aren't well-trained and more powerful than the rest of the world's armies combined, but due to their misuse and overuse, by self-dealing civilian leadership, in need of domestic votes, and foreign profits.