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

To: Dorine Essey who wrote (256967)	5/20/2002 9:10:07 AM
From: D.Austin	Respond to of 769670

Bush knew? “Dr. Win the War.” The Pearl video. And more. May 20, 2002 8:45 a.m. Press-bashing is a right-wing sickness, I know, but, folks, I’m feelin’ sick — so lemme indulge it a little. ******************* And yet, of course, Bush did not “know.” No one “knew.” We knew that al Qaeda was no friend of the United States, of course. They’d bombed our embassies; they’d attacked the Cole; and they were promising more. There were also general threats of hijacking. But information about 9/11-like atrocities in particular? Something to act on, concretely? Here we are in Pearl Harbor territory. And you remember how the Republicans looked ridiculous about that. When the “Bush knew” story broke, some reporters rushed to surviving loved ones of the victims, asking, “How do you feel, huh, huh, about the president’s having this information, and sitting on it?” Disgusting, really. And Mrs. Clinton! Sen. Clinton, I mean. Can you imagine her pointing the finger at Bush, asking the Watergate-like question, “What’d he know, and when’d he know it?” If you were married to Bill Clinton — how’s that for a sentence-beginner? — if you were married to Bill Clinton, wouldn’t you keep a dignified silence on the matter of reacting to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda before Sept. 11, 2001? Especially given that, in assaulting the Cole and killing our sailors, bin Laden committed an act of war, not merely (“merely”) an act of terror? I suppose I say about the Clintons what JFK (reputedly) said about Nixon: No class. ------------- nationalreview.com