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

To: Cogito who wrote (268467)	6/30/2002 1:39:46 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

Allen, shallow thinking again, First you have not provided links to the source of that data you use. Who cares. What does it matter. The stupidest that ever was was convicted. I'd say that's the same as 500 lower level folks in importance. You want to debate what you define a conviction. Who cares. Did the stupidest that ever was engage in reckless personal conduct that wrecked his time in office? Was he to dumb not to get caught? I say YES Were there enormous consequences to getting caught? I say YES. Were the degree of consequences understood? I say maybe. Should the degree of consequences been understood ?? I say 100% YES. Why were lies told under oath? Avoiding the degree of consequences ? I say YES. Did an enormous amount of his time get drawn off attempting to save his stupid butt. I say YES. His time, FBI time, Congress time, every americans Time. OBVIOUS consequence in the 911 context. Time is finite. Time on save his ass is not time available to spend on real threats to and problems of America. TEST ENGINEERING REALITY, an analogy. Testing software is so complex the testing goes on until time and or money run out. Bugs still get by. Maybe with more time an money fewer bugs get by. The productivety or wisdom applied in the process is manifest more or less by the bugs that surface if any.The productivity or wisdom applied in the process is manifest more or less by the bugs that surface if any at future times. Preventing terrorism is like testing software. The problem is so complex that prevention goes on paced by time and money that is applied. More time and money and maybe fewer acts of terrorism occur. The productivity or wisdom, leadership applied in the process is manifest more or less by the acts that surface if any at future times. The resources diverted because of the dishonest personal conduct of the stupidest that ever was were enormous. Using the common sense rules of common sense process, To proffer that resources if not diverted may have detected and prevented the 911 event cannot be argued with any logic. Argue 0% The issue is the probability that detection was likely or probable or not. then one can assign probabilities. I would not suggest 100% and only a fools would proffer 0%. Leadership is the wisdom to focus limited resources productively. The stupidest that ever was was a waste as a leader. And in the case of this jerk, all the problems he created were 100% by his own hand. Tom's Law. The stupid always get caught. The measure of stupidity is the reward divided by the costs of being caught. Tom watson tosiwmee