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

To: Neocon who wrote (437967)	8/4/2003 1:47:04 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<font color=blue>From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August." -- White House Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card, Jr., responding to a question as to why the Bush Administration had waited until after Labor Day, when public attention began to turn to elections and the 9/11 anniversary, to roll out a plan to aggressively persuade the public that the U.S. needed to immediately attack Iraq (New York Times, 9/9/02). </font>

To: Neocon who wrote (437967)	8/4/2003 5:11:45 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

It was Junior, and not congress, who decided not to implement the long studied security advisories which would have prevented the 9/11 tragedy. It's almost as if they wanted a "Newt Pearl Harbor " event. <font color=brown> Bush administration officials told former Sens. Gary Hart, D-Colo., and Warren Rudman, R-N.H., that they preferred instead to put aside the recommendations issued in the January report by the U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century. Instead, the White House announced in May that it would have Vice President Dick Cheney study the potential problem of domestic terrorism -- which the bipartisan group had already spent two and a half years studying -- while assigning responsibility for dealing with the issue to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, headed by former Bush campaign manager Joe Allbaugh. The Hart-Rudman Commission had specifically recommended that the issue of terrorism was such a threat it needed far more than FEMA's attention. Before the White House decided to go in its own direction, Congress seemed to be taking the commission's suggestions seriously, according to Hart and Rudman. "Frankly, the White House shut it down," Hart says. "The president said 'Please wait, we're going to turn this over to the vice president. We believe FEMA is competent to coordinate this effort.' And so Congress moved on to other things, like tax cuts and the issue of the day." </font> dir.salon.com So Cheney was going to take security under advisement, along with the oil policy. <font color=red> How convienent!</font> TP http://abcnews.go.com/sections/nightline/DailyNews/pnac_030310.html