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

To: TigerPaw who wrote (438160)	8/4/2003 5:40:06 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Rudman generally agrees with Hart's assessment, but adds: "That's not to say that the administration was obstructing." "They wanted to try something else, they wanted to put more responsibility with FEMA," Rudman says. "But they didn't get a chance to do very much" before terrorists struck on Tuesday. The White House referred an inquiry to the National Security Council, which did not return a call for comment. The bipartisan 14-member panel was put together in 1998 by then-President Bill Clinton and then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., to make sweeping strategic recommendations on how the United States could ensure its security in the 21st century. In its Jan. 31 report, seven Democrats and seven Republicans unanimously approved 50 recommendations. Many of them addressed the point that, in the words of the commission's executive summary, "the combination of unconventional weapons proliferation with the persistence of international terrorism will end the relative invulnerability of the U.S. homeland to catastrophic attack." "A direct attack against American citizens on American soil is likely over the next quarter century," according to the report. [As usual, you misrepresent the linked item]........