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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (9933)	3/24/2004 3:02:46 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 81568

Bush refused to mobilize his administration against the threat(of terrorism), Clarke charged. And after the Sept. 11 atrocity, Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld appeared determined to connect Saddam Hussein to the attack despite CIA and FBI assessments that there was no evidence tying the Iraqi despot to Sept. 11. Clarke's disclosures are a healthy antidote to the malady of an imperial presidency. And because Clarke's account tallies with that of former Treasury secretary Paul O'Neill and some of the terrorism commission's preliminary findings, Bush owes the public an explanation that can be weighed and judged by voters on Election Day. The explanation Bush proffered yesterday -- "had my administration had any information that terrorists were going to attack New York City on Sept. 11, we would have acted" -- was more a red herring than an explanation. There is rarely such a precise warning. But if Bush had heeded the early warnings he did receive, he might have known more about the terrorists' plans and might have been able to thwart them. boston.com