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

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (10408)	3/28/2004 1:47:47 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Respond to of 81568

I don't think that the fault of 9-11 can be pinned on anyone person. As you say systematic problems have existed for decades. I do blame Bush for his part of it. By ignoring warnings from Tenet and Clarke he put the country at further risk to attack. I blame Bush for not becoming actively involved. For not directing Tenet to do everything possible. For not shaking the trees. For not coordinating efforts between the FBI and the CIA. For doing nothing but go on vacation. That was wrong. Contrast that to the effect of the millenium plot which was stopped. It was stopped because of shaking the trees by the upper levels of government. And that shaking reached all the way down to a heads up customs agent. The problems with terror are many fold. The primary problem is in having a lax visa system, open borders and a weak Homeland security system. I agree with Clarke that all efforts should have been to curtail bin Laden and Al Qaeda. The same kind of effort in Afghanistan as we have had in Iraq. If WMD were the concern, then certainly they should have known that the main supplier of WMD and Nukes to the under world was Pakistan and the FSU. Yet we use this excuse to go into Iraq. That does not make sense as we had weapons inspectors in Iraq, and they were doing their job. I truly believe that the war in Iraq was not a well advised strategy. I do think that we should have shown military strength there while allowing the inspectors to do their work, and building consensus on what to do next in Iraq. We could have accomplished much much more in Iraq and in the war on terror by working with the UN and Nato. By working with moderate Arab govenments. Pressuring Saddam to open up the government and to end human rights abuses. A revolution from within would have been much more effective than the invasion by American troops. We could have supported that activity while pursuing the real problem...Al Qaeda. Bush's strategy has been to dust off the old plan to invade Iraq, and then to justify it because it somehow was tangentially related to the war on terror. I disagree with this administrations approach to foreign policy, and the sooner we replace Bush the better off the country will be. Orca