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To: Dr. Id who wrote (147176)	10/7/2004 3:09:59 AM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The "Seven Minutes" is a tempest in a teapot. Contingency plans for continuity of leadership have been standard practice for many governments of many countries for many centuries. The Secret Service is charged with the duty of covering and evacuating the President in times of danger. Why would they fly him back to WDC as it appeared to be under attack and the depth of attack was rather in question for those exact moments (not to mention that "airspace" was rightly very confused)? SS would have done the same with Clinton or (if) Kerry were in office. Being in Nebraska doesn't preclude information, communication and response ability. Though it may be surprising, telephones and many other 20th/21st century communication devices do indeed exist in Nebraska. They even have cable TEE-vee in Omaha. FYI, there is also a contingency plan to move the President to Cheyenne Mountain under certain conditions. That's been around for decades. If one is dumbfounded, angered and politically over-emotional by the move to Nebraska, just imagine the posh alpine resort environment of Colorado! <g>

To: Dr. Id who wrote (147176)	10/7/2004 4:05:35 AM
From: kumar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<<I do think that the Seven Minutes were important.>> OK Doc, if u were in the drivers seat for those 7 minutes, what would you have done, that made a tangible difference ?

To: Dr. Id who wrote (147176)	10/7/2004 8:20:54 AM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 281500

Bill made my point better than i was able to. RE: Bush black and white and shade of grey. What about wishy washy moral equivalency folks? Thats what i was talking about with shades of grey--something between the two. I do believe that there is good and evil in the world. I also believe nuanced approaches when dealing with other countries is often valuable. You are at the extreme because you (most probably) are a moral equivalency advocate who refuses to accept the fact that the US in spite of all the warts is a far better place to be than most others. And you probably blame the US for causing all the ills that come to us which is the tendency of the left going back to its failure to recognize the pure evil of Uncle Joe Stalin. Instead they made excuses. Now the grandsons of those folks make excuses for al quaeda, the taliban and the baath party it seems. And yes on the other side, Bush is certainly not nuanced enough. So i will make a choice on ED on one hand hoping bush will be more nuanced in Term 2 or Kerry will be less into the disease of the left. mike