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To: Ilaine who wrote (4621)	10/24/2005 4:28:55 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541108

There is a vision - and a bank account. TP

To: Ilaine who wrote (4621)	10/25/2005 11:16:00 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541108

I have a pretty good idea why Cheney and Rumsfeld were running things, and that's because they're competent men who have a vision and the ability to get things done. I hope we can separate our tropism and attraction toward powerfulmen from a discussion of real importance: The 1947 National Security Act. According to Lawrence Wilkerson that was a piece of legislation designed to curb the concentration of power and the lack of transparency into principle decisions that got people killed. I don't know the mechanics of how that works, but it sounds like a very good idea. We need ..... "a system of checks and balances and institutional fabric that can withstand anybody..... Decisions that send men and women to die, decisions that have the potential to send men and women to die, decisions that confront situations like natural disasters and cause needless death or cause people to suffer misery that they shouldn't have to suffer, domestic and international decisions, should not be made in a secret way." The number two guy at the State Department and presumably the State Department and the American public were in the dark as to how the decision to go to war was being made. If you have information that the State Department didn't have, you should share it with them.