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

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (741275)	5/22/2006 1:57:08 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Clinton did not have the same warnings and intelligence. In particular, Clinton didn't have the intelligence from inside Saddam's government which indicated no WMDs. Congress also did not have that intelligence.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (741275)	5/22/2006 5:17:55 PM
From: cirrus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

In none of my posts did I ever blame Bush for 9/11. If I did so please point out where. I agreed with his actions against the Taliban in Afghanistan. I I am disappointed, however, in his actions after that. As a conservative businessman and former govenor, I expected he would cast a critical eye on the agencies involved and clean out the deadwoods, especially in the FBI, who ignored the indications of an attack - and there WERE clear indications. Hindsight is 100%, of course, but when the field agents are clamoring for action, holding a middle eastern type guy identified by the French as a likely terrorist - who wants to fly jets but not land or take off... the field agents got it. Why didn't the bureaucrats? Instead of cleaning house, Bush, as I pointed out in an earlier post, awarded commendations to many of those whose inaction should have resulted in a prompt early retirement. The pattern didn't change with Iraq. Bush launched an invasion partially because his CIA Director called the WMD issue a "slam dunk". That the "slam dunk" turned out dead wrong didn't matter - Bush awarded the CIA director America's highest civilian honor - the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I never blamed Bush for 9/11, but I find his subsequent actions ineffective in addressing future security.