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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (5990)	9/27/2006 8:30:11 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224744

Bush was warned in December 2000 before he even took office that Al Qaida was the #1 threat. Yet for the next nine months he did not mention it once, nor call a single meeting, nor lift a singer finger. The only defense priorities Bush mentioned until 9-12-01 were missile defense (SDI, a complete boondoggle which doesn't work) and countering Saddam, who we now know had no WMD and was in a box. Bush finally appointed someone to pay attention to Al Qaida eight months after demoting Richard Clarke, and that Admiral did not get started until 9-10-01. The next day Rice was to deliver a speech on all the threats to our nation. Neither Al Qaida nor terrorism was in the speech. Dianne Feinstein asked Cheney for an urgent meeting on Al Qaida in mid 2001. Cheney said he didn't have time and asked that the meeting be held six months later. But the most glaring of all is still Bush ignoring the 8-6-01 warning which was very clear. Not a single phonecall, meeting or action was taken as a result of that explicit warning.