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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (95504)	1/14/2007 6:07:14 PM
From: SiouxPal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361152

FROM THOSE WONDERFUL FOLKS WHO GAVE YOU PEARL HARBOR Norman Horowitz 01.14.2007 Jerry Della Femina wrote a book with this title quite a few years ago. As I recall, Della Femina, working for an advertising agency, was sitting in a meeting trying to come up with an advertising slogan for the then new Japanese electronic manufacturer, SONY. As the hour grew late, he suggested: "how about from those fabulous people who brought you Pearl Harbor." He of course was being funny, and his idea was certainly cute. I thought about this as I watched our Secretary of State appearing before a Senate Committee, not answering questions as to the effectiveness of President Bush's plans for sending twenty odd thousand of our sons and daughter to Iraq to institute his new plan for "whatever." She was full of confidence as to the "plans" effectiveness. Look at the last 4 years and one might ask anyone in the Bush administration "why will this plan work when all of your other plans have failed?" Or you could say that the plan is "FROM THOSE WONDERFUL FOLKS WHO GAVE YOU THE IRAQI WAR!" After all, they are that fabulous administration that brought us the certainty of WMD's in Iraq, the "mission accomplished" debacle, the connection of Iraq to 9/11, we will be greeted as liberators statements, we are winning the war over and over, Rumsfeld is doing a heck of a job and will be there until we achieve victory etcetera." Little of anything that they have said was true or has turned out to be true, and the vast majority of what they have planned has gone wrong. THESE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN A CONSTITUTIONAL BREAKING OPERATIONAL DISASTER. WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO ALLOW US TO THINK THAT THE PRESIDENT IS IN ANY BETTER POSITION TO DO THE RIGHT THING NOW IN THAT HE HAS DONE EVERYTHING WRONG IN THE PAST? WHY DON'T THE BROADCAST NETWORK NEWS ANCHORS ASK THE SAME QUESTION? Norman Horowitz huffingtonpost.com