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To: Road Walker who wrote (342792)	7/11/2007 11:09:13 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574258

The most enlightened leaders surround themselves with smart people and let them run. The very best leaders surround themselves with diverse people with dissenting opinions and facilitate discussion and debate in order to tease out the best solutions to problems. Bush does neither of these things. He surrounds himself with sycophants and if any dissent appears, he squashes it. Who does that remind you of? Saddam Hussein. At the end of Saddam's reign he kept asking all of his top advisors if they thought Bush would really attack. They all told him no, even though they knew through their security contacts that Bush was dead set on attacking. Then Saddam would ask them if they attacked, could the Iraqi forces hold them off, and he was told that no army was greater than the great Saddam Hussein's army. Of course, Saddam is dead now. That's what surrounding yourself with sycophants and squashing dissent gets you. In this country, it gets you out of a job, but the effect is the same. You don't last long if you are a crappy leader. Bush will go down as the worst President in history, maybe even ahead of Jimmy Carter.

To: Road Walker who wrote (342792)	7/11/2007 12:38:22 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574258

"Yes, a recurring theme with the Bush admin is that it's ALWAYS politics over competence rather than competence over politics. " A&M has a center for Homeland Security. A couple of people connected to it have a weekly program. This one homestation.typepad.com aired last night. The last segment, about transitions in the DoHS, they pretty much consider it common knowledge that the DoHS is totally dominated by Bush loyalists. And the career employees know that the only way to get promoted is to demonstrate their loyalty, actually doing a good job isn't really relevant. Which goes a long way towards explaining why they can burn through $40 billion a year and yet seem to do nothing at all...