View Single Post
Old 04-12-2004, 09:16 AM   #36 (permalink)
onetime2
Junkie
 
Location: NJ
Quote:
Originally posted by HarmlessRabbit
Nice job selectively responding. As I said, there was plenty of evidence out there. Had Bush followed the Hart-Rudman report, gotten the intelligence from the INS and FBI, and acted on it, there was enough data there to foil one or more of the hijackings.

Instead, he was clearing brush on his ranch during the longest presidential vacation in 30 year.

You asked "what could Bush have done?"
My answer: something, anything.
You are connecting dots in hindsight using facts known now that were either completely impossible or damned difficult to connect at the time.

This memo does not give any specific actionable information. It would be like me saying "I know John Kerry wants to win the Presidency of the US. We believe he will do this by trying to convince voters that he's a better alternative than Bush using ads and speeches targeting the economy, the war in Iraq, and Bush's actions during his first eight months in office." Now go ahead and stop him. I can pretty much guarantee that after the election I'll be able to offer specific examples of how to do it, but right now you don't know how things will play out so you're shooting in the dark as far as what you should do.
__________________
Strive to be more curious than ignorant.

Last edited by onetime2; 04-12-2004 at 09:18 AM..
onetime2 is offline  
 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76