On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > > In defense of Bush not listening to his intelligence folk, at the time > it wouldn't have seemed like a priority. > > Despite the fact that the Bin Laden desk was "running around with > their hair on fire all summer", I'm sure there were about 1000 other > teams also competing for Bush's time and his staff had to make some > judgments. > > As I've said in the past, I think he made a serious judgment error by > letting Rice call the agenda and not doing it himself - some things > you don't outsource - but Bush even describes himself as a "decider" > not a strategist.
You just refuse to accept that you were proven wrong and keep rehashing this same Richard Clarke BS. He debunked his own book under oath. > Further the barriers between all of the intelligence & law enforcement > agencies had been there for years and, again, only an exceptional > leader would've went after them. Hmmm, isn't that what Bush did? He asked about the threat Bin Laden posed to the US which triggered close to a hundred investigations. Then he built the DHS and the Patriot Act and because of that Obama was able to stop another attack. > Obama isn't either. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:305084 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
