re: #145 Obdicut

I can’t exactly parse what you’re saying, but to re-restate: I don’t even think Bush’s lack of focus on terrorism was a ‘mistake’. In hindsight, it was. Some of the resources the FBI was put towards, for example, were definitely not the best use of their time— but attaching that to Bush is silly.

Whatever I believe about President Bush, I firmly believe that had he felt that the threat from terrorists was as great as it turned out to be, he would have done everything he could to prevent it.

So I agree with you on the hindsight thing, and I have no way of knowing if the lack of focus on terrorism can in any way honestly be called a mistake.

Ack… I type too fast to try to keep up and step over myself. My apologies.

Put it this way. President Bush nor his administration had nothing to do with attacking this country on 9/11. Period. End of Story. I say that as a lifelong Democrat liberal. What the FBI/CIA knew exactly, I don’t know. 9/11 was the turning point for our intelligence. Maybe it shouldn’t have been, given that we had been tracking Al Queda and their attacks on our interests for 20 years, but we never believed it would happen here.

You can’t say shouda, woulda, coulda before 9/11 about any president. Least, I don’t think it’s fair.