Re: Just can't redefine lying that way

Post #109,601 by deSitter 7/14/03 1:25:57 PM Reply	Re: Just can't redefine lying that way Why did 9/11 happen? Bad intelligence. What is most needed to combat terrorism? Good intelligence. Who is responsible for seeing to it that good intelligence is what we get? The Executive Branch. So, if Bush DIDN'T lie, it's even worse for him and his pals than if he DID lie. It means intelligence is out of control. The current administration is probably the worst in American history. -drl
Post #109,672 by deSitter 7/14/03 11:30:54 PM Reply	It escalates The current Residentiation is willing to destroy the ONE thing we need more than any other to fight terrorists - the intel community, sharp and motivated. How stupid is it possible for one person to be? Is there any bottom to being a moron? Has there EVER been such a constellation of mean-spirited morons in office? Does the simpering cowardice of the Democrats have a parallel? Given how we treat our old people and our workers - do we DESERVE this? -drl
Post #109,749 by mmoffitt 7/15/03 11:47:11 AM Reply	That bugs me. Why did 9/11 happen? Bad intelligence. I don't think anybody has ever satisfactorily looked into the the claims Deputy Director O'Neil made in his resignation letter. And likely, no one will ever look into what was the basis of his complaint: that investigating terrorist activity was being hampered by oil interests. Unfortunately, we can't ask him, he died on 9/11. Everybody I know says, "Yeah, that was a failure of intelligence." And, to be sure, it was. But why? No one seems to give a damn about why that might have been. Even after the publication of O'Neil's resignation letter in which he almost foretells us of 9/11. I don't know for sure if O'Neil's claims that his anti-terror group was being told to "back off the Saudis" in the months leading up to 9/11 are true, but I damned sure think that possibility exists and that it ought to be thoroughly investigated. bcnu, Mikem The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice and always has been...We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had-- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he, by himself) believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism. - Mark Twain, "Monarchical and Republican Patriotism"

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