That writing in all caps was giving me a headache.
1. Out of the Democratic Party.
2. He and his crew spent the whole time between Jan 20 and Sep 10 sitting around and twiddling their thumbs with their feet up on their desks. Clinton told Bush and Clarke told Rice, "Al Qaeda is gonna be your biggest problem" before Bush took office, meanwhile you had Tenet running around "hair on fire" and allied intel services warning of what was upcoming. No one has managed to document a single thing Bush did to even try to head things off.
3. Check out this database and put in the name of any discrete happening. They start with the earliest views and move on to what Bush & buddies then told the public.
4. Iran is a long, long way away from nuclear capability and the most effective way to prevent them from getting there is to offer them some way to work their way off of purely oil-based energy production. Their current excuse to keep their centrifuges going is that they want a alternative way to produce energy.
It's up to the world's technological superpower to lead the way for everyone else. If it's a dead-end to use oil and we want countries to not use nuclear power, then it's up to the US to provide something better.
If Iran doesn't go for that, THEN we can assume the worst, but let's at least test them to see how sincere they are. Iran's a big country with a complex political system. Let's not just assume they're another Nazi Germany. Ain't nothing "progressive" about being blind.

The primary fault in Katrina was the lack of federal action. No, the city and state did not distinguish themselves, but the Governor of Louisiana did everything she was required to do as far as informing the Federal Government went. Bush & Co were fully briefed well before the hurricane made landfall.

Rich Gardner

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