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Who wouldn't be pissed off after all this:

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXNCLbsBIfM&eurl=>

It is a 10-minute-long MSNBC investigative report examining Condoleeza 
Rice's claim that the incoming Bush administration did not receive any 
plan or details from Clinton regarding Al Quaeda and Osama bin Laden. 
Its sources are: declassified intelligence reports, the 9/11 Commission 
Report, and reports from people who were there at the time.

Warning: don't bother watching this if you are determined to ignore the 
unprincipled depths Condi must plumb to serve President Bush. For her 
to lie to us the way she did just days ago is nothing less than... 
well, whorish.

The Bush administration got urgent top secret reports about Al Quaeda 
and OBL on January 25th, 2001-- five days after taking the Oath of 
Office. 

Bush's response? He downgraded counter-terrorism from a Cabinet-level 
policy concern,handing it over to deputy secretaries. 

This means that briefs on counter-terrorism and strategies to defeat 
such organisms as Al Quaeda never reached the Executive Office, delayed 
by months and sometimes permanently, in favor of such issues as 
"missile defense shields", tax reduction and other such expensive 
purely political strategies. 

(You gotta hand it to Bush, though: he sure likes to spend money that 
isn't his.)

Bush continued on in this vein, even when in February, 2001, he found 
out definitively that the Cole had been attacked by Al Quaeda. By then 
though, when he wasn't on vacation, he was deep into his plan for 
convincing the nation to invade Iraq. Counter-terrorism grew ever more 
obscure as a national policy concern, right up to 9/11.

I don't know why this stuff still surprises me. I've hated Bush and his 
cohorts for a long time for what they've done to the nation. You would 
think I would be too jaded to be surprised anymore.

Yet somehow, I still can't believe any President could be this 
shamefully bad and continue in office.