🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 20:02:11 GMT, slim
<pickin's@nyc.rr.com> wrote:

>
>
>Bolwerk wrote:
>> 
>> Jeffrey E. Salzberg wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >>Mike is just upset that Bush wasn't down there from day one,
>> >>personally throwing sandbags on the levee.  Anything less than that
>> >>isn't enough.
>> >
>> >
>> > I'd've settled for military assistance arriving sooner than 4 days after
>> > the hurricane.
>> 
>> If it comes down to only mere incompetence, I really can't say I'd be
>> offended or surprised. The Bush administration has a long history of
>> incompetence.
>
>And being on vacation.
>
>April 09, 2004
>
>Bush sets vacation records for U.S. President
>
>This week, as the U.S. military suffers some of its heaviest casualties
>of 
>the war and Iraq threatens to plunge into chaos, President Bush is 
>vacationing at his ranch in Crawford, Texas.
>
>While some Democrats criticized the president for leaving Washington
>during 
>the recent days of crisis, White House communications director Dan
>Bartlett, 
>according to the Washington Post, "retorted that Bush is 'not skiing' in 
>Texas, as Kerry did on a recent vacation in Idaho."
>
>By most accounts, Kerry isn't currently the commander in chief, or in
>charge 
>of running the country. Bush, Bartlett added in the Post, "remains in 
>contact with his military advisers and is spending Easter weekend with
>his 
>family. 'Most Americans will understand that,'" he said.
>
>The Post also took note of just how much time Bush has spent down on the 
>ranch over the past three-plus years:
>
>"This is Bush's 33rd visit to his ranch since becoming president. He has 
>spent all or part of 233 days on his Texas ranch since taking office, 
>according to a tally by CBS News. Adding his 78 visits to Camp David and
>his 
>five visits to Kennebunkport, Maine, Bush has spent all or part of 500
>days 
>in office at one of his three retreats, or more than 40 percent of his 
>presidency."
>
>That 40 percent of his presidency, of course, included the day of August
>6, 
>2001, when Bush received a top-level intelligence briefing in Crawford 
>titled, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."

  ...And which outlined the expected means of attack as
being either some sort of placed bomb, OR terrorist
skyjacking planes and crashing them into landmarks or
other significant buildings.  Bush did nothing!  He
didn't ask anyone to look into how exposed the nation
was to the threat of terrorist skyjackings,  an action
that would probably have stopped the skyjackings cold,
but, if not,  then it would have most likely stopped
them from getting all four planes to their targets.

Obwon
0[ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ]0
  Liars share with those they deceive 
  the desire not to be deceived.
                        --Sissela Bok
0[ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ]0