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Originally posted by Flame On@Oct 19 2004, 01:52 PM
That's for them to find out and deal with isn't it. If you're saying that they can be excused because they didn't know which one was procisely the real threat, why have them working on it in your book? I thought Bush had good leadership and could be trusted for that sort of thing.
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If you want to look at it in a vacuum, which Lanny's done and we've argued about before, then it looks simple. They screwed up royally.
The simple fact is that mistakes were made, but there are many zillion other things happening in the world at the same time. This may have been on a top-20 list of potential threats. This may have been on a top-10 or top-5 list. We don't know. The fact still remains that the other 19, or 9, or 4 items on those respective lists did not happen. Is that by accident?
Things could be better. In the same token, things could also be very much worse as well.