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i watched most of the rice interview by the 9/11 commission, i read the redacted PDB, and i watched bush being interviewed this morning, sunday.

all the talking faces and pundits and the liberal radio and what there is of a liberal press are wrong.
i am completely convinced nothing could have been done to prevent the 9/11 tragedy. they can't blame bush or clinton or the horse they rode in on. when bush said this morning, there was nothing in that PDB that would point to anything that could have been done or "i would have moved mountains to do it", i believe him.

as far as i am concerned this issue no longer exists.

there were entirely too many people with a bit of this and a bit of that, and there was no coordination to put it all together. not bush's fault.

so that no one mistakes my epiphany, everything negative i ever said about little w, i still believe, with this one exception. i believe he was appointed to office by his father's supreme court justices, he was not and is not able to lead a band, no less an orchestra, and when he found out about the first plane hitting the WTC, he relied on the people he surrounded himself with, his father's "cronies." he expected them to do something because he was lost, over his head, totally incapable of action.

i trust my right wing foes will accept at least the first part of my post and not stoop to nasty remarks,
but i am naive.

I wouldn't say it is a complete waste of $$$$. For those who lost a loved one questions needed to be answered. I believe there is NO blame on Bush or even Clinton for 9/11. I think it is sad that a country that was brought together after this horrific tragedy has become quite self-serving and divided again. I'm not referring to the political arena, but the racism, crime and whining about every little thing has got to stop.
Yes, I'm a leader in the Bush re-election drive, but I'm not so blinded to see it is happening even on my side of the fence.

Fritz

Kinda hard to lose what you NEVER had!

RICKAMAVEN, my father-in-law always said, "smart people change their minds but fools never do." You're smart enough to change your mind. The election is still several months away, there's still time enough to persuade you to vote for Dubya.

DrMaddVibe

"kinda hard to lose what you NEVER had."

wow, what a great response. you even used caps, capital letters, to emphasize.

lukin

good question.

i am sure that the democrats, i am a liberal, not a democrat, will claim voter fraud again, there are problems with the electronic voting devices made by die-bold, on of bush's big contributors.

some tests have been done and reported on by hackers, one of whom got in and changed the voting on a fictious election, got out without leaving a trace and did it in 5 minutes.

hackers have gotten into so many government secret sites and changed the web pages, it isn't even being reported anymore. what one programmer can do, another can undo.

personally i am convinced gore deserved to lose, because he didn't fight enough at the end. he never should have conceded. that makes me almost glad he didn't get elected. i prefer someone that dies with his boots on if he is going to lead me.

i will still call him little w, and i will remain convinced that a C averge isn't good enough to be president. if a passing grade is all he says he expects students and teachers should have with his "no child left behind" program, then he qualifies himself as passing enough to be the leader of the most powerful nation on the planet.

it isn't so much that he is hated by most world leaders. they think of him and say out loud he is dumber than a can of nails. he has never traveled out of the country except to mexico and one other place i can't remember. he doesn't read. he can't speak english very "good." he is really nothing more than a rich kid's son. not unlike tony soprano's brat AJ.

i don't know if that answers your question. it's the best i can do at this time of the day. way to early to by awake.

JonR

you amaze me sometimes. you have a very good sense of humor.

the guidance counselor made both toby and i laugh. i'm glad you are not my foe and i hope you use the humor that you are very good at, to critique me.

now what can we do to help DMV out of his rut of sarcasm?

Rick, I am impressed.

add iraq to that list of countries visited as well

428cj

sorry, i meant before being appointed. he displayed and continues to display no curiosity about anything.

after you graduate high school, if you have no interest in anything but your next meal, your next female conquest, your next three day weekend, you remain frozen in time. you do not grow. you remain an 18 year old. the same thing with college, except college is suppossed to open your mind to worlds you hadn't thought about and if you respond to that, you want to learn more and more about everything.

same with the web. if you spend all your time in chat rooms, trying to get laid, you are wasting any potential you might have to expand your mind.

it may seem like i am on this site a lot and i am, primarily, because i enjoy the shooting the breeze and have met some guys i never would have had the opportunity to come in contact with.

i spend more time searching the world for whatever strikes my fancy at the moment. i want to know more and more about anything and everything.

Completely agree with the first part. Unfortunately, at that time communication proved to be lacking.

'he relied on the people he surrounded himself with'

Sorry Rick but this is what all good leaders do regardless of the arena. If you were CEO of anything, are you going to surround yourself with proven knowledgable folks or any idiot off the street?

Glad to see a non-bashing post from you. We are opposites, I am conservative but not a Republican.