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I'm 39, a money lovin' capitalist, have had my own IT Consulting practice since the early '90's, count a Republican Congrssman from NY as a friend
( even was a Reganite with my first vote), former military, and though I didn't finish at Wharton, my undergraduate is Ivy Leauge. As I often implore
folks to do, I have reached out with both hands and gotten a grip!
You seem to laude Bush with accomplishments ( fictional ), while distancing him from culpability ( fictional).
Yet, as I implored Monkey to do, use the search engine here:
- Gore did head an anti-terror commision that mirrored the Hart/Rudman findings that was implored to be adopted by the in coming administration....who
scrapped it and said Cheney would head a task force on the subject....that didn't get started until AFTER 9/11. Now even a person who's drunk the
Kool-Aid like yourself would concede that someone who would be President would implement the very reccomendations they made prior?
- The House of Saud family members WERE the only ones flying on 9/12 except the US military
- Saudi intelligence gathering ceased immediately under Bush's directive as soon as he took office, also an easily searched fact, along with the
Osama drone.
- Also found via search is Ashcroft's request for dept. budget increases for all areas except ANTI-TERROR
Again, " Hey Kool-Aid!" - how do you rationalize a reemphasis away from anti-terror measures via budgetary allocations not having a direct line
impact to terror interdiction !?!?
The reason I am so sure of how this "passion play" would have played out is the same reason I knew Bush would "lead" us to the sorry state we're
in: continuation of established themes of choice & perspective. Anyone who took the time to see how very much worse Bush left the state of Texas than
when he found it would never have voted for him...well maybe you, Thomas & Monkey-Boy!
Since we are patting ourselves on the back, I am older, claim a Godfather as an Ohio congressman (Democratic), a Godmother the same and a sprinkling
of city councilmen (former) also as friends......Alumni from The Ohio State Univ., am not a money grubbing capitalist; former military, my first vote
was Democratic and I have never been to Jonestown. Thank You.
Crystal balls are a wonderful thing- I am certain that GWB (who I have never lauded for achievement- only defended from spurious inuendo at times) and
the Admin. wanted their
own plan - they were preempted by the horror of 9/11. This is no reason to gloat "I told you so's!" , similar
seeming ineptitude transpired at Pearl Harbour I recall.
The point I made concerned post 9/11. I really, and there were polls that concured, believe Algore would not have been the force we needed to act
decisively in Afgahnistan. I just do not think he has it. Neither did the American people according to Gallup.
As for GWB cutting the budget for Homeland Security, I'm not sure where that is so: From uspolicy.be-
www.uspolicy.be...
From the OMB-
In a February 5 statement before the Senate Budget Committee, Daniels told lawmakers that despite the demands of war and recovery from
recession, the federal budget for fiscal year 2003 will be "near balance," and that the deficit the OMB predicts "will be the nation's smallest in
times of recession since the early 1950s."
President Bush's budget proposals "do what must be done, while protecting our fiscal future," Daniels said.
The OMB Director said the recession in the United States contributed to the decline in estimated budget surpluses. Since the September 11 terror
attacks on America, it was clear that the government's "fiscal picture had changed in a fundamental way," he said.
The Bush administration budget for Fiscal Year (FY) 2003 -- October 1, 2002 to September 30, 2003 -- is a budget for a "two-front war," Daniels
said.
The budget proposal helps the government to "deliver on the paramount duty" to secure the safety of the American people, he continued.
According to Daniels, President Bush is asking for 12 percent growth "in base defense spending." The President is also requesting a sum of $10
billion ($10,000 million) to be used, if needed, in waging the war against terrorism overseas.
The Bush administration budget would also double the funding for homeland security, Daniels said.
"We have worked closely with the Office of Homeland Security to define and budget for these activities," he said.
...Ashcroft oversees the FBI and not much more since HSecurity bill was passed and eliminated some responsibility from him. If ashcroft asked for
increases in
all areas he oversees- this is not right?? He is wrong?
And, we can wax sentimental about BC's war on terrorism results......if we could find any. Algore confabulates so much he doesn't even know what he
is lying about most of the time- this is why he has earned the mistrust of the people. Perspective counts it seems. Perhaps if the last Admin. had not
been embroiled up to it's heavy lidded eyeballs in missteps, missdeeds and such, Osama may have had his very own drone for Christmas.
I personally appreciate ThomasCrowne and Prank for(unlike many whose contributions consist only of pointing out their opinions and assertions of
republican wrongdoing and wishing GWB was dead(?)) keeping perspective and negativity at bay when we need it the least. I almost wish one of your
candidates makes the Whitehouse so the shoe goes on the other foot for a while- ...well, maybe not.....the pain of mediocrity would be too much. I'd
rather gov. err on the better side than fail for self- agrandizement and votes.
Again, I had a vote. Now I live in the present like you. Do I like all that is happening in partisan politics-no. Do I wish we could have a panacea
where all agree and construct only for the public good? Yes. This is never going to happen and one must make choices within ones own perspectives-
I'll have some strawberry please now.
get real. its not his fault corporations cant hire honest CFOs. 