I think that there are many of us who share that feeling and with Bush's support beginning to soften in the polls and PR problems beginning to grow, he would be wise to rethink his stance on secrecy and censorship. Attempting to classify everything, even past presidental papers, doesn't seem to quite fit into the pattern of the best democratic traditions. One has to wonder what the Founding Fathers would think. So besides just the honesty in calling for such a study, doing so would also likely help to bolster his image a bit. Surely he can't have forgotten his father's precipitous fall from grace.
I am not in agreement with your assessments. Please correct me if I am wrong here (as if you wouldn't anyway).
O'Neill was denied entry into Yemen just days after the Cole bombing, not during Bush's watch. Are you ready to say that Clinton impeded the investigation? Could you not also assume that perhaps UBL began planning the attack as a result of Clinton's post-African embassies bombing counter-attack into Afghanistan?
It is a good read, but just how factual is it? It could be dismissed as another conspiracy theory. Obviously, we'll never get the entire truth.
Regarding your comment: Since it was the Republican Voters who helped to put Bush into office, and voters KNEW about ...
You are giving the average American voter way too much credit. That only half of our country even bothers to vote is a disgrace, much less even understand the issues!
posted on May 20, 2002 11:32:52 AM new
One of the sets of analysis results in 1941 concluded that the United States, by it's responses to Japan in prewar negotiations, deliberately boxed the Japanese into a position from which attacking was the only thing left for them. The theory goes that Roosevelt knew that the Japanese would act, but did not know with any certainty how. When theyy did attack Roosevelt was insulated from blame, and attention was focused on military intelligence and both the army and navy commanders in Hawaii.
There was a generalized release in August 2001 of the fact that a plan for an attack on Afganistan, or specifically the Taliban, had been formulated and was ready for implementation.
