> > > . > > > Bob, get a grip. You know I like you, so I'm not > saying this lightly. To go - very briefly - over the > arsenic thing, the Bush Administration decided to > _review_ a decision by the Clinton Administration to > _decrease_ acceptable levels of arsenic below current > levels, a decision that had very questionable public > health benefits and imposed extremely high costs on > some parts of the country. Just because you don't > live in Arizona it is not, in fact, unimportant. How, > exactly, is that "putting more arsenic into our water > supply"?
I was being flip to make a point. Bush's first priority was his tax cut. As I remember some of the post attack testimony Bush actually cut funds for some antiterrosist activities. My point is not that Clinton could not have done more but that much of this Monday moring quarterbacking. I remember vaguely a discussion about Clinton's attempt to get at Bin Laddin and the frustrations that the adminstration went through. My sense was that they did try maybe not hard enough but I don't remember the republicans pushing Clinton on this. They were more concerned with their devisive witch hunt. s Terry McAuliffe is not paying me and for what it is worth, I think it horrible that the democrats leave him in his position.. Even then it's absurd, but that's what I'd > expect from the DNC, not from someone having a serious > discussion. Frantically defending every last folly > and idiocy of the Clinton Administration while > attacking the Bush Administration on, well, fictional, > grounds doesn't exactly make for a discourse. > > As for the Bush focus on anti-terrorism - one of the > profound ironies of the situation (among many) is that > Bush had ordered the development of a plan to engage > Al Qaeda far more aggressively. It was scheduled to > be delivered to the White House - on September 12, > 2001. > When did he order it and why did it take 9 months to deliver it? If he was so concerned why didn't he step up domestic security right away (it doesn't seem to me that one needs to wait 9 months to put in place some defensive measures.) >I am curious as to what the "other stuff" that you found irrelevant. I took most >offense to John's pitiful defense of George I. He could not know what was to come. >Duh; he is the president it is precisely his job to understand at least the short >term implications of his actions. George blew it big time. Clinton inherited a bad >situation and did not manage it well. He was more concerned with domestic and >economic policy at first and his own domestic folley at the last. I am no fan of his. >He had the intelligence and political skill to become a great president but he was >more interested in fellacio in the oval office. By the way we have an intern from your firm at New York Hospital helping the administration make our lives in radiology miserable. Things like a nice guy. First name Jason; I will find out his last name. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
