At 08:52 AM 8/11/2004 +0530 Ritu wrote: >> Apologies from Democrats for playing politics with the Terror >> Warnings were not forthcoming. > >Could kindly explain this comment please? >Try as I might, I fail to see how the topic of a Democrat apology came >up when the issue under discussion was a serious security breach by the >Republican administration.
First, let me reiterate that there are simply no excuses for this security breach (if indeed the facts we have our true - which of course is the only possible means of discussion, but it should be kept vaguely in the back of our heads that anything having to do with intelligence could be misinformation.) Still, there were a *lot* of Democrats who were loudly suggesting that the most recent terror alert was essentially made up by the Bush Administration for political purposes. This is a particularly craven sort of political argument during a time of war. Due to this security breach, however, we now know that the terror alert was real, and based on breaking information. Thus, given that the incredibly insulting allegations of these Democrats have now proven to be demonstrably false in short order, in polite society an apology would be in order. JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
