Kibbitz

So here is the thing, people aren't treating Condi with kid gloves and petting her ego on what a great job she did, BUT there should be much more of a fire lit under her, these questions are not nearly as difficult as they should be and all that seems to be happening is that the Bush administration claims that they did as much as possible to prevent terrorism before 9/11 yet most people within the adminstartion that are non-political appointees say that there is so much that could havve been done before 9/11 to prevent the attacks or at the very least to attempt to get the intelligence or make the attacks not as horrible as they were. oh by the way according to Richard Clarke's book, they completely ignored al qaeda before 9/11 and were obsessed with getting iraq....oh, condi is now trying to push the blame down to the clinton adminstartion for not trying to create the homeland securty dempartment earlier, the department that has done nothing...more later

Forgot to mention this one, but I finished reading Against All Enemies two nights ago...I'd highly recommend this one for anyone who wants to learn more about how counterterrorism worked under the Clinton adminstartion. He goes through a lot about why he and other members of the adminstartion were/are so obsessed with al Qaeda and why they left during the Bush administration. He also explains what he feels the appropriate response to 9/11 should have been versus what happened a.k.a. going to war with Iraq. There is an entire chapter devoted to who we should be at war with versus who we are at war with. There are also some interesting tidbits in there about why Bush and Clinton chose to respond to threats the ways that they did. Its an interesting, fast read that you can tell are his memoirs. He does not present things as fact, but more as a story and how he remembers events going down. Like Paul O'Neill, he also said that this administration had a vendetta against Iraq from the get go (even though they have not been connected to terrorism against the US since 1993, unlike al Qaeda who has been), but that we decided to fight a war about things that are a decade old issue. Now go home and read it!

What do these three groups have in common? They're all being attacked by the GOP for airing anti-Bush ads. I believe that they are trying to cirumvent federal campaign laws is what it said...the same campaign laws that Bush did not want to sign into law because he knew that he wouldn't be able to raise as much money.