A Memo About The Memo

Well, the White House has now released the infamous "August 6th PDB".

Boy, it sure is chock full of information, aint it? Based on that memo, we should have immediately done the following:

**Instituted a "no fly" list (wait, we've done that and now the ACLU is trying to tear it apart).

**Bombed the shit out of Afghanistan which was hiding and supporting Public Enemy Number One, Osama Bin Laden (wait, we did that and a bunch of people bitched).

**Put armed air marshals on selected flights (wait, we've done that and a bunch of people have bitched about it)

**Armed the pilots (wait, we're trying to do that and a bunch of people are bitching about it).

**Enacted a Patriot Act which primarily encourages all the various law enforcement agencies to communicate with each other (wait, we did that and practically everyone on the left has had a coniption fit about it, using entirely overwrought rhetoric about how our rights have been taken away)

**Profiled Middle Eastern men (wait, we've been doing that and every goddamn Arab "rights" group has been bitching about that)

**Instituted stronger security checkpoints at airports (wait, we've done that and EVERYONE bitches about it)

**Cracked down on sympathetic Muslim groups masquerading as "charities" that funnel money back to the terrorists (wait, we've done that and Christ, hasnt there been a bunch of bitching about that)

**And generally tried to shine the light of day upon the dark, nefarious movements of those terrorist cockroaches (wait, we've done that and taken nothing but shit from the left).

You see, we've taken all sorts of actions SINCE 9-11 in reaction to 9-11 and the result, especially from the left, has been the tearing of hair and the gnashing of teeth and the howling of morons.

I want someone to tell me how in the world President Bush could have done a damn thing along any of those lines BEFORE 9-11 BASED on that PDB. The left would have crucified him as would have a number of people on the right. For members of the 9-11 commission, especially that turd Ben-Veniste, to now say, with the benefit of hindsight, that the President didnt do enough to prevent the 9-11 attack based on the contents of the August 6th PDB is pathetic and sad. As far as I am concerned Ben-Veniste and Bob Kerrey and the others of their ilk have no credibility at all. As far as I am concerned, they are a great example of why tigers eat their young.

Here is the nut of the whole situation....

With the information available at the time, there is nothing that could have been done to prevent 9-11. It would have been nice if our intelligence agencies had been talking to each other more at the time...hopefully they are doing so now. As Dr. Rice said in her testimony before the 9-11 circus, sometimes it takes a tragedy to wake people up and she was exactly right.

Since 9-11, President Bush and his leaders have taken direct and specific action in all areas targeted as weaknesses. The proof of his efforts lies in the fact there hasnt been ANY kind of a 9-11 repeat. To now go back and blame the Bush administration for not doing enough then is the worst kind of political pandering to come down the pike in a long time.

Posted by Mr. Helpful at April 11, 2004 03:51 PM