Sunday, April 11, 2004

A direct refutation of Rice

In the New York Times, Douglas Jehl riffs on Condi's "we didn't' know the when, the who or the where."
    In a single 17-sentence document, the intelligence briefing delivered to President Bush in August 2001 spells out the who, hints at the what and points toward the where of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington that followed 36 days later.
I hope every single man, woman and child comes to understand the enormous mistake Mr. Bush made in not taking this threat assessment seriously. Maybe he really couldn't read it, or was unable to read through to one of the final paragraphs:
    Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.
Remember Bush's statement about a Gail Sheehy piece that appeared in Vanity Fair during the 2000 campaign that raised the question of whether Bush had dyslexia? "The woman who knew I had dyslexia, I never interviewed her,"said Bush and he wasn't kidding.

So would September 11 have been prevented if we had a President who could read? Maybe so.

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