From: Zach Dennis <zdennis@...>
Date: 2004-11-03T07:26:01+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] US Presidential Election

John W. Kennedy wrote:

> Florian G. Pflug wrote:
>
>> I believe that you should realize that some things are beyond the 
>> power of even the president of the us. No president will be able to 
>> protect his citizens from every possible danger. And lettings him 
>> loose the election for not being superman is IMHO the wrong thing to do.
>
>
> It's not a question of not being a superman. He was warned repeatedly 
> before 9/11 that Al Qaeda was a danger, but he chose to ignore it 
> because of his obsession with Saddam Hussein. And after Afghanistan, 
> he went back to the same pattern.
>
This goes back to a central question....was it the President who had 
this information and made the decision to ignore it or was it someone 
else? Did the President have correct information? If he did then yeah, 
he made to big of a mistake, but I hadn't heard that...i had only heard 
of allegations.

If I have a security council which is to inform me of the facts, and 
someone screws up on their job and ignores something...is it still the 
my fault? Perhaps they present me with information, but they give me 
incorrect information, and I make a decision on the assumption that Jon 
Doe is giving me factually correct information. Is it still my fault? If 
I'm acting on information I deem is 100% correct, and someone down the 
totem poll screwed up....is it my fault, am I lying to the people?

I have a friend who once said, yes, you would be lying....but I disagree 
and I asked him to look "lie" up in the dictionary. There does need to 
be a degree of accountability, but by just blaming someone to blame 
someone doesn't help the cause in the long run.

It is always easier to be the critic then the author. Hindsight is 
20/20...it's way easier to be a Monday Morning Quarterback.

Zach