Comments on: History Repeats Itself http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/12/05/history-repeats-itself-2/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:43:20 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: BD http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/12/05/history-repeats-itself-2/#comment-14564 BD Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:12:36 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=1031#comment-14564 Is that a rebuttal or a deflection? The point is no longer "which administration dropped the ball before the attacks," the point is that the current administration refuses to act on the information even <i>after</i> 9/11. And if, God forbid, we get to the next administration without these safeguards in place...and <i>that</i> administration fails to act as well...I'll feel the same way no matter which party it is. Is that a rebuttal or a deflection? The point is no longer “which administration dropped the ball before the attacks,” the point is that the current administration refuses to act on the information even after 9/11.

And if, God forbid, we get to the next administration without these safeguards in place…and that administration fails to act as well…I’ll feel the same way no matter which party it is.

]]> By: randy http://www.oliverwillis.com/2005/12/05/history-repeats-itself-2/#comment-14563 randy Mon, 05 Dec 2005 22:12:36 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=1031#comment-14563 "Had they adopted every recommendation we had put forward at that time I don't think it would have changed what happened," Rudman says. "There wasn't enough time to enact everything..." "Could this have been prevented?" Hart asks. "The answer is, 'We'll never know.' Possibly not." It was a struggle to convince President Clinton of the need for such a commission, Hart says. He urged Clinton to address this problem in '94 and '95, but Clinton didn't act until 1998, prompted by politics. "He saw Gingrich was about to do it, so he moved to collaborate," Hart says. "Seven years had gone by since the end of the Cold War. It could have been much sooner." <a href="http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/09/12/bush/index1.html" rel="nofollow"><a href="http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/09/12/bush/index1.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/09/12/bush/index1.html</a></a> “Had they adopted every recommendation we had put forward at that time I don’t think it would have changed what happened,” Rudman says. “There wasn’t enough time to enact everything…”

“Could this have been prevented?” Hart asks. “The answer is, ‘We’ll never know.’ Possibly not.” It was a struggle to convince President Clinton of the need for such a commission, Hart says. He urged Clinton to address this problem in ‘94 and ‘95, but Clinton didn’t act until 1998, prompted by politics. “He saw Gingrich was about to do it, so he moved to collaborate,” Hart says. “Seven years had gone by since the end of the Cold War. It could have been much sooner.”

http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/09/12/bush/index1.html

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