Originally Posted by
PTravel
You may be right. However, I don't believe this administration would have encouraged the constitutional excesses that are the hallmark of the TSA, nor would it have appointed the conservative judges who make up approximately 80% of the federal bench and appellate courts and have upheld these outrageous "administrative searches." Needless to say, this administration wouldn't have botched the hunt for bin Laden in Afghanistan and would have never entered into the disastrous Iraq War. And, finally, I suspect 9/11 would have been averted because this administration, unlike the previous one, wouldn't have politicized the intelligence community and ignored intelligence briefing.
Airport security is a good thing. I just wish we had some. Instead, we have TSA.
Bush did not have time to politicize the intelligence community before 9/11 and the attempt after 9/11to get everybody to work together birthed the DHS.
When your intelligence is nothing more than "something big may happen sometime" there is not a whole lot to go on. I hope that you do not honestly feel that Bush or any other President would allow, or be allowed to let, 3000 people die if there was solid intelligence about an attack. It would not have mattered who butt was sitting in the Presidential chair at the time, the result would have been the same. To pretend differently is politicizing 9/11. No need to politicize the attack anymore, a Democrat is in the White House with a majority in both houses.
Remember who voted for all these Constitutional excesses. The President has limited powers but I have not seen this one encourage the reversal of those excesses. How hard is it for him to pick up a phone and call Nappy and tell her to do a Constitutional review for the DHS’s agencies policies?
As for you last line, I am in 100% agreement.
Funny ain’t it?