On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 16:57:41 -0400, John Gaquin
wrote:


"Jim" wrote in message news:qVAgc.1828
Poll results

The Progress Report asked its readers (you may recall) to help President
Bush name his biggest national security mistake since taking office.
22,000
responses later, the results a

This "poll" shows nothing more than the power of repetitive media
pronouncements to influence public opinion.

Did you respond?



1. Invading Iraq without a plan for the aftermath, 34.09%

Insisting that there was "no plan" is foolish and presumptuous. Of
course
there was a plan. Neither does observing that the original plan has not
worked particularly well require a great degree of astutness.

Yep as I recall the "plan?" was that our guys would be greated with food
and flowers -- Bushes wet dream

2. Focusing on missile defense while ignoring repeated warnings of an
imminent al Qaeda attack before 9/11, 32.55%

There were no "...repeated warnings of an imminent al Qaeda attack before
9/11..."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...d=513&ncid=716

Excerpt:
The CIA warned as early as 1995 that Islamic extremists were likely to
attack U.S. aviation,
Washington landmarks or Wall Street and by 1997 had identified Osama bin
Laden as an
emerging threat on U.S. soil, a senior intelligence official said
Thursday.

The report specifically warned that civil aviation, Washington landmarks
such as the White House
and Capitol and buildings on Wall Street were at the greatest risk of a
domestic terror attack
by Muslim extremists, the official said.


3. Telling the American people that Iraq definitely possessed WMD,
26.34%

Iraq *did* possess B & C weapons, and *did* have a nuclear program
aborning.

All past tense.


4. Failing to send U.S. troops into Tora Bora to capture Osama bin Laden
in
November 2001, 5%

This truly was a tactical mistake -- no way around that. Telling that
only
5% recognize it as such.

You forgot #5
5. Disparaging Army Gen. Eric K. Shinseki when he said more troops would be
needed in Iraq, 1.71%

So now he (bush) has extended to duty of 20,000 troops




--
Jim