Maureen Dowd sums up Bush failures rather nicely in one paragraph today...

[flpoljunkie]

in a column entitled, "The Charley McCarthy Hearings"

<>The Vice President will not address any queries about why no one reacted to George Tenet's daily "hair on fire" alarms to the President about a coming Al Qaeda attack; or why the President was so consumed with chopping and burning cedar on his Crawford ranch that he ignored the warning in an Aug. 6, 2001, briefing that Al Qaeda might try to hijack aircraft; or why the President asked for a plan to combat Al Qaeda in May and then never followed up while Richard Clarke's aggressive plan was suffocated by second-raters; or why the President was never briefed by his counterterrorism chief on anything but cybersecurity until Sept. 11; or why the Administration-in-amber made so many cold war assumptions, such as thinking that terrorists had to be sponsored by a state even as terrorists had taken over a state; or why the President went along with the Vice President and the neocons to fool the American public into believing that Saddam had a hand in the 9/11 attacks; or why the Administration chose to undercut the war on terrorism and inflame the Arab world by attacking Iraq, without a plan to protect our perilously overextended forces or to exit with a realistic hope that a democracy will be left behind.

http://nytimes.com/2004/04/01/opinion/01DOWD.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1080824920-ENUFlMoG2TdTnYOGJzubCw&pagewanted=print&position=

[hippiechick]

1. Dude you realize this is a satirical piece, right ?

It's April Fool's Day ?!?

:shrug:

[bushwakker]

2. Give Mo a few months

she'll be more concerned with attacking JK because of his hair or clothes or Theresa's millions than shining a light on this corrupt band of incompetents that currently occupy the White House. I'll never trust Mo Dowd.

[BeyondGeography]

3. Me neither

But it's good to see that her disdain for Bush is more than skin-deep.