Oh, really?

[rodeodance]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/2006-08-15-administration-excuses_x.htm?csp=1

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Oh, really?

Updated 8/16/2006 10:32 AM ET

"I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would...try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile"— then-National Security adviser Condoleezza Rice, White House briefing, May 16, 2002.

"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees"— President Bush about Katrina, on ABC's Good Morning America, Sept. 1, 2005

"I don't think anyone could have anticipated the sectarian violence"— Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, spokesman for the U.S. military in Iraq, to The New York Times, Aug. 6, 2006.

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As the unfortunate statements above show, President Bush and people who work for him have a disheartening habit of being astonished by the arrival of disasters they didn't see coming but others did.

For the record:

• The 9/11 Commission devoted four pages of its exhaustive report to the numerous pre-9/11 warnings that terrorists would use airplanes as weapons, including a 1995 confession by a captured terrorist that he had discussed hijacking an airliner and flying it into CIA headquarters.,,,,

[tuvor]

1. Airplanes as weapons, who'd've thought?

Kamikazes? Never heard of 'em.

[Sherman A1]

7. And no one read

any Tom Clancy Novels that preceeded the event by years?

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. "I don't think anybody could have predicted what a mess jr could create"

[GeorgeGist]

3. Liquid explosives...

who'd a thunk it?

[TomInTib]

4. Remember how shocked they were when Hamas won in Lebanon?

These forkers are just pathetically hopeless.

[MadMaddie]

5. All you have to do is read any action fiction prior to 9/11

written by military/CIA retirees and it would have been obvious...

[Evergreen Emerald]

6. a complete lack of imagination

And seriously, they should read more, many of the stunts today have been tried in the past.