Never Having to Say 'Sorry'

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By Robert Parry
April 5, 2004

One could argue there is stiff competition for the most-incredible-comment-from-the-mouth-of-Condoleezza-Rice award, but the winner may be her assertion that she can think of nothing more that the Bush administration could have done to prevent the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Normal people simply don’t say such things. When something goes wrong on their watch, most people think of what they could have done better and the honest ones admit that in hindsight they missed some opportunities. With an event as momentous as a coordinated enemy assault on three prominent U.S. landmarks and the deaths of 3,000 people, it is hard to imagine that the national security coordinator can’t think of anything she, her boss or his administration could have done better in the preceding eight months.

But Condoleezza Rice seems to have adopted George W. Bush’s lifetime attitude of never having to say “Sorry.”

“I would like very much to know what more could have been done given that it was an urgent problem,” Rice told Ed Bradley of CBS News’s “60 Minutes” in a March 28 broadcast. “I don’t know, Ed, how, after coming into office, inheriting policies that had been in place for at least three of the eight years of the Clinton administration, we could have done more than to continue those polices while we developed more robust policies.”

Well, like maybe, Rice could have urged her boss to cut short his month-long August vacation. Perhaps, after hearing CIA Director George Tenet’s repeated warnings about an imminent al-Qaeda attack, possibly on U.S. soil and possibly involving airplanes, Bush could have demanded that all agencies redouble their search for clues, which we now know did exist in the bowels of federal agencies.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/040504.html

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1. And why not put every available fighter aircraft on full alert, ready to

go on a moment's notice? No, that's just my wistful thinking for: absolutely, positively no one could have come up with that idea.

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2. I've been on this blog for 3 days and already I'm just shaking my head

Instead of gnashing teeth and pulling hair. Am I going to be able to keep a fire in my belly with the outrages coming so fast and furious? The NERVE of that little witch to shrug off her short sightedness so cavalierly and expect me to swallow the BS?? AAARRRGGGGG :mad:

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3. Some people have no soul...

...and care only about themselves. It's our nation's bad luck that we have a government full of these type of people. This is the type of person that can never say they're sorry or wrong.