At least on my part.

Mostly an observation that the warnings either did not get through or were not heard by anyone, at all, even though there were a lot of them.

(And, Ashcroft cut Clinton's budget on terrorism. Apparently they saw less threat than the previous administration.)

I do wonder what warnings they were looking at, what threats they did preceive. You know, Bush was (is) busy with the ABM, which wasn't and isn't a near-term threat. The nuke container, well, that is. The anthrax letters, that's an issue. The nerve gas hidden inside an oxygen tank, that might be an issue.

I'd sure rather see the 60 to 100 billion spent on defending the borders, checking stuff coming into the country. If we had to, give the companies he wants to help 20 billion, or so, and spend the rest on something which might do some good.

Arf