Comments on: Politics Above Everything

By: Steve Plonk

Steve Plonk — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:42:13 +0000

Any person found to be donating money to terrorist organizations should be locked up
behind bars. Twenty years would be too good
for them.

By: JollyRoger

JollyRoger — Sat, 16 Jul 2005 01:35:03 +0000

Looks like Phony Tony will never get out from under his “poodle” status.

By: Mark in Mexico

Mark in Mexico — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 22:54:09 +0000

Pakistanis knew bombers were their own
In this disurbing report, everyday Pakistanis waited for almost a week for the news they were sure would come. The bombers were Pakistani or trained in Pakistani madrassas or terror training camps.

By: Troy

Troy — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 20:05:43 +0000

I like the way you connect the dots in your blog. I agree with you that it is not beyond the Bush Administration
to put politics above everything else, I don’t think that’s the case in this particular instance. I can’t seem to
remember where I read this but Tom Ridge went to the press/public with his warning without the approval of the
White House. (He got scarred that something might happen under his watch.) He was heavily criticized by other
Administration officials for revealing information as the investigation was still going on. (I think it was
Rumsfeld that gave him the tongue lashing.) Tom Ridge let his inexperience in these matters get in the way of
the ongoing investigation. If anything, the Bush Administration should be accused of putting politics above
everything else when he chose Tom Ridge to run the Office of Homeland Security. Ridge had no security
experience up to that point.