"The catastrophe that struck America was the result of a decade of military cuts and the undermining of U.S. intelligence agencies, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer told NewsMax.com. Admiral Moorer served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation’s highest-ranking military official, and brought the Vietnam war to a conclusion. He has served in three major wars.
Yesterday’s [9/11/01] events brought back memories of Pearl Harbor, he said. Admiral Moorer, then a naval aviator, was present at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Admiral Moorer made the following analysis to NewsMax, his quotes are in bold:
1. The Clinton administration had a similar view to intelligence agencies as the Carter administration. They didn’t like using spies. This is why we had no warning. "You absolutely need spies, you need them to melt into a society and tell you what is going on, you can’t rely on satellites and technology alone.”
2. The actions taken yesterday were the result of perceived weakness of U.S. armed forces. "President Clinton brought the military down and down. He made the military like it was before Pearl Harbor.”
3. The U.S. must significantly increase its use of human intelligence, that is spies on the ground in foreign countries.
4. America must remain vigilant. "This is like what Yamamoto said after Pearl Harbor, ‘A sleeping tiger has been aroused.’ We can’t just strike back and go back to sleep. Next time the attack could be even more serious.”
5. Soon terrorist groups will have access to nuclear weapons. "This is inevitable. Countries like Russia and China are providing countries like Pakistan, Iraq and Iran with this technology – the same technology Clinton gave to the Chinese.”
6. Missile defense is needed now. "The media is dead wrong when it says this proves we don’t need missile defense. Soon, the same countries that supported these terrorists that just attacked us will have missiles capable of hitting the U.S. We need to defend against their use.”
7. No additional attacks for the immediate future. ”I believe they reached the limits of their capabilities with these attacks. But they will try again later. They want nuclear weapons."
Blast from the past...MUD
"President Bush is accusing John Kerry of having proposed big cuts in intelligence spending just two years after the first attack on the World Trade Center, part of a re-election effort to depict his Democratic rival as weak on national security and the war against terrorism. Bush...planned to call attention to a 1995 bill that Kerry sponsored to trim intelligence spending by $1.5 billion over five years. The cut was part of what Kerry called a "budget-buster bill" to strip $90 billion from the budget and end 40 programs that he said were "pointless, wasteful, antiquated or just plain silly." Kerry's proposal, which followed the collapse of the Soviet Union and calls for a peace dividend after decades of spending to thwart the Cold War opponent, failed to attract any co-sponsors and did not come up for a vote."
Kerry's the Leftist of the Leftists...MUD