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For months, Levin personally had held up the confirmation hearings of Bush's appointees who were to design the U.S. antiterrorism strategy – Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Programs J.D. Crouch and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Peter W. Rodman – refusing for apparently partisan purposes to allow them to take office until late July 2001.

While Levin was holding up their appointments, the incoming Pentagon policy team had no legal or political authority to do their vital jobs

This needs to be brought up again and again

For months, Levin personally had held up the confirmation hearings of Bush's appointees who were to design the U.S. antiterrorism strategy – Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Programs J.D. Crouch and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Peter W. Rodman – refusing for apparently partisan purposes to allow them to take office until late July 2001. While Levin was holding up their appointments, the incoming Pentagon policy team had no legal or political authority to do their vital jobs
This needs to be brought up again and again

2 posted on 03/30/2004 5:35:22 PM CST by scarface367 (This tagline will work for food, money, or large weapons)

I had just highlighted the same comments when I noticed you had already posted them so....here they are again. Keep bring it up until people understand the truth laid out here.

For months, Levin personally had held up the confirmation hearings of Bush's appointees who were to design the U.S. antiterrorism strategy – Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith, Assistant Secretary of "Defense for International Security Programs J.D. Crouch and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Peter W. Rodman – refusing for apparently partisan purposes to allow them to take office until late July 2001."

"While Levin was holding up their appointments, the incoming Pentagon policy team had no legal or political authority to do their vital jobs"

"This needs to be brought up again and again"

Bump!!

Beginning December 12, 2000, the Clinton administration did everything they could to impede the transition to the Bush administration and the Democrats continued to drag their feet, hold up nominations and act childish. Someone also should point out that the Director of the FBI was not confirmed until August 2, 2001.

Regarding your very correct comment about Karl Lenin "This needs to be brought up again and again.

It seems to be like swimming upstream to try to stick any of his many hateful attributes to Karl Lenin. The voters of Michigan have elected him to 4 or 5 (6) year terms, and will probably do so again. This is just such a damn dirty shame. Trying to get any of the major newspapers in Michigan, which are all left wing, to follow up on this ba$tard is like pulling teeth.

One of the most controversial points of Clarke's book is his allegation that after 9-11, "The president dragged me into a room with a couple of other people, shut the door, and said, 'I want you to find whether Iraq did this.' Now he never said, 'Make it up.' But the entire conversation left me in absolutely no doubt that George Bush wanted me to come back with a report that said, 'Iraq did this.' He came back at me and said, 'Iraq! Saddam! Find out if there's a connection,' and in a very intimidating way."

Are we to believe Inspector Clarke had the crime solved within 2 days. Considering the evidence of ties between Iraq and al-Qadea, sounds logical to me for Bush to be asking these questions.

"Case Closed OSAMA BIN LADEN and Saddam Hussein had an operational relationship from the early 1990s to 2003" http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1022083/posts