[kattracks]

That may be Bob Kerrey's complaint, but I believe most critics were focusing on the lack of interagency communication, not on the lack of pre-emptive strikes.

No, the critics (Democrats) are focusing on what they perceive as the Bush administration's lack of action before 9/11.

I don't know who these "some" are, but most of the criticism I've heard doesn't take a solid position on whether the attacks could have been prevented; they only point out where the administration was clearly deficient in being up to the task, such as when Dr. Rice implausibly claimed that no one could have known that terrorists might fly a plane into a building.

Clearly impling that had the Bush administration not been "defiicient" the attacks could have been prevented.

The point is that the administration needs to keep on top of basic things like this, and they weren't.

They were as on top of the situation as the intelligence at that time allowed them to be.

[inquest]

Clearly impling that had the Bush administration not been "defiicient" the attacks could have been prevented.

I don't know how you can divine such an implication. Certainly some of the more rabid partisans would like to make such a suggestion, but the simple fact that someone's criticizing the performance of the administration doesn't mean that they're suggesting that the attacks could definitely have been prevented.

They were as on top of the situation as the intelligence at that time allowed them to be.

Intelligence had documents captured from Ramzi Yousef detailing plans involving using planes as missiles.

[MHGinTN]

I wonder, did Bob "Swatter' Kerrey ask Richard Clarke while under oath (was he ever?) why he didn't include the warnings issued to Clinton --that prompted his appointing goreghoul to an airline safety commission-- in the August 2001 PDB? Sleazy bastards have been trying to set this administration up from the very start. The democrat 'party' will do ANYTHING to sieze back power, no matter how many Americans die in their efforts. And if anyone doubts that last assertion, remeber that it is the democrat party that has built their entire 'enlightened' politic upon the unfettered use of serial killers to off alive unborn infants.