[montag813]

George Tenet??? Outrageous. An incompetant ass whose parting shot is to all but blame Condi Rice for 9/11? Will Bush give a medal to Ted Kennedy next year? I am so sick of the stupid "new tone".

[cyncooper]

An incompetant ass whose parting shot is to all but blame Condi Rice for 9/11?

Believing media spin? Any freeper worth their salt should know better.

[Peach]

I really liked George Tenet and paid pretty close attention to the news when he spoke.

Just how is it he "all but blamed Condi for 9/11"?

[LenS]

Tenet is getting this for pushing for the plan to topple the Taliban. While the Joint Chiefs were proposing plans to invade Afghanistan with the entire US Army (and taking at least a year to put the attack together), Tenet pushed the idea of using CIA/Special Ops, airpower and local rebels to topple the Taliban. The plan wasn't perfect, but it succeeded in removing the Taliban, taking away Al Qaeda's home base, and sending Bin Laden onto the run in less than two months after 9/11 at a fraction of the cost of the massive invasion option.

Of course, the Joint Chiefs' plan was just their way of doing nothing by presenting the President with a ridiculous option. Classic bureaucratic inertia.