If Bush had done what we all wish for, and charged head on into the face of this evil, seeking to indict and convict key people in the previous administration for their crimes and treasons, my guess is he would no longer be President - or alive.
Sometimes discretion is the better part of valor. If you wake up with some house flies buzzing around, swat them. If you wake up in the nest of a King Cobra, move cautiously ... very cautiously.
Well, he has three more years to kill the snakes.
The only thing needed for evil to triumph is for good men do nothing.
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I agree with you analysis 100% and why he didn't jump headlong into all of this. He couldn't -- had to tread very carefully.
Have to wonder if the events surrounding 9/11 starting the night before when he was in Florida and the radio silence from AF One after he left Florida on 9/11 is all tied together. Your post triggered something in my brain.