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I sincerely wish that you are correct. I was concentrating on Newt's statement this morning that our bureaucracy is in a terrible state. He was quite harsh with respect to what he described as the need to get to work on areas such as intelligence and defense, excluding the troops.

Much of the nation, as sad as this is, must have substantial evidence that our enemies are working together and planning, in due time, more devastating attacks. Lacking this, I believe that rodguy has accurately described the terrible likelihood that more 9/11's or worse are in our future.

I was concentrating on Newt's statement this morning that our bureaucracy is in a terrible state.

This is not new and has been a complaint coming from the right for years now. We have complained and commented and yet rarely has anything been done about it. Powell failed to make any great changes in State, Rice is doing better at State now but perception is it has not changed enough. Rumsfeld did change the military quite a bit and we now have the best fighting force in our history even though some of the old guard generals cannot accept the change. Bolton at the UN was fantastic, but constantly under attack by Democrats that made it harder. The FBI and CIA are doing better but there are still too many leaks and people there who want us to lose so the left benefits.

In the above, Newt is right on target as to what we believe is still wrong and what has to be done. But, I don't know if anyone can make the changes necessary in the near future. This has been problematic for decades and it may be unrealistic to think it will change quickly.

" Much of the nation, as sad as this is, must have substantial evidence that our enemies are working together and planning, in due time, more devastating attacks."

I think at this point, it will take, as Rush says, another attack to wake up Americans.
And then it will be too late.
Went to to a party last night and the conversation eventually swung around to Iraq.
Many of those involved in the discussion , like the Democrats, believe that Iraq is just the Sunnis fighting the Shiites. Period. An internal squabble.
A lot of them believe that our troops are killing and bombing innocent Mom and Pop Iraqis.
They refuse to believe that any Al Queda have been involved in or captured in Iraq .
Al Queda only exist in Afghanistan.
They do not understand the strategic importance of keeping Iraq from becoming an even larger terror haven.
Even those who understand what we are trying to do in Iraq and once supported the war- are done with it.
They are sick of seeing the blown up cars on tv, sick of the welfare recipient mentality of Iraqis and sick of the pc ROE.
They see every US death as a waste.
This indoctrination campaign has been a huge victory for the media , the Democrats and the terrorists.
The White House's communication skills and their failure to fight back, have been a disaster from top to bottom.
They wasted years apologizing and then talking mush about democracy and nobility in Iraq ,
when they should have focused on Al Queda in Iraq and the fact that had he remained in power, Saddam would probably have all kinds of WMD by now.