[XBob]

I read a bit about this so far, and as far as I can determine, the Clinton administration, particularly the NSA idiot, Sandy Berger, never developed a plan, and apparently an old Bush 1, holdover, developed some recommendations finally at the end of the 8 years of inaction by xlinton, and turned it in to Berger, who ignored it.

But there was no plan, no implementation, only a few unimplemented recommendations.

Please, someone, if I have this wrong, please advise.

IMHO This is just another blowin snow job by the incompetent fools from the xlinton admin trying to defend their incompetence and blame Bush.

Even it there were a plan, Did they want Bush to bomb another apirin factory? or a few more goat herders? Bush people had to check it out.

[js1138]

But there was no plan, no implementation, only a few unimplemented recommendations.

I've been in enough bureaucracies to know that an action plan is hundreds, even thousands of pages long, has many branching decision trees, and lots of contingency plans.