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   9/11 Report: Important information: Is George Bush a strong & DECISIVE leader?  (pg. 38 bottom of page) Would a decisive leader wait 5 to seven minutes while children read. Or would he just say “Excuse me children, but the president has some important presidential business to attend to. It was great being with you today and if I get time I’ll try to come back sometime.” How would that scare the children? 
   George Bush to Larry King. “I made the decision that I’d let this portion of the program end, then thank the teacher & leave.” Good thing there were only 4 planes. 
   What is important is that he should have been somewhere where he could contact his command post. The Vice President, Secretary of defense & the Pentagon. He was after all the Commander in Chief. His action was not DECISIVE.
    The Vice President had to give the shoot down order for any other planes that wouldn't follow instructions to land. George Bush had no way of knowing if this order was given or not. (He was babysitting.) Don't you think he should have been somewhere where he could have been in command? I do. 
    Compare this to John Kerry's action while commanding his swift boat. If his fellow crew is telling the truth & military records say they are. When his boat came under fire he immediately turned the boat to the enemy position & beach it, making the enemy combatant run for his life. He then grabbed a weapon & ran down & killed the enemy. Reports are that if he hadn’t done that & just tried to escape his boat probable would have been hit by the second round that the enemy was loading when he was attacked by Kerry’s boat. If this report is true & I have no reason to disbelieve it, then this is what I call strong & DECISIVE.
   Where would we be today if it had been the Bush Whitehouse instead of the Kennedy Whitehouse during the Cuban missile crises? The pentagon was urging a nuclear attack against Cuba. We have since found out that the Soviet Union as on alert for a nuclear war. Only J. F. K. intellect saved us from devastation. Would George Bush have negotiated with Nikita Kruschev. or would he have listened to the pentagon?
   Sticking with a difficult decision is strong. Sticking with an ill-conceived or ill-informed decision is stupid. 
   Making a decision then implementing it immediately is decisive. Sitting in a classroom and getting your thoughts together is indecisive. It's also important that the decisiveness is married to intelligence.
 

   8/26/04 Political timing or indecisiveness? President Bush decided to implement some of the 9/11 commission’s recommendations. The report came out on  7/26/04 Why did he wait toll just before the RNC to take action? If they find out that he risked American lives in order to gain a political advantage. He should be impeached. Oh! By the way if it wasn’t political timing then where was his Decisiveness.

   9/08/04 George Bush finally decides to create a National Intelligence Director with full budgetary control. A recommendation of the 9/11 commission. Why, if he was strong & decisive, did it take so long? Since the position is suppose to create better communications within the intelligence community, thereby making us safer, doesn't that mean that the delay may have put us in unnecessary danger? Oh! by the way there are still a lot of the recommendations that he hasn't done anything about. The clock is ticking. 
 
Strong vs. Intelligent.
 
   Strong isn't bad in fact it is important but it has to be linked to intelligence. Some strong leaders who made catastrophic mistakes are: Napoleon at Waterloo, Custer at the Little Big Horn, Hitler when he invaded Russia. General Lee took his troops to Gettysburg to get shoes and lost the war. All were intelligent leaders, all made fatal mistakes. George Bush took us to Iraq to win the war on terrorism. Iraq had nothing to with that war except to distract us from the real war.
   It was the biggest gift we could have given to al-Qaeda. The war in Iraq has been a great recruiting tool and a even better training camp for the terrorists, it has taken our eyes off our national defense, i.e. Our ports, chemical & nuclear plants, our transportation systems, etc. It gave Osama bin Laden a chance to escape from Tora Bora, It erased most of the good will and support that we had from the world after 9/11. George Bush has fallen into the same trap that the leaders I mentioned earlier had fallen into.
 
   Again, George Bush proved he isn't decisive. We recently found out, that because of contamination, there won't be enough Flu vaccine. This was a fact that the administration know in the beginning of the summer. They were warned that there may be a problem with the vaccine in the coming months but like the warning that "Ben Laden, determined to attack inside the U.S." They took no action, preferring a wait & see policy. Well we waited & now we see. I don't think a president has the right to gamble with the lives of the people. I'd like to know why nobody in the administration called for an emergency meeting with the nations' top immunologists. We might have had a better plan then "I'm asking all healthy people not to get a flu shot."