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Scherer says last night's speech lacked any blockbuster "16 words." Au contraire. I can't believe Bush's handlers let him make this blunt admission of one of the Administration's biggest failures:
"We will not sit back and wait to be hit again."
So there you have it. The Bush Administrationi was "sitting back" when 9/11 hit, despite dire warnings from Richard Clarke, despite FBI agents raising the alarm about people learning to fly planes but not land them and, most tellingly, despite a Presidential Daily Briefing titled "Osama Determined To Strike Inside The U.S."
And yet, he still maintains that illegal domestic surveillance without a warrant is the only way to keep us safe? Try listening to your own advisors and reading your own PDBs for a starter, eh? What a fraud.
