Why George Walker Bush Should Resign-Part 4
The following post is in response to a dialogue begun between the administrator of this site and an erudite visitor who comments on opinions seen here at YouThinkWhatdotcom
- We clearly do not have an imminent danger from Iraq that we need to respond within ten minutes.
The one time we needed to respond in ten minutes, we actually had as long as ninety minutes, we still did not have the executive decision making capability necessary to make these critical “not even split second” security decisions. This administration bears full responsibility for that. And one day in the future will be called to account for it, though likely not in this Republican house dominated term.
It is almost laughable that we have an administration that justifies the necessity of acting without hesitation when it concerns phone calls, while justifying slow response and entire lack of action in regards to rogue jets flying through our skies.At any other time a president who failed to respond to rogue jets in this fashion would be investigated or at least calling for an investigation into the failure of security, the failure of NORAD. What was the length of time previously estimated we would have to respond to a Soviet missile attack? Seems to me it was something like 6 or 7 minutes. But George can’t even muster an adequate response in 90.
We invaded Iraq under the pretense Iraq had nuclear weapons of which it has clearly been demonstrated Iraq had none. There are many countries that have nuclear weapons. In 1969 or 1970 an undergrad student made one at Harvard or Yale, one of the larger universities, from what he said was freely available information, so it is not so difficult to do. What is more critical, at least, is the need for a delivery system. There are few countries in the world that have missiles capable of reaching the United States. and the only country that might soon have such a missile, that is not an ally, is North Korea. But if they launch missiles and it takes us 90 minutes to respond, well it just might be too late.