Wood Goblin wrote:My friend brought his 2002 Honda Civic in to have the wheel rotated, some scratches retouched, and the fluid levels checked, and the mechanic did a poor job retouching one of the scratches and later insisted that, no, he did a great job. You're insisting that he brought a '72 GTO to have the top taken off, mags and fat meats put on the back, and tubs thrown under the bottom.
I see that your gross incomprehension of the English language continues. My analogy:
If you hire a mechanic to fix your car and he proclaims the car to be fixed, bills you and returns to you a car that has
strange knocking noises, do you say that the mechanic has 'fixed ' your car in any normal definition of that word? If a terrorist attack occurs and the government tasks itself to explain how it happened, and the government produces a report that you believe to contain inaccuracies and omissions, then do you call that report satisfactory?
You shamelessly reduce the level of inferior work by the mechanic to the level of one scratch left unretouched. My analogy was to a car with significant mechanical difficulties. You made this statement earlier, because you were too much of a coward to endorse the official history of 9/11:
wood goblin wrote:But I *also* believe the Bush administration showed little interest in terrorist activity and attempted to cover the tracks of their own ineptitude and disinterest in the matter after the attacks--which should be investigated.
Now you have compared the failures of the 9/11 Commission and the failures of the Bush administration to react to terror warnings to be analogous to a perfectly-repaired auto, other than one scratch.
You have not stated yet whether you believe that 'the Bush administration showed little interest in terrorist activity' because of deliberate ignorance and laziness or because of pure incompetence. It's a critical point, so if you have the guts to specify, please do. I would also like to know how you are personally engaged in efforts to demand a new investigation, since you say right here that one is needed:
wood goblin wrote:attempted to cover the tracks of their own ineptitude and disinterest in the matter after the attacks--which should be investigated.
Now, we shall examine the events that followed 9/11. You state your opinion :
wood goblin wrote:But I *also* believe the Bush administration showed little interest in terrorist activity and attempted to cover the tracks of their own ineptitude and disinterest in the matter after the attacks.
You should then state whether an administration with such a wanton disregard for protecting the public prior to 9/11 and such ambitions to deceive the public after 9/11 should then once again deserve the public's trust and receive carte blanche to make wars and ratchet up the police state to fight a war on terror that is entirely predicated on a response to a terror attack that occurred when they were asleep on the job.