Reply #39: Thanks, Boloboffin.

[RH]

That does help.

:toast:

My sense of frustration with Dulce Decorum and others is not contrived.

Being of a rational disposition naturally (some German blood) I do tend to be uncomfortably perplexed by methods which would at best be described as intuitive.

My view of Dubya is that he probably did know something of what was was going on but yet more likley he did not know so much about all of it. How much would you have trusted him to know? Or do you seriously believe him to be meaningfully in charge? That's just not what government in the 21st century is like.

The line of enquiry that I would hope to see pursued would be with respect to another exercise known to be arranged for the same day, 9/11. Dubya's notorious first reaction would seem to me to fit with him understanding that a security exercise that he'd already known about had gone terribly wrong, hence his "bad pilot" remark etc.