Reply #19: Yeah, that's got to be true--and his wording of it is very strange, indeed

[Peace Patriot]

...Bush doing a good job "with his subordinates" to make sure "this is not a threat."

For one thing, in dealing with the ports, and other vulnerable points in security, you don't "make sure this is not a threat." Think of this: Say, the Saudis or the UAE sheikdom bought out our nuclear power plants. Would the idea be to "make sure this is not a threat." I mean, come on.

Second, Bush's "subordinates" have been a disaster on security issues. Think of Brown and Chertoff (FEMA and the Homeland), Cheney, Libby, and Rove (destroying an entire CIA counter-proliferation project), Rumsfeld (sending the Nat'l Guard, our emergency responders, to Iraq--not to speak of the security problems in Iraq itself). And then there's Rice, and Bolton, and the toadies and yes-men throughout the junta.

I can only think that Carter was speaking tongue in cheek, and, as you say, has ulterior motives. I mean, these people went in and slaughtered tens of thousands of innocent people who had NOTHING WHATEVER to do with 9/11, and our now turning our major port facilities over to a country that two of the 9/11 perps called home?! (--or maybe Carter knows something about 9/11 that WE don't). (Hm-m-m...)