Thursday, December 31, 2009

A Guide to the Blame Game Following Failed Terror Attack

A Guide To The Blame Game Following Failed Terror Attack -- Wall Street Journal

Keeping track of who is blaming whom for the failures in U.S. intelligence that allowed Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to almost blow up a U.S. airliner last week can be confusing, so Washington Wire compiled a guide in an attempt to make some sense of the Washington blame game starting with President Barack Obama.

According to the president, it was the whole system that failed. “But what’s also clear is this: When our government has information on a known extremist and that information is not shared and acted upon as it should have been, so that this extremist boards a plane with dangerous explosives that could cost nearly 300 lives, a systemic failure has occurred. And I consider that totally unacceptable,” Obama said Tuesday from Hawaii, where he is vacationing with his family.

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My Comment: We are now witnessing the worse in our political leaders, and we have no one to blame but ourselves .... the electorate who continues to re-elect all of these politicians.

On a side note .... the Wall Street Journal's guide on who is blaming who was a joy to read.

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