Public Nuisance on the Bush administration’s effectiveness int he War on Terra:
Let’s review that for a moment. The original target was not something wildly unreasonable, like ‘actually correct security failings in the near future’. It was, more than two years after 9/11 to have a plan of how to assess infrastructure security. That has been pushed back – the administration now expects to take 40 months after 9/11 before they have a plan. The actual assessment will be another five years. That means that, if he wins, Bush doesn’t expect to have assessed infrastructure vulnerability to terrorists by the end of his second term. Actually correcting vulnerabilities will presumably take even longer – not to mention there’s no money for it.
This is from an administration whose major claim is their effectiveness in fighting terrorists. It’s the only area in which poll show Bush with a large advantage over Kerry. If people find out just how weak the Bush anti-terror effort is, he’s going to be in deep trouble.