Retro History, it's soooooo in!

The latest Bushie to speak out for Bush's spy on Americans plan is Air Force General Michael Hayden, ex-head of NSA. Hayden's comments, "Had this program been in effect prior to 9/11, it is my professional judgment that we would have detected some of the 9/11 al Qaeda operatives in the United States and we would have identified them as such."

Uh . . . I thought we HAD recording after recording, tape after tape, clue after clue about 9/11 but nobody who was able to put it all together, because when we troll for all the info we can get, we get more than we're capable of understanding and piecing together. How about if we spend a little less time trying to gather in every last piece of data we can find and a little more time on teaching Arabic and other needed languages to the folks doing the piecing together. How about focusing instead of just grabbing everything and hoping something needed is in the bag?

I know, how about going back in time and after invading Afghanistan, work to ensure that the al Qaeda operatives are captured and that country is put back on its feet so they can't use it again the way they did instead of letting the Afghan operation rot while Bush takes out the guy who insulted daddy.