More Incompetence at the Helm: Iran Gets Forbidden Equipment in Pentagon Sale

Certain equipment should not be sold. If we can't use it, then the government should simply destroy it.

 

Uh - doesn't it kinda' go without sayin' that the purpose of weapons is for war, and that your friendly local hairdresser or banker or nurse or Joe Average Factory Worker probably does not have a pressing need for an F-14 or a Humvee?

So who do ya' figger is really buying this stuff, especially since Iran is now the only country in the world flying the F-14 Tomcat - Duh!!

Ed

 

How is this incompetence at the helm? Are you suggesting that Bush ordered this sale? How is he implicated here?

 

Our government is , unfortunately, huge. Policies that are put in place years, or even decades ago, take on a life of their own. It's still being done that way because it's always been done that way.

Someone in the DOD should have realized that it is a policy that no longer makes sense. But, bureaucrats have tunnel vision. That's the nature of the beast.

Now that someone has realized what is going on, fix it. What ifs are non productive.

 

Be fair....if they didn't build up tinpot regimes at least a little bit how would they have an excuse to go in and change them :BangHead:

I dunno, but maybe it's something like the international politics version of a shoot-em-up computer game...It would probably be almost fun if real people weren't always involved

 

First, Presidents do not have time to run Ebay deals with other countries. If you think the President should get bogged down in this kind of stuff, then ... well ... I don't know what to say.

Second, did he know about it? If he did, then perhaps he should have stopped it. I don't know enough about it to say whether he should have or not. But it is unlikely that he even knew about it.

Not on the basis of this. This seems a lack of critical thinking skills, to me. Charging Bush with "incompetence" is the new sport. It is probably unfounded to a large degree. He has made plenty of mistakes to be sure. But incompetence is a pretty serious charge that is simply not borne out by the actual record. The only way to get there is to approach it from a political standpoint.

 

Something to consider on the incompetence argument... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw4Bhmm22xo.

 

What is it? I don't watch youtube.

 

It's contrasting video of W in a Texas Gubernatorial debate in 1994 in which he is lucid, without notes, does not pause nor stumble, has clear recall of statistical information and precisely enunciates difficult expressions.

Go forward 10 years to the presidential debates and he lacks all of the preceding mentioned qualities.

"...funding for dealing with um for um dealing with nuclear proliferation about 35% since I've been the president and secondly we've sa set-up what's called, well first of all I agree with uh my opponent that the biggest threat facing this country is weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a terrorist network and that's why p - proliferation is uh one of the center pieces of a multi-pronged strategy to make the country safer um."​

Then from a speech...

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and people and neither will we."​

Here's what one doctor thinks...

"Slowly developing cognitive deficits as demonstrated so clearly by the President can represent only one diagnosis, and that is...presenile dimentia." - Dr. Joseph Price The Atlantic, October 2004​

Quote from the video...

"Whatever the reason, whatever the diagnosis, even when he's rehearsed and prepared, George Bush has problems he did not have ten years ago." ​

Here's some more background about the video as well as a non you tube clip of it...
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20060206_bush_dementia/

 

I think that's pure nonsense, personally. When someone has a lot on their mind, it is very easy to stumble over words. In 1994, Bush had very little on his mind. Now, that is exponentially larger.

As for your quotes about "the enemy ... and so will we," anyone who does enough public speaking will say crazy things. I do it all the time. Everyone does. I think it is plainly obvious what he meant by those quotes, and your attempt to frame them negatively against him is pure childish politics. It is the most foolish of attempts to frame a discussion in a prejudicial way.

I speak far differently than I did ten years ago. To say that is dementia is idiocy. That doctor should be ashamed to show his face and should turn in his medical license unless he has actually examined Bush.

 

They're not my quotes, I was trying to describe to you what the video demonstrates since you were unwilling to watch it. You calling for the doctor's license without even viewing the data that is being presented just shows how blinded by partisan bias and nationalism you are and there is very little seeping through your already decided melon.

As to the childish politics, this was not a political question so much as a competency one. I think there are legitimate concerns over the competency of this man, as who he was a mere 10 years ago is far different from who is today.

He has a lot more on his mind now that he's president? Where is the precedence for this statement? Reagan was governor and a lot older then W when he became president. How about Kennedy, Clinton, Carter? You think that once someone gets promoted to that higher office they have a whole bunch on their mind and all of a sudden they start to sound like Jethro on weed?

I look forward to our continued bantering Larry but I'm now quite confident you have no interest in seeing anything differently then the way you always have. However, if our president believes that human beings and fish can coexist together peacefully, then so too can you and I.

Grace and peace to ya.

 

If such a statement is to be made, it should be made by a doctor with the experience and the exposure to Bush to make it. It can't be made by comparing videos. I can't imagine you disagree. How could you?