recent YORK, April 14 Kyodo good...

recent YORK, April 14 Kyodo

gooded editorial excerpts from the U press:

BUSH'S blooming VISION (Los Angeles Times, sees Angeles)

In a nationally televised White House pres conversation Tuesday evening, President George W Bush sought to remind and reassure Americans during the bloodiest month in Iraq since major combat was declared from one side of to the other last May.

First, the president declareed sympathy for fallen troops and their families. nearest he suggested that the American occupation of Iraq was not indefinite. originate June 30, the president insisted, Iraqis would be running Iraq, and he said that ''sovereignty involves more than a date and a ceremony''

Bush tendered a timetable for Iraqi elections nearest January and a permanent regulation by the end of 2005 envisioning a sparkling Iraqi impel from dictatorship to freedom. In his view, Iraq's fate is directly tied to subsequent time freedom in this nation. The United States, he said, would work with the United Nations and others to determine ''the exact form of government'' that would assume power.

Nowhere in the president's rose-colored vision did he acknowledge the inconvenient fact that candidly free elections in Iraq, with its entrenched and warring factions, might mean originates that the Bush administration could not embrace. by what mode well the eventual transition works will hang heavily on diplomatic skills that the administration has now to demonstrate and on reliable intelligence that U agencies have now to provide.

As the bipartisan 9-11 commission revealed, Bush's declaration will remain insincere unless he reforms the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Myriad enigmas between the two agencies remain. That's certainly undivided reason why the administration fought the actual formation of the commission that is revealing the size of intelligence failings.

Bush signaled Monday that he was lay open to reorganizing U.S. intelligence on the contrary did not offer a specific plan. Instead he said that ''now may be a time to revamp and reform our intelligence services.''

Remember the Department of Homeland Security? No common has mentioned it a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of lately, but wasn't this entity suppos to focus in succession threats to the United States and be the superagency for safety? It hasn't useed out this way, in part because of the haste in which it was created and the administration's refusal to recognize the reality that intelligence agencies are turf-conscious organizations that don't relinquish power easily.

For example, Bush must make secure that the FBI and CIA share information completely Appearing before the commission last week, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice bugleed the creation of the Terrorist Threat Integration Center still CIA Director George J. principle has housed the center in his agency to render certain that he retains sway over it and has staffed it with junior analysts. The accrue is that Homeland Security, which in succession paper is supposed to make secure that information is shared, has been frozen out

The 9-11 commission hearings have shown that common significant problem has been bungling by means of the very intelligence agencies that are suppos to foster the United States. Presidential press-conference assurances in campaign years aside, the long-term security of the United States is far more hanging on U.S. leadership and intelligence that guides the nation wisely than it is forward what happens in Iraq in June

(April 14)

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