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Originally posted by fabsroman
Skinny,
It is very easy to say "this should have been done and that should have been done". In essence, it is very easy to be a Monday morning quarterback, or for those of us that watch Monday night football, a Tuesday morning quarterback.
Do you think Cheney might have been in shock, denial, etc. During a crisis, there are seven stages that people go through, I cannot remember them all, and the length of time it takes to get through all of them depends on the individual person.
When you are on the outside of the entire situation, it is easy to see what should have been done. However, when you are on the inside, it isn't as easy.
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Fabs, you're dead on if it was you or I in this situation. I would have been in shock if it happened to me. But the last I heard the VP doesn't travel alone.
He had the SS as bodyguards. His "Handlers" and/or Aides control his schedule, etc. I don't believe for one minute that Professionals like the SS couldn't react quicker to notify their command center in DC or that the Aides didn't have their act together enough to call the Boss.
Not sure how to make that more clear so we may have to agree to disagree.