Fire people? right now Gonzales hangs by a thread because he fired people.

Now it seems no matter what bad things happen, the first impulse that some people have is to fire someone.

What difference would it have made? The problems that lead up to that intel failure can be laid at the doortstep of the Congress just as easily as Tenet.

Right now the Democrats are trying to undo the Patriot Act, there has been a strong desire on the part of many to stop the NSA surveillance program as well.

I am not defending Tenet, but the idea that Bush was somehow incompetent because his first reaction was not off with their heads…makes it plain that a lot of people do not realize how entrenched those problems and shortcomings were, and to some extent still are.

And speaking of incompetent, the UN weapons inspectors were saying as late as 1999 that Saddam had not only weapons programs, but was believed to have weapons stockpiles as well. So the people who thought Bush was incompetent to keep Tenet voted for the Democrats who would let the UN have a say in our foreign policy.