Posted on 10/17/2015 5:58:21 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Bush has been warned that Bin Laden was planning to attack the US
On Aug. 6, 2001, President George W. Bush received a classified review of the threats posed by Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network, Al Qaeda. That morning’s “presidential daily brief” — the top-secret document prepared by America’s intelligence agencies — featured the now-infamous heading: “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.” A few weeks later, on 9/11, Al Qaeda accomplished that goal.If Bush had really been so concerned about our security, he would have ordered the State Department and related agencies to check up on the activities of recent Muslim visitors from suspect Middle Eastern nations.In the aftermath of 9/11, Bush officials attempted to deflect criticismthat they had ignored C.I.A. warnings by saying they had not been told when and where the attack would occur. That is true, as far as it goes, but it misses the point. Throughout that summer, there were events that might have exposed the plans, had the government been on high alert. Indeed, even as the Aug. 6 brief was being prepared, Mohamed al-Kahtani, a Saudi believed to have been assigned a role in the 9/11 attacks, was stopped at an airport in Orlando, Fla., by a suspicious customs agent and sent back overseas on Aug. 4. Two weeks later, another co-conspirator, Zacarias Moussaoui, was arrested on immigration charges in Minnesota after arousing suspicions at a flight school. But the dots were not connected, and Washington did not react.
According to the article quoted above, the warnings actually had started coming as early as May 1st, so Bush had time to react.
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It's the likes of you that are telling the people they are stupid.
Perhaps they know something you don't.
And by constructing a new big government behemoth in DHS that had nothing to do with 9/11 and serves only to reduce our freedoms.
But you didn’t ignore.
You posted to me, LOL.
“It is unfortunate that people are falling for Trump the trojan horse.”
My thoughts exactly.
I knew in late December 2000 early January 2001 before Bush took office and B Clinton was still President that there was going to be a terrorist attack.
I didn’t know when or where or what was going to be the target, but I knew there was going to be a terrorist attack.
How did I know there was going to be a terrorist attack?
Jessie Jackson told the entire world, all you had to do was listen.
Bush’s single greatest failure by far was declaring “Islam is peace”. We had a perfect teachable moment, and political correctness and fear took over. And now we wallow in a mire of our own making, trying to live with the cancer of Islam in our communities.
Bush should have told the American people that Islam is a totalitarian, supremacist ideology that is not compatible with our Constitution, and that it is an implacable foe of our freedom and liberty. While not strictly illegal,the American people should treat it exactly as they do NAZI-ism.
Shun it.
We have always been at war with Islam.
Nonsense. Bush did not secure the border. Bush spent too much money. Bush did not defend himself against his domestic attackers. This is all true. But Bush did not build the wall between the CIA and FBI. He did not fly the planes into the towers. He did not have control of the Intel community long enough to understand the damage done by Clinton’s red diapered doper babies.
But most of all Bush had an American citizenry who neither had the balls or the foresight to understand the existential threat that jihadists were. This reflected in a Congress that tried to get Bush to withdraw from Iraq before the job was done at the behest of their constituents. Both left and right guilty of that pernicious cowardice. Bush pushed on anyway and got Iraq under control. Obama heeded the call of the ill informed characterless populace and gave Iraq back to the jihadists.
You want to blame somebody besides the jihadists blame yourself and your fellow Americans who as a group would not have nuked Japan or firebombed Germany.
Of course we knew an attack was coming. We provoked them, and already had Americans carrying out attacks on Japanese interests from China.
“he makes supporters look elsewhere”
No they don’t. Trump’s poll numbers just go up ever higher.
“”” It is unfortunate that people are falling for Trump the trojan horse.
It’s the likes of you that are telling the people they are stupid. “””
Not stupid, just fooled by a liberal. Trump is the same blowhard now that he has always been. Every election he pretends to run in order to get attention and stroke his ego. And every election he fades away when the heat gets turned on. It is easy to talk big when you have never sat in the big chair.
So what does Trump do when he fails? Does he publicly bash himself? Or had he never made a mistake?
You are so right....Trump keeps going up, and the louder these people yell, the higher he goes!!!....
In additionn Bush never talked about any terror threats during the campaign
Education —Drugs for seniors and after he was elected CFR
There is always plenty of blame to go around when a horrific event like 9/11 happens. Still, from what I know, about 90% of it has to be put at Bill Clinton’s door.
Doesn’t mean George Bush couldn’t have done some things differently and better, both before and after. I fault him more for the after than the before.
I am a Trump supporter. But I wish that on this one, he would have been clearer that he holds Bill Clinton accountable, not just George Bush. Getting jabs in at Jeb is not the point.
And I wish he would say, at least in general terms, what approach he would change. One thing he has said is that he won’t let in thousands of refugees from Syria. Still, I’d like to know what he plans to do about student and H1-B visas from Muslim countries. What about the creation of Muslim enclaves in our cities that are no-go zones for the authorities? I’d like to know that he has specific plans to strengthen the FBI and the CIA to make them more effective. I don’t need to know the details, I just want to know he’s near the top of his list in his thinking about what he would do.
Obama has weaponized the IRS, the DOJ and the FBI to use against his domestic enemies, all the while facilitating our Muslim enemies abroad. Right now doing something about that is far more important than whether Bush is responsible for 9/11 or not.
The August 6 briefing wasn’t a warning of an imminent attack but a summary paper of what was known about bin Laden. It did not point to the 9/11 attack, only a general threat.
By August 6, the plot was practically complete. I really don’t think the FBI could have gone from zero to arrest in a matter of weeks.
The true foundation for the attack was laid years earlier.
I hope some of the leftist pinheads leave Bernie and vote Trump.
I hope people regain discernment and understand how Stupid Leaders allowed 9/11 to happen.
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The Gorelick memo of 1995 erected a “wall” between counter-intelligence and law enforcement, which impeded investigation of al Qaeda in the run-up to the 9/11 attacks. Jamie Gorelick, then working as Deputy Attorney General under Janet Reno was author of the memo.
On April 14, 2004 during sworn testimony before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, Attorney General John Ashcroft pointed out that in 1995 a Justice Department memorandum strengthened the “communication wall” between the CIA and the FBI, and even between divisions within the FBI itself. President Clinton’s Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick authored the memorandum that greatly stymied information-sharing between intelligence agents and criminal investigators.
In other news, you need to ease off Trump and let him play “Dream On.”;-)
Lie much?
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