If memory serves, a few of the 911 hijackers were illegals - they were living in the US on expired visas
But, but, but “Bush kept us safe!” Yeah, right. Unless you were in the Twin Towers.
And no, I’m not a “truther”. I’m only saying Bush didn’t protect us from 911.
It happened on his watch - nine months into his presidency. It’s on his record, just like the depression is on Hoover’s.
I would just say, that something which happens on a President’s “watch” is not necessarily his “fault”, if you will.
History is a bit more complicated, as you mention President Hoover and the Depression. It’s a stretch to say that the Depression was the fault of President Hoover.
Or what are you saying? Are you merely observing that some bad events happened when someone was president, or are you saying that such events should be blamed on said president for not having the foresight to prevent these events?
God knows I didnt like Bush as well. His so called leadership drove me up a wall. But i feel i do have to defend him on this one little point.
The attack was hatched, planned, and financed years earlier when Clinton was in office. As i understand it, the attack was supposed to take place while clinton was still in office. But the hijackers kept on pushing the date of their planned attack forward, much to bin laden’s frustration.
Apparently the hijackers found its not so easy to co-ordinate and schedule several hijackings of long distance planes with full fuel tanks all on the same day, around the same time. So the date of the planned attack kept on moving forward, past the end of the clinton administration, and straight into the beginning of the bush administration.
When bush came in to office, he inherited the bad national security situation left behind by the clinton administration. Among many other factors, we already had several terrorist cells within our borders who already completed their years long planning and training and were just looking and waiting for the right moment to strike.
I do recall that he put the airports on high alert, but i doubt there was much more he could do in his first 9 months in office that clinton couldnt (or wouldnt) do in his last few years in office.