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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf 9/11 had happened under a Democratic President?
Would the nation have come together as they did under George W Bush? At least, until he decided to invade Iraq.
Would the Republicans have been as generous as the Democrats in holding off criticisms for the attack?
I don't think so.
They would still be talking about how weak the Democrats are on national defense and how the Democratic President was asleep on the job on 9/11.
In my opinion, we would have never heard the end of it.
Do you think the Republican Party would have put politics aside?
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)First thing they did, within hours of the attacks, was start planning to make political use of it to further their agenda.
We're just lucky that they were so fucking incompetent that they couldn't implement the rest of the "plan" (or pipe dream) to remake the entire Middle East--we could have been in WWIII.
patricia92243
(12,590 posts)truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)virgogal
(10,178 posts)Senator Tankerbell
(316 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)spanone
(135,627 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)people way before Dubya got there.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)https://www.facebook.com/Bipartisanism/videos/893314344078908 (click to see this video; not yet available on youtube)
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)JI7
(89,172 posts)If not the pres at least a bunch of top officials .
We would never heard the end of it and it would be a given that a republican would win next election.
The shit media plays a huge role in all of this
malaise
(267,785 posts)He tore them a new one and said if it were Democrats in charge we would never have heard the end of it.
tavernier
(12,322 posts)for putting our country in such jeopardy, and Iraq would never have occurred.
i have to think if it had happened during Clinton, could we have avoided the GWB aftermath?
Hindsight.
kentuck
(110,947 posts)the Democratic President.
They would still be getting political mileage out of it.
Democrats did what they thought was best for the country, even though they knew they had a great opportunity to attack Bush and Cheney and the Republicans. Republicans would not have been so kind.
malaise
(267,785 posts)kentuck
(110,947 posts)uppityperson
(115,674 posts)kentuck
(110,947 posts)I don't think they have changed a whole lot.