Does it bother you that Bush* was warned of 9-11 and did nothing?

[Q]

- Forget what Clinton or Gore 'would have done'. Bush* was the person 'in charge' at the time when commercial airliners were 'allowed' to be hijacked and rammed into the WTC and Pentagon.

- We shouldn't forget that the Bush* administration was provided with literally dozens of credible warnings about an impending attack on American soil using planes. We can't forget that NO ONE in the Bush* government responded to these warnings or the attacks.

- We've been suckered for far too long. The Democratic party can no longer afford to allow Bush* to use 9-11 for political gain and at the same time obstruct any real investigation into why and how it happened.

- 9-11 gave Bush* the power to declare war and cancel our Bill of Rights. We MUST hit him hard on this issue BEFORE the 2004 election and demand a full investigation. We can't allow Bush* to use the death of 3000 to get back into our White House.

[lindashaw]

1. He did do something...Ashcroft was told not to use commercial

flights all that summer. What really bothers me is his remark when the first plane hit the tower: "Wow, he must be one bad pilot." And the look on his face when he was told that, plus his behavior when the second plane hit the second tower. That is the most bizarre behavior.

[Goldom]

2. well of COURSE it does!

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. I'm just wondering why the Impeachment Posse hasn't shown up.

*

[Skittles]

4. it bothers me he did nothing ON 9/11 too

he was warned of hijacked planes targeting buildings but when the first tower was hit, what did he do? ENTERED A CLASSROOM TO READ A KIDDIE BOOK, then scampered around the country like a f***ing COWARD. *SICK*

[LZ1234]

5. It's seems so plain to see but why can't so many others

see it? Why isn't there a demand for an investigation? Why isn't this on the front pages? They went after Clinton relentlessly. For almost 2 years that's all I read about in the papers - all the details about Clinton's infidelity, every single detail, more than I even wanted to know or should know. Yet, when it comes Bush and his grand scale level of lies and deception involving thousands of lives...nothing! Dead end. Bush should have been impeached a long time ago. The more we find out about Bush, the worse things look, yet, he's untouchable. We have to change that.

[BigBigBear]

6. Someone should point out

that Bush blamed BOTH of the two biggest national security failures of modern times on someone else - the "intelligence community".

Of course, they were right about both 9/11 and Iraq.

[nostamj]

7. "bother" is a rather lightweight word for the RAGE

I feel toward that fetid shitpile and all those that support it.

read The Price of Loyalty and you're realize that bushco NEVER cared about islamic terrorism despite warning from Clinton's team and the ENTIRE WORLD.

even after 9/11, they killed a few thousand Afghanis and called it a 'war on terra' before going off to seize Iraqi oilfields.

oh yeah, I'm bothered.

[bobthedrummer]

8. I am in the LIHOP

camp now.

[DinahMoeHum]

9. "Bother" is an understatement, Q, and even saying that it is

an understatement is an understatement in and of itself.

The way it's unfolding to me, it appears that *, CondoPizza Rice, and the rest of the administration did not merely drop the baton that Clinton and his NSA Sandy Berger handed to them re the al Qaeda and terrorrism. No, they did far worse. They snatched the baton and flung it into the nearest dumpster.

You can bet your life I'm mad as hell.

:argh::grr::argh::grr::argh::grr::argh::grr:

[earthman dave]

10. Bother me? It terrifies me. What will they do next? nt

[Q]

12. I use the word 'bother' because...

...it really doesn't seem to bother a lot of Americans that so many 'coincidences' happened in Bush's* favor.

- Of course...it doesn't help that the media refuses to help Americans connect the dots.

[NewJeffCT]

11. wrong - it's all Clinton's fault

It was less than 9 months into Bush's term, so 9/11 had to be Clinton's fault... though, the first WTC bombing in 1993 was also Clinton's fault because it was on his watch a few weeks into his presidency!!!

[SpiralHawk]

13. Actually, Bush* Immediately Took "Command"

upon learning of the 2nd plane crashing into the WTC. Watch the video.

He immediately got that familiar "deer in the headlights" look, demonstrating his lightning quick reflexes, then he boldly called for a copy of "The Pet Goat" so he could courageously sit and keep reading a frikking 5-year-olds book, while hijacked planes hurtled toward the nation's capitol.

Alas, the Commander in Chief was so pre-occupied with the juvenile goat book, that he was -- (not his fault, though) -- unable to muster as much as a pea shooter from "The World's Mightiest Military" to defend the Pentagon. But if only Bill Clinton had not got a BJ in the Oval Office, Bush would have been able to save America on 9/11. Never forget that.

So stop picking on Bush*, and have some Compassionate Conservativism. (OK, while, I'm at it. Lighten up on Jeff Christie or Rush Limbaugh, or whatever he is calling himself these days. He is not to blame for his long years of drug addiction and drug trafficking. Like Neil and Marvin Bush, he has an "ethical disability.")

Aren't you ashamed of yourselves?



* AWOL for over a year while honor-bound by solemn oath to be serving with the Texas National Guard in the 1970s; defeated by a clear majority of patriotic and discerning American voters in the 2000 election; appointed to office by the "legal" system.

[calimary]

14. He did, TOO, do something! He ran and hid.

Sat there on his sorry ass reading his own grade-level kiddie book (maybe that's why he couldn't put it down. Big type. Neat illustrations. Simple, one-syllable words so easy to pronounce. Then he hightailed it to Air Force One and flew all over the Sunbelt for much of the rest of the day, looking for a good hidey hole.

He DID do something on that day.

on edit -

I shall never forget that day, watching CNN, and noting, with interest how the anchors were wondering out loud - "WHERE is the president?" "WHERE is the president?" There was no word on him for HOURS.

At the same time, we'd already seen and heard plenty from Rudy Giuliani. Whatever my hesitance and distrust of Giuliani (and it's still there, believe me!) at least he got his ass out there in front of the cameras and microphones while America was floundering and in near hysterics and panic and horror and disbelief - and we were essentially LEADERLESS because nobody knew where bush was or what had happened to him or any of his people, just some pathetic pucker-lipped excuse-giving session from Karen Hughes. I'll never forget that - "WHERE is the president?" At least Giuliani stepped up, front and center, to try to answer questions and provide some reassurance, and A PRESENCE, and to lend the impression that NOT EVERYBODY had run scrambling, incommunicado, into the shadows for cover.

Meanwhile, in two days, I think it was, the cameras in NYC also showed one Bill Clinton OUT THERE ON THE SIDEWALKS, in public, comforting people, one-on-one. I will never forget the images of people literally sobbing into his chest and shoulders and how he'd put his arm around them and squeeze them in and let them cry and tell them we were gonna get through this. And they'd mostly just cling to him and cry. It was incredibly moving to see this. And people sought him out for this. He was out there, trying to help. While at the same time, NYC and everyone else was still waiting for even a crumb to fall from His Lordship's table in Washington DC. Apparently, NYC is STILL waiting for the recovery money he assured them was coming (I have yet to hear of anything they've received since. I think he just stiffed 'em). He didn't get his sorry, lazy, shameless ass up there til Friday. He should have made a beeline for it, the FIRST DAY.

I also remember Aaron Brown making a snide comment about Clinton, wondering if it was right for him to be out there stealing the spotlight from bush at a time like this. I wrote to Aaron Brown, reaming him out for that, saying that when I saw Clinton out there, I was glad, and that I MYSELF was greatly comforted by it, especially since bush somehow hadn't made time for such trivialities by then.

[Stephanie]

35. I concur on Giuliani

No matter how much I've hated him before or since, he was there when we needed him, he stood up. And don't tell me everyone would have done the same because NOBODY ELSE DID. So while I wouldn't vote for him, I remember him with appreciation. He handled it well.

[Cassandra]

15. WHERE WAS THE AIR FORCE!!!

I'm in NYC and I can assure you that the air force didn't turn up. Police Commissioner Kerik said that when the planes hit, he looked up and realized that we were being attacked from the air and he didn't have an air force. If the Federal Government can't manage the most basic function of defense, why are they there?

[indepat]

16. Surely not standing down

[Edge]

17. It bothers the hell out of me.

Thousands have died on 9/11, hundreds have died post 9/11 in the "War on Terror," and I'm sure many more will die before November...and if Bush is (re)elected, they all would've died in vain.

We can't forget about the war in Iraq. He had people LIE about WMDs (more specifically uranium) and he's running on the war in Iraq as well. Hundreds died from his lies. Something like five died just today. We went into that war because of the "imminent threat" factor that Saddam supposedly possessed and that he had WMDs. Now he says he went into war to liberate the Iraqis. That's bs. I hope people don't fall for that. The ends don't justify the means.

Hopefully Bush will be gone come November. It's very important for this country as well as the rest of the world that he will not see another term after this election.

[bearfan454]

18. Pearl Harbor all over again.

These dirty fuckers knew they could take away our Constitutional Rights if we were attacked. Patriot Act my ass ! This has been on their wish list for decades.

[foreigncorrespondent]

19. Yes it bothers me

Not only has he turned the world upside down and inside out, but he put us all in danger.

As an Aussie who was there during 9/11 I got a totally different perspective on it than most of my fellow countryfolk. It has affected me a lot differently than those who were safe on the shores of the sunburnt country. People look at me when I talk about 9/11 and how it has affected me, and think I am some looney.

What pisses me off the most is how that man has managed to put so much fear into me. I mean, I am not one who will back down easily, I will stand up for myself when it is needed, but that man has done something I have never experienced in my life.

With Sapphocrat still living over there I worry every day that something else will happen. Recently, I have had a real bad feeling that something big is going to happen soon. I don't want to go through life worrying if something happens will Sappho survive? I want to be with her if anything happens, that way, we can both bite the big one together.

Basically what I am trying to say is, I do not trust him. I do not appreciate the fear he has brought up in me. But my fear isn't unjustified because he did it once, and he will stoop so low as to do it again.

Sorry if what I have said doesn't make sense, but it is around 3:45am here, and I am not thinking with a clear mind.

[Valerie5555]

40. Am sure it bothers me too

since 2 people I knew indirectly are in Washington DC aka TERRORIST ATTACK CENTRAL for obvious reasons, and considering how the community in which they were had that Naval hospital or the BETHESDA NAVAL MEDICAL CENTRE, I wouldn't put it past that guy or the Shrub to allow something to happen there if it served his purposes, and considering how 1 of those people I knew is a Naval veteran, I would wonder if he will survive if "it" happened while he was having a medical or dental checkup there. Those 2 people I knew indirectly may suffer the consequences of any attack while Bushie is as "true to form," flying out of harm's way.

All that about Shrubby and Sept 11 also bothered me for I was also leery of another terrorist incident and how it may affect any dealings I may have with the States in other ways, for the Canada - U.S. border may be shut down in that case.

On edit as a Canadian citizen, it no doubt bothered me too, that CANADIAN TAXPAYER'S MONEY was WASTED on such :puke:fest movies such as "D.C. 9 - 11" that painted Bushie as the hero when he is in actuality a chickenpoop.

[chookie]

20. I have wondered all along...

I have wondered all along -- are they simply incompetent, or is everything going exactly according to The Plan?

It is documented that smirky and Condi were briefed on a number of occasions that Muslim terrorists were planning a dramatic attack on a high profile American target, and that terrorism was the greatest threat to American national security.

But instead of taking pragmatic action against this clear threat, in 2001 the Bush administration were talking about the need for missile shields and were staging tests of new technologies (which were shown to be deeply flawed).

During the same year, we all watched in horror while Israel/Palestine exploded into horrific violence -- all without comment or action from within the White House, except a qutoe from an unnamed source "It's time that the Israelis and Palestinians act like grownups."

*Why* did they ignore the intelligence -- which was certainly alarming and persuasive if not exactly precise as to dates and targets -- that a major terror strike was being planned -- and put their emphasis on such vagaries as missile shields? Why did they ignore the conflageration in Israel/Palestine that year?

More money to be made with missile shields? Getting the real threat to national security totally ass-backwards? Having a policy of doing the opposite of what Clinton did? Total disengagement from reality? Utter incompetence? Or were they deliberately ignoring the real threat to American national security -- because they wanted a spectacular event to galvanize the American people to get behind a plan they had laid out years before?

You just can't think this stuff away. It's all right out there in front of our faces. But it's so big, so terrible, that most people can't bear to face it, don't want to believe that this is happening to our country in our lifetimes. Bush is one of the greatest gamblers of world history -- he has staked *everything* on people going along with The Big Lie.

[skypilot]

21. Here's a question.

Does anyone know what George Tenet did or who he contacted on Sept.11? Tenet was supposedly "obsessed" and "losing sleep" over the fear that an attack was coming (according to Bob Woodward) and he was the one who gave Bush that famous Aug.6, 2001 briefing. When the first plane hit the WTC did anyone get a frantic phone call from Tenet? We all know that Bush claimed to think that the first crash was an accident and supposedly Rumsfeld and Dick Myers thought the same thing and everyone went about their business. Where was the OTHER George and who did he contact? What was his reaction after 8:46am on Sept.11?

[chookie]

25. And let's not forget Louis Freeh

Freeh took the threat of terror strike in the US deadly seriously. Under Clinton's administration, he undertook major counter-terror programs.

It is said that he could not tolerate the lack of interest that the Bush administration had in counter-terrorism measures. Ashcroft gutted much of the spending on counter-terrorism when he became AG. It is said that Freeh and Ashcroft could be heard screaming at each other and pounding on the table while in private meetings. Eventually he resigned. Didn't want the blood on his hands, I guess.

I don't know what Tenet did that day -- it will be most illuminating to find out.

Gary Hart has said that when he heard the news, he screamed -- "Oh my God -- this is what I said was going to happen!" HOW could anyone be taken by surprise, knowing what they did know, even if it was not exactly precise?

Were they all thinking '' Ooops! This must have been the sort of thing they were warning us about!" But instead of confronting it head-on -- they immediately went into denial and cover-up mode. Within a day or so, we went from responding to attacks themselves to implementing the plan that had been written up years before....

Or were they thinking -- "gee, we didn't think it was going to be *this* awful. Maybe we overdid it...."

Or, -- "Mohammed -- Atta-Boy!"

[AmandaRuth]

22. see this is one reason

i absolutely cannot stand republications, They are so over-propagandized or blinded by their lust for money or so have little conscious, or are so robotized by their doctrine or religion or whatever they cannot admit that this administration failed at the most important thing of a government, the first job they are charged with, keeping us safe. It is ok to spend 40 million and use the recourses of THE FBI for petes sake to manufacturer an impeachment (over a private matter) but the safety of the USA and the death of 3,500 (WTC) and 510 (in Iraq) mean nothing.


It should be shoved in their faces again and again, the terrorism meeting with the Clinton Administration the bush team was "too good, too smart" to attend. and the repeated warnings from various sources. When they bring up Clintons name, we should never never go on the defensive (we have nothing to defend) but immediately go offensive and just keep asking why did he fail at the first and most important job,

[Q]

23. Were Republicans so busy bragging that they were more moral...

...and 'superior' to the Clinton administration that they 'forgot' to heed the advice to be prepared for terrorism?

- That's what I can't understand: to this DAY the Bushie Republicans still pretend to be 'better' at national security issues than Democrats...yet the worse terrorist event in American History happened on THEIR watch and they act as if they have no obligation to defend their inaction.

- But what REALLY disturbs me is that Bush* is now able to use 9-11 to make himself appear as if he's a great leader and protecting this country from terrorists. And every one of us knows the ONLY reason he can do this and get away with it is because the media has betrayed the American people and sold out to the Bush* corporate government.

[arcane1]

30. Bush is NOT Clinton...

nothing else matters to Republicans... even dead Americans

they HATE America. They HATE freedom.

[Jacobin]

24. Am I bothered that an incompetent boob is in the WH?

Naaaaaa....only slightly miffed.

/sarcasm

[LeahMira]

26. Yes...

Does it bother you that Bush* was warned of 9-11 and did nothing?

Absolutely... it more than "bothers" me. But while I don't want to minimize this issue, I also don't feel that it needs to be front and center for two reasons.

The first reason is that I really do believe that most Americans are totally unwilling to believe that any President could behave so deliberately treacherously.

The other reason is that a lot of Americans are not interested in "history" even if it happened yesterday. Yes, they should be, but they aren't.

I really think that focusing too much on the past, especially the fact that Bush knew something was going to happen, is probably not as effective as focusing on the present and plans for the future.

Personally, I'd love to see Bush hauled over hot coals along with the whole unholy cohort, but I don't think revenge is ever as effective as optimism and hope.

[Q]

28. But what if focusing on the past can correct a great injustice...

...and put an end to Bush* using 9-11 as an excuse to do whatever he wants with our country and Constitution?

- And really...how many times must we 'move on' for the sake of political expediency? Election fraud...9-11...Bush* lying us into war. How many times? How many times can we play the sucker for this administration?

- Meanwhile...as we strive not to 'focus' on the past...the Media is painting Bush* as a heroic figure who can do no wrong.

[lovedems]

27. The buck always stops on someone else's desk in this administration

namely Clinton's.

Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't the rethuglican pukes having their convention in NYC at the site of attack or somewhere very close?

It isn't only 9-11 that SCREAMS investigation. There are numerous inconsistencies and it would only take one to bring this "evil" administration down. I have been waiting and waiting and waiting and wait....

[NoKingGeorge]

29. No. It 'bothers' me that my Country has experienced a coup.

The slow-one does not know where he is half the time. It is the cHeneys,wOlf's, lIbbys',pErles who 'bother' me. When the rEpubs realize that their objectives are secondary to the neo-cons, and they try to restore America, then the sh*t will hit the fan.
I object to focus on the slow-one. He controls/directs nothing.

[proud patriot]

31. heck Yeah It bothers me

That's why I have these words chalked on my car windows :

"911 Bush Knew"

"I support Ellen Mariani"

"911 Widows for 911 Truth"

[Th1onein]

32. I believe in LIHOP.

I believe in LIHOP. There are just too many weird things that happened before 911. Top officials being warned, on the 10th of Sept. to cancel their travel plans for the next day.....FEMA arriving in NYC on the 10th, the new emergency management software program being installed in NYC just days before 911....the jets not scrambled (this order had to come from very high up)...Jeb Bush signing into law on the 7th of Sept. an act that allowed him to declare martial law if there was a terrorist attack on the country...Ashcroft refusing to fly commercial air in July of 2001....Bush's strange lie about where he was when he saw the first plane hit the tower....Why he won't release the August 6th intelligence briefing....Oh yeah, Bush knew. He had the date and he had the targets. There is something rotten in Denmark, make no mistake about it.

[Dr Fate]

33. No, I for one was quite pleased!!!

Did not bother me in the least that Bush failed to prevent the worst terror attack in history. After 9/11, the television told me that Bush became a "good leader."

[jenm]

34. you bet your bippy it bothers me

Like, I understand wanting to be elected and all, but if the dem candidates aren't going to call bush on his treasonous actions, who among us is going to have any impact? Really now.

[Stephanie]

37. Brilliant graphic!

Thanks - that lays it out like nothing I've seen yet.

[jenm]

38. i got it in an email

pass it on

[aeon flux]

36. LIHOP = MIHOP

A cop that does nothing to prevent a homicide (for personal gain) is as bad as the one who committed the act.

[JetJaguar]

39. But it appears he was on the job

and that is more bothersome.



August 6, 2001: President Bush receives classified intelligence briefings at his Crawford, Texas ranch indicating that bin Laden might be planning to hijack commercial airliners. The memo read to him is titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US", and the entire memo focuses on the possibility of terrorist attacks inside the US. National Security Advisor Rice later claims the memo was "fuzzy and thin" and only 1 and a half pages long (his normal daily security briefings run two or three pages) but other accounts state it was 11 pages long.

http://www.cooperativeresearch.net/timeline/main/timelinebefore911.html

August 7, 2001, Tuesday
SECTION: GENERAL NEWS
LENGTH: 556 words
HEADLINE: Bush rejects vacation criticism
DATELINE: CRAWFORD, Texas, Aug. 7
UPI
...

But Bush insisted that he was doing White House work, too, as he began day three of his August getaway, the longest sojourn by a president in three decades.

"I'm working a lot of issues, national security matters," Bush said.

"I've got some decisions to make," Bush added, apparently alluding to his pending announcement on whether to allow federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

...



http://www.google.com/search?as_q=working+a+lot+of+issues&num=10&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=working+a+lot+of+issues&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=images


Not sure if this link will work, if not just Google

"working a lot of issues"