Remembering that George W. Bush Was Amply Warned Before 9/11 and Did Nothing, Absolutely Nothing!

[babsbunny]

Remembering that George W. Bush Was Amply Warned Before 9/11 and Did Nothing, Absolutely Nothing!

http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12053

Submitted by BuzzFlash on Wed, 12/08/2010 - 4:04pm.

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RON SCHALOW FOR BUZFLASH

"On 9/11, it was obvious the intelligence community had missed something big." -George W. Bush

Except for the following clues, there was hardly anything for poor George to go on that would lead him to harden our defenses.

In 2002, Condi Rice said, "All of this reporting about hijacking was about traditional hijacking. You take a plane-people were worried they might blow one up, but they were mostly worried that they might try to take a plane and use it for release of the blind Sheikh or some of their own people." Adding "But, you know, again, that terrorism and hijacking might be associated is not rocket science."

And here's Rice talking to the 9/11 Commission: "I remember very well that the president was aware that there were issues inside the United States. He talked to people about this. But I don't remember the Al Qaida cells as being something that we were told we needed to do something about." Oh, good grief.

[Ezlivin]

1. If this had happened on a Democrat's watch...

...there would have been no "kumbaya" moment, no reaching across the aisle, no coming together.

This country would have split wide open as Republicans launched investigation after investigation and subpoenaed every cabinet level member and below. The president would have been impeached.

Make no mistake: The only reason this country came together after Bush's criminal negligence is because the Democrats acted honorably, if perhaps a bit naively.

[Dawson Leery]

3. As you said

I remember EVERYTHING that occurred during those times! EVERYTHING!
LIHOP.

[Mike Nelson]

5. Agreed

wish this was pointed out more often.

[KansDem]

2. "I don't remember the AQ cells as being something that we were told we needed to do something about"

Liar.

"Clinton warned Bush about bin Laden"

[Jeffersons Ghost]

4. K&R

[Ghost in the Machine]

6. Time Magazine did a story on this, too...

"Sometimes history is made by the force of arms on battlefields, sometimes by the fall of an exhausted empire. But often when historians set about figuring why a nation took one course rather than another, they are most interested in who said what to whom at a meeting far from the public eye whose true significance may have been missed even by those who took part in it.

One such meeting took place in the White House situation room during the first week of January 2001. The session was part of a program designed by Bill Clinton's National Security Adviser, Sandy Berger, who wanted the transition between the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations to run as smoothly as possible. With some bitterness, Berger remembered how little he and his colleagues had been helped by the first Bush Administration in 1992-93. Eager to avoid a repeat of that experience, he had set up a series of 10 briefings by his team for his successor, Condoleezza Rice, and her deputy, Stephen Hadley.

Berger attended only one of the briefings—the session that dealt with the threat posed to the U.S. by international terrorism, and especially by al-Qaeda. "I'm coming to this briefing," he says he told Rice, "to underscore how important I think this subject is." Later, alone in his office with Rice, Berger says he told her, "I believe that the Bush Administration will spend more time on terrorism generally, and on al-Qaeda specifically, than any other subject."

The terrorism briefing was delivered by Richard Clarke, a career bureaucrat who had served in the first Bush Administration and risen during the Clinton years to become the White House's point man on terrorism. As chair of the interagency Counter-Terrorism Security Group (CSG), Clarke was known as a bit of an obsessive—just the sort of person you want in a job of that kind. Since the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen on Oct. 12, 2000—an attack that left 17 Americans dead—he had been working on an aggressive plan to take the fight to al-Qaeda. The result was a strategy paper that he had presented to Berger and the other national security "principals" on Dec. 20. But Berger and the principals decided to shelve the plan and let the next Administration take it up. With less than a month left in office, they did not think it appropriate to launch a major initiative against Osama bin Laden. "We would be handing a war when they took office on Jan. 20," says a former senior Clinton aide. "That wasn't going to happen." Now it was up to Rice's team to consider what Clarke had put together."

http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020812/story.html

[Boxerfan]

7. Don't forget Italy-When Shrub slept on a carrier due to threat of a plane being used as a missile.

And of course the pdb on August 6th was named what Condoleeza???


ALL before 9/11

[Ghost in the Machine]

8. kick!