02-18-2005, 02:05 PM
N u b l i Wrote:Clinton had too much stuff to do that was of a more important matter, since most threats back then were hoaxes. Since nobody (not even Congress) would listen to him for the first three years of his second term, he couldn't get ANYTHING accomplished. So even if he did want to do something about it, chances are he wasn't able to.
Hoxaes? You mean to tell me in the 90's when Osama was coming to power in the middle east that was a hoax? Sweet jebus of joseph we've all been played! In the Clinton era there was mounting evidence of an imminent terrorist attack on the US on US soil. Clintons response was a few missle vollies at pretty unimportant targets. So it was not just has second term these reports were coming in they were also coming in during his first term.
N u b l i Wrote:As for Bush, there was no communication failure, he deliberately ignored it. I remember Bush's first year in office. His numbers were slipping. People didn't think he was a great president. So Osama's attack on 9/11 was the perfect thing Bush needed to gain support. The problem is, he's running out of war excuses to boost his popularity. He still doesn't do shit in office, just like his pre-9/11 days
So I guess your NOT following the internal "investigations" into both the CIA and FBI. Because unless this is some great goverment cover up to make Bush look good, which it really does nothing for him, then there was most certainly ALREADY a break in communications between the president and the FBI and CIA. There have been numerous reports as of late that not only was he not getting the "full" story on the middle east but also that because of that the pentagon field agents were unable to fullfill objectives in the middle east. Its been proven that the director of the CIA and the director of the FBI both had personal agends and that they saw fit to follow those as opposed to Bush's agenda. So we are suppose to blame Bush, who really was not even president yet, for 9/11 while we know that the two most powerful intelligence burea's in America were not even doing their job of keeping the president informed? Bah!
I have no fondness for Bush but it has less to do with 9/11 and more to do with his current economic and social standings than anything else. So you can go hate Bush all you want but do not hate him for 9/11 hate him for how he is going to drive america into economic and social disastor. Why should you not blame Bush for 9/11? Because its most obvious that while he MIGHT have played a small contributing factor in the attack he most certainly was NOT the only reason it came to pass. Greater security measures should have been taken in the Clinton era, or at least a desire for stronger security measures, in airports and at immigration offices long before Bush came to power.
"One murder makes a villain, millions a hero. "
- Beilby Porteus, Death, A Poem