intelligent answers only--what would you have done after 9/11 if you were president?

Question

intelligent and serious answers please...i'm not asking if your hate or like president bush. i want to know what YOU would have done, being a newly appointed president....

i am just trying to get a better idea why so many people hate president bush....YES, he made mistakes...YES he could have handled it better......BUT..i think any new/inexperienced president would have had mistakes and handled things better. regardless if the president was republican or democrat. this is not a republican/democrat issue.

i think we need to support our troops and america regardles. this is where we are and there's nothing else we can do about it....except pray for things to be resolved soon.

and as for feirenheit 9/11----consider the source---michael moore is a republican hater and twist things to fit his needs. i'm sure some of that movie was true but his main goal is to make people look like idiots. he's the biggest idiot out there.

Answer 1

I would not have sat there reading a book to nursery children for 20 minutes

Answer 2

After 911
#1 Sent Osamma's Family to the Cuban Prison as possible terriost's
#2 Investigated and made Public the reason There were No Jet
Fighters responded to the threats.
#3 Demolished the training camps in Afganistain, and overthrew the taliebam for cooperating with OBL.
#4 Stayed out of Iraq as Sadam had nothing to do with Teriost.
#5 If I were going to change any Laws pertaing to our civil rights
I would have profiled Young Muslims between the ages of 18 and 40.

Answer 3

Up to and including the invasion of Afghanistan going after al queda I'd probably do most of what Bush did. But Iraq? No way in HELL! Or the Patriot Act? No way!

And I would use the secret courts provided for under FISA for domestic spying and intelligence gathering. And I'd probably toss out some raw numbers on the number of FISA warrants so the bad guys would know that we were watching and the citizenry would know that their rights were protected under due process.

However, all that said, I'd have been focused on bin Laden and al queda long before 9/11 as the previous administration was, not Hussein as the current administration was. I would have pushed the CIA and FBI to interoperate more and would have pushed for changes in the laws form the Nixon era that made that difficult. With a touch of luck, the whole thing would have been avoided and we wouldn't be the pariah that we are now on the global scene.

Answer 4

Well, I think I would have taken the course and the talk that Bush did, you need to talk tough right after an attack like that. However, I think I would have concentrated on Pakistan and getting Bin Laden. I would have left Iraq as it was. I think going into Iraq without concrete proof of Weapons of Mass Distruction was the equivalent of saying that they were guilty until proven innocent, which goes completely against what we believe in this country. And he was wrong. That totally turned me off to everything else that he did afterwards.

Answer 5

If you've read the 9/11 report you'll see there were mistakes made across the board...so still have not been corrected.
I'd fixed them 1st.

Also we should keep the eye on the ball and focus on the people the did this not stretch our military thin in Iraq.

Answer 6

Find out who the culprits were and begin a campaign to dismantle them in every way possible...A definite retaliatory strike would be in order.

The N.A.T.O. Alliance says that one member nation is attacked, all the other member nations are also attacked. I would have put much more pressure on the other member nations who signed the N.A.T.O. agreement to step up and join in the fight.

Answer 7

I would have told America to look deep within itself, and to find out why it is so hated by portions of the world. I would have then appealed to the UN, or the EU, to help in this process of self-analysis.

War just drives the hatred, the cancer grows. Get rid of the root causes, or at least amend them, and the fightign will stop

Answer 8

I would have done the same thing that Bush did. I think he made the right choise by going to war with them and getting the fighting off our soil.

Answer 9

I would do the same as president Bush except most of the middle east would be made of glass now from the nukes

Answer 10

Was I forewarned about the attack? Did I have plans of going to war with Iraq even before usurping the oval office? Do I do multi-million dollar business with the bin Laden family? Am I using the oval office as a power base to promote my own wealth and power? these questionns need to be answered first before i can answer your questio.