What would Democrats have done when 9/11 hit us? I am curious what may have been done differently.?

Question

What do you think will change if election time comes and Democrats win the seats?

Answer 1

Democrats would have went after Bin Laden, and NOT turned this into a personal vendetta for a war against Iraq, like Bush did. SInce the day he went into office, Bush was trying to go after Iraq (saddam in particular). Democrats are often times seen as wimps or *******, but I have a feeling that they would have gone after the right TARGET!!!

Answer 2

Big difference would have been focus on getting Bin Laden and on making Afghanistan a successful state in a much faster timeframe. There would have been no invasion of Iraq (barring anything new coming up to justify it). The Afghanistan invasion would have happened regardless of who was President, while the Iraq invasion would not have.

Dems would also be doing a lot more on nuclear security - programs to ensure that nuclear materials aren't proliferating on the black market. That, right now, is our biggest vulnerability, I believe.

I wish I could say that screening technologies at airports would have been beefed up (including for checked bags), and that a ports security program would have been implemented. Unfortunately, while I fault Bush for paying NO attention to these matters, I've seen enough in government to think that no Democrat would have put much more into that effort.

By the way, your detail question is a completely different question - what WILL someone do now is different than what WOULD someone have done. Example - Iraq was wrong from the start, but now we're stuck with it, and while Dems want to pull out on a timetable, I'm one who's not convinced that that will actually fix anything, unless we have a DAMN good strategy for managing that region.

Answer 3

I think that they would have gone into Afgahnistan, but not Iraq- as Iraq was completely uninvolved. They therefore would not have created nearly the ire in the muslim world, nor created a new bastion for radical islamic terrorists to grow.

They would have maintained international sanctions against Saddam, keeping him safely in his box.

They may have dealt less harshly with Iran, which may have not resulted in such an aggressive posturing from Amanedejad. Iran didn't see America as its enemy until Bush identified them in his Axis of Evil in his 2002 state of the union address.

In all likelyhood, the terrorist attack may have still occurred- although, if you take Richard Clarke's view of the situation, it was possibly preventable if the executive wasn't off on vacation and made it a priority. Clinton claims (in his book) that he told Bush of the three most significant problems to worry about and address. One of those was Al Queda- and Bush ignored his predecessors advice.

Answer 4

Who really knows? I would hope they wouldn't have told all the lies that Bush has. Whether he's just stupid and makes up things as he goes along or he's being fed through the wire in his ear. (or both) The Bush adminstration has lied to the American public about reasons for this war just to justify their actions. Whatever Democrat runs next time, he/she will win.

Answer 5

Look what we did when there was a democrat in the white house when we were attacked prior to 9/11...NOTHING! For some reason they want to regard the attacks as criminal acts rather than acts of terrorism. I honestly believe our lack of a swift retaliation in each instance of attack only emboldened the terrorists. In their eyes we were weak. One wonders what might have been had Clinton taken custody of Bin Laden when he had the chance ( on three occasions ) instead of worrying about his impeachment scandal and how it would affect his political career.

Answer 6

if it was up to me, we would just cut out all this dicking around and just take over the entire planet already. (kidding.)

who can say, though? it's not like all democrats receive thought-waves from a central computer or something. every individual person is different.

Answer 7

Masterminds behind the Cole and the 1st World Trade Center were brought to justice, but it was pursued as a Law Enforcement matter. My guess (as a Kerry supporter) is that Gore would've pursued it as such and we would've bombed and/or invaded Afganistan (Clinton ordered some missile strikes--check your news if you don't believe me here), but we would never have invaded Iraq.

Answer 8

One thing that they would not have done is invade Iraq. this took away lots of the resources that were hunting osama in Afghanistan and actually increased terrorism in that area and further destabilized an already unstable region.

Answer 9

We would have captured Bin Laden by now. We would have finished the job in Afghansitan. Then, maybe, we would have gone after Iraq. But seeing as how Iran and North Korea are the bigger threats...

Answer 10

We already know what the communist party would do. (Oh, pardon me but a democrat is just a communist in a party dress)

Bill Clinton was president when the trade towers were hit in 1992. He did nothing. When he had the chance to get Bin Laden he did nothing. When Marines were killed in Lebanon, he cut and ran. When Marines were killed in Somolia, he cut and ran. When radical Islam attacked the Serbs in the Serbian's homeland, he aligned our military WITH the Islamofascists AGAINST the Serbs who were trying to hold on to their homeland against Islamofascist subversion and expansion.

The neo-communists (dems) consider Vietnam to be their glory days. They turned public opinon against the war so effectively, that when our forces were on the verge of complete victory, they rejoiced when we cut and ran.

The neo-comms today are telling us how they would handle the war in Iraq, perhaps you aren't listening. If you are, you're not paying attention. The democrats have repeatedly said they would wave the white flag, tuck America's tail between its legs and cut & run.

They want to ride to victory in November on a white horse, but with them comes a white flag.