2006-09-23 04:52:29 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
If anyone else were president would they have stopped sep. 11th?
Probably not. Some things happen and cannot be stopped. Something happen because its time for them to happen.
We cant expect to have a nation of people like ours and not be attacked by some nation or organization on our own soil at some point. Its a miracle that it hadnt happened since Pearl Habor.
Some how we think we're untouchable. It takes some humbling to realize we are, and we need to function acordingly.
There have been terrorist threats and actions going on secretly against america for yeeeaaarrrsss, the white house officials deal with different things on a daily basis. Their assumtion eventually becomes that they have it so well controlled that nothing could ever happen.
Who'da thought someone would use our own planes? Our own people?
Wheres the man who thought it would happen, and thats the man who might have prevented it. Could he have been elected president at the time? Probably not. The people werent interested in homeland security, they were interested in other things. And thats reflected in how they voted.
We do it to ourselves.
2006-09-23 04:57:41 · answer #1 · answered by amosunknown 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one could have because by the time we elected a new president, the attack was already planned and the ineptitude of our government was already in place. Gore would have continued the incompetence of the Clinton administration and we would have had at least 1 other major attack since then. You cannot lead a country the way liberals like Clinton did and Gore would. Look at today, Democrats, the ACLU, and lawyers are worried about whether terrorists have rights. Their focus is on protecting the enemy's rights and not the country. President Bush has done a great job on this front. We have been safe because of him going after the terrorists.
2006-09-23 05:01:28 · answer #2 · answered by Chainsaw 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion I don't think that anybody could have stopped it, I guess that people think that the FBI or CIA or the government are some super duper organization, yes they are the best, but they can't know every single thing, I think that Bush did what he thought is best, people now say that they want the troops back, me too, but not before the job is finished. Iraq and Afghanistan were a threat, maybe not now, but they were going to be in the later future,. Is the same with all extremists. What if your family would have been in the towers that day, you mirth hate the people who did it. I guess Bush did good. He is trying to defend our way of life. Hope you see my point of view. What about giving me 10 points?
2006-09-23 05:00:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He ought to have paid more advantageous interest to the issue of terrorism from day one. there changed into testimony at he 9/11 commissions the the incoming Bush human beings disregarded the warnings and grew to change into down briefing of the out going Clinton human beings because they held them in contempt. Gore's administration does no longer have achieved this and ought to have saved lots of them on. even if this higher interest ought to have prevented the attacks we can in no way understand.
2016-11-23 17:13:29 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure. There was a memo in July saying that Bin Laden was planning to fly planes into the World Trade Center. Bush ignored it and Gore probably would not have. But I don't think that in itself would have been enough to prevent the attacks.
2006-09-23 04:54:48 · answer #5 · answered by Duffman 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Absolutely not. If Al Gore had been president we would have been attacked again by now. He probably would have apologized for the world trade center being in their way.
2006-09-23 04:55:16 · answer #6 · answered by vanhammer 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
He had all the inside information on Osama Bin-hiding so it sounds plausible but he surely wouldn't have the balls to do anything but strongly condemn his actions & ask for a U.N. resolution. What I"m sure of is we would have been attacked several time since then.
2006-09-23 05:03:51 · answer #7 · answered by Steven B 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Now thats a laugh, he would have asked the idiots if they would take cash or credit to try to bribe them, and then he would have blamed somebody else when they rammed the towers. I think the problem would have been much worse had he been in office because i don't think he has the testicular fortitude required to have prevented further attacks.
2006-09-23 04:56:09 · answer #8 · answered by jbbrant1 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
No, and we would be bogged down in a war on Global Warming. A real quagmire that wouldn't allow us to protect ourselves from the onslaught of tax invasions.
2006-09-23 04:59:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Probably wouldn't even have invaded Afghanistan. I mean, what did the Taleban have to do with Al Qaida? *whistles innocently*
Certainly harboring Osama doesn't warrant invasion. :)
2006-09-23 04:57:08 · answer #10 · answered by dane 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋