Is everyone else getting tired of the 9/11 blame game?

Question

We have President Clinton blaming the republicans. Then Rice blames Clinton and the democrats. Now, Hillary Clinton is re-blaming Bush and the republicans. I personally do not care who is to blame for what happened because we cannot change that now. But, if the Republicans and Democrats could stop bickering over who is at fault, perhaps we could concentrate on how to prevent it from happening again.

Answer 1

Agreed. They are all distracting from the actual enemy, which is a bad thing.

Al Qaeda. Khalid Sheik Mohammed. Etc.

Those fellows ENJOY seeing all this political in-fighting! If the public can be tricked into blaming their own leadership, the terrorists will have achieved their goal.

The goal of terrorism is to convince a people that their defenders cannot defend them, so those people will submit to the will of the terrorists.

Answer 2

Your point is valid and I agree with it. However, what did the Clinton administration do that we need to learn from.

1. He refused to retalliate against terrorist attacks. Specifically, the bombing of the WTC, Somalia (Black Hawk Down tells this story), USS Cole, etc. When we do not respond with force, the terrorists are enboldened. They then think that they can attack us again.

2. The Clinton administration was obsessed with polls and image. See Dick Morris, a former advisor. Leaders cannot lead on polls. Leaders must do what is right, especially when it is unpopular.

These 2 issues are very big and must be addressed. We are doomed if we do not learn from history. I am tired of finger pointing over things that cannot be changed.

Whether you agree or not, Democrats have championed rights to terrorists that the out of control activist courts tell us they have. The Geneva Convention does not apply to terrorists, yet the Supreme Court said it does. This problem shows the need to put good judges on the Supreme Court.

I believe there is a lot of truth into what Clinton was accused of. I have no respect for him and feel he was one of the worst Presidents ever. He is not an effective leader. I know someone who worked in the intelligence field and that person says a lot about what went on in the 1990's.

The message I learned from this person is we either have all of our civil rights protected or we defend this country against an enemy that wants to kill us. If we want the second, we must do things that people do not like to work. It is an all or nothing thing.

Answer 3

The short answer is yes! However, we must look at both parties and realize that both of them are culpable. The irony of the whole argument is that we have moved past 9/11 and must go on with life. Yes, terrorism is a constant threat, but the real danger to America is from within its own borders. Especially when we elect people year after year to do the same blame game over and over. It is time for us to take America back!!! Read, listen, and understand what the true dangers are that we are facing. The honest American needs full time good paying jobs, with insurance benefits. America needs you to take back what we have given the world since the end of WWII. Pride in leadership, capable work force, genuine education, good family structure, and the will for all Americans to prosper. When was the last time you and your neighbor had a cookout together and enjoyed an evening at home?

Answer 4

The blame does matter because knowing precisely what went wrong is important in preventing the same from happening again.

Why not blame Bush? He had specific intelligence weeks before this happened that terrorists planned to fly into buildings. When that actually happened, he sat on his hands when some of the planes could have been prevented from hitting their targets.

Even worse, he used the attack with a pack of lies to seduce Congress into an immoral war against the wrong target, to trash civil liberties, and as an excuse to create another layer of useless bureaucracy in the Department of "Homeland Security" which even sounds like something out of the third Reich.

One of the best ways to avoid further attacks would be to have a leader and a policy that did not simply inflame and give fuel to the enemy by imperialism instead of diplomacy and arrogance instead of obeying international law.

Answer 5

those of you that think that Bush and the illuminati are not responsible for 9/11 are deluding yourselves. the proof keeps piling up against the President and his cronies. the attack on the twin towers is what is called a false flag conspiracy. this kind of action goes as far back as the revolutionary war. the Boston Tea Party which lead to the British massacre of the patriots which was the spark that ignited the war was planned by the leaders that wanted war with Britian. it was meant ot outrage the citizens and bring those states loyal to the crown into the union. the men at the Alamo were sacrificed so that we could go to war with the Mexicans and take land away from them. the sinking of the Maine was a farce perpetrated on the public so the government to invade Cuba and put Castro in power. that was a good one. WWI was started by the Germans who set their own embassy on fire. Roosevelt let Pearl Harbor happen. he actually forced the Japanese to strike first. Why were there very few officers killed that day? they were told not to be on the ships. how did we ramp up manufacturing so fast to supply the war machine? everything was already in place. the Vietcong did not attack the US gun boat in the Gulf of Tonkin as we were told. terrorist did not fly planes into the twin towers or the pentagon. there is just too much evidence to the contrary. there are now hundres of experts calling for an independent investigation. there is a movement in the Congress, also. if you watch the towers fall in slow motion you can see the effects of the explosives planted of each flood. if you look at the evidence and still think Bush did not have anything to do with 9/11 this country is in more trouble than we think. who had the most to gain from the 9/11 attacks? why is Bush Sr. still on the Ben Ladin family payroll as a consultant? type in Ambassador Wanta in your search engine and see what your President is doing to help keep the Federal Reserve in economic control on this country. a reporter from a European country ask an American visiting in his country if he thought that the political problems in the US came from apathy and ignorance. the American answered, "I don't know and I don't care". do you care?

Answer 6

The blame Yes. I think you can safely say. All were to blame.
you can't tell me no one knew what was going to happen, before it happen.
I don't care what anyone says. Someone up high had to know what was going on. What with all the funds spent on technology and the so called FBI - CIA etc. you can't tell me no one knew.
Its a dam cruel human thing to do if that were the case, just to blame another country or race for the sake of a commodity.
It sucks to be a human being if that was the case. Will we ever learn the truth. The truth does hurt and it kills.

Answer 7

I disagree.

I won't get 'tired' of working through what happened on 9/11 until at least some parts of it are resolved or until you are able to bring back the people that were lost.

One blame that clearly belongs to teh Bush administration is a complete and total disregard for proper investigatory procedures following the debacle. That carelessness and cavalier attitude toward the lives and issues of our citizens (selling the metal for scrap 2 weeks after the tragedy, refusing to engage NTSB and FAA investigations, refusing to testify openly for the 9/11 Commission) has hindered any ability to focus on preventing it from happening again.

Our criminal justice system STILL has NO IDEA who did this, what their motives were, and how we can apprehend them and bring them to justice. For that reason, we are wide open at any time to attack from the same source.

The Patriot Act and terrorism laws have been used to apprehend pedophiles. Not one conviction yet, just a bunch of blind alleys by all security agencies and the FBI. And the White House had the gall to destroy Plame's cover. With rendition, torture, and every other method outside our rule of law they destroy the very country they are sworn to protect, yet none of it has made us any more secure.

You bet I'm not tired. The 'tired' among us perhaps lack sufficient character to be American citizens, which requires seeking answers, holding government accountable and basing future actions on what happened in the past instead of on the convenience of the moment. I think the 'tired ones' need to go and live under a repressive regime somewhere in the third world where they can have their mail inspected daily and not worry about having an opinion or questioning anything.

Answer 8

What I am tired of is no one is answering the questions about how,why, and where...facts are not conspiracys...stone walling the truth is the conspiracy.
That the White House balked at any inquiry into the events of 9/11, then starved it of funds and stonewalled it, was unfortunate, but since the commission didn't find for conspiracy it's all a non issue anyway.

That the 9/11 commission's executive director and "gatekeeper," Philip Zelikow, was so closely involved in the events under investigation that he testified before the the commission as part of the inquiry, shows only an apparent conflict of interest.

That commission chair Thomas Kean is, like George Bush, a Texas oil executive who had business dealings with reputed al Qaeda financier Khalid bin Mafouz, suggests Texas is smaller than they say it is.

That co-chair Lee Hamilton has a history as a Bush family "fixer," including clearing Bush Sr of the claims arising from the 1980 "October Surprise", is of no concern, since only conspiracists believe there was such a thing as an October Surprise.

That FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds accuses the agency of intentionally fudging specific pre-9/11 warnings and harboring a foreign espionage ring in its translation department, and claims she witnessed evidence of the semi-official infrastructure of money-laundering and narcotics trade behind the attacks, is of no account, since John Ashcroft has gagged her with the rare invocation of "State Secrets Privilege," and retroactively classified her public testimony. For the sake of national security, let us speak no more of her.

That, when commenting on Edmond's case, Daniel Ellsberg remarked that Ashcroft could go to prison for his part in a cover-up, suggests Ellsberg is giving comfort to the terrorists, and could, if he doesn't wise up, find himself declared an enemy combatant.

Answer 9

Why would they want to do that? They are both hoping to keep the public distracted from the fact the during the last 6 years they've done absolutely nothing to fix the problems that allowed this to happen. I'd say they are also afraid that sooner or later the public is going to start asking some tough questions.

Answer 10

Politicians care way too much on getting re-elected, gaining power and getting rid of two certain Presidents out of pure hate then protecting the country. I AM TIRED OF IT!
LETS FIGHT SOME ISLAMIC MANIACS, TODAY!

Tom, Al-qadia planned 9/11 way before the missile strikes and that did not brought 9/11, the driven radical ideology of Islam did. You sure are way off on facts.