Why don't republicans blame the Bush Administration for ignoring the Intelligence reports forseeing 9/11?

Question

I can never forgive them for that.
Neither should the family of the nearly 3,000 dead on that tragic day.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/18/national/main522460.shtml

nonalcoholic calls me an ****** for asking a question which reveals the truth. Typical republican...

Answer 1

Man do some more research. It was a U.S. Government failure under Both Clinton and Bush. Or are you too partisan to see failures on Clinton's watch?

In 1995, the CIA and the FBI learned that Osama bin Laden was planning to hijack U.S. airliners and use them as bombs to attack important targets in the U.S. This scheme was called Project Bojinka. It was discovered in the Philippines, where authorities arrested two of bin Laden's agents, Ramzi Yousef and Abdul Hakim Murad. They were involved in planting a bomb on a Philippine airliner. Project Bojinka, which Philip-pine authorities found outlined on Abdul Murad's laptop, called for planting bombs on eleven U.S. airliners and hijacking others and crashing them into targets like the CIA building.

Answer 2

I'm a lifelong conservative. Not necessarily a republican because, usually I split my ticket. The evidence that has been uncovered regarding 9/11, is disturbing at best. It appears that Condy Rice, GWB, probably Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Powell, had gotten the same intelligence reports and failed to act. Perhaps this is not uncommon, given the volume of reports that come through the CIA or FBI, on a daily basis. The decision making process as to which reports to respond to and which one to watch, must be incredibly complicated, yet the attack by air was one that was persistant.

It seems to me that the very least the government could have done was reinstate the air Marshall program when these reports started coming in from the middle east.

I believe one of the greatest tragedy's of modern times, was the decision to disband the air Marshall program. Without even knowing who's decision that was, I believe it was an impeachable offense.

Answer 3

You would need to include the Clinton and Bush one administrations in your anger.

All administrations get the heads up from intelligence about the bad guys. Question to them is: Should they spend the money on things that Americans want them to spend it on or, more defense budget?

You be the judge but Bush (W) probably didn't do anything different than any other Conservative or Liberal would have done at the same time given the same situation.

Answer 4

Actually I think the intelligence failures go back to Carter at least. He really served no purpose in the WH, except he was not a Republican. When our hostages were taken in Iran, he was completely impotent and did absolutely nothing. When Reagan was sworn in, the terrorists knew that he would not sit on his hands while Americans were held against their will...and they were released immediately. While I admire Reagan more than any other president in recent history, his failure to respond to other terrorist actions helped lead to the massive steps that terrorism took under Clinton...first bombing of the WTC, the embassies in Africa, and the USS Cole, just to name a few. Clinton left very little in the way of intelligence and his administration was responsible for leaving valid intelligence. Instead, they left a wall that did not allow our intelligence agencies could not communicate around and we were sitting ducks.

Do you really think that after just 9 months in office, the Bush administration is really responsible for not preventing 9/11? If you were really honest with yourself.

Answer 5

My pappy always told me there was YOUR truth - THEIR truth and the REAL truth.

The New York times reporterd a few days ago about the ATOMIC bomb that Sudam was building. They would have been active in less than 13 months. I'm NOT real sure but I think a nuclear bomb is considered a Weapon of Mass Destruction. Truth?

Answer 6

You can't be serious. Bush was in office for eight months when 9/11 happened - why should they have taken the threat anymore seriously than Clinton did in eight years? And don't forget that Clinton refused to take Bin Laden when he was offered up on a plate. Shouldn't Democrats blame the Clinton administration for not taking Bin Laden, and possibly preventing 9/11? Or how about blaming Clinton for years of slashing intel and military budgets? Plenty of blame to go around.

Answer 7

Wow.
All this time I thought the Bush Administration was the brainchild behind the vast conspiracy of 9/11. Now I find out they just ignored it.
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Answer 8

Why do Dems insist on blaming Bush for failing to do in 8 months what Clinton ignored for 8 years? I'll never forgive him for that.

Answer 9

In July 2001, CBS News revealed that Ashcroft, on the advice of the FBI, "was traveling exclusively by leased jet aircraft instead of commercial airlines.

They knew this was an imminent threat. They didn't act. They didn't warn the American people. They failed us. Somebody needs to be held accountable for this.

Answer 10

Being a Republican is like jumping off a bridge. Once you commit, you are in for the limit. Pride prevents their ever admitting Bushco and the GOP have messed up America. That would mean they made the wrong choice.