If there had been a Democrat as President when 9/11 occured?

Question

What would he or she have done differently ? What would the solution have been?

I am sorry stl if this was bothersome, it wasn't meant to be. Yes, 9/11 is over but there are victims to remember. There is always such debate between Democrats and Republicans I wanted to see from everyone's opinion what they think would have happened.

...by looking back at situations, we can gain knowledge to see what works best for the future.

Answer 1

Who ever would have been President on the date of September 11, 2001 would have made absolutely NO DIFFERENCE.

WHY?

Because the fanatical Islamic Muslim extremists had been planning this attack long before 9/11/2001 and the attack was directed at the USA; not at the President.

The attack would would have occurred if Gore, Rodham-Clinton, Lieberman, Lamar Alexander, Rev. Jesse Jackson or any member of the Democratic, Libertarian, Green Peace, John Birch or even the Communist Party were President.

Differently? A Democratic President...Al Gore specifically...would probably pull the BS stunt that Britain's 1st WWII Prime Minister Chamberlain tried. Gore would find some terrorist to sign some piece of paper saying that terrorists would never attack the USA again allowing Gore could wave the worthless paper in the air and declare "Peace in our time!"....just as Chamberlain did. And we all remember what happened....5 years of WWll.

What would have been the solution....cut & run,

Answer 2

It's really hard to say, but it still would have happened, no matter what the conspiracy people try to feed you. I would hope that Al Gore would have acted like Bush did in the first few days after the attack, since (if I remember correctly) the UN was on our side in going into Afghanistan.

It wasn't only Americans working in the World Trade Center. There were people from every nation of the free world working in the World Trade Center and it wasn't just an attack on America, but on the whole world.

Answer 3

Well, certainly if Al Gore had been President, we'd have a different energy policy than the one developed by Cheney & big oil interests. The US policy would be one that made us less dependent on oil. We wouldn't have gone to Iraq which had nothing to do with 9/11 but everything to do with oil dependence.(we would have gone to Afghanistan and completed the mission there instead of withdrawing troops to be moved to Iraq) This is an excerpt from an energy magazine from 2003. The full article can be read at the link below.

the best policy for security is to take diversification to extremes rather than classifying oil sources as “secure” and “non-secure”. The Iraqi oil is classified as a “non-secure” source, yet the US is the largest consumer of Iraqi oil.

Yes, in early 2003, the US was the largest consumer of Iraqi oil.

Answer 4

WE never will truly know. Because no other attack in recent history has caused as much Shock and Awe as the attack of 9/11. There was a question posed yesterday about which was was the attack on peral harbor or the attack on 9/11. Yes were were attacked by Ben Ladin while under president Clinton's rule however what was the American population reaction? Did they react the same as they did on 9/11?
How much Shock and awe existed for the USS COLE, How much shock and awe existed for the attacks on the American Embasy. How much Shock and Awe existed under the first attack of the trade center?
Hummm....
How much Shock and Awe existed when people found out that it was under a republican's president that BEN LADIN was trained?
Hummm.....

Answer 5

We would, given the choices for President, still be talking about what to do and there would probably been several more attacks. Most people don't understand that America, since 1985, has been attacked over 3000 times, at home and world wide. These attacks range from the Marine Barracks in Beirut, to the two American Embassies in Africa up to and including the Twin Towers.

We didn't have a JFK running for President, we had people who could not give straight answers to some tough questions. their favorite color was plaid, they would not commit to anything of substance.

While I am a life Long Democrat, I am ashamed that we don't have anything of substance to run for the highest office in the land. We need a strong, no nonsense, FOR the working people, cut taxes President in the worst way and all the front runners don't have a clue as to what to do.

Answer 6

Hell no, the Democrat's won't bypass after the Terrorist! they're comfortable on Terror. they think of that with the help of appearing like that's no longer there that's going to bypass away. bill Clinton the "Draft Dodger" had a guess to get Bin encumbered and did no longer take it, and in case you may remember the Terrorist grew in capability and skill below his administration the Democrat's handed Pres. Bush a load of crap whilst he took workplace because of fact the Democrats have been comfortable on terrorism!

Answer 7

We would not be wasting our time, money, and lives in Iraq, that's for sure. And, instead of worrying about a hypothetical you could never answer, think of the present and the future-this administration has been in power every second since 911, and they have yet to do anything meaningful to close our borders or improve port security. There is nobody to blame for that except the current administration. Their idea of security is to have a 70 year old woman take off her shoes in the airport-what a sad joke.

Answer 8

We actually have a model for the democratic response. The WTC was bombed on Clinton's watch. He treated it the way he should have, as a criminal act instead of some overwhelming authority to go kill brown people. Everyone involved with the plot was captured or killed.
Using that model, I believe that Gore would have gone after the criminal responsible- OBL. I do not think he would have launched into some idealistic personal crusade to bring democracy to the middle east on a torrent of American soldier's blood. Anyone here who still believes that 9/11 and Iraq belong in the same sentence is a fool.

Answer 9

It depends on if Dems or Reps where in charge in the House.

If Dems had the Office and the House, then we would have had more attacks in the USA as they would have tried to appease the enemies at hand.

Sadam would still be in power, he would still be helping to fund Osama and others like him...either directly or indirectly.

Osama would still be all over the airwaves...heck he would still be alive.

I shudder to think at the condition we would be in today. Thank God we had President Bush and the Republicans to lead us through a very crucial time in our existance!!! I just hope that the Democracts don't ruin the progress that has been made.

Answer 10

There's absolutely no telling.

One of the side effects of 9/11 was that for a brief, shining moment, people forgot about political motivations and saw the same evil.

If Gore had been elected, we might be in exactly the same situation we're in now. Maybe not in Iraq, but elsewhere. Who knows.