What would Bush opponents have done about the destruction of the World Trade Center?

Question

After just a few months in office, President Bush was suddenly faced with the worst ever attack on our soil. For a few weeks everyone in the country was united with him. Then the opponents of Bush began to pick up their negative campaign against him. I'm wondering what they would have done different in the wake of the attack.

Comment update - Remember that Bush was under assault since he won the election in 2000. There wasn't a single day gone by that he wasn't negatively criticized about something. When 9/11 happened, everyone was applauding his decisiveness. That is, until the shock wore off. Then they were back to the same old hate-speech and fear-mongering that was pre-9/11.
There's no evidence that Bush lied, but there is evidence that Saddam had time to move the WMDs out before we got there. And what about the incredible attrocities we did find? School children in prison? Mass murder? Torture?

Answer 1

The 9/11 attack is a direct result of the Clinton administration's lack of action following the 1993 Al queda attack on the WTC complex.

Nice job Bill

Additional Comment:

Well Jamie S, according to BBC reports,
"Six men are serving life imprisonment as a result.
But in light of the events of 11 September, a number of analysts are now questioning whether the attack was a warning that was never heeded.
"In many ways it was the opening salvo of al-Qaeda's campaign against the West," terrorism writer Simon Reeve told the BBC World Service's Analysis programme."

As a matter of public record,
"The attack was planned by a group of conspirators including Ramzi Yousef, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, El Sayyid Nosair, Mahmud Abouhalima, Mohammad Salameh, Nidal Ayyad, Ahmad Ajaj, and Abdul Rahman Yasin. They received financing from al-Qaeda member Khaled Shaikh Mohammed, Yousef's uncle."

According to globalsecurity.org,
"Ramzi Yousef, born in Kuwait, began in 1991 to plan a bombing attack within the United States. Yousef's uncle Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Ali Fadden, who later was considered "the principal architect of the 9/11 attacks," gave him advice and tips over the phone, and funded him with a US$660 wire transfer."

The association of these two events has been validated.


And for those who insist that invading Iraq was merely a diversion, The decision by the UN to invade was made after over 20 years of UN resolutions and sanctions against a murderous tyrant in Saddam Hussein. An expansionist dictator, he murdered over 600,000 of his own dissenting people using poison gas (a WMD) and all that time was attempting to gain or manufacture much more powerful weapons. The UN invaded, not President Bush and not the Conservatives. There are others like him who also need stopped.
World peace is a wonderful ideal and we cannot afford to sit back and let terrorist groups and rogue nations threaten negotiations toward that lofty goal.

Answer 2

Actually, I seem to remember the liberals began putting stop signs up when the extremist conservatives began to try to use 9/11 to their advantage. But that was between the religious right and the common people...

But politically....I think a majority of people were on Bush's side until it became obvious that the administration, or at the very least those that gave them the intelligence info, had lied about certain things concerning Iraq.

Only the most extreme of peacenik was EVER against us going after the jerks that planned and pulled off 9/11. We are still suppose to be hunting them, aren't we? All I keep hearing about is Iraq, and now Iran is added to the mix.

Answer 3

The Twin Tower attack is still a sketchy thing with domestic ties in the U.S. Intelligence gathering would have been better monitored under Gore.
No question that soon after attack, Gore would have went after Bin Laden in Afghanistan --- not some other nearby country --- better pursued him and found him. Then he would have been tried and executed. Not having invade Iraq under some stupid pretext, The U.S. would have had better international leverage and credibility to engage Al Qaeda elsewhere on the globe or at home, and retained better ability to deal with Iran or other potential issues. Privacy rights and the Constitution would not have been so ridiclously violated. We would not have a president now who should be prosecuted. The economy and job growth would be better also. A much better country and world overall.
If only it were so ...

Answer 4

I think they would have dumped a few thousand tons of bombs here and there in the Middle East and held hands with France Germany, Russia and China while singing Kumbya as the Islamic fascists caused more destruction to America.

Answer 5

considering the men that carried out the attacks were trained in Saudi Arabia, with Saudi money and 15 were from Saudi Arabia, 3 Iran & 1 from Yemen. I would expect that we should have challenged Saudi Arabia, Iran and Yemen to clean up their backyard and if they were unwilling then use military force against the known training sites ( we had satillite images of them).
It just seems appropriate to take on the enemies you know are there rather than trying to make some odd connection between a country that had no immediate involvement with the event

Answer 6

In 50 years from now, while Bush is ineffective and the documents, that have inevitably been sealed are opened, then and in basic terms then will all of us understand the finished fact. yet, i myself do no longer think of that Bush is wise adequate to tug off a conspiracy like that the two, except his conspiracy blanketed bankrupting the rustic and growing to be in basic terms 2 training somewhat of three, type a million wealthy, type 2 undesirable.

Answer 7

President Gore is told of the attacks.

9/12/2001
(Breaking CNN headline)

President Gore today announced that all Americans are converting to Islam immediately. He also asked the mean jihadis to please don't attack us no more, and couldn't we all sit down and TALK ABOUT IT. Shortly afterward several giant truck bombs exploded in NYC, LA and Miami as well as Washington D.C.

Answer 8

I remember that the negative campaigning didn't happen til after dubya decided to go to Iraq.. Which had nothing to do with 9/11. I would assume they'd have went to Afghanistan.. Probably not even a mention about Iraq...

pat from ohio-- The people responsible for the 93 bombings were caught and thrown in jail for life. It was Ramsey Youseff and others. Your comparison is invalid.. look it up!!

Answer 9

It wouldn't have mattered who we had in office, this attack was inevitable, due to the flaws we had in national security at the time. Even if a couple of these terrorists would have been stopped, there were more that were bound to sneak through the system.

Answer 10

that's not fair to compare that to the aspirin factory. This was a major terrorist attack. We would have (Still should have) been scouring the earth for Osama Bin Laden. There is a preponderance of evidence that he was responsible.