If after 9/11, Bush had done nothing...?

Question

I was just wondering what the response from Liberals would have been if Bush had decided to just "turn the other cheek" after 9/11. Would there have been more attacks on the US? If nothing had been done to stop the terrorists from breeding hate, and murder. I'm pretty sure there would be a whole lot of Liberals speaking out against the "lazy, coward, good for nothing" President who "did nothing"...just a thought....

Answer 1

pssst, if he would have done nothing, at least 3000 of our boys wouldn't have died in the wrong country.

if Bush would have continued what clinton started prior to 9/11, 9/11 probably would not have happened.

Answer 2

He did turn a cheek, he attacked Iraq a country that had nothing to do with 911 when 15 out of the 19 hijackers that was reported on Fox news etc. came from Saudi Arabia. Afghanistan was a good start but today the Taliban is opening schools up for kids there so the what is going on?

Answer 3

There was virtually NO ONE IN THE US who was against going into Afghanistan after Sept 11, 2001. When he announced his intentions to invade Afghanistan to get bin Laden and remove the Taliban, he enjoyed an 83% approval rating. There was credible, reliable intelligence that Osama bin Laden was being supported by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and they would not willingly help us locate, detain or extradite the man responsible for the worst foreign attack on US citizens on US soil since Pearl Harbor

We invaded, removed the Taliban, then President Bush forgot all about bin Laden in his attempt to use the momentum of furious, "post-9/11" patriotism in the US to sweep into Iraq and indeed, what looks now to be the whole Middle East. Bush and his Big Oil cronies are betting the US poeple are so tired of hearing about his incompetence, they'll just bury their heads in the sand and let these clowns do whatever they want in the Middle East.

Rub a lamp.

When he started making the case to invade Iraq, people (US citizens, members of other countries, the UN, most everybody) started saying, "WHOA there, what's Bush doing? Don't go THERE, the Taliban isn't THERE, Osama bin Laden isn't THERE, your FATHER never tried THIS foolishness, This isn't the time, focus on Afghanistan (which STILL isn't a victory by any standard)".To gain support for invading Iraq he or VP Cheney (and its the same thing: "The Buck Stops Here") cooked intel to get Congress and the press, and ultimately the American people, to go along with an Iraqi invasion.

If he had focused solely on Afghanistan, brought bin Laden to justice, left Iraq to self destruct on its own and THEN go in with a UN mandate, along with a legitimate peacekeeping force of all nations in the UN, I would be defending Bush and his sound foreign policy right now.

Without the support of the rest of the world, we lose legitimacy on the world stage. This only makes the "terrorists" look more like "freedom fighters" and "martyrs" in the eyes of the rest of the world, causing the record number of people joinign terrorist organizations. And it makes the invading countrylook like greedy oil-grabbing, money-grubbing sinners not worthy of support, or indeed sympathy.

Bush and current US forgeign policy have convinced almost every dominantly Muslim nation in the world, we are on a crusade to eradicate Islam. Iraq never attacked us, so they had to come up with a way to justify invading, which meant accusing Iraq of having nuclear weapons and ambitions. The BIGGEST problem was Afghanistan caved in too soon, Halliburton hadn't made enough money yet. They HAD to go into Iraq. Now to keep the war machine going, this week's "Special Guest Villian" is Iran.

After we invade Iran, who's next? It wont be North Korea, we're ALREADY at war with them, have been since the 50s. It won't be Cuba or China, we don't really care about Communism anymore (unless it's to accuse fellow US citizens of it). So where?
Chile? Venezuela? Possible, they have oil, a mostly uneducated public, restricted human rights, so yeah that's apossiblity.

But my money's on Kuwait, Syria and Jordan.

Then who's left? Look it up yourself. Find a map of the Middle East and it will be apparent where we're headed.

Answer 4

Blitz, Blitz Blitz, where's the lightning baby?. I don't see it in your question. If Sunny boy had been satisfied with taking down the Taliban ,I think as it was referred to in a documentary about Osama, the "800 pound gorilla" that came for them after 9/11 the world and the USA would see that as justifiable but then Sunny boy decides to invade Iraq, a whole different thing than Afghanistan. I believe he decided 1 war makes us look tough, 2 will make us look tougher, DUH If you go back through time and read about some of the tribal people in Afghanistan, initially they helped our Special Forces and were on our side but I believe Sunny boy has drained that all away with Iraq.

Answer 5

Since just putting Usama Bin Ladin at the top of the FBI's most wanted list didn't seem work after the first Trade Center bombing, something more was clearly required. However, I remember that most liberals at the time were against attacking Afghanistan, saying it was the poorest country in the world and we didn't have the right to bomb them. I heard a lot of talk about "opening a dialog", and "we need to understand why they attacked us". I wonder how effective that approach would have been, and how can you understand terrorists without being as crazy as they are?

Answer 6

The Liberals are lying , trying to convince US and other countries that Iraq was based on lies, but I can tell you this, Liberals.
Show us the evidence of the lies. Before you do go back to the Clinton administration and see how many of these same idiots were saying Hussein had WMD and needed to go. If a Democrat were president they would be saying the evidence was real, if they ever got a Democrat that was not too much of a coward to protect us.
The Democrats have shown time and again that they are do as I say and not as I do.

Answer 7

No, it isn't "just a thought." I've been saying this for a long time now. Everyone is constantly putting Bush down, but how many WANTED to get over there and do something?? Now that things aren't going exactly the way they thought, everybody is negative. No matter which stance Bush would have taken, there is always people out there who are always negative.

Answer 8

Did you post this to bash liberals? Plus, Bush did "turn the cheek" to the terrorists. He went to the wrong country and forgot about Osama.

Answer 9

I wonder if any of us would still be here or if this nation
would exist anymore? Why don't the liberals & demo's
seem to care about the people in the twin towers?
I just cannot erase this thought!!! It's a horror to know
that these individuals didn't want us to fight,& all the
sick things they say about our military makes me realize
they are our enemies more & more all the time!!!
They are traitors to the USA in my honest opinion!!!!

Answer 10

People is alive now; they won't believe us. But I think that it is not fair for us to die with them when the bombs explode here. Will God save us, those who save themselves, and ignore those who wait for miracle - it would make him less busy!