Of All the current Presidential Candidates, who would have prevented 9/11?

Question

I'm sure Rudy would say he would. Of Course, if it wasn't for 9/11 he wouldn't be running for president.

But honestly I think Obama or McCain would have taken that memo more seriously!

Answer 1

Well any president that would have took the time to listen to the reports from his security advisors would have done something to prevent it from ever happening. President bush was told about this in advance. Then after the first plane crashed into the building everyone was running around like a chicken with there heads cut off to get permission to shoot down they other high jacked planes. However they never got bush to ok it because he thought it was more important to sit there and read a book to a bunch of kids. Bush is the worst president in history. How in the world he ever got elected for a 2nd term I will never understand. I think Al gore would have stopped it from ever taking place. Gore is smart and even though MORE PEOPLE VOTED FOR HIM bush got took advantage of a horrible election system he will always be known as president select and not president elect.

Answer 2

I'm not sure that anyone of them would have been able to stop 9/11. So they had a memo, what did it mean? How detailed was the memo? No one would have dreamed that these terrorists would use commercial planes, killing themselves & all others on the planes, no one! Bombs, yes, but where? Even if they had said New York City, thats a big place, where do you begin to look? Who would have thought of the World Trade Center, they would have thought of Federal buildings, the UN or other places that would have made more sense to the average person. These were not average people. We really had no way to stop them other than to blast the planes out of the sky & those planes had Americans on board, could we, in good conscious, have blasted them out of the air? They got us good. If there is ever a next time, I'm sure we will be all the wiser for having failed on 9/11, a failure that was really no one's fault except the killers.

Answer 3

9/11 was many years in the making. It could not have been prevented. Strong leadership, strong defense, and superior intelligence information are the best defense against future attacks. Advocating "cut and run" tactics are a sure recipe for failure.

Why do you think the terrorists want the Dems to win our elections? These scum influenced the Spanish elections and changed the course of Spain's future with a few bombs and the outcry from a spineless and misguided populace. The terrorists will try to manipulate the Americans in the same way. With the Dems, they see the cracks that they can exploit to incite greater turmoil and separatism in the U.S.

Terrorists love the Dems. Rudy was right on the money.

Answer 4

Obama or McCain can prevent the occurrence of incidents like 9/11 because they take matters seriously especially those affecting national security.

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Answer 5

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Answer 6

Just what "memo" are you referring to? I'm
not sure any candidate or anyone else could
have prevented 911 as this was the first time
the U.S. has been attacked by terrorists. It
was something new and unexpected for this
Nation.

Answer 7

Any of them. I believe they would have listened to the information passed down from the previous Administration and would have not told the military to stand down at the time. The only one that I believe might have not handled things properly would be Kucinich but his chances of getting past the first round of primaries is somewhere between slim and none.

Answer 8

Honestly, I don't think any of them would have acted any differently than Bush. We don't have a CLUE how much intel gets passed back and forth every single day - the sheer volume of it would be incredibly difficult to prioritize.

And as one of the other answerers said, we take it seriously NOW because we know better. Hindsight is...well, ya know...20/20.

Answer 9

None of them. Hind sight is 20/20, but given the same situation and intelligence, I don't think a single one of the current candidates would have done anything differently.

Answer 10

Only Ron Paul, and he would have had to been president about 1994 to do it. Ron Paul has suggested that he wants to change our foreign policy so we do not have to get involved with other nations, he is interested in trading with them more than using force and trying to prop up friendly dictators.