Why do people continue to blame President Bush for terror attacks..?

Question

When you add up all of the things that happened in the administration before him(USS Cole, Kobar Towers, etc..), and then consider that 9-11 happened because those things were not taken care of properly, how is any of this President Bush fault??

To US Veteran(which I doubt)..You say he is inviting terror, please expound on this..What events lead you to believe this...

Answer 1

Many of the people who are answering here that it IS Bush’s fault commonly dismiss the statistics and stories of terror attacks in MULTIPLE other countries which have NOTHING to do with Bush or American foreign policy. This is a clear example of the hate Bush/hate America mentality that permeates many of the minds of liberal Americans. I am quite disappointed at some of the answers above.

Examples:
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10/24/2007 (Mogadishu, Somalia) - Islamic militias use a roadside bomb to kill five passengers on a minibus.
10/24/2007 (Khost, Afghanistan) - A suicide bomber takes down an Afghan official.
10/24/2007 (Tanusevci, Macedonia) - Muslim terrorists kill a police officer and injure two others in a shooting attack.
10/23/2007 (Narathiwat, Thailand) - Two infant children (ages 10 and 12 months) are murdered by Muslim gunmen.
10/23/2007 (Narathiwat, Thailand) - Two women are shot to death by Islamic radicals.
10/23/2007 (Narathiwat, Thailand) - Five local civilians are gunned down by militant Muslims in a sudden drive-by attack.

In the past 2 months, Islamic terrorists have killed 2444 people & injured 3869 in 24 different countries… yeah… those are caused by Bush & American foreign policy right? BS
http://www.tkb.org/IncidentClassModule.jsp

Answer 2

I do not think Bush can be blamed for the terror attacks.

Now, to answer your question, why do people blame Bush?

There are several reasons.

1. Some people blame him simply because they're Democratic & he's Republican, or they're liberal and he's conservative

2. Another group of people blame him because they incorrectly think the President is responsible for everything, he's the top, so anything that goes wrong is his fault.

This reasoning is obviously wrong, and it's wrong whether you're talking about Bush, Clinton, Reagon, Nixon, or the head of a large corporation. The boss is not responsible for "everything." He has his responsibilities & the people under them have theirs.

For example, the Head of a Dept has the responsibility of telling the guy under him what to do & to check on him .But the guy under him could disregard his instructions & do something wrong before the guy above him can discover it.

3. Some people blame Bush because they got suckered into the conspiracy movement, a truly idiotic movement. These people are either paranoid, or gullible, or not too smart, or they "love" conspiracy theories.

Answer 3

Not only do we now know about the "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US" memo, we also have the story of Judith Miller, who said that she was hearing directly from Whire House sources that there was an attack eminent. Kind of makes the failure to make any response to four hijacked airliners or to evacuate the second building after the first was hit (people were told to go back in the building) even stranger. Why did John Ashcroft stop flying commercial jets months before?

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2006/05/judith_miller_t.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/07/26/national/main303601.shtml

Answer 4

There was a presidential daily briefing in August, 2001 that said "Bin Laden poised to attack the US using commercial airliners" There was a month's notice to work with.
I doubt there were such warnings for those previous attacks, and they also didn't happen on US soil.
I'm sure if Gore had been president at the time, the Republicans would never shut up about how it was Gore's fault that NY got hit.

Answer 5

There have been a lot more terror attacks which have been thwarted due to the greatly intensified security put in place since 9/11.

It's like saying "I used to live in the countryside where I never locked my doors or windows and I got robbed once in 20 years, but I'm much safer now because I live in a high-security compound in a crime-riddled inner city neighborhood with 24 hr surveilence, 14 locks on my door, window bars, armed guards escorting me to and from my bullet-proof car."

Answer 6

I don't know anyone who blames Bush for terrorist attacks. People blame Bush for getting us involved in a costly, bloody war on false pretenses: one of which is that toppling the secular dictator Saddam Hussein was going to somehow improve the unrelated problem of stateless, Jihadist terrorists.

Answer 7

The US has a long. long tradition of invading, attacking, generally interfering in other countries, usually poorer countries. It has contributed to great poverty in many countries. Bush has continued this tradition but with bells on. In playing the big playground bully boy, the US has made itself feared and loathed around the world - Bush is the latest and worst of that. It's no wonder terror attacks happen - 'terrorists' see it as the only way to fight back (because diplomacy does not work and their own governments, often puppet governments put in place by the US, have no influence with the US government).

Answer 8

I think many liberals refuse education.

You really have to be brain damaged in some way to look at a terrorist attack and blame the victims.

Answer 9

The leader of any organization is responsible for any failures in that organization.

Bush is the Commander in Chief; the attacks were a clear failure of our intelligence and military forces. Ultimately, he is responsible for their failures by allowing them to fail.

Answer 10

People that believe its the fault of president Bush are not too intelligent.