Why did Bush ignore terrorism for the first 8 months of his presidency?

Question

Is asking this question Bush bashing?
If you're a Bush praiser please answer the first question.I've been trying to get an honest answer for a long time now.

gary why do people like you ignore the actual question I asked?

igdubya----then why was Moussaoui the 20th hijacker arrested in Minneapolis for just wanting to learn how to take off and fly a commercial het a month before 911?
Why did the FBI obstruct their own terrorism investigation by denying FISA warrants requestd by that office?

Rick---that doesn't explain why he ignored ALL the warnings!Like Mubrak warning the US on 8/31/2001 of an impending terrorist attack!

agentzero---what a load of crap!Clinton tried to warn Bush terrorism was the greatest threat to americas national security......Bush blew him off!

Brush not sure if you are being sarcastic or what........but if you are .....LMAO!

Lillian----Then show me how he protected the US!

emotal1---What a spin..........however the facts don't back you up.....First Clinton did catch the ones responsible for the first WTC attack!
The FBI didn't finish the final report on the Cole bombing until days before he left office.He didn't retaliate for it before he left office because he felt the new president should decide how to retaliate for it!Guess what Bush didn't which if anything emboldened the terrrorists!

Dude---When will you guys understand Clinton had no legal reason to detain OBL at that time????

Mikey eat your cereal then read the link westhill gave for Richard Clarke!

Answer 1

Head National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said she needed to study up on the issue of terrorism for a few months. And what did it matter if a catastrophic event, like Pearl Harbor occurred? Good can be turned to bad, I mean, bad can be turned to good. That's what her minister father and the PNAC founding documents said.

White House counter terrorism chief Richard Clarke: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/19/60minutes/main607356.shtml

Review of George Tenet's book
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/03/AR2007050301893.html

PNAC statement of principles - on their website

Answer 2

OMG, I can't believe you believe this. Let me tell you the truth. When Clinton was president, the US Embassy was attacked, he did nothing. The World Trade Center was attacked, he did nothing. There was the bombing in Oklahoma, he did nothing. The USS Cole was attacked by a small dingy with a bomb attached, hit the side and caused a large hole on the side of the ship, again, nothing was done. The Sudanese handed over, literally handed over, Bin Laden, and Clinton let him go. When he was finally forced to do something, he sent a few bombs into Afganistan and blew up an empty asprin factory! What a man!! Bush never ignored terrorism. But if you really know your history, you'd know that when Clinton was President, he passed a law that would not allow the FBI and the CIA come together to discuss and compare what information they had, so there was no way to put 2 & 2 together. Clinton had 8 yrs to do something about terrorism, Bush had 5 mo. not eight 8 mo. thanks to Al Gore, who held up the results of the election, because he couldn't accept defeat. But, since the one attack that killed 1000's during Bush's presidency, there has not been anymore, because with this so called "senseless" war he has been able to keep them in their own turf!!

Answer 3

Because it's clinton fault, don't you know ?

No, He did not take 8 months vacation after winning the election and only coming back to work 2 weeks before 9/11

No, He did not ignore FBI, CIA, and other foreign countries reports of an imminent attacks on US soil.

It's all clinton, I tell you, its his fault for not doing bush's job.

Answer 4

'…….. moves by counterterrorism officials to act against the Saudis were repeatedly rebuffed by senior staff at the State Department and elsewhere who felt that other foreign policy interests outweighed fighting terrorism.'

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/031215/15terror.htm

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**EDIT - The 1998 GOP Congress opposed Clinton's bombing of Bin Laden's terrorist camps because it took attention away from their crusade - impeaching him for sexual promiscuity.

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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release August 20, 1998
ADDRESS TO THE NATION BY THE PRESIDENT

The Oval Office
5:32 P.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Today I ordered our Armed Forces to strike at terrorist-related facilities in Afghanistan and Sudan because of the imminent threat they presented to our national security.
I want to speak with you about the objective of this action and why it was necessary. Our target was terror. Our mission was clear -- to strike at the network of radical groups affiliated with and funded by Osama bin Laden, perhaps the preeminent organizer and financier of international terrorism in the world today.

http://clinton6.nara.gov/1998/08/1998-08-20-president-address-to-the-nation.html

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……President Bill Clinton was embroiled in a sex scandal arising from his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. Over the course of 1998 and early 1999, as the scandal dominated American politics, the US engaged in three military operations:

Critics, including Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, charged that the former operation was an attempt to distract attention from the Lewinsky scandal…….

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wag_the_Dog

Answer 5

He didn't ignore it. However attack after attack after attack after attack was ignored by the Clinton's. When we have thousands of threats coming in daily, which ones would you have liked him to react to? I guess he could have come into office, locked the country down, removed all rights and that would have made you just as happy?

Answer 6

He read the report from then president clinton that bin laden is of no threat.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year


i guess you ignore the fact that Sudan had bin laden in their sites and clinton decided that he was more interested in an intern than american lives

Answer 7

During the first eight months of the Bush presidency, there were no terrorist attacks on American interests. He had nothing to respond to.

But the first attack, and only attack so far, drew a major response, didn't it? If only Clinton had responded...

Merry Christmas!

Answer 8

wow..where have you been the last 7 years, All the Bush bashers keep asking the same redundant questions over and over. He had the same inel info that Hillary and Hubby had for 8 years, he had it for 8 months...go figure that out. Ask why Clinton and company did what they did. They are the ones that let them into this country and trained them in flight school.

Answer 9

Lets see get elected to office and immediately go off dropping bombs on people without investigating.. makes sense to me.

Answer 10

As far as I'm concerned there was no terrorist until Bush and
Cheney took over then blew up the WTC ,blamed it on people
who had nothing to do with it and decided to take over their country and steal their OIL and resources