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Originally posted by PornoDoggy
I guess they don't teach history any more.
It shouldn't suprise anyone that there are folks blaming Bush for 9/11 - the Republican/Isolationist crowd in the 1940s claimed Roosevelt "knew about" Pearl Harbor and allowed it to happen
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Sometimes governments have to refrain from acting on information they possess because acting on it will close up a channel of intelligence. The British government knew about various German attack plans and let them happen because to set up a defense would have alerted the the Nazis and probably would have caused them to plug up intelligence leaks.
I'm sure if you were the President, you and/or your staff would have at least cursory information about dozens if not hundreds of POTENTIAL terror threats against which you could not act for similar reasons, and also for the reason that many of them would be taking place on unfriendly soil (one cannot undertake invasions like that against Iraq on a regular basis). And then, if one of those plots came to fruition, the conspiracy theorists could cry "The President knew about the plot and did nothing."