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Originally posted by dav555add
What he said?
Do you really believe the horse shit about Bush ignoring the signs???
Do you actually believe that it is Bush's fault?
How about Clinton, he was only President for 8 years...
He only had to deal with, hmmm, let's see, 7 al qaeda attacks....And he did not do anything beside bomb a shit factory and use $2 millions Tomahawaks to blow up a camel shit hut 
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The 911 commission itself revealed recently that Clinton suggested going into Afghanistan to wipe out Al-Qaeda long before 911...
But to be fair to both Clinton and Bush .. the world was a very different place PRE 911. Even on 911 itself people wanted to dismiss the idea that it was terrorism. Nothing that large scale and catastrophic had been seen yet. The worst terrrosim attack in the U.S was Oklahoma and it paled in comparison.
So had Clinton OR Bush said "yeah let's go into Afghanistan and kill a bunch of people in the name of OUR national security" before 911 .. the whole country would have been in an uproar against them.
I think both presidents saw it comming .. but in a slightly democratic system they would have had to get a lot of support before being able to do anything about it. And that's not too easy when the terrorists are still seen as a petty threats who plant car bombs and attack embassies in foreign countries.