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Originally posted by LiveDose
Ok, it's really not a matter of defending Bush. The presidency has an immense amount of powers but they are limited in scale. To say that everyone was waiting on the edge of their seats for Bush to make a decision in ludicrous.
The true responsibilty lies in the area of intelligence or their lack of. People that don't like Bush are the ones turning this into a political issue. This is an American issue and a world issue.
I think it is much more disgraceful for people to be turning this into a political issue. The fact is the problem needs to be solved or else there are going to be dirty suitcase bombs blowing up in free countries around the world.
Show true hard evidence that Bush AND HIS ADMINISTRATION wanted this to happen or ignored SOLID INTELLIGENCE (who, what, where, when) and did nothing and you will have many people loyal to him that will start questioning. The thing is when you have Democrats making an issue out of the Republican party selling his photos taken on 9/11 at a fundraiser it is hard to take anything they say seriously in regards to this issue. Plain and simple they are trying to bring down Bush's popularity before the campaigning begins.
On a final note let's say there was some kind of information saying that an attack was going to happen the week of 9/11. What steps would you have taken? Remember this is before we have been attacked and everyone still values their privacy over all else... It is hard to answer this question because what you would have tolerated before the attack and what you will tolerate now interms of security and inconvenience is very different.
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What did Bush know? We don't know that yet. Only today he was forced by investigators to admit that he knew more than anyone thought. Time will tell how Bush is implicated in this. It is very clear, however, that all of the pieces of the puzzle were available if someone would have just put them together.
You wanted proof that someone should have known the attacks were coming? This is from one of the articles:
Despite the FBI's insistence that it had no prior knowledge of the September 11 attacks, Mr Mueller conceded that a few days earlier, an agent in Minneapolis wrote a memo stating that a man in custody might have been planning to "fly something into the World Trade Centre".
Zacarias Moussaoui, a French-Moroccan Muslim fundamentalist, faces the death penalty on charges that he was the "20th hijacker" who would have taken part in the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington if he had not been arrested for immigration offences.
Officials have also admitted that in July 2001 an agent in Phoenix, Arizona, urged FBI headquarters to investigate Arab men studying in American flight schools. He cited Osama bin Laden by name and suggested that the schools could have been used to train terrorists. The warnings were never connected and Mr Mueller, who took over the FBI two weeks before the terrorist attacks, has accepted that more could have been done.