Where The Blame Lies (With Bush of course)

[Emillereid]

The evidence shows President Bush was asleep or incompetent or indifferent and the horror of 9/11 happened because his Administration did not act on overwhelming intelligence.
By Regis T. Sabol

President Harry S. Truman kept a plaque on his desk with a simple message: The buck stops here. Apparently, President Bush doesn’t believe that rule applies to him.

In the wake of revelations that the CIA warned President Bush a full month before 9/11 that Osama bin Laden’s operatives were planning a major operation involving the hijacking of passenger airliners, the President, White House aides, Republicans, even some Democrats and most of the press are tripping all over themselves to absolve Bush of any specific blame for the attacks that killed almost 3,000 people.

Surrounded by Air Force Academy cadets at a Rose Garden ceremony, the president earnestly declared that “had I known that the enemy was going to use airplanes to kill on that fateful morning, I would have done everything in my power to protect the American people.” National Security Advisor Condeleeza Rice echoed similar sentiments at a White House briefing. After acknowledging that the president had “general” information about Al Qaeda plans to hijack American airlines, she pleaded that he and his advisors had no idea that hijacked airplanes would be used as missiles to crash into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, her implication being that such an idea was so outlandish it was beyond comprehension.

Balderdash, Baloney, and B_______!

My response to these sentiments is balderdash, baloney, and, well, you know what the third B stands for. Indeed, these excuses are disingenuous, at best, and much more likely deceitful. The evidence at hand was more than sufficient to warrant a sustained high level of alert both at home and abroad. At the very least, they reveal a president asleep at the wheel and top advisors oblivious to red flags waving in front of their faces, including a clear warning from one of their own, CIA Director George Tenet.
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Makes the point I like to about 9/11, and that is, if Bush and Rice had information about hi-jackings (but didn't know they'd be used to smash into a building), they should have done everything possible stop the hi-jackings -- I mean since when is it OK for a president to knowing let hi-jackings proceed while he goes on vacation. Oh, silly me, but I forgot -- these people needed their own 'Pearl Harbor' in order to kick start their "Rebuilding America's Defenses" agenda of super-militarizing America and solidifying their imperial domination of the world and the world's oil supply.