Above all else, Bush and Company failed to protect us

[heidiho]

Perhaps we will never know if 9/11 could have been prevented by the Clinton or Bush administrations. We may never know who fell down on their jobs and who didn't tell who what they knew. As Clarke said, there is enough blame to go around.

I had a discussion with a friend recently and realized that, above all else, Bush failed to protect the citizens of this country. He did not share the alert that planes were planning to be used as missiles. He did not alert airport security that the terrorists that were known Al-Queda members were back in the country with the possibility that one or all could have been stopped from boarding. He failed to warm major known targets that an attack was possible, thus allowing for evacuation immediately after the first plane veered off course and headed for New York that would have saved hundreds, perhaps thousands of lives (remember the Tower 2 people being told to head back to their desks). he could have had our Air Force at high alert to intercept any planes veering off course within minutes, maybe saving nearly all lives on that day.

Instead of protecting us in what little way he could, he continued to cut brush down in Crawford for another month. He flew on to Florida and read a book about goats instead of taking command of the situation.

He failed to protect the American citizenry and for that reason alone he does not deserve the Presidency.

[Trajan]

1. George W. Bush WANTED to be president ....

President's are responsible for the safety and security of his citizens ...

If someone attacks our nation, it makes no sense to blame the previous president, but the president who is in power when such deadly attacls occur ....

Willam Jefferson Clinton was not president on 9-11: George W. Bush was .....

The Buck stops THERE .....

[maggrwaggr]

2. exactly. That's the bottom line. Been saying that for months

I was hoping Clark, as in Wes Clark, would bring that up and start making that an issue back when he joined the race. He didn't.

I sure didn't expect Richard Clarke to come out of the woodwork and finally say what needed to be said.

It really bothered me that everybody gave Bush a free pass on 9/11. The old "oh nobody could have imagined ......"

It's their job to imagine, it's their job to figure this shit out, and if they don't, then they have failed.

Even if they tried and they failed, they still failed. As Clarke has said.

They need to take some responsibility, and make some apologies, as he has done.

And they need to fucking COOPERATE in an INVESTIGATION of what went WRONG!!!!!

This should NOT be a partisan issue!!!!!!!