Has Bush ever mentioned the 1993 WTC bombing?

[sabra]

Cause he sure loves to reference 9.11.01

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050822-1.html

At this hour, a new generation of Americans is defending our flag and our freedom in the first war of the 21st century. The war came to our shores on the morning of September the 11th, 2001. Since then the terrorists have continued to strike -- in Bali, in Riyadh, in Istanbul, and Madrid, and Baghdad, and London, and Sharm el-Sheikh and elsewhere. The enemy, the terrorists, are ruthless and brutal. They're fighting on behalf of a hateful ideology that despises everything America stands for.

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After September the 11th, 2001, I made a pledge, America will not be -- will not wait to be attacked again. We will go on the offense and we will defend our freedom.

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We've more than tripled funding for homeland security since September the 11th, 2001.

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The lesson of September the 11th, 2001, is that we must confront threats before they fully materialize.

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Since the morning of September the 11th, we have known that the war on terror would require great sacrifice, as well. We have lost 1,864 members of our Armed Forces in Operation Iraqi Freedom, and 223 in Operation Enduring Freedom. Each of these men and women left grieving families and loved ones back home. Each of these heroes left a legacy that will allow generations of their fellow Americans to enjoy the blessings of liberty. And each of these Americans have brought the hope of freedom to millions who have not known it. We owe them something. We will finish the task that they gave their lives for. We will honor their sacrifice by staying on the offensive against the terrorists, and building strong allies in Afghanistan and Iraq that will help us win and fight -- fight and win the war on terror.

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[skypilot]

1. He was probably still in his cups in '93.

Does he even know that there was a bombing back then?

[onehandle]

2. Happened on Clinton's watch.

So it was obviously Clinton's fault.

All has been rosy since that nasty old Bill Clinton.

[sabra]

3. isn't 9/11 also Clinton's fault?

</sarcasm>

[Greeby]

6. Shh

Beware the power of the Clenis :hide:

[KansDem]

7. But the planning for it went on during Bush I's administration...

FBI foreknowledge
In the course of the trial it was revealed that the FBI had an informant, an Egyptian man named Emad Salem, who was involved with the bombing conspiracy. Salem claims to have informed the FBI of the plot to bomb the towers as early as February 6, 1992, information he was privy to possibly because he himself initiated the plot. Salem's role as informant allowed the FBI to quickly pinpoint the conspirators out of the hundreds of possible suspects.

Salem asserts that the original plan was to have the plotters build the bomb using a harmless powder instead of actual explosive, but that an FBI supervisor decided that a real bomb should be constructed instead. He substantiates his claims with hundreds of hours of secretly-recorded conversations with his FBI handlers, made during discussions held after the bombings.

Salem says he wished to complain to FBI headquarters in Washington about the failure to prevent the bombing despite foreknowledge, but was dissuaded from doing so by the New York FBI office. The FBI has not explicitly denied Salem's account.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center_bombing#FBI_foreknowledge

From "communism" to "terrorism," the Military-Industrial complex stands to make money from frightened Americans. Notice the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the planning of the first WTC attack in 1992 occurred during the Bush I administration. Can't go too long without a boogieman!!!

[kittenpants]

4. someone on DU mentioned that Iraq was linked to the 1993

bombing, that they were involved in the preparation of it. I'd never heard this before and would have chalked it up to a troll, but no one disputed his point & the person seemed well-informed otherwise. However, if this was true it seems that * would have relied heavily on that in his run-up for Iraq this time. Has anyone heard that allegation before? It seems unlikely to me, but I just wonder where he got the idea.

[Greeby]

5. Of course he wouldn't

Terrorists actually being caught, tried, convicted and sentenced in a fair trial? Such heresy! :sarcasm:

[Vox_Reason]

8. Bingo.

Don't want to draw attention to the successful capture, prosecution, and incarceration of the guilty.

Yet another Clinton success that the junta doesn't want to remind anyone about.

Keep washing all that blood off your hands, neocons--you're gonna need a LOT of soap.