4yrs ago this week, Bush is handed the Hart-Rudman Report on Global Terror

[blm]

He refused to read it.

Dick Cheney refused to read it.

Condoleeza Rice refused to read it.

The 2 1/2 year bi-partisan study of worldwide terror, commissioned by Bill Clinton in 1998, was deemed unimportant enough for Bush to read.

[rodeodance]

1. I remember them talking of this on the 9/11 hearings

[blm]

9. But you didn't hear any of the news networks give it much notice, didja?

Nope....must keep the dictatortot propped up for the election. Don't let the public know he could have prevented 9-11.

[fooj]

2. Are you kidding me? Was America's name on the top of the list?

WTF? Nothing shocks me anymore. How sad is that?

[Cha]

3. It's the media's disgrace..

that this is known by every man, woman, and child in America!

[blm]

8. You do mean "NOT known" don't you?

Because I doubt you could go into a supermarket filled with people and find FIVE of them who know this happened.

[Cha]

10. YES! I just reread that and it was too late

to edit! Sorry!

I'm glad you knew what I meant to write..

"NOT KNOWN BY EVERY MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD"

[blm]

11. If it was known, even Diebold couldn't have saved him.

Mediawhores: Bush is strong on terror.

[Spinzonner]

4. It's Clinton's fault ...

that the report didn't have enough pictures to get Shrub to read it.

[Sparkly]

5. As Condi said, "Nobody told us to DO anything."

I guess nobody told them to even read it. :shrug:

[blm]

14. They were told to read it by plenty of people, including Newt Gingrich.

After 9-11, Gingrich dared to point fingers at their incompetence in the New Yorker, yet for some reason the mainstream media didn't cover his remarks.

Oh yeah....they were busy with anthrax, which just happened to really help BushInc.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

6. Yep and the mainstream media went

doo doo doo doo doo di di di doo doo doo doo doo
*best Lou Reed*

[Stephanie]

7. Chimp put it in the circular file and said, "Cheney, write a new report."

"We don't want no stinking Clinton era report."

And Cheney said, "you betcha, Chimp" and immediately dropped the ball, because he wanted to play the great game, and first he needed his New Pearl Harbor. Which is what he got.

Thanks Dick. You will rot in hell, no doubt.

[Old and In the Way]

12. And what else did they do, immediately upon gaining office?

* They took submarines patrolling in the Persian Gulf, to react to any teror threats, off station.

* They took the Predator surveillance aircraft which was tracking Al-Qaeda terrorists, off duty.

* Made Osama bin Laden and AQ a no-priority.....the word Al-Qaeda is mentioned only once prior to 9/11 by this administration.

* Neglected all of the warnings that they were getting from their terrorist czar, Richard Clarke, including the 8/6/01 CIA Presidential Daily Paper that bluntly told Dimson that OBL would attack US landmarks with planes.

* Spent 43% of his time on vacation.

All which led up to the loss of 3,000 lives on 9/11/01. Yes, this administration is "strong" on terror. What a joke.

[blm]

13. They also received confirmation that BinLaden was behind the USS Cole

bombing in their first week in office. Their response: Nevermind. Let's go make nice with the Taliban and try to bribe them like Texas oilmen.

[Stephanjnj]

15. And Attorney General John Ashcroft...

...ordered his staff to refrain from any further discussion of terrorist attck. After all, without 9/11 under their belts the administration could not have rammed the Patriot Act through Congress, could not have generated credible lies for invading Iraq, and would have had no basis for embarking on a scare campaign to convince voters that maintaining GOP control of the gov't was necessary for national security. Bottom line, Bush would have been handily defeated for a second term. The best strategy for staying in power was to ignore expert advice on the impending threat, sit back, and just wait for an event to happen. This begs the question of exactly why Bush took no decisive action in that Florida classroom, upon hearing of the 2nd plane hitting the WTC. Was it merely incompetence, a lack of leadership, or stalling for other events to unfold? "Mission accomplished", indeed.

[Stephanie]

16. Meanwhile, Ashcroft looked out for number one

And only flew on private planes from mid-July 2001 onwards. Hijackings are for the little people to suffer, not Lord Ashcroft.