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is a lasting legacy'
paraphrasing, but this is the essence of what david gregory said in a piece on the former resident.
video: 48 seconds in.....http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/51652088/#51652088
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The anthrax scare. Shortly after 9/11, letters laced with anthrax began appearing in the U.S. mail. Letters went to U.S. senators and news organizations. Before it was over, five Americans were killed and another 17 were injured. "The nation was terrorized in what became the worst biological attacks in U.S. history," according to the FBI.
The shoe bomber. In December 2001, admitted al-Qaida member Richard Reid boarded a plane in Miami with plastic explosives packed in special hollowed-out shoes. The bomb failed to ignite properly and no passengers were hurt. The incident, however, led to Americans having to remove their shoes during airport security screening.
The D.C. sniper case. John Allen Muhammad was convicted on capital terrorism charges for his part in the shooting of 16 people in and around the D.C. area in September and October 2002. Muhammad was executed last year. His 17-year-old accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, was sentenced to life in prison.
2002 attack against El Al ticket counter at LAX. Hesham Mohamed Hadayet opened fire at an El Al Airlines ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport, killing two people and wounding four others before being shot dead. Media Matters found a 2004 Justice Department report that Hadayet's case had been "officially designated as an act of international terrorism."
Campus attack at UNC. In March 2006, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduate drove an SUV onto campus, striking nine pedestrians. Reza Taheri-azar reportedly stated in a letter: "I was aiming to follow in the footsteps of one of my role models, Mohammad Atta, one of the 9/11/01 hijackers, who obtained a doctorate degree."
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/jan/08/rudy-giuliani/giuliani-says-there-were-no-domestic-attacks-durin/
Rex
(65,616 posts)participation in the 2000/2004 selections...that is why I won't watch the M$M anymore, they are against The People of this country.
malaise
(267,834 posts)9/11 was the worst terrorist attack on America. Fuck these revisionists.
Rex
(65,616 posts)9/11 was a monumental failure by the Bush administration, for them to pretend otherwise is living in deep denial.
Remember when we finally got OBL and John McCain poo poo'd on the POTUSs success? They KNOW they are full of shit and are trying like hell to find a way to impeach him!
They cannot handle the fact that 9/11 was the biggest national security failure in our history.
malaise
(267,834 posts)When Obama got Bin Laden Cheney came out to claim it for Bushco.
Anyway they are so lucky that we had last week's attack just in time for the library opening.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Maybe they can dedicate it to literacy and social awareness in the name of irony.
malaise
(267,834 posts)of our time.
spanone
(135,637 posts)June 14, 2002, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan
Suicide bomber kills 12 and injures 51.
February 20, 2003, international diplomatic compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Truck bomb kills 17.
February 28, 2003, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan
Gunmen on motorcycles killed two consulate guards.
July 30, 2004, U.S. embassy in Taskkent, Uzbekistan
Suicide bomber kills two.
December 6, 2004, U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Militants stormed and occupied perimeter wall. Five killed, 10 wounded.
March 2, 2006, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan
Suicide car bomber killed four, including a U.S. diplomate directly targeted by the assailants.
September 12, 2006, U.S. embassy in Damascus, Syria
Gunmen attacked embassy with grenades, automatic weapons, and a car bomb (though second truck bomb failed to detonate). One killed and 13 wounded.
January 12, 2007, U.S. embassy in Athens, Greece
A rocket-propelled grenade was fired at the embassy building. No one was injured.
July 9, 2008, U.S. consulate in Istanbul, Turkey
Armed men attacked consulate with pistols and shotguns. Three policemen killed.
March 18, 2008, U.S. embassy in Sana'a, Yemen
Mortar attack misses embassy, hits nearby girls' school instead.
September 17, 2008, U.S. embassy in Sana'a, Yemen
Militants dressed as policemen attacked the embassy with RPGs, rifles, grenades and car bombs. Six Yemeni soldiers and seven civilians were killed. Sixteen more were injured.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/12/1130950/-If-diplomatic-attacks-are-a-sign-of-weakness-Bush-was-the-weakest-of-all
malaise
(267,834 posts)Wasn't there also an American hotel bombed in Pakistan?
frylock
(34,825 posts)Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)They like to act as if 911 did not happen during his tenure, it was the first and the worst of the things he failed to protect us from.
I consider that to be the biggest revision of all, and they ignore it without even the slightest sense of irony as they claim he was the great protector of America from terrorism.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)duh after 9/11 duh baaaa baaaa.... !
wercal
(1,370 posts)He boarded in Paris.
spanone
(135,637 posts)snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)And they are constantly editing it.
0rganism
(23,856 posts)pretty soon, it will be the entirety of W's legacy -- "he kept us safer after 9/11!" that'll be how he's presented in history textbooks 20 years from now. Anyone who pulls out a list like the one you link to will be shouted down as a crank -- that's the goal anyway.
So very normal, so very untrue.
htuttle
(23,738 posts)Bishop had left a suicide note praising Osama bin Laden's September 11 attacks as a justified response to actions against "the Palestinian people and Iraqis" acting on behalf of Al Qaeda. But as officials could find no evidence of any connections, terrorism as a motive was ruled out, and they suggested that the crash was an apparent suicide. Bishop's mother filed a lawsuit claiming that an acne medicine had side effects such as depression and suicidal actions which was the cause of the incident.
SDjack
(1,448 posts)lucky to have had him and Condi. /s/
Hotler
(11,353 posts)DirkGently
(12,151 posts)in the first place. Ignoring the memo. Laughing off warnings as ass covering.
They'd like to pretendwe'd never heard of terrorism before 9/11. It wasn't even the first attack on the WTC.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)9/11 counts against his watch. He ignored warnings.
They_Live
(3,222 posts)Provoked the situation, and then ignored the warnings.
rurallib
(62,346 posts)the fact that we were in 2 unnecessary wars and paying for them by borrowing should mean something to NBC?
I doubt it, too.
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)9/11, The Patriot Act, tax cuts for the wealthy, unpaid for illegal wars, the destruction of the middle class, torture, lies about WMD's, the near collapse of the economy and massive deregulation then Bush wasn't a bad president at all. Hell of a legacy.
Flatulo
(5,005 posts)Johonny
(20,684 posts)on the bright side 9/11 was the worse terrorist attack in the USA under Bush, not counting all those attacks on our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, but our troops don't count to people like Williams.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)president than George W. Bush. And they're still at it.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,355 posts)before the Bush (mis-)administration got their butts in gear and started caring about Al-Queda (at least for awhile)
I hate how GOP apologists gloss over 9/11 and pretend that Bush did a good job of "protecting America"
joeunderdog
(2,563 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)I really hope liberals, on which NBC and especially MSNBC depend so heavily, will occasionally flex their muscles in pointing out such outrageous falsehoods. I'd like to see us complain loudly enough where guys like Tweety and Rachel can't ignore it and are forced to cover it and apologize on behalf of their network.
chillfactor
(7,566 posts)and my comment was a blistering ass-whipping of both Williams and Gregory
RGinNJ
(1,018 posts)At least O'Donnell on MSNBC talked about how stupid these statements sound.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)so 9/11 must be blamed on Clinton. And any terrorist attacks after that were clearly the responsibility of Obama who was already on the horizon and thinking about the Presidency, as George Bush was already tired and overworked and showing signs of stress from all the vacations and the massages he was giving.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Brian Williams gets seven figures out of Comcast. He'd carry George Bush's children, if he was so ordered.
still_one
(91,965 posts)spanone
(135,637 posts)here is the video, he says it around 48 seconds in......
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/51652088/#51652088
Boomerproud
(7,889 posts)What an ass-kisser.
still_one
(91,965 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)up.
Wish Hollywood would produce more films showing how Cheney and Bush et al created a fake fucking war where hundreds of thousands died.
GRRRRRR
pangaia
(24,324 posts)WHAT ABOUT 9/11???
What's all this non sense about AFTER 9/11?
Does 9/11 not count, or something?
3000+ people !!!!
Turbineguy
(37,212 posts)They had Dubya.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... those are all on Bush!
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)So these new deaths and injuries are also on Chimpshit.
truebrit71
(20,805 posts)"other than your first monumental fuck-up, you did a great job!"
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)They'd hire him too if he didn't look like he just woke up after sleeping on his face.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,781 posts)usGovOwesUs3Trillion
(2,022 posts)eom
spanone
(135,637 posts)usGovOwesUs3Trillion
(2,022 posts)eom
spanone
(135,637 posts)usGovOwesUs3Trillion
(2,022 posts)I get physically sick to my stomach. But that doesn't count to our MSM :shakes-head:
SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)gordianot
(15,226 posts)Samantha
(9,314 posts)There are some, like me, who say 9/11 would never have happened on Gore's watch. So it seems sort of lopsided to start the clock ticking after 9/11....
Sam
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)raccoon
(31,092 posts)No, it wasn't, Bush, Cheney, and the Neocons were hell-bent to invade Iraq.
Paul O'Neill (former Treasury Secretary) said in the book THE PRICE OF LOYALTY that from the time Bush was put in office, he and his minions were trying to think of an excuse to invade Iraq.
Blue Owl
(49,934 posts)n/t
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)and damn near burned down the country in the process; but no one ever has the stones to call that an "attack" on the American people...
pilar007
(81 posts)how much "safer" were the residents of New Orleans during hurrican Katrina? Im sure that work was not uttered. Remember the Alamo? Remember Katrina!!!!