Never forget: The Bush Administration failed to prevent the September 11 terrorist attacks

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Never forget: The Bush Administration failed to prevent the September 11 terrorist attacks

by Laurence Lewis



The traditional media never have gotten this one right, and they're certainly not going to now. Not today. Probably not ever. They reported the facts as they happened, but tying them all together is beyond their ability, interest and/or intent. Tying together the facts that they themselves reported.

I've posted this many times, in many forms. This is a cut-and-paste from a previous post, and no doubt I will need to post it again. The Bush Administration failed on so many fronts, from crashing the economy to ignoring climate change to allowing the people of a great American city to be devastated by a natural disaster for which there was plenty of time to be prepared, to lying the nation into a failed war against a nation that had never attacked us and had no ability to attack us even it had so desired, to spying on American citizens, to authorizing torture ... the list is nearly endless. But the Bush Administration was defined by the September 11 terrorist attacks. The media even allowed the Bush Administration to cast itself as heroes because of its response to the September 11 terrorist attacks. All of it wrong. And so to reiterate ...

Just a month before the 9/11 attacks, while on a month long vacation, Bush was personally handed a presidential daily briefing titled:

Bin Laden determined to strike in US.

With characteristic intelligence and class, Bush responded with the words:

All right. You've covered your ass, now.

And went fishing.

But Bush wasn't the only member of his administration to blow off warnings, and ignore the threat of terrorism. Indeed, his attorney general, John Ashcroft, revealed his own lack of concern just a day before the attacks:

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[indepat]

1. Didn't junior say 2001 was a very good year for Laura and him?

[JHB]

2. "But all in all, it's been a fabulous year for Laura and me."

12/21/2001 White House release:

http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/12/20011221-2.html

I must tell you, I'm disappointed that the Senate did not follow up on the opportunity to pass a stimulus package that would have taken care of workers. We worked really hard with members of both parties to get legislation that would do two things -- one, help workers by extending unemployment insurance, as well as helping with their health care. And then there was a -- part of the package that would encourage investment and job creation. It just didn't get done, and that's a big disappointment.

I know there was enough votes to get it out of the Senate, had there been the will to get the bill done. And maybe early next year we can work on it again.

But all in all, it's been a fabulous year for Laura and me. We're so grateful to be living in this compound and I'm grateful to be working in this office. It's a joy to walk in here every morning, realizing that I'm the President of the greatest country on the face of the Earth.

Included the bit about the Senate because once someone from the Democrats got into the Oval Office that all got relabeled as "socialism" and "handouts'.

[WinkyDink]

5. And he meant that. He was now a macho-man figure, bullhorn and all.

[Scurrilous]

3. K & R

[WinkyDink]

4. It has ALWAYS been my retort to the Bush myth.