Trump outrages GOP by claiming that GWB was President on 9/11

[DetlefK]

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/10/16/donald-trump-suggests-george-bush-failed-to-stop-911-attacks/

On Friday, Mr. Trump, who is leading most Republican presidential polls, offered his rivals another reason why he might not really be one of them when he noted that President George W. Bush had failed to stop the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

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“When you talk about George Bush, I mean, say what you want, the World Trade Center came down during his time,” Mr. Trump said.

Blaming 9/11 on Mr. Bush is taboo for Republicans and has largely been off-limits for Democrats. Pressed on whether he really meant to blame the attacks on Mr. Bush, the billionaire developer did not back down.

“He was president, O.K.?,” Mr. Trump said. “The World Trade Center came down during his reign.”

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While many Republicans have kept their distance from George W. Bush since he left office, the former president’s popularity has improved over the years. The harsh criticism of his legacy from Mr. Trump could cause blowback from Republicans who think of the former president fondly or consider it unfair to argue that he could have stopped the attacks.


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Jeb called Trump pathetic for daring to claim that GWB didn't keep the US safe on 9/11.

https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/655098096649707520?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

[chillfactor]

1. well Bush did NOT keep us safe....

rethugs really are nut cases....did jeb and the rethugs really think no one remembers Bush was president then?

[DetlefK]

3. It's a multi-pronged attack of propaganda, just like global-warming denial:

There is no global warming. Okay, there is, but it's not man-made. Okay it is, but it's actually something good.

GWB kept the US safe on 9/11 and there is nothing he could have done to prevent the attacks.

[Ilsa]

5. Shrub kept those Saudis living in the US safe

by flying them out 1-2 days later when there was a flight ban.
Shrub stayed safe flying around to undisclosed locations.

[WinkyDink]

10. Not merely "Saudis"; THEY WERE DOZENS OF BIN LADENS!!! CBS report from September, 2001:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bin-laden-family-evacuated/

[Ilsa]

12. Yes, thank you for the specifics! nt

[TomVilmer]

28. The bin Laden family flew out AFTER the flight ban

Rumors about them being officially helped to fly out during flight ban was false. They left on a private charter plane when airports reopened after the attacks. I wish people would focus less on petty details from that attack, and more on what it is still being misused for.

[WinkyDink]

37. You can believe the MSM if you want. Did YOU see those planes? And those "petty details" = LIHOP--at

the very LEAST.

I happen to think the DEVIL is in the details.

Moreover, why were they allowed to leave AT ALL, as relatives and thus potential sources of info about Osama and his habits, whereabouts, finances, etc.? HMMMM???

People have been sent to Gitmo on very much less.

[keithbvadu2]

30. How did Bush know that they needed safe passage

out of America while the skies were closed to others?

Funny about that, eh?

[malaise]

2. BY CLAIMING

No - it's a fugging FACT - George Bush was President on 9/11 - that is not debatable - that America was attacked while he was President is also a fugging -FACT.
Stating facts is never off limits.

[Octafish]

4. It is when it leads to this...

Bush knew.



Former antiterror adviser says Bush ignored 9/11 warnings

CBS, July 29, 2004

The White House's former counterterrorism coordinator blasts President Bush in a television interview and a new book, saying the president ignored warnings about terrorist attacks before 9/11 and has done "a terrible job" battling terrorism since then.

"Frankly, I find it outrageous that the president is running for re-election on the grounds that he's done such great things about terrorism," Richard Clarke told CBS' "60 Minutes" in an interview Sunday night. "He ignored it. He ignored terrorism for months, when maybe we could have done something to stop 9/11. Maybe. We'll never know."

Clarke said he asked for a Cabinet-level meeting in January 2001, shortly after the president took office, to discuss the threat al Qaeda posed to the United States. "That urgent memo wasn't acted on," Clarke told CBS. Instead, he said, administration officials were focused on issues such as missile defense and Iraq.

CONTINUED...

http://articles.cnn.com/2004-03-22/politics/clarke.bush_1_qaeda-attack-al-cbs-interview?_s=PM:ALLPOLITICS

[PADemD]

7. Link

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/22/clarke.bush/

[malaise]

9. Well PNAC JebusEnoughFuggingBushes

was in favor of a new Pearl Harbor. Maybe he's responsible

[Vinca]

6. Hell has frozen over. I agree with The Donald.

You're correct, DJT, Bush DID NOT keep us safe.

[MiniMe]

8. Ignoring the August 6 PDB was egregious IMHO

[Ghost in the Machine]

13. Agreed... I was just about to post the same thing about ignoring the August 6th PDB, but actually

read through the comments first. The Anthrax attacks on Democrats, and the Editor of the tabloid that exposed his daughters underaged and drunk at a party happened on his watch, too!

Peace,

Ghost

[yardwork]

23. The anthrax attack on the National Enquirer resulted in the feds locking up all the magazine's files

I've always thought that that might have been the primary purpose of the anthrax attack. Essentially, the Bush administration got control over the National Enquirer's entire historical files - all those documents and photos going back decades.

[Jerry442]

29. He didn't ignore it.

He filed it under "Progress Report."

[napkinz]

19. ...

[Geronimoe]

11. Richard Clarke counter-terrorism czar's hair was on fire

and the Bush administration ignored him. Condi Rice had higher priorities, like shopping for shoes in NYC.

Presidential medal CIA director, George Tenet was busy cherry picking intel to do a slam dunk war on Iraq. Cheney was busy talking to oil exec's about how to divide oil wells in Iraq amongst themselves. Bush was riding his bike and clearing brush in TX.

[Scuba]

14. W kept up safe in the same way that abstinence kept Bristol Palin childless.

[n2doc]

15. I thought the Clenis was in charge

Or maybe Obama was. That must be it!

[BootinUp]

16. He only had 8 months!

8 months to ignore the issue of terrorism is just clearly not enough. He had a lot more fun things to do. Hell if it was up to him he would have ignored it his whole term!

[-none]

25. That's why it was Clinton's fault.

bush only had 8 months to deal with the coming attack. That wasn't nearly enough time to prepare against an attack the outgoing Clinton administration warned them about. To say nothing about the warnings and information from numerous nations.
It was a terrorist attack, so it was supposed to be a surprise. Warnings kinda spoil surprises. The bush administration wanted to surprise us.

[Snarkoleptic]

32. "a lot more fun things", like clear brush, ride his bike and

allow Darth Cheney to carve up the Iraqi oilfields. Bush knew something was up, hid at the ranch, then went to Florida to avoid returning to DC.

I firmly agree with all you hear from Thom Hartmann beginning at the 5:00 minute mark in this video-

[tblue37]

36. I like TH, but I can't listen to him. He keep spinning his wheels verbally before he gets to the

point he means to make. Rachel Maddow does a lot of verbal wheel spinning, too. In her case, it's endless repetition of basic points.

Maybe it's just their way of filling a time slot, but I find it enormously frustrating--and I suspect a lot of other busy people do, as well.

[AllyCat]

17. I agree with Trump on this.

[deminks]

18. Smirky did not keep us safe, he kept us afraid

or tried to.

All of the orange alerts - most of us started seeing through the well timed bogus horse puckey

All of the bin Laden tapes - fat Osama, skinny Osama, never knew which one was gonna star - I remember a spoof starring KKKarl Rove

Katrina -we were afraid our guvmint would not rescue us again from total disaster if we lived in Democratic regions.

Anthrax - be afraid of your mail

fear = mission accomplished = soaring gas prices = total GOPer rule forever ("some people call you elite (wealthy elite), I call you my base&quot = very first meeting of the misadministration with the oil and gas peddlers.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x392524

[B Calm]

20. What struck me as odd was, all the Saudi Arabian 9-11 terrorists died on 9-11 and Bush

starts a war in Iraq. What a buffoon.

[napkinz]

24. ...

[Helen Borg]

21. Trump is wrong. Cheney was Prez!

[MrMickeysMom]

22. The cannibalism of the GOP by Trump is a predictable outcome...

These posers of American democracy should only eat each other. And Trump's followers don't like to have memory so much as bread and circuses...

With Trump's megalomania appetite, I'm guessing this will play out like a steel cage match of the WWF.

Wonder what fresh hell they'll be serving for the Donald's desert?

[jaxind]

26. Love Trump for bringing this up, but....

Absolutely love that Trump has said this, but wished he had said it at the debate! When Jeb said his brother kept the country safe, what if Trump had turned to Jeb, and said "Not on 9/11 he didn't!" How delicious would that have been??!!

[Fred Sanders]

31. "Love" and "Trump" should never be used in the same sentence, never mind right next to each other.

[kairos12]

27. Jeb wants people to think the Shrub Presidency began with this codpiece strut on the carrier.

[MH1]

33. Some days I think Trump is just in the race to troll the GOP

it's just that he's succeeding beyond his wildest dreams that has him thinking of making it real.

It's all hilarious until you consider that he could actually win the republican nomination. Then if we have a candidate who implodes for some reason ... yikes, the thought of Trump actually winning the GE is terrifying.

[Agnosticsherbet]

34. After being briefed that AL Qaeda determined to attack in June

I've seen no evidence he tried to stop it.
The reason the FBI and other organizations who learned about various members did not realize something bigger was happening were turf wars between agencies so that they never talked. Those two bits af fact, far more than his reading of my pet goat on the day is proof he didn't keep us safe.

[napkinz]

35. kick