Thanks BB.............. sm
Posted By: m on 2009-01-15
In Reply to: I am very sorry to hear.....(sm) - Just the big bad
For obvious reasons, I cannot think if 911 without thinking of my stepson's death. Maybe it was not the best analogy, but my whole point was that, just like that car, the attack on America came on quite unannounced and caught us quite by surprise. Are we blaming the president in office at the time for the first attack on the Twin Towers or for Yemen or for the USS Cole? I stand by my statement that Bush was not wholely to blame for 911 when there were presidents before him that were aware of the terrorist mill in Afganistan cranking out terrorists right and left. Bush took office in January and 911 happened, of course, 9 months later. I doubt, even with enough advance notice that he would have been able to shut down the terrorist factories in time. Even if he had, the ones responsible for those dispicable acts were already in Florida, learning from American flight instructors how to fly planes. Maybe we should blame those flight instructors for their part? Surely they should have realized that they could be teaching future terrorists!!
Again, I say that Bush could not have prevented these attacks anymore than he could prevent, for example, germ warfare entering the US is a vial stored in a backpack. Biden's warning on 9/10 was a tad too late, even though it may not have been the first.
I'm just tired of the rampant blaming of Bush for everything under the sun and that it would be his fault if it didn't rise in the East every morning. And an article in a left-leaning rag is not proof of anything except that the left hates Bush.
Have there been any more attacks on US soil since 911?
No. So in that respect, Bush HAS kept this country safe from terrorist attacks, and for that I thank him.
Sure he has made mistakes. He even admits his mistakes and, in retrospect, finds that there were things he could have done differently, but as they say hindsight is 20/20. And just as Bush has made mistakes, I am sure that Obama will make mistakes. Like Bush, he is human and humaness lends itself very well to errors in judgment.
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