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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: BannedFromDU on August 27, 2008, 10:24:29 PM
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kpete (1000+ posts) Thu Aug-28-08 03:17 AM
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On-9/10/01-Biden warned Bush the ‘real threat’ may come in ‘the belly of a plane’
Advertisements [?]Edited on Thu Aug-28-08 03:18 AM by kpete
Flashback: Biden on 9/10/01 warned the ‘real threat’ may come in ‘the belly of a plane’
Before 9/11, the Bush administration’s national security focus was on missile defense, not terrorism. In fact, on 9/11, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was set to deliver a speech that focused “largely on missile defense.†Writing at the Huffington Post, Joe Cirincione — president of the Ploughshares Fund — recalls this quote from Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) on Sept. 10, 2001, warning against the Bush administration’s approach:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-cirincione/joe-knows-...
We will have diverted all that money to address the least likely threat while the real threats come into this country in the hold of a ship, or the belly of a plane, or are smuggled into a city in the middle of the night in a vial in a backpack.
Cirincione writes, “If George Bush had listened to Joe Biden instead of Donald Rumsfeld, the history of the past seven years would have been very different. We might have prevented 9/11.â€
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6783817
Biden telling Bush on 9/10 about a threat that specific? Sounds like he was in on it, to me.
Seriously - what was Bush supposed to do? Cancel air travel because Hairplugs made a vague and nonspecific observation? These idiots love to play quarterback on Monday, don't they...
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Okay, I thought the meme was that Bush knew...somebody hasn't spent enough time in the 911 forum. This blows that whole theory out of the water! And what the hell are they supposed to do with all the extra chicken wire and concrete blocks now? If I were going to get all conspiratorial-like I'd have to wonder why Biden would use a phrase like the threat would come from "the belly of the plane". Why wouldn't he just say, "I think hijacking by Muslim extremists is a bigger threat". For all we know "the belly of the plane" could be code for "go for it radical Islamic dudes!"
Cindie
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Sounds like a DUmmy is trying to rewrite Biden History. Sorry guys, you fail. Up until the VP announcement Biden was second on the list of Democrats you hate behind Lieberman. To you, he is a Bush apologist,not an ignored Sage.
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Sounds like a DUmmy is trying to rewrite Biden History. Sorry guys, you fail. Up until the VP announcement Biden was second on the list of Democrats you hate behind Lieberman. To you, he is a Bush apologist,not an ignored Sage.
Is Biden a..
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Nah, Dutch, he's a pro-abortion Catholic who was chided by the Archbishop of Washington DC this past week for that stance.