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If only Bush had done something in the summer of 2000
« on: May 06, 2011, 05:32:36 PM »
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ErikJ (92 posts)      Fri May-06-11 04:48 PM
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9/11 Warning summer of 2000.
 Edited on Fri May-06-11 05:36 PM by ErikJ
Bush and friends claim that they had no idea that terrorists would fly into the World Trade Center.

But I specifically remember a TV news story about a year or 2 before, that there was a fear that terrorists would fly into the WTC Towers. They showed a video of the towers and I thought to myself at the time how horrible that would be and how easy too.
Its possible the story might even have been summer 2001.
It made more of an impact on me because I went to the top floor of the WTC a few years before as a tourist to NY.

I wonder if it would be possible to find that press release somewhere on the internet. Can anybody find it?

When 9/11 happened I remember how horrified I was and that THAT WARNING I heard ACTUALLY came TRUE! 

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closeupready  (1000+ posts)        Fri May-06-11 04:51 PM
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1. I remember reading on the Drudge Report circa 1998 or 1999 that
 OBL had expressed an interest in bringing down the WTC entirely since the first attempt in 1993 was unsuccessful. So yeah, it should have been on somebody's radar.

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KeepItReal  (1000+ posts)      Fri May-06-11 04:58 PM
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2. Here's the information Bush & Co had starting in JANUARY 2001:
 The National Security Archive today posted the widely-debated, but previously unavailable, January 25, 2001, memo from counterterrorism coordinator Richard Clarke to national security advisor Condoleezza Rice - the first terrorism strategy paper of the Bush administration.

The document was central to debates in the 9/11 hearings over the Bush administration's policies and actions on terrorism before September 11, 2001.

Clarke's memo requests an immediate meeting of the National Security Council's Principals Committee to discuss broad strategies for combating al-Qaeda by giving counterterrorism aid to the Northern Alliance and Uzbekistan, expanding the counterterrorism budget and responding to the U.S.S. Cole attack.

Despite Clarke's request, there was no Principals Committee meeting on al-Qaeda until September 4, 2001.

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB147 /

Here is the link to the actual document Richard Clarke sent to Condi Rice January 25, 2001:

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB147/clarke%2...


The page also has Condi's take as well as President Clintons statements on his efforts to kill or capture Bin Laden. (Don't let folks get away with saying George W "started" the effort to get OBL).

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RC  (1000+ posts)      Fri May-06-11 05:33 PM
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9. There was also the 2½ thick report that the outgoing Clinton Administration gave the
 incoming Bush Administration about a probable attack and the time to within a week or so. They just did not know where. Richard Bruce Cheney shelved it, never to be seen again.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1053628

And on it goes.

1) Clinton, after 8 years, drops a pile on Bush's desk but it's Bush's fault.

2) Bush, the illegitimate, the selected unelected, the hated, the reviled, the coke-addled alcoholic, the mistrusted even after 9/11, the mile-high drone assassin...

...was supposed to suddenly just pop-off and kill UBL without under-girding provocation.
According to the Bible, "know" means "yes."

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Re: If only Bush had done something in the summer of 2000
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2011, 05:40:41 PM »
They could have stopped the World Trade Center attack...if Bill clintons hired help hadn't stolen all the "W" keys off the keyboards in Washington. How do you DUmmies spell "world" without a "W"?

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Re: If only Bush had done something in the summer of 2000
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2011, 05:49:36 PM »
Okay DUmb dicks let's just say, for arguments sake, that President Bush was told straight out that sometime in 2001 al-Qaeda terrorists were going to fly planes into the WTC. What could he have done to make you lunatics happy? The answer is nothing.

He could ground all planes. That would piss you and everybody off. OR he could keep the planes flying and give extra scrutiny to the arabs and muslims. What would happen then? You know what would happen. Don't lie. The liberals in the country, especially you lunatics at the DUmp, would be screaming racial profiling.
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Re: If only Bush had done something in the summer of 2000
« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2011, 06:05:40 PM »
He could ground all planes. That would piss you and everybody off. OR he could keep the planes flying and give extra scrutiny to the arabs and muslims. What would happen then? You know what would happen. Don't lie. The liberals in the country, especially you lunatics at the DUmp, would be screaming racial profiling.

They do that even AFTER 9/11 so...
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Re: If only Bush had done something in the summer of 2000
« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2011, 06:21:12 PM »
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If only Bush had done something in the summer of 2000

If only Comrade Billy Jeff had taken bin Laden's head on a platter when Sudan offered it to him in 1996, eh?  :thatsright:
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Re: If only Bush had done something in the summer of 2000
« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2011, 06:24:36 PM »
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If only Bush had done something in the summer of 2000

Just WTF was candidate George Bush supposed to have done in 2000? 

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Re: If only Bush had done something in the summer of 2000
« Reply #6 on: May 06, 2011, 06:27:13 PM »
I wonder how much Algore's sore-loser recount encouraged the enemies of America?
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Re: If only Bush had done something in the summer of 2000
« Reply #7 on: May 06, 2011, 06:43:36 PM »
Wasn't Clinton the POTUS during the summer of 2000? I remember after every terror attack during the Clinton era, he would make some big speech promising to pursue the terrorist scum to the ends of the earth and then he would seek out a bimbo to lay.

Could Bush have done more leading up to 9/11? No doubt, but the whole country was asleep. After 9/11 most of us were awake but you DUmmies never wake up. You still hated your country and instead of helping the country during war time, you chose to shout inane chants and throw eggs at the presidential motorcade. If you idiots were capable of feeling shame, you should and get your minds write and leave the DUmp. But you are not capable of growth. You are barely human.
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Re: If only Bush had done something in the summer of 2000
« Reply #8 on: May 06, 2011, 07:36:57 PM »
If Clinton had taken out Bin Laden the minimum 3 times he had the chance to do it then 9/11 wouldn't of happened.
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Re: If only Bush had done something in the summer of 2000
« Reply #9 on: May 06, 2011, 07:48:42 PM »
If Clinton had taken out Bin Laden the minimum 3 times he had the chance to do it then 9/11 wouldn't of happened.

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Re: If only Bush had done something in the summer of 2000
« Reply #10 on: May 07, 2011, 03:38:06 PM »
They couldn't get together on which one of them should be the girl and wear the dress.

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Re: If only Bush had done something in the summer of 2000
« Reply #11 on: May 07, 2011, 03:50:53 PM »
They couldn't get together on which one of them should be the girl and wear the dress.
Considering what happens to dresses around Bill Clinton I guess no one was lining up to wear it.
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Re: If only Bush had done something in the summer of 2000
« Reply #12 on: May 07, 2011, 04:25:51 PM »
Ignoring that Bush wasn't president in 2000, if he got all of this intel from Clinton that 9/11 was going to happen.  Why didn't Clinton do something before January 2001?

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Re: If only Bush had done something in the summer of 2000
« Reply #13 on: May 07, 2011, 06:03:15 PM »
Ignoring that Bush wasn't president in 2000, if he got all of this intel from Clinton that 9/11 was going to happen.  Why didn't Clinton do something before January 2001?

If Clinton had went into Afghanistan in early 2000 claiming to go after bin Laden, then Gore might have won the election.  It's Clinton's fault that Gore lost.

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Re: If only Bush had done something in the summer of 2000
« Reply #14 on: May 07, 2011, 09:48:08 PM »
Thinking like that is why the DUmbasses are marooned in their basements finding a mere few thousand like minded idiots on the internet.  Look, that's OK but quite few of them teach our children.  THAT IS NOT OK.

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Re: If only Bush had done something in the summer of 2000
« Reply #15 on: May 08, 2011, 06:52:29 AM »
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Two Months Before 9/11, an Urgent Warning to Rice
   
On July 10, 2001, two months before the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, then-CIA Director George J. Tenet met with his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, at CIA headquarters to review the latest on Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terrorist organization. Black laid out the case, consisting of communications intercepts and other top-secret intelligence showing the increasing likelihood that al-Qaeda would soon attack the United States. It was a mass of fragments and dots that nonetheless made a compelling case, so compelling to Tenet that he decided he and Black should go to the White House immediately.

Tenet called Condoleezza Rice, then national security adviser, from the car and said he needed to see her right away. There was no practical way she could refuse such a request from the CIA director.

For months, Tenet had been pressing Rice to set a clear counterterrorism policy, including specific presidential orders called "findings" that would give the CIA stronger authority to conduct covert action against bin Laden. Perhaps a dramatic appearance -- Black called it an "out of cycle" session, beyond Tenet's regular weekly meeting with Rice -- would get her attention.

Tenet had been losing sleep over the recent intelligence he'd seen. There was no conclusive, smoking-gun intelligence, but there was such a huge volume of data that an intelligence officer's instinct strongly suggested that something was coming. He and Black hoped to convey the depth of their anxiety and get Rice to kick-start the government into immediate action.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/30/AR2006093000282.html

Wow, with such "specific" information as this, it's amazing that Bush didn't quickly put...what, Blackhawk helicopters on duty on top of the WTC 24x7?  Anti-aircraft missiles in NYC?  A no-fly zone around New York state? Around the entire eastern coast?  Around the whole US??  Exactly what was he supposed to do?  Idiots...
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Re: If only Bush had done something in the summer of 2000
« Reply #16 on: May 08, 2011, 06:19:45 PM »
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closeupready  (1000+ posts)        Fri May-06-11 04:51 PM
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1. I remember reading on the Drudge Report circa 1998 or 1999 that
 OBL had expressed an interest in bringing down the WTC entirely since the first attempt in 1993 was unsuccessful. So yeah, it should have been on somebody's radar.
It WAS supposed to be on somebody's radar, his name is Bill Clinton. The POTUS at the time, the rapist in chief in charge of this nation's security. Instead of completing his sworn duties, Wee-Crooked-Weenie-Willy was parading around the Oval Office, doing his pole dance for Monica, then finishing off by depositing his personal WMD's in the Oral Office sink.

Nice legacy you pedophile pervs got there...

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Re: If only Bush had done something in the summer of 2000
« Reply #17 on: May 09, 2011, 06:15:51 AM »
It WAS supposed to be on somebody's radar, his name is Bill Clinton. The POTUS at the time, the rapist in chief in charge of this nation's security. Instead of completing his sworn duties, Wee-Crooked-Weenie-Willy was parading around the Oval Office, doing his pole dance for Monica, then finishing off by depositing his personal WMD's in the Oral Office sink.

Nice legacy you pedophile pervs got there...

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What was her name, Jamie Warlick? or something like that that had built a wall between the intelligence gathering communities to protect commie DUmmies....but instead protected the Muslim terrorist. ....and she worked for who?
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Re: If only Bush had done something in the summer of 2000
« Reply #18 on: May 09, 2011, 07:51:49 AM »
What was her name, Jamie Warlick? or something like that that had built a wall between the intelligence gathering communities to protect commie DUmmies....but instead protected the Muslim terrorist. ....and she worked for who?

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