News Sep 11, 2012 at 10:14 am

George W. Bush Was Warned Multiple Times About an Attack from Al Qaeda Before 9/11

Paul Constant
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I would say he learned his lesson, and listened the next time, when they told him Saddam had WMDs.
on September 11, 2012 at 10:59 AM Report this
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Everyone has known and admitted as much.
Not a lot you can do in advance when the information missing is the WHERE WHEN and HOW
D on September 11, 2012 at 11:07 AM Report this
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So, Paul, what would you have suggested Bush do with that information?

Detain everyone he thought might be a suspected terrorist when no crime had yet been committed? Tell the general public that threats had been made so the citizens could go into hysteria trying to figure out who was a terrorist?

Like D said above, this is useless information when you have no idea where, when, and how.

Hindsight is 20/20. You wouldn't have known what to do if you were in their shoes, either.
on September 11, 2012 at 11:57 AM Report this
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Daaarg, if you got information about plans for an attack within the US on May 1, June 22, June 29, July 1, July 9, July 24 and August 6, I'd say you needed a really good reason to think it was all fake, and that the real attack (for which there was literally no evidence) was coming from Saddam.

Let me know when you find that really good reason, because I haven't heard one.

Also, several of the people who recommended Bush ignore all the al Qaeda-related intelligence and focus on Iraq are working for Romney: John Bolton and Eliot Cohen, for example.
eldepeche on September 11, 2012 at 3:45 PM Report this
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Right, and the multiple war game exercises the Air Force was running on the morning of 9/11 simulating hijackings over the continental United States that included (at least) one live-fly exercise under the name "Vigilant Warrior", as well as simulations that placed "false blips" on FAA radar screens.......might have been a tell.

Spindles on September 11, 2012 at 4:18 PM Report this
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Eldepeche - No one is saying not to believe the threat is real. What we're saying is, in this vast country, how in the hell would you even begin to know what to do in preparation for an attack?

An attack could be a bomb, gas, poison, or a plane into a building as we found out. There's no way, and nowhere near enough people, to have been able to cover every base.

Which makes me go back to my point. Without WHERE, WHY, and WHEN, that is essentially useless information.
on September 14, 2012 at 5:51 PM Report this

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