More hubba, hubba.

[Typhoon1244]

Clinton had the opportunity to retaliate the Cole bombing which was directly linked to Al Qaeda, yet he did nothing.

...based on advice from FBI and CIA.

[Clarke] was a hold over from the Clinton administration...

...and the first Bush administration. Let's not pretend he was a Clintonite. Willie wasn't listening to him either.

There is enough blame on 9/11 to go around...much in part because the CIA and FBI don't share their information.

Agreed...and I'm amazed nobody at either agency's been held accountable. I like what Bill Mahr said: "something's wrong when the only person to lose their job because of September 11th was me!"

 

[Timebuilder]

I know, you're right. It's almost as bad as...oh, I don't know...say, using September 11th as a backdrop for your campaign ads...

It would be bad if, for example, someone like me or you was to use 9-11 as a backdrop for OUR campaign ads. We had no part of 9-11 as a leader or responsible party in the area of security, military, law enforcement, nothing. Why isn't it "bad" for Bush to do so?

Because: a campaign ad from an incumbent is essentialy a mini-resume. 9-11, and how Bush responded as a leader, IS a part of his resume. It belongs there.

That isn't "exploiting" 9-11, it is enumerating a part of his record that is a strength. 9-11 is perhaps the most striking (no pun) event of the Bush presidency, followed by his leadership in reducing taxes to avoid another great depression and setting an example of justice and morality for all to see, a contrast to the previous president.

 

[Dubya]

Oooohhhhhhh......

....Whataburger.....oh.....it's been sooooo long since i've partaken.

Typhoon....you used Jaws to compare this gal's situation...I love it!

This whole 9/11 commission public testimony thing is a bag of puke. What a bunch of garbage.


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[Singlecoil]

The pilots, you know, they simply could have told the pilots these Middle Eastern men knew how to fly planes. The pilots would have behaved differently. They wouldn't have just acquiesced. They would have fought back but these pilots -- and I've spoken to their wives -- thought that these Middle Eastern men needed the pilots, so they just sat there and listened and did what they were told.

I must be reading this differently than the rest of you. Acquiescence is one way to describe the "common strategy" in place before 9/11; another would be to act in a manner of compliance. Now we are learning that the government knew the terrorists were in the U.S., that one plot might involve hijacking, and that another involved flying airplanes into buildings (C.I.A. headquarters).
It certainly isn't a big leap to conclude that if terrorists wanted to fly an airplane into a building, they would have to kill the pilots to do it. Why was no pilot in the U.S. warned of this prior to 9/11? Why were we still instructed to allow any hijacker cockpit access?
Those are valid questions. As for her statement about rigging the autopilot to not let the plane fly into a building, chalk that up to the uninformed observations of a non-pilot.
Incidentally, she says she voted for Bush in 2000.