Is that the same security that the President and Cheney provided when the ignored the memos titled “Osama BinLaden determiend to hijack planes and crash them into Skyscrapers”? Maybe they were so heartened by the biblical coversheet they didn’t read the actual intelligence report.

Gotta love republicans who claim that the US was safer under Bush…?!?!? If you ignore the largest attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor…The did a great job…except for…9/11.

All I know is that the twin towers were still standing when Clinton left office, he provided intelligence to the next administration telling them to watch out for Osama. Less then a year later, Towers - Gone. Pentagon - Attacked. Another plane forced to crash in the middle of PA. Thanks for the protection President Bush. Go attack Iraq.

Carnage, Clinton got the same memo in Dec 98, but was too busy getting impeached to do anything about it.

Now, what would YOU have done with a memo stating that muslim men were planning on hijacking airplanes in August of 2001? No names, no targets, no planes; just the well known fact that UBL wanted to attack America with planes? Increased profiling for muslims? Bases on what? The human rights groups would have been up in arms at the mere thought of profiling muslims, so what would you have done?

I think I know what this buffoon Obama will do. Surrender.

Go after Obama after the first Twin Tower bombing?

Is there new evidence that Obama was involved in the first bombing?

The followers of the blind Shiek were responsible, and we got them.

Si–

So we got the date wrong ? It did happen in the Clinton Administration ?

HKCHAS/Carnage,
Please tell me you seriously aren’t blaming 911 on President Bush. Or any other president for that matter. It happened and the world was changed forever. I am happy that President Obama is listening to Dick Cheney on how to continue to keep us safe.

Chas, I dont know what you are asking about. Slick Willy got a PDB in Dec 98 stating that UBL wanted to attack the US using airplanes, the same info contained in the PDB that Bush is being crucified over. How about you, what would YOU have done with the memo in August of 2001? As an added challenge, you also have to remember that the Gorelick Wall was still in place. That is the wall that prevented intelligence agencies from sharing information with Law Enforcement.

Si–

So, using that logic all the financial stuff YOU have been saying was Obama’s fault is really Bush’s ?

Timing is EVERYTHING.

Chas, your dancing; avoiding the question. You and carnage said it was Bush’s fault because he didnt act on a memo he got Aug 6, 2001. I asked both of you what you would have done, and neither of you will answer. Here is the redacted transscript of that memo, read it and tell us, what would you have done?

The following is a transcript of the August 6, 2001, presidential daily briefing entitled Bin Laden determined to strike in US. Parts of the original document were not made public by the White House for security reasons.

Clandestine, foreign government, and media reports indicate bin Laden since 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the US. Bin Laden implied in U.S. television interviews in 1997 and 1998 that his followers would follow the example of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef and “bring the fighting to America.”

After U.S. missile strikes on his base in Afghanistan in 1998, bin Laden told followers he wanted to retaliate in Washington, according to a — – service.

An Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) operative told - - service at the same time that bin Laden was planning to exploit the operative’s access to the U.S. to mount a terrorist strike.

The millennium plotting in Canada in 1999 may have been part of bin Laden’s first serious attempt to implement a terrorist strike in the U.S.

Convicted plotter Ahmed Ressam has told the FBI that he conceived the idea to attack Los Angeles International Airport himself, but that in —, Laden lieutenant Abu Zubaydah encouraged him and helped facilitate the operation. Ressam also said that in 1998 Abu Zubaydah was planning his own U.S. attack.

Ressam says bin Laden was aware of the Los Angeles operation. Although Bin Laden has not succeeded, his attacks against the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 demonstrate that he prepares operations years in advance and is not deterred by setbacks. Bin Laden associates surveyed our embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam as early as 1993, and some members of the Nairobi cell planning the bombings were arrested and deported in 1997.

Al Qaeda members — including some who are U.S. citizens — have resided in or traveled to the U.S. for years, and the group apparently maintains a support structure that could aid attacks.

Two al-Qaeda members found guilty in the conspiracy to bomb our embassies in East Africa were U.S. citizens, and a senior EIJ member lived in California in the mid-1990s.

A clandestine source said in 1998 that a bin Laden cell in New York was recruiting Muslim-American youth for attacks.

We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a —- service in 1998 saying that Bin Laden wanted to hijack a U.S. aircraft to gain the release of “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdel Rahman and other U.S.-held extremists.

Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.

The FBI is conducting approximately 70 full-field investigations throughout the U.S. that it considers bin Laden-related. CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our embassy in the UAE in May saying that a group or bin Laden supporters was in the U.S. planning attacks with explosives.

Damn Si, if we had just gone after Bin Laden, instead of attacking Iraq, maybe we wouldn’t be having this argument.

BTW, did it or did int NOT happen on George’s watch ?