OK, lgm, let’s see if you can answer without deflecting, since NO other liberal ever does: can you give specific material which indicates exactly when and where the strike was going to occur?

The memo didn’t say where and when. If they had known, they could have arrested the guys without bothering the President. Before 9/11, Bush was transfering resources away from counter-terrorism. The memo was a (failed) attempt to reverse that.

Re: #38: In our democracy, Presidents get bashed. Washington, Adams, Lincoln, even Bush.

lgm said:
Bottom line: remembering 9/11 doesn’t mean glorifying Republican or conservative politicians.

It doesn’t mean bashing a sitting President either.

2. If someone hands you a memo titled “Bin Laden determined to strike America”, read it.

OK, lgm, let’s see if you can answer without deflecting, since NO other liberal ever does: can you give specific material which indicates exactly when and where the strike was going to occur? Because that pdb sure didn’t.

And, had Bush put into place restriction like after 9/11, and it would have been necessary to profile, you libs would have gone surrender monkey shat over it.

I assume, based on your comments that if you were president on 9/11 you would have flown directly to New York or Washington DC.

Bush should have gone before TV cameras as soon as AF1 was in the air to tell the American people what had happened and what he was doing about it (grounding flights, …).

I think we would have been much better off if Clinton, Gore, and Sandy Berger had done their jobs instead of shirking their obligations to benefit themselves.

By all accounts, Clinton took non state sponsored terrorism, and Bin Laden in particular, more seriously than Bush (pre 9/11). Look up the “hair on fire” testimony from Armitrage, for example.

At least this President did something.

Clinton caught the perps in each of the previous terror attacks while Bin Laden still is free. The Bush invasion of Iraq created more terrorist threat than it solved. Doing “something” is good only if what you do is good.

I remember thinking at the time we will never forget. This will change forever our thinking about people that do this. Looking back I was wrong.

Today many Americans believe that our government conspired in the attack or we are at fault in some way for terrorism world wide.
I thank God today that those dedicated to preventing another attack from happening and have succeeded to this day haven’t forgotten!

I assume, based on your comments that if you were president on 9/11 you would have flown directly to New York or Washington DC.

And that would have been for what purpose? To implement what defensive or offensive options? Could those options have been implemented from some other place where the commander in chief would not have been placed in direct danger?

I thinbk we would have been much better off if Clinton, Gore, and Sandy Berger had done their jobs instead of shirking their obligations to benefit themselves. Of course, we’ll never know exactly how bad they were because of Berger’s law breaking foray into the world of wardrobe malfunction and document theft.

At least this President did something. That’s more than we can say about the democrats who read opinion polls before they decide what to do, assuming that they do anything at all.

1. If lots of people around the world want to hurt us, some will succeed.

2. If someone hands you a memo titled “Bin Laden determined to strike America”, read it.

3. Brutal lawless failed states are a breeding ground for terrorists. Try to avoid creating them.

Point 2: What did our brave President do on 9/11 and 9/12? He flew around in AirForce 1 like a chicken and left others to run the country. He visited New York City once it became a photo-op days later.

Bottom line: remembering 9/11 doesn’t mean glorifying Republican or conservative politicians.