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Now that the news has leaked out that President
Bush had received intelligence reports about possible airliner hijackings
by followers of Osama bin Laden a month before the 9-11 attacks, the
Bush administration and its talk radio toadies are all spinning the
story to indicate that Bush did not have specific knowledge that bin
Laden's followers would turn the planes into guided missiles and crash
them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. |
That's a hollow excuse
and one that might be used by the dumbest kid in a classroom who didn't
tell a teacher that he had heard some unknown student was going to bring
a gun to school, before a school massacre. The fact is that Bush didn't
need to have a specific threat to warn the American people. What the
hell did he think bin Laden's followers would do with hijacked planes?
Take a sightseeing tour of the Grand Canyon? Set up an airline company?
Bush, as President of the U.S., had hundreds of thousands of federal
employees to help him uncover threats and protect the American people.
That's his job. For him to simply shrug his shoulders now and pretend
he did everything possible is absurd. We expect more from our President.
We expect him to use our tax money and the resources we have made available
to him to protect us. We don't expect our President to have six senses,
but it'd be nice if he had the usual five and could extrapolate from
what he does know to likely outcomes. |
If you, dear reader, received a threat that middle eastern terrorists were going to hijack a car in your neighborhood, wouldn't you take some precautions against it? Wouldn't you ask why they wanted to hijack a car? Why your neighborhood? What were they planning? If the hijacker then crashed that car into a crowded store killing a number of people, would you lamely say that you didn't have specific knowledge that the car would be crashed into that specific store? One man, whose wife died on one of the hijacked airplanes,
told the press that his wife was on an optional and unimportant business
trip, and that she probably wouldn't have flown had there been any warning
involving airplanes, no matter how vague the warning might have been. |
We seldom have specific knowledge of what terrorists are going to do. That's because they try to keep their future actions hidden. We have to assume the worst, based on our intelligence. In the case of 9-11, American citizens still don't have the complete intelligence reports that Bush was privy to, and we may never have them, because they've probably joined the strips of paper in the shredding basket along with the records on Enron. However, our common sense tells us that the President, if he's up to the job of being President, should have done more than do nothing about the threats before 9-11. Smart people try to figure things out before they're blind sided. They do this by paying attention to the world around them. Maybe Mr. Bush just doesn't pay attention. But, enough of 9-11.That was a tragedy for the people
and their families involved in the horror. In the days and weeks that
come, the relatives of the deceased will speak out in their own ways,
and I imagine that more than a few of them will say that things might
have been different had they and their now deceased loved ones been
warned by Mr. Bush. |
Let's turn to another threat that Mr. Bush is ignoring right now, and let's speak about the terror that many citizens might not have to experience if Mr. Bush would just pay attention and do what he's been hired to do. Here's the warning: ILLEGAL ALIENS FROM MEXICO AND POINTS SOUTH ARE ATTACKING, ROBBING, RAPING, BURGLARIZING, AND KILLING AMERICAN CITIZENS EACH AND EVERY DAY IN THIS COUNTRY. THERE WILL BE MORE SUCH TERRORIST ATTACKS TODAY AND THERE WILL BE MORE TOMORROW. We
don't have specific knowledge about which illegal aliens will do this,
and we don't have specific knowledge of who their victims will be or
what weapons the illegal aliens will use, but isn't it enough to know
that they're in the country illegally and that if President Bush did
his job to protect American citizens, that he would have these illegal
aliens arrested and deported, before they get a a chance to rob, rape,
burglarize and kill American citizens? |
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