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Originally posted by Jody
From what I've been able to read, the airlines were warned that there were plans to hijack airplanes. Let's face it, there have been countless newstories about the the lack of security in our airports and borders. These lax security controls have been reported about for at least the last 10 years (at least two of them when the house, Senate and White House was controlled by Democrats) No one cared about national security until the tragedy in New York. Even after Tim McVeigh blew up the federal building in Oklahoma, the national security measures were still focused on internal groups, i.e. groups associated with those at Waco and Ruby Ridge. How much time was spent on the Unabomber. The country was so interested in making everybody else be friends in the world that the focus was not on protecting this country.
Every one that doesn't like either President Bush complains about how their policies lead to this...um are we forgetting that someone else was President for 8 years and could have fixed it?
And Senator Clinton has lost her mind, some news reports indicate that there were intelligent reports that were two years old, when her HUSBAND was president.
Countries that hate the U.S. have been threatening us for years, this isn't the first time our country was attacked, remember when the World Trade Center blew up the first time?
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Sure we could say President Clinton had culpability, and we can say the same about President Bush before him, and President Regan, before him....but the fact remains 9-11 happened under THIS PRESIDENTS watch, with allegedly plenty of warning! I seem to remember President Clinton being a little more PROACTIVE diplomatically in the Middle East during his term in the White House
The big question is can we REALLY count on our Government to be candid with us when we need it?! Any of the administrations could have alerted us this was a possiblilty, but I would guess that didn't happen because of one thing....THE POTENTIAL FINANCIAL LOSSES to the airline industry (the almighty dollar)!
Politics has everything to do with what we are (or aren't) told as citizens of this country.