"Sept. 11th Blame Game"

I really have to just laugh at all the liberals out there that are saying they wish Bush had done something during to prevent 9/11. First off of course everyone one would have liked to stop that horrific day. However its likely that flying commuter airplanes into buildings.

The only thing that you could have really done is been stricter on immigrants and detaining suspicious potential terrorists based on intelligence. Honestly do the liberals actually believe that the would or wouldn’t have a problem with Bush’s administration rounding up Middle Eastern people with very thin explanations to justify it. These people that now think Bush should have taken means are the same ones that bitched that measures have been taken post 9/11.

Okay yeah I don’t doubt that some innocent people were detained after 9/11, but tons of potential threats are either now with Allah, or giving the US more information on potential threats. Although I do believe that sometimes they were just jerking our chain its certainly helpful. Can you imagine if the 9/11 highjackers were pulled out of line at the airport and detained for having box cutters on them? A flurry of hell would have been released on Bush. It is so hypocritical it is almost funny.

The 9/11 inquiry just became a nasty witch hunt. All anyone has done has pointed the finger or shrugged. Its been highly political too. Of course we deserve answers about how it happened. However its not just one man. Neither Clinton and Bush are the only ones to blame, the central intelligence should have seen it coming.

Now who do you blame more Bush? Or Clinton? Under both were attacked on US soil once. Oh was I supposed to through out the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center because the towers remained standing afterwards and stock market was good? Okay than credit the USS Cole to Clinton’s watch. Either way they can’t really said they would have done much either since little or nothing was done after the fact.

At the same time Clinton knew of the camps and Bin Laden long before average Joe American could tell you who Osama was. Some reports even indicate her turned down an offer to get the criminal mastermind.

Could Bush have acted swiftly on vague information he was getting from his intelligence? Yeah in hindsight he should have. However its not like Bin Laden just planned the whole ordeal over night the plans go back to 1996 at least. In fact in an ABC interview he more or less indicated things were likely to get ugly and voiced lack of a respect for the US military. I don’t think he feared the US much and could have been even a little surprised nothing was done after 1993.

In Clinton’s defense he did supposedly stop a terrorist plot for the new millennium while we were precouiped with making sure our computers didn’t go back in time to 1900. In fact would imagine many such plots are spoiled perhaps even closer to be carried out than we would like to think about without the American public knowing.

Regardless I don’t think Clinton would have just being playing his sax and getting hummers and simply say “Eh” if he knew of the impending doom either. I don’t think Bush sat back and let it happen either. More importantly even with more information put in better order its still questionable if they could have ever have thought that the terrorists would have done it the way they did it and its likely anyone detained could have been easily been replaced by another Joe Terrorist eager to meet his virgins.

So what did we learn from having all the famous people squirm in their seats when the 9/11 interrogators did their bad cop- bad cop routine? Um basically we screwed up bad and no wants to be at fault. Its lots of peoples fault and its now time to just prevent it from happening. There is no time like the present and its best to stop scratching our heads looking into the past before Osama Bin Laden pulls a Bertuttzi on the US