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| From negligent passivity to belligerent aggression |
| 04.13.04 (3:30 pm) [edit] |
FORT HOOD, Texas (CNN) -- President Bush said Sunday that an intelligence memo he read shortly before September 11, 2001, contained no "actionable intelligence" that would have helped him to try to prevent the 9/11 attacks.
"The (August 6, 2001, memo) was no indication of a terrorist threat," Bush said during an Easter Sunday visit to Fort Hood to decorate wounded soldiers.
"There was not a time and place of an attack. It said Osama bin Laden had designs on America. Well, I knew that. What I wanted to know was, is there anything specifically going to take place in America that we needed to react to."
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The briefing was headlined, "Bin Laden Determined To Strike in US."
So for Bush to take action against Bin Laden, he needed a time and place of attack? Using this logic, unless the intelligence memo he received said Bin Laden determined to strike the WTC on September 11, 2001 at 8:45 a.m, he wouldn't have taken action? Even if it did, would he still not have taken action because he didn't know if 8:45 a.m. was Eastern Standard Time or the Central Time used in Texas?
And at what time and place did Bush's intelligence indicate that Saddam Hussein would strike the United States with WMDs?
Ok, ok, I know, the Bushies say that everything changed after September 11th, and that after that date, it became clear that a pre-emptive foreign policy was needed.
Change they did! We went from the early Bush approach, needing a time and date of a future attack before you are willing to take any action at all, to the late Bush approach, launching attacks against countries when you have no evidence that they are planning to attack you at any time or date.
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posted by: jvigi (reply)
post date: 04.14.04 (10:43 am)
Good point. It's a little too obvious for the mainstream media lackeys to pick up on though. The press conference last night should have removed any doubt that this man's childlike vision of the world is a danger to us all. But god damn it, why do they only report on his scripted message and ignore the fact that he is utterly incapable of answering even the most obvious of questions in a coherent manner, e.g., "what mistakes did you make?" Kudos to Ted Koppel though -- Nightline did a very good follow up piece on the press conference and may be the first major broadcast news show to be breaking the taboo on reporting the obvious fact that the emperor has no brain and that's a scary thing.
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