The 2016 race to the White House is FABULOUS!
Never have we had such tension, drama, excitement, odd and interesting candidates, and mud slinging with cruise missile intensity.
The latest is when Donald Trump said:
“When you talk about George Bush – I mean, say what you want, the World Trade Center came down during his time,” Trump said in an interview with Bloomberg Television.The best posting I’ve seen on Donald Trump’s comment that George W Bush was President when 9-11 happened is the following from the Washington Post:
After the host pushed back on the charge, Trump doubled down: “He was president, OK? Blame him or don’t blame him, but he was president. The World Trade Center came down during his reign.
Here is the brilliant
and accurate Washington Post item no doubt posted by an intelligence officer:
“U.S. intelligence
officials warned President Bush weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks that Osama
bin Laden's terrorist network might hijack American planes.
On Aug. 6, 2001,
President George W. Bush received a classified review of the threats posed by
Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network, Al Qaeda. That morning’s
“presidential daily brief” — the top-secret document prepared by America’s
intelligence agencies — featured the now-infamous heading: “Bin Laden
Determined to Strike in U.S.” A few weeks later, on 9/11, Al Qaeda accomplished
that goal.
In a memo from the
Phoenix FBI to headquarters, the agents recommended an urgent nationwide review
of flight schools "for any information that supports Phoenix's
suspicions" of a terrorist connection. The memo reportedly cited Osama bin
Laden by name.
And the C.I.A.
repeated the warnings in the briefs that followed.
Could the 9/11
attack have been stopped, had the Bush team reacted with urgency to the
warnings contained in all of those daily briefs?
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