10.4.04
Truly Unbelievable
Okay, even I never thought it'd get this bad - but apparently, not only was Condi stretching the truth and indicting herself as a fool when she said "nobody could have imagined using planes as missiles", she was actually fully lying.
From the NYT:
President Bush was told more than a month before the attacks of Sept. 11,
2001, that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned an attack within the United States
with explosives and wanted to hijack airplanes, a government official said
Friday.
Full story here.
Interesting how every time there's some "crackpot" theory on what this administration knew/was doing, a couple months later that theory ends up being, well...pretty much correct.
Before the war in Iraq started, there was a consensus among most people - even those opposed to the war - that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. And of course they did not, and of course the administration, as it turns out, probably knew this.
And again, nearly everyone - even opponents of this administration, e.g., myself - would previously have admitted that, while the administration in restrospect hadn't paid enough mind to terror threats pre-9/11, you couldn't really blame them for 9/11, that there were all of these structural holes in the U.S. terror-defense apparatus that al Qaeda was able to exploit.
But now - now that it isn't a matter of people several rungs down the ladder with possible theories being ignored - which was egregious enough - now that it's a matter of their having been specifically warned about this exact kind of attack...well...I mean, what are we supposed to do with this? Clearly, this administration long ago lost all credibility with anyone who was paying attention a long, long, long time ago. But this is even worse. How the hell do we make this stick?
Let me repeat this: President Bush was told more than a month before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned an attack within the United States with explosives and wanted to hijack airplanes
Okay?
Once more:
President Bush was told more than a month before the attacks of Sept. 11,
2001, that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned an attack within the United States
with explosives and wanted to hijack airplanes
From the NYT:
President Bush was told more than a month before the attacks of Sept. 11,
2001, that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned an attack within the United States
with explosives and wanted to hijack airplanes, a government official said
Friday.
Full story here.
Interesting how every time there's some "crackpot" theory on what this administration knew/was doing, a couple months later that theory ends up being, well...pretty much correct.
Before the war in Iraq started, there was a consensus among most people - even those opposed to the war - that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. And of course they did not, and of course the administration, as it turns out, probably knew this.
And again, nearly everyone - even opponents of this administration, e.g., myself - would previously have admitted that, while the administration in restrospect hadn't paid enough mind to terror threats pre-9/11, you couldn't really blame them for 9/11, that there were all of these structural holes in the U.S. terror-defense apparatus that al Qaeda was able to exploit.
But now - now that it isn't a matter of people several rungs down the ladder with possible theories being ignored - which was egregious enough - now that it's a matter of their having been specifically warned about this exact kind of attack...well...I mean, what are we supposed to do with this? Clearly, this administration long ago lost all credibility with anyone who was paying attention a long, long, long time ago. But this is even worse. How the hell do we make this stick?
Let me repeat this: President Bush was told more than a month before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned an attack within the United States with explosives and wanted to hijack airplanes
Okay?
Once more:
President Bush was told more than a month before the attacks of Sept. 11,
2001, that supporters of Osama bin Laden planned an attack within the United States
with explosives and wanted to hijack airplanes
perma-linky posted by jkd : 10:32
