Zuruck wrote:Hmmm...El Al has roughly how many flights per day compared to the just O'Hare?? I'm sure O'Hare puts out more flights in a half day than El Al does all day long, and that's just one American airport.
Yea that'd be the report. Tied into the one that questioned why young Arab men were only interested in taking instructions on flying (not landing) commercial airliners. I'm not sure how tracking the financial records and phone calls of millions of HARMLESS Americans would have stopped 9/11.
People like you are the reason this country is falling behind everyone else. You still believe the best method for solving problems is a good ass kicking. It's not, 99% of the world has figured that out and is moving along, but here America is, in a hole that it has no chance of climbing out of. The root of the problem is not Islam, it's not our western culture, it's people like you that have poisoned our country.
Zuruck your whole post shows just how shallow your thinking is, no logic, all emotion. The israeli's are the biggest target,
by far for arab/persian/islamic fundamentalist terrorists.
Yet they only suffered one hijacking then put an end to it. How did they do that, by moving on or tightening security measures? It's truely sad to see you try to deny such an obvious truth because your afraid acknowledgment of facts will somehow validate Bush. That is a pathetic abandonment of common sense. Of course I'm assuming that at your core you really are intelligent enough to muster common sense.
As to the prevention of 9/11 by Bush based on the vague report that planes could be used as weapons, and even throw in this alleged report that Bush was told arabs were trying to learn to fly but not take off or land, what precisely should he have done at that point? you won't even let him listen in on conversations from known al Queda operatives!!! You won't even let him legally track their finances without screaming that he's going too far!!!!
So how just
exactly what was he supposed to do?
Let's assume that he even believed that terrorists were definitely planning to use planes as missiles. Not just that in 1999 the intelligence community had heard vague chatter about that tactic without any specific threat or timetable ascribed to it and then when Bush was president they referenced that initial report with
no new data added in a daily briefing early 2001, but lets go ahead and say that Bush really thought they were going to use planes for sure!
And we'll throw in the story you tell of at least one arab person tried to learn to fly with no concern for learning to land or take off!!! We won't question your source or the context or that Bush ever heard about it himself! We'll just believe you on your word!!!
Go ahead smart guy, give us
the details of how he could have stopped the 9/11 attack with that information without abusing what is, in your perception, the rights and freedoms al Queda and americans have?!?
I'm waiting with baited breath!
After all, you've had no trouble of accusing Bush of being the reason those four planes full of people went down, and according to your indictment, by way of that failure to act, he's also the reason all those in the Pentagon and in the two towers died as well!
So if you can know that then you would have to know what it was he failed to do to prevent it! right?!?!?
So tell us,
exactly what action should he have taken?
For those following along,
here's an article that details the report Zuruck is talking about. Actually it was a series of reports and/or comments on the subject that date back at least two years before Sept. 11 2001 (note that this means Bush wasn't president then but we won't let that stop the witch hunt or even mention the name of he president who was in charge because as Zuruck will be sure to tell us, that president couldn't possibly be reposnsible and he in fact pees ginger ale and doesn't even fart)
Here's a relevant excerpt:
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White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said that while President Bush was told last summer that bin Laden's al Qaeda network might hijack planes, "until the attack took place, I think it's fair to say that no one envisioned that [using planes as suicide bombs] as a possibility."
However, a federal report issued exactly two years before the Sept. 11 attacks contrasts with that statement.
The report, entitled the "Sociology and Psychology of Terrorism: Who Becomes a Terrorist and Why?," warned the executive branch that bin Laden's terrorists might hijack an airliner and dive bomb it into the Pentagon or other government building.
It described the suicide hijacking as one of several possible retribution attacks al Qaeda might seek for the 1998 U.S. airstrike against bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan.
"Suicide bomber(s) belonging to al Qaeda's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives (C-4 and semtex) into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or the White House," the September 1999 report said."
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Heh!
