Bush should have been Impeached, page 1

Originally posted by Hugues de Payens
My God people......he's not the prez anymore. Let it go.

How can you possibly say he was incompetent relative to 9/11?? Have we had another attack on our soil since 9/11/01? You think that's coincidence? Bush did a great job defending the US from further terrorist attacks. If you want to discuss incompetence. Try the Clinton angle. He was offered Bin Laden on a silver platter and turned him down. So the way I see it, Clinton is more to blame than anyone.

Ya'll really should try to let it go. It's not healthy to carry such hate.

Believe me, we are all thanking god that he is not president anymore. You asked how I could possible say Bush was incompetent relative to 9/11. This is something you should have realized a long time ago, that is, were it not for your Republican blinders. Since I feel sorry for you as I never allowed myself to wear those, at one time, fashionable accessories, I will do my best to explain Bush's incompetencies relative to his action pre-9/11. Below is a chronology of Bush's early presidency.

1. Bush takes office in January 2001.
2. Early in 2001 the US fingered Al Qaeda for the bombing of the USS Cole.
3. Bush counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke submitted a plan for taking down Al Qaeda, however, instead the NSC began discussing invading Iraq and had a plan for a post-Saddam Iraq.
4. By March 5, Bush had a map ready for Iraqi oil exploration and a list of companies, all large contributors, who would do this exploration.
6. August 6, 2001 a CIA anyalyst briefs Bush on vacation with a memo entitled "Bin Laden determined to strike in US." Bush takes NO ACTION and instead tells the analyst "all right, you've covered your ass now."
7. Minnesota FBI Special Agent Harry Samit, the one who arrested Zacarias Moussaoui, stated that he wrote at least 70 pages of memos during the 3 weeks prior to 9/11 expressing concerns of an impeding attack on US soil. Those warning were ignored.
8. A Phoenix based FBI agent sent a memo to George Tenet warning that radical Islamists were taking flight training there. Tenet said he did not read the memo until after 9/11. If you believe that I have some ocean front land here in Kentucky to sell you. Never the less, this warning too was ignored.
9. Intelligence agencies from around the world including France, Brittan, and, of all places Iran, warned the CIA that Al Qaeda was plotting an attack on the US. Once again, those warnings were ignored.
10. In early September Richard Clarke requested using predator drones to kill Bin Laden, the Pentagon and CIA said NO.

This list only includes the mistakes/incompetencies made by Bush pre-9/11. The list would be at least 5 times as long if I also included Bush's mistakes made in its aftermath.

Hopefully you are now seeing the pattern of incompetence by former president Bush that led to 9/11. If not, I can only advise that you now take off those Republican blinders, they are not cool anymore. Once you have removed them, try re-reading this post.

On a side note, I would not expect the criticisms of the Bush presidency to end anytime soon given that a vast majority of living historians are already calling his presidency the worst ever. In fact, I would never expect these criticisms to end. Were I you, I would just admit that the votes you cast for him in the past were some of the worst errors in judgment you have ever made and finally come to the realization that you made a mistake. I only hope that you do not choose to repeat this mistake when another incompetent Republican asks you for you vote.

By the way, I don't think that all Republican politicians are incompetent and have myself voted for a few. However, when I first laid eyes on Bush I knew he was an incompetent, crooked, puppet who would be a disgrace of a president. I think most would agree that history has vindicated this opinion.

With regards to Clinton's failure to take a shot a Bin Laden, Clinton stated he felt that the certainty of Bin Laden being at the location was too low and that the number of civilian casualties in the attack would have been too high. I for one appreciate this level of judgment from a president.

Also, I do not "hate" Bush. I have often said that I thought he would be a great person to sit down and have a beer with, I just did not want him running my country.

Lastly, I would like to say that we all make mistakes, it is a fact of being human. However, it is only the ignorant who do not learn from those mistakes and continue to make them in the future. I don't fault you for voting for Bush, only for continuing to let him off the hook for his incompetence.

[edit on 11-2-2009 by BluegrassRevolutionary]