CNN - Why Won't Cons Admit Bush Didn't Keep Us Safe on 9/11?, 4/20/09

I appeared on CNN to discuss President Obama releasing CIA memos about torture. As you will see, Cheri Jacobus, a Republican strategist, claims George Bush kept us safe, but then repeatedly refuses to answer a very simple question: Did George W. Bush keep us safe on 9/11 during the worst terrorist attack in American history? And why did George W. Bush ignore CIA memos warning him of the attack? Watch until the end - you will see what I'm talking about.

For more on the memos showing the Bush administration was warned by intelligence agencies of plane hijackings, and specifically plots to crash planes into buildings, see here:

http://www.davidsirota.com/index.php/its-the-stupidity-stupid/

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/Story?id=120703&page=2

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• 9/11
• CIA
• torture
• memos
• Bush

[BNSF2184]

bush was a fucking idiot. END OF STORY

[Indubitably14]

Where is the bias; it is a matter of fact. The Bush administration received warning. They did nothing. On 9/11 they were attacked.

So how did Bush keep us safe?...

[buzzclick500]

"Dubya" thought he was the modern-day incarnation of Vespasian--and WE didn't stop him.

[Eaglesfaninca]

Did everyone forget the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Yemen in 2008?

This whole "Bush kept us safe" idea has been repeated so many times and people who say it seem to think that if you hold that opinion strong enough that it becomes a fact.

[suarezguy]

If people want to give Bush credit for keeping us safe after 9/11, they should also give some blame for when he didn't.

It's true that he'd only been in office for a short time before that but the job and responsibility begins from the beginning, especially if you brag about how much you prioritized it after a failure. Conversely, a president works with and through career employers, including those initially appointed by others, and so doesn't deserve absolute blame or credit for any result.

[musicmister20102010]

hahahaha, what a waste of time, these guys are talking like a bunch of little kids. the surfs nice, i think ill leave these guys to their childish games.

[cimonewarrior03]

@InebriateSoul I really like the way you think. Thank you I could not have said it better myself. Peace. ps. That is why the world calls americans sheeple. Because people who bought bush's bullshit are the dumbest assholes on the planet. He didn't just mess over the poor people he screwed the middle class. What will it take for people to wake up damn. Dumb people make my head hurt.

[ivorywolf68]

Apparently some people have that idea that killing people is ok as long as it's your own people. he would probably have been fine with hitler killing a 1/3 of germany as long as hitler didnt try to kill people close to him. it's a disgusting thought for people with no morality...it's outright disturbing

[SFO14]

Funny how Bush supporters blame 9/11 on the out-going Clinton administration, yet this would-be Yemen bomber who was stopped in Detroit on Xmas is the in-coming administration's fault. I guess Bush had nothing to do with any of that.

[bu22cola]

kept us safe for 9 years? lady you are lost.

[hotdogman67]

CNN does this, yet they blame Fox for being the biased one. I guess...