This video deals with how the Bush Administration tried very hard to find the legal tools to fight this war on terror. It will also explain how they did not know what else the terrorists had planned, so the Administration set out immediately to prevent a 9/12, 9/13, and a 9/14, which if they would have happened, would have threatened the American way of life, because if there were continued attacks then there would have been such a huge outcry from the people to take harsh actions that would have adversely effected our freedoms even to this day.
If you think that Gitmo was bad, which it was not, then you would have hated the Muslim detention camps that surly would have been demanded by the American people if the attacks continued. This is what the Bush Administration feared, a Gestapo State where everyone must have their papers in order, or else.
Bush never abused the constitution, and quite to the contrary he tried to the best of his ability to preserve, protect, and defend it, which was his duty, and one that he took very seriously.
I would say that Bush's greatest mistake was not explaining to the American people the reasons for his actions. He needed to give more interviews explaining the importance of this war on terror. If he had done that, then I think things would have gone a lot smoother for him and for the war on terror.
What Bush did do is make a decision to prevent future terrorist attacks, so as to prevent another 9/11, or worse. He new that it was their goal to see us completely destroyed. That is why he made it the mission of the government to prevent the next attack, instead of just investigating attacks, and then prosecuting those responsible. Thankfully that mission has succeeded.
The third video in this series will deal with the false assumption held by many whining Americans, and foreigners too, that we did not try hard enough to kill or capture Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan.
jbranstetter04
Cover-up and conspiracy: The Bush administration and September 11
By the Editorial Board
18 May 2002
The Bush administration has been plunged into a major political crisis following press reports that Bush was briefed on the danger of a terrorist attack involving the hijacking of US airliners more than a month before September 11. Despite the warning, delivered in an intelligence briefing last August, the White House took no action to forestall the deadliest terrorist action in US history, or to warn the public.
The revelations of the past 48 hours show, at the very least, that the Bush administration has been concealing information for the past eight months about the circumstances leading up to the terrorist attacks which killed 3,000 people in New York City and Washington.
In the days after September 11, Bush administration officials repeatedly characterized the suicide hijackings as a sneak attack for which there had been no warning. These statements are now exposed as lies—a fact that inevitably raises the question of why the White House sought to conceal the nature of the warnings it had received.
The cover-up began to come apart last week, with the report on CBS News Wednesday night that Bush had received a CIA briefing on August 6, five weeks before the attack on the World Trade Center, which suggested that an airplane hijacking by terrorists linked to Osama bin Laden was an imminent possibility. This prompted an explosion of reporting and commentary in the media Thursday and Friday, and demands for a full-scale congressional inquiry from House and Senate Democratic leaders, as well as sections of the Republican Party.
Congressional critics took particular note of the coincidence of the August 6 briefing and two FBI reports, one from the Phoenix, Arizona office July 10, the other from Minneapolis August 13, which focused attention on suspicions that Al Qaeda operatives were using US flight schools to gain expertise required to hijack airplanes. The July 10 memo urged a nationwide screening of flight schools and cited possible links to Osama bin Laden. The Minneapolis FBI agents reported the detention of Zaccarias Moussaoui, the French-Moroccan immigrant who wanted to learn how to fly a Boeing 747, but not take off or land. One email from a Minneapolis FBI agent...
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/may2002/bush-m18.shtml
"sir, vp, the plane is 50 miles out... sir, the plane is 30 miles out... sir, the plane is 10 miles out--do the orders still stand?"
vp: "Have you heard anything TO THE CONTRARY!?
"sir, the people at the pentagon dont have a clue the plane is heading for them, should I..."
vp: "Have you heard anything TO THE CONTRARY!?
"sir, the pentagon doesnt know the cameras and missile defense isnt working, should I.. geez
vp: "HAVE YOU HEARD ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY?"
(minute later.... BBLLAAAMMMM!)
denbenenki 1 year ago
@denbenenki If this is true it tells me nothing except that the Vice President did not at that time have the authority to order the shooting down of a civilian passenger plane.
jbranstetter04 1 year ago
So Bush was actually defending the constitution when he was pissing all over it huh?
Some of you may have been scared into actually thinking that giving up some of your constitutionally guaranteed rights is essential in order to be safe, but I'm not buying that sanctimonious bullshit for one single second.
Do any of you remember the following phrase?
Give me liberty or give me death.
ogjimkenobi 3 years ago
We conservatives invented that phrase (Patrick Henry). You need to join us in the real world and realize that given the chance they will kill every last one of us with one push of a button if it were within their power. What part of that do you not understand?
We no longer have the luxury of just sitting back and waiting for the next attack, because the next one might be the one that destroys us.
jbranstetter04 3 years ago