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| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
firstly, thats not an argument re anything related to 9/11.
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Oh no, stopping the FBI from investigating Al-Qaeda before 9-11, signing and Executive Order (W199I-WF-213589) has absolutely nothing to do with it. 
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
thats shaolin's selective emphasis. |
Selective emphasis is the photo "evidence" a 747 crashing into the pentagon that Popular Mechanics has exclusive access to, which came out muuuuch later.
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
i still think its amazing that in the one hand you examine and highlight bush's uselessness, and on the other hand you'll accuse him of the greatest stunt in the history of the world. |
It's really not a great stunt when 84% of the American people don't buy their explanation:
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Angus Reid Global Monitor : Polls & Research
Americans Question Bush on 9/11 Intelligence
October 14, 2006
- Many adults in the United States believe the current federal government has not been completely forthcoming on the issue of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, according to a poll by the New York Times and CBS News. 53 per cent of respondents think the Bush administration is hiding something, and 28 per cent believe it is lying.
Only 16 per cent of respondents say the government headed by U.S. president George W. Bush is telling the truth on what it knew prior to the terrorist attacks, down five points since May 2002.
Al-Qaeda operatives hijacked and crashed four airplanes in the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001, killing nearly 3,000 people. In October, after Afghanistan’s Taliban regime refused to hand over al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the U.S. launched the war on terrorism.
On Aug. 6, 2001, a Presidential Daily Briefing titled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." mentioned "patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York."
On May 17, 2002, Bush discussed the situation, saying, "The American people know this about me, and my national security team, and my administration: Had I known that the enemy was going to use airplanes to kill on that fateful morning, I would have done everything in my power to protect the American people."
On Sept. 11, Bush referred to the attacks, saying, "Five years after 9/11, our enemies have not succeeded in launching another attack on our soil, but they’ve not been idle. Al-Qaeda and those inspired by its hateful ideology have carried out terrorist attacks in more than two dozen nations. And just last month, they were foiled in a plot to blow up passenger planes headed for the United States. They remain determined to attack America and kill our citizens—and we are determined to stop them."
Polling Data
When it comes to what they knew prior to September 11th, 2001, about possible terrorist attacks against the United States, do you think members of the Bush Administration are telling the truth, are mostly telling the truth but hiding something, or are they mostly lying?
Oct. 2006, May 2002
Telling the truth 16%, 21%
Hiding something 53%, 65%
Mostly lying 28%, 8%
Not sure 3%, 6%
Source: The New York Times / CBS News
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 983 American adults, conducted from Oct. 5 to Oct. 8, 2006. Margin of error is 4 per cent.
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Source: AgnusReid Global Monitor
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
btw, the document i posted is a whole lot more connected to 9/11 than some investigation where the viewer is meant to assume that prejudice, rather than incompetence, was to blame. |
Incompetence is a great cover for complicity.
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Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist;
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