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.... YOU WANT TO BLAME OBAMA FOR WHAT HAPPENED IN THE MIDDLE EAST with bombings going on daily? Not to disrespect of discount the American loss of those four men killed ... May God bless them and their families ....

THIS IS WHAT BUSH DID or DIDN'T DO ON AMERICAN SOIL ....

What Bush Knew Before Sept.11

"We were trying to figure out what they (al Qaeda) would do. We never had specifics about time, place, MO (method of operation)."
U.S. intelligence official, commenting anonymously.

President Bush was told in the months before the Sept. 11 attacks that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network might hijack U.S. passenger planes - information which prompted the administration to issue an alert to federal agencies - but not the American public.

CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin says the warning was in a document called the President's Daily Brief, which is considered to be the single most important document that the U.S. intelligence community turns out. The document did not, however, mention the possibility of planes being flown
into buildings.

An agent in the FBI's Arizona office did, however, speculate about that, writing in his case notes about Zacarias Moussaoui that Moussaoui seemed like the type of person who was capable of flying an aircraft into the World Trade Center.

It was the observation of an agent taking notes as he thought about his case - an observation whose significance simply did not register at the time.

White House spokesman Ari Fleischer says that while President Bush was told last summer that bin Laden's al Qaeda network might hijack planes, he did not receive information suggesting that airplanes might be used as suicide bombs, as they were on Sept. 11.

Fleischer emphasizes that "until the attack took place, I think it's fair to say that no one envisioned that as a possibility."

The revelation about the president's security briefing comes as House and Senate Intelligence Committee investigators prepare for public hearings beginning next month on whether an intelligence community which spends $30 billion a year should have been able to provide a more specific warning in advance of Sept. 11.

The New York Times reports that an FBI agent in Arizona warned his superiors last summer that bin Laden might be sending students to U.S. flight schools.

Investigators have since Sept. 11 suspected bin Laden's al Qaeda network of masterminding the terror attacks on America, which killed more than 3,000 people.

Republicans don't want to see the bigger picture .... the middle east has been at war since forever ... the attacks on the embassy happened in the middle east .... Bush was for-warned too ... and did nothing and they attacked us AMERICAN SOIL .... HUGE DIFFERENCE .....

MIDDLE EAST - 4 KILLED

AMERICAN SOIL - 3000 KILLED .... YES REPUBLICANS EXPLAIN THAT ONE .....

MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA .... AND AMERICA VOTE FOR

    Reply#30 - Fri Oct 26, 2012 9:20 AM EDT

    Mitt Romney has no real plan he would take the country wins you willl be taking the country back to George W Bushes Days. I really do not get you people other than this president is a person of color and you hate him for it.

    Obama tried to give health care but you would rather die and you will because Mitt Romney has money to go to any dr in the world but you don't. It is a crying shame that you people would rather have all your jobs taken and sent to china and other slave waging countries. Romney is all about money for himself he has a track record of bankrupting companies and making millions profit for himself while the workers got nothing.

    Yahweh's (god's) word says his people are destroyed from a lack of knowledge but that's not the case with you. You will perrish alright with no unemployment checks, no foodstamps to pu a little food on your tabel. No help whatso ever. what are you going to do. If your wife get's raped and concieve she must bare the rapist child, you really want this. Wow you have lost lost your mind.

    Romney hasn't dismissed Murdock's statement he want's he endorses his ideas if you get raped god wanted you to be raped to bring forth a child yeah right.

    All the way round Romney is just puting Bushes ideas back in and he suffered under Bush and you will suffer under Mitt The Trick Romney

      Reply#31 - Fri Oct 26, 2012 1:59 PM EDT
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