Fact police here with a big wet slap of reality
Quote: "We had a huge attack on America which research shows could have been prevented if information collected had been used properly."
Incorrect.
The most definitive memo ever recieved on the topic of a terrorist attack on American soil from bin Ladin was this one.
Quote: "
We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a [deleted text] service in 1998 saying that Bin Laden wanted to hijack a U.S. aircraft to gain the release of "Blind Shaykh" ‘Umar’ Abd aI-Rahman and other U.S.-held extremists.
Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates 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."
Others were even more vague. There was never enough information to predict 9/11 specifically or prevent it.
Quote: "Our country was put into a search in Afghanistan where nothing was accomplished."
The UN primarily organized those searches.
Quote: "Finally some meaning to our cause:
We were closing in to the terrorist known as "Osama Bin Laden". We had knew his location, he was trapped. But wait! Bush had a brilliant idea, lets hire some other terroists to kill Bin Laden."
You were obviously thinking everything Kerry said must have been correct in the debate
. Facts are, we never knew he was there, we only suspected it; the fact that he was not found implies the heavy defenses in the mountains were merely a diversion. He was
never trapped. And we did not hire other
terrorists to kill him; we hired local law enforcement to
aphrehend him.
Quote: "They were hired. The Majority of our troops were taken out and sent to Iraq, a country that was of no harm to us."
There was some evidence of WMD production in Iraq. Even the skeptics on the UN council believed there was more going on with Saddam's nuclear program than we actually unearthed, and seeing as Saddam
wanted everyone to believe he had a million nukes in his back yard, it wasn't very easy to tell.
Quote: "But we had to invade them anyone because the leader was..."Bad"."
Read this and tell me if you still think his being "bad" is such a joke.
Quote: "We have been projected to be in war with Iraq for a minimum of 2-4 more years. Now when we finally know whats going on...Bush's people come out and say "Iran" is now a threat."
bin Laden is in Iran. You're hopping from one point to another here-- first you say we should have gone after him into Iran, now you critise US intelligence for informing the country that he is there and a threat.
