Trump Is Right About 9/11

Donald Trump utters plenty of ugly untruths: that undocumented Mexican immigrants are “rapists,” that Syrian refugees are committing “all sorts of attacks” in Germany and represent a “Trojan Horse” for ISIS. But he tells ugly truths too: that “when you give [politicians money], they do whatever the hell you want them to do.” And that “the Middle East would be safer” if Saddam Hussein and Muammer Qaddafi were still in power.

His latest ugly truth came during a Bloomberg TV interview last Friday, when he said George W. Bush deserves responsibility for the fact that “the World Trade Center came down during his time.” Politicians and journalists erupted in indignation. Jeb Bush called Trump’s comments “pathetic.” Ben Carson dubbed them “ridiculous.”

Former Bush flack Ari Fleischer called Trump a 9/11 “truther.” Even Stephanie Ruhle, the Bloomberg anchor who asked the question, cried, “Hold on, you can’t blame George Bush for that.”

Oh yes, you can. There’s no way of knowing for sure if Bush could have stopped the September 11 attacks. But that’s not the right question. The right question is: Did Bush do everything he could reasonably have to stop them, given what he knew at the time? And he didn’t. It’s not even close.

You can read the rest @
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/did-george-w-bush-do-all-he-could-to-prevent-911/411175/

Anyone who reads the available facts will discover the following:

• Adequate information was available to determine an attack of some sort was being planned.
• CIA was withholding information about where the hijackers were and what they were doing in the runup to 9/11.
• FBI ignored the credible warnings of its own agents about the possibility of an attack.
• Government response while the attacks were underway was shamefully inadequate.

As President, Bush was ultimately responsible for all of this and more. To claim (as does his brother Jeb) that he protected us is a sick joke. He didn't do a damn thing to protect us, and then he responded by killing and/or displacing millions of people in the Middle East who had NOTHING to do with the attacks, while shielding the Saudis who apparently had a LOT to do with the attacks.

TRUMP IS DAMN RIGHT !!! But it's still a shame that no one has the courage to attack the shameful delusion that it was all due to Osama bin Laden and his ragtag band of merry men.

Yes, I'm a truther. Everyone else is a liar.

Update - Trump apparently warned about such an attack over a year before it happened:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43206.htm

What did Bush and Cheney do? Not a damn thing.