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Yes, Bush Failed on 9/11, but Trump Would Have Done No Better
National Review ^ | 10/20/2015 | David French

Posted on 10/20/2015 8:47:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

NRO is in the same believability status as the Murdoch’s WSJ and its polls.


41 posted on 10/20/2015 9:30:56 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Pass the popcorn, set back/and watch, Russia destroy Isis in Syria and Iran doing the same in Iraq.)
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To: NFHale

Between the Clintons, and Obama’s thugs, I’m surprised we still have a country left.


42 posted on 10/20/2015 9:35:07 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Jean2

Yeah, my favorite was always American Spectator, but it lost a lot during the “Troopergate” story when it put all its eggs into getting Clinton out with their story, sort of like Rathergate.


43 posted on 10/20/2015 9:36:10 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: NJLiberalDestroyer

Trump is friends with everybody it seems.

Buy his book, The American Dream, on Kindle and read it.

If you read it and still claim that, you have a serious reading or honesty problem.


44 posted on 10/20/2015 9:38:56 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Pass the popcorn, set back/and watch, Russia destroy Isis in Syria and Iran doing the same in Iraq.)
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To: ScottinVA

“Trump’s friend Bill Clinton”

Buy his book, The American Dream, on Kindle and read it.

If you read it and still claim that, you have a serious reading or honesty problem.


45 posted on 10/20/2015 9:40:07 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Pass the popcorn, set back/and watch, Russia destroy Isis in Syria and Iran doing the same in Iraq.)
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To: Grampa Dave

The Bushes are a LOT more chummy with the Clintons than Trump will ever be.


46 posted on 10/20/2015 9:41:00 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: NJLiberalDestroyer

NJLiberalDestroyer
Since Oct 18, 2015

Trolling in FR?


47 posted on 10/20/2015 9:42:26 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Pass the popcorn, set back/and watch, Russia destroy Isis in Syria and Iran doing the same in Iraq.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

As long as there’s one American left, we still have a Country.

And there’s a HELL of a lot more than one left, my brother.


48 posted on 10/20/2015 9:43:06 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Between the Clintons, and Obama’s thugs, I’m surprised we still have a country left.
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O still has 13 or so months.


49 posted on 10/20/2015 9:43:07 AM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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To: dfwgator; MinuteGal; hoosiermama; onyx; entropy12; DoughtyOne; Jane Long; ken5050

Rush is talking about this right now. Trump wrote in one of his books he had published in the year 2000, 19 months BEFORE 9/11 that he thought a major terrorist attack in the U.S. would be “inevitable”. He wrote extensively in his book “The America We Deserve” about this. And that it was time to get down to the hard business of preparing for such an attack.

In other words, Trump, if he had been President then, would have taken steps in this country to prepare for potential terrorist attacks, and thus tighten up our security system. So, Trump is not talking out of his hat when he says things may have been different before 9/11 that may have helped to or even prevented a 9/11 if he had been President.

As illegal immigration is Trump’s big bugaboo, he most likely would have been looking at visa issues and tightening up requirements for foreigners getting visas. Trump was warning about loose security prior to 9/11 and George Bush at that time was doing nothing to tighten up security systems despite warnings from the intelligence community and other security experts about potential terrorist attacks. Once again Trump is right.


50 posted on 10/20/2015 9:43:41 AM PDT by flaglady47 (TRUMP ROCKS)
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To: LS
Bush was only 9 months into his presidency when 9/11 happened. He had inherited a govenment run by 8 years of the Clintons. They had devastated our military and intelligence apparatus. Also due to the immigration act of 1965 our borders have been flooded with illegal immigrants. This act was pushed through Congress by Ted Kennedy. See link to Brietbart concerning the act.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/30/ted-kennedys-real-legacy-50-years-of-ruinous-immigration-law/

George W Bush has a minor culpability. The Clinton administration that Hillary was an integral and defacto co president has the vast majority of responsibility for 9/11. Along with Ted Kennedy.

Bottom line is the illegals that committed 9/11 would not have been here if they had been deported after their visas ran out. In addition with proper vetting they would have never been given a visa to come to the United States.

51 posted on 10/20/2015 9:43:43 AM PDT by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR)
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To: cpdiii

Good link to Brietbart article on immigration:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/03/30/ted-kennedys-real-legacy-50-years-of-ruinous-immigration-law/


52 posted on 10/20/2015 9:44:57 AM PDT by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR)
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To: dfwgator

“The Bushes are a LOT more chummy with the Clintons than Trump will ever be.”

Careful don’t screw up the insane Trump Haters with that reality.


53 posted on 10/20/2015 9:45:23 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Pass the popcorn, set back/and watch, Russia destroy Isis in Syria and Iran doing the same in Iraq.)
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To: cpdiii

If security was Bush’s Top Priority, 9 months was plenty.


54 posted on 10/20/2015 9:46:05 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: SeekAndFind; LS
He’s asking Americans to believe that he would have brought a post–September 11 mindset

No he isn't. He's saying that he wouldn't have been open immigration, open visa, open your training program, open your driver licenses, open you social services, open your flight schools to any swinging mohammed who happened to walk through the door.

Obama is now bringing in boatloads of Islamic terrorist 'immigrants', and the GOP-E is STILL on board (Jeb and Paul Ryan) -- and they STILL don't have this vaunted 'post 9/11' mindset.

I heard everyone from Jason Riley to Brett Baier mush-mouthing this nonsense last night. They're always attacking Trump for what he didn't say.

55 posted on 10/20/2015 9:48:37 AM PDT by xzins (HAVE YOU DONATED TO THE FREEPATHON? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: flaglady47; dfwgator; MinuteGal; hoosiermama; entropy12; DoughtyOne; Jane Long; ken5050

Right, I’m listening to Rush also and thanks to Governor JOHN ELLIS BUSH of Florida, the hijackers got FL Driver’s Licences and ID cards even though they had OVER STAYED their VISAS.

They were ILLEGAL ALIENS and merited DEPORTATION!


56 posted on 10/20/2015 9:48:43 AM PDT by onyx ( PLEASE HELP COMPLETE THIS FReepathon THIS MONTH!)
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To: SeekAndFind

If “Bush failed on 9/11” (an attack that was years in the planning & set up) after just 9 months in office and having kept most of Clinton’s top intelligence picks in place, then Clinton failed even worse after eight years in office, numerous Al Queda attacks on U.S. interests and leaving an intelligence community that had no more than “warnings” and little to no actionable intelligence about what was “warned”.

A mere “warning” is not in and of itself actionable intelligence that identifies who, when, where and how. At most it provides a tracer to the party that left the warning, but little more.


57 posted on 10/20/2015 9:54:37 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Wuli

Clinton loaded the bases, Bush let them score.


58 posted on 10/20/2015 9:55:25 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: onyx

“thanks to Governor JOHN ELLIS BUSH of Florida, the hijackers got FL Driver’s Licences and ID cards even though they had OVER STAYED their VISAS”

BINGO, right you are.


59 posted on 10/20/2015 9:56:55 AM PDT by flaglady47 (TRUMP ROCKS)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ignoring Able Danger, Bojinka files, Ramzi Yousef’s computer found in the Phillippines, and maybe much more.


60 posted on 10/20/2015 9:58:30 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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