White House Releases August 6, 2001 PDB

Let's see how long it takes for some DUmmy to declare that this was OBVIOUSLY falsified to downplay the Bush role in 9/11.

They are just flat out stating that the memo proves Rice lied in her testimony.

Here is the current headline in the internet edition of the Washington Post (as of 10:19 p.m edt) : "Bush Warned of Al Qaeda Attacks Before Sept. 11". The clear implication is that the the President of the United States knew, days before the event (and with specificity) that terrorists were going to hijack airplanes and fly them into buildings. In other words, if Bush had "reacted" to this directive, "9/11" would have been averted.

Of course, when one reads the briefing paper, it is obvious that no such intelligence was imparted. Importantly, that very same document could be written, today, and be just as relevant. This is a media creation specifically intended to impact the election, and the media is vile.

The Lefties are jumping all over this as proof that somehow this could have been prevented. I just don't think so. Short of shutting the whole country down for an indefinite period of time, just what Bin Laden would have wanted, what do you do?
The President receives tons of threats every day, which ones are given credence over others.
The only possible way there may have been some kind of prevention, maybe, is if all the intelligence agencies and the FBI had been sharing information. There again though the shear volume of that information is more than all the agencies together can assimilate to analyze. Therefore the reliance on the super computers at the NSA, etc. to sift through this looking for preprogrammed words, etc. for something to be flagged for analysis.
Nothing is as simple as these idiot Democrats and Lefties think it is or more importantly want you to think it is.
This is where is might be time for Bush to contemplate giving a major speech to bring out these points and throwing it right back into the Rats.

"Bush Warned of Al Qaeda Attacks Before Sept. 11".

And this is as far as most people will go in reading the PDB. The Washington Post and the rest of the "Beijing-like state sponsored" journalists count on just that.

In the midst of all this griping about preventing 9/11 I keep thinking of one nightmare scenario...

If GW had shot down the planes before they hit the buildings, would he have been applauded? (I always bless the passengers of Flight 93 that saved us from such a national dilemna.)

The Lefties are jumping all over this as proof that somehow this could have been prevented.

Ask Ted if he had his tires checked the day he murdered Mary Jo.

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