Me too, got the cards, wrote personal letters etc, and you know as well as I do that the threat that transpired on that day was totally unforeseen... It is what Bush did after the attack that won my support, he went on the offensive, your Trumper forgets that or doesn’t care about it, Liberals do not defend America they apologize for our greatness and make us weaker, Conservatives stand up for Liberty and Freedom never apologize for our greatness. Trump will have to unite the party, the scorched earth plan and the destruction of fellow conservatives is not the way he may win over the old Reagan Democrats but I think they have evolved too far to the left and are not really there anymore, I guess we shall see, you have much faith, I don’t. However, I can still be won over, he just hasn’t said the right things yet.
Bush had only one mandate after 9-11 and that was to get Bin Laden and Al Queda, nothing more.
It turns out though that Bush and his Neocons were already talking about going into Iraq from day one he got into office. All 9-11 did was give them an opportunity. It also let them form a huge Police State apparatus. In short the Terrorists won. They gave our government the excuse to go forward and also provided them with our new “State of Fear”, protect us from terrorism and it really can’t be done. So we cave and let our Freedoms be slowly eroded and our Free Society trampled on by our own government.
Bush, Cheney and the rest get nothing but my total contempt.
I have to have faith I’m really getting up in years now. I want to see our country succeed again before I die. Trump talks about his friends who died that day and many more from just being there that day and the days after. I thankfully don’t have that to face every day. Not making excuses for him but it would make one question, did we do enough?
Whitey, it wasn’t totally unforeseen. Remember the Gorelick “wall?” We had the intelligence, supposedly it was not shared and resulted in the failure. As a result DHS was created - another big government failure.