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Ron Paul: Bush administration felt ‘glee’ after 9/11 These scumbags agree. -—>From DU ChoppinBroccoli (1000+ posts)
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POST 25. Why Do You Think Bush Allowed It To Happen?
Of course they were gleeful. Just that shot of Bush pumping his fist minutes before going on TV to tell the American public what was going on should have made that clear.

I will go to my grave knowing one thing: if Al Gore had been President, 9/11 would never have happened.
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POST 31. And that is why Gore was never allowed
to take the office of President that he fairly won in the election.

Remember, Gore even proposed strengthening airline cockpit doors well before 9/11. I remember hearing Limbaugh poo pooing the idea because it would have cost $300 per air liner door. Of course Limbaugh was against anything proposed by Democrats. ____________________________________________________________Dear DU’ers, lurking on FR, since I cannot post on your site, enjoy these facts.

Al Gore was appointed to head some commission to look into airline security. The airline industry ended up making a major contribution to the Clinton/Gore reelection campaign of that year.

Allegedly, one of the discussed improvements was reinforcing/securing airplane cockpit doors...nothing ever became of that, because.....

The day after Gore’s letter to the Air Transport Association, Trans World Airlines donated $40,000 to the Democratic National Committee. By the time of the presidential election, other airlines had poured large donations into Democrat Party committees: $265,000 from American Airlines, $120,000 from Delta Air Lines, $115,000 from United Air Lines, $87,000 from Northwest Airlines, according to an analysis done for the Boston Globe by the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks donations. A total of $627,000 was donated to the Democrats by major airlines.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1502229/posts

With all of the hearings with respect to the 9/11 terrorist attacks the one single greatest factor which could have prevented the WTC and Pentagon from being hit would have been secure bullet proof cockpit doors on our commercial aircraft. And, fitting a bulkhead that permanently blocks access to the cockpit from the cabin.

If our aircraft had secure cockpit doors and a bulkhead to block access the planes could not have been used to hit targets. Period. Case closed.

So, the single greatest question should be- why were we penny wise and pound foolish with respect to our commercial aircraft for so many years after we understood that terrorists might hijack American Aircraft?

Following the downing of TWA Flight 800 in 1996, Gore was entrusted by President Clinton to investigate airline safety. He was named chairman of the White House Commission on Aviation Safety.

The Gore commission produced what most observers considered to be a tough preliminary report unveiled Sept. 9 of that year one that included tough counter-terrorism procedures.

Following the election, in January, Gore floated a draft final report that eliminated all security measures from the commission’s findings, according to the insider. Two commission members balked, as did CIA Director John Deutch.

Fearing more political heat, Gore pulled back the draft report. A month later, the final report was issued, one that included requirements that would cost the airlines some money, but save some lives in the future

Only one thing was lacking from the report’s requirements, said the whistleblower - there was no deadline by which those requirements would have to be met. It was open-ended. In other words, it wasn’t worth the paper on which it was written.