That is a satire/humor/fake article.
Then I am extremely embarrassed. I do know that Bush made the comment about it happening on his watch and he was sorry for it.
So I have been punked and will admit it for that article. For that, I am truly very, very sorry.
OK... just have to settle for this apology to the nation from the former Counter-Terrorism Chief about Bush’s mistakes:
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” The former counterterrorism chief in the Bush and Clinton White Houses apologized Wednesday to the families of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, saying, “Your government failed you.” But he placed the bulk of the blame on President Bush, accusing his administration of not making terrorism “an urgent issue.” “
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“It was possible to make a very persuasive case that this was a major threat and this was an urgent problem,” Clarke said. But the Bush team “didn’t either believe me that there was an urgent problem or was unprepared to act as though there were an urgent problem.”
‘Probably I should get another job’
“I thought, if the administration doesn’t believe its national coordinator for counterterrorism when he says there’s an urgent problem and if it’s unprepared to act as though there’s an urgent problem, then probably I should get another job.” ...Clarke has alleged that Bush’s national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, appeared not to even have heard of al-Qaida, ...
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