As the “Buck Stops Here” person. He was technically responsible. But the real responsibility for 9/11 was President William Jefferson Clinton and Jaime Gorelick.
The former had the opportunity to dispense with Osama Bin Laden much earlier, and the second is responsible, as Assist AG, in throwing up the “wall” between the CIA and FBI with respect to interchange of information between them that should have stopped the actual plan.
No one else.
Add Ted Kennedy for our immigration laws.
And add every president from Carter on for weak border control.
Didn’t Syria twice contact Clinton when they had bin Laden in their sights and he refused to do anything?
Also, don’t forget the man who, just after 9/11 when we were going after those responsible, did have bin Laden in his sights from the air and refused to give the order to shoot him saying ‘he just didn’t feel good about it’.
Blame to go everywhere.
But, knowing all of the crap that Clinton did, Bush did nothing to turn the tables upside down to eradicate it the moment he got into office. The fact that John Q. Public knew it, just what could one imagine was disseminated during the transition, even as late as it was.
The overriding fact is that with all of the warnings and threats from OBL himself, we recognized after the fact that the nation was fat, dumb and happy and we as a whole were asleep at the switch.
A proactive leader would have turned the tables upside down, fired others and cleared the decks to make sure those threats remained as that, threats. Instead, we had a government full of reactive politicians and we got nailed.
Thank God that Bush was able to react in a positive manner but then again covered for the Bin Laden family whisking them out of the country secretly while we had to cool our heels on a nationwide grounding of the entire commercial aviation system.
Then starts the “Religion of Peace” crap. Followed by the “Let’s go shopping!” They treated us like a bunch of children.
the real responsibility for 9/11 was President William Jefferson Clinton and Jaime Gorelick.
This is true, had Clinton taken Laden none of 9/11 on would have happened.
He also had Loral fix broken Rockets and Missile Guidance Systems for China to now be able to nuke the world, and I don’t know why Clinton did that.
How do you like when they put Jaime Gorelick on the 911 commission to find out why 911 happened? That ticked me off so much I actually mailed her a hand mirror with a note attached to it that said “This is why 911 happened” LOL! I don’t know if she ever got it, but I thought it would help her find the answer.