Posted on 10/20/2015 8:47:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I read it yesterday. The writer assumes that Trump would not have mandated the law be followed regarding visa applications, so would also shared the same level of culpability Bush owns. A quite flawed assumption given what we now know about Trumps expectation of further attacks after the 1993 WTC bombing.
“After all, in 2002, National Review obtained 15 of the 19 hijackers’ visa applications and discovered that none of them had been completed properly. None of them should have been approved. In other words, existing systems should have prevented the hijackers’ entry into the United States.”
That statement:
1.) Contradicts what Rush said yesterday about most of the hijackers being here legally.
2.) Contradicts his assertion that Trump would not have had time to go to Congress and get new immigration legislation, when in fact no new legislation would have been needed.
3.) Other than the Trump bashing, a fairly decent article from French for a change. Rich Lowery will not be pleased.
Aside from the issue of the illegals who have invaded this country, I think Trump would have done a much better job of keeping track of the people who come into this country legally. Once they get here it seems there is no effort to monitor their status and activities. That is a huge problem with national security implications. It has to be fixed.
Unfortunately presidents of both parties have allowed unchecked immigration. Democrats want more voters and Republicans want more cheap labor.
Similar to getting a legitimate drivers license despite a fraudulent application.
Actually, the fact that the FBI and CIA got rewarded for their incompetence and that not one bureaucrat got prosecuted guarantees that another attack will occur. And Homeland Security is a joke. I’ve seen the Homeland Security fools at the airports. They inspire no confidence in anything except proving that Krispy Kremes are part of the HS daily regimen.
Author contends that Trump is disingenuous because he claims he would have done what the law requires but wasn’t being done by by a POTUS who knew it wasn’t being done and should have been done but didn’t do it anyway, and because that POTUS wasn’t doing it the author thinks Trump wouldn’t have done it either even though Trump wrote in depth a year before that it should be done and he would do it if he were POTUS. Wait, what?
19 months before 9/11 Trump warned of a huge potential terrorist attack......
I posted a similar thread - I did not see that other post. Thanks for the link.
I think it’s a waste of time and energy to speak of 9.11 - it’s what transpired from 9.12 on that is the real travesty.
Even if anyone gives Bush/Cheney/Rice a pass, the fact that the borders were intentionally left unguarded and our Constitutional rights systematically taken away, along with a new wave of political correctness should be the focus of our angst.
Not to mention the thousands of America’s best killed or maimed, and ignored by the VA is itself an outrage.
Would he now? We’re all so wise in hindsight.
The Donald is certainly happy to trumpet all the things he would have done, informed with that hindsight.
NRO.....That is the biggest bunch of smelly freshly laid pile of poop I have ever had the misfortune of running into....
You lying media idiots need to find a life worth living, because if some intelligence every came around, you would run with your ‘pink laced panties’ in a wad!!!
TRUMP!!! ALL THE WAY TO THE OVAL OFFICE!!! (and don’t doubt it)
Trump is friends with everybody it seems
I do not buy it. While we know how soft the libs are on immigration, the Republicans are in the same kettle. There has been a lot of talk, and that’s all it’s been of building a wall for twenty or more years, and nothing has been done about it. The wall is a symbol of where their true intent has been on immigration. Whether it is their weak visa policy or physically building a barrier over the border, the parties have been film flaming the America public for decades. When the ‘chickens came home to roost’ with 9/11 they refuse to take blame and point their finger at the other party. This is one of the prime reasons why the American public is sick and tired and fed up with hearing this crap being pitched by both parties.
Let’s not forget Sandy Berger’s little “document borrowing” expedition from the National Archives...
Who knows - besides him - what he took that pointed the finger at his former boss....
“- how’s she going to protect 300 million?”
Short answer - Herself, Madame Benghazi, the Cold & Joyless, will not protect any such number.
Herself immediately goes into bunker mentality, and rises like the Sphynx on television screens, demanding fealty and unending tribute from the few remaining, that have been neither killed in conflict nor sentenced to the domestic gulags.
There is no contradiction. All had approved visas. The pilots were here since 2000. Some visas had expired. It was an intelligence and bureaucratic failure. And it will happen again, Trump or no Trump.
What a shame in a way. NRO used to be a pretty good site. Now that it has become one of the spokesmouths for the uniparty; I guess I will have to go elsewhere for info.
“Would he now? We’re all so wise in hindsight.”
Hindsight? Trump predicted a 911 type event 19 months before it occurred.
Pure speculation.
I stand corrected.
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