Trump Doubles Down On Bush 9/11 Remarks: "They Did Know It Was Coming"

Breitbart.com ^ | October 20, 2015 | Jeff Poor

[Biggirl]

On Tuesday’s “New Day” on CNN, Republican presidential front-runner defended his response aimed at his GOP opponent former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL), who had claimed in a debate earlier this month that the country was kept safe under former President George W. Bush.

[Lib-Lickers 2]

BINGO!

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

Since they didn't appear to have specific information on the kind of attack, where it would occur, who was involved, etc., what exactly do you think could have been done that wasn't done?

Obviously enforcing immigration law would never enter his mind, so the next best thing would be: following the CIA's recommendation and approving upped covert operations against Al-Qaeda, which they had asked to do since March.

[PhilDragoo]

Absolutely the shockwave preceded the event.

John O'Neill FBI Counterterror chief warned of it, and the FBI sidelined him.

Mohammad Atta's cell was in CONUS the year prior. Crickets.

SA Colleen Rowley warned of ME's taking flight lessons. Crickets.

Curt Weldon was obstructed pursuing Able Danger.

We are deeper into the swamp: the region is more destabilized, our fingerprints are on ISIS, Putin is putting ordnance on our project.

Jeb represents the flop sweat panic that someone not hypnotized is coming to straighten the corruption, treason and incompetence out.

Benghazi is the tip of the ice berg--and the RINOs are hiding in the tall grass.

[ExGeeEye]

[M]embers of the Saudi Royals were given safe passage out of the US immediately after the events of 9/11.

Probably a pretty good idea. The way a lot of Americans were thinking, or rather feeling and reacting, they might have been lynched.

[Cementjungle]

How about enhanced airport security? Maybe profile Arab men a bit?

You do realize that the various security agencies are constantly churning out reports, studies, etc. coming up with possible ways our enemies might attack us with. I'm sure presidents also get reports on countries like North Korea and their nuke capabilities, and all sorts of threats all over the world.

In any given week there are probably also several threats to the president himself that the Secret Service has to follow up on on to make sure they're not credible threats.

Pay me a handsome salary and put me in an office and I too will churn out reports on a daily basis listing all sorts of creative things the terrorists might someday come up with.

I blame 9-11 on the terrorists first, and if there's secondary blame it goes to Clinton for all his work in screwing up our different agencies' ability to communicate with each other efficiently.

Honestly, if GWB were to act on every desk jockey's reports on terrorist opportunity then there would be no public transport, no public buildings, everyone would be under constant house arrest. Every dam and water reservoir would require a small army to guard it, every road would have checkpoints where citizens would undergo searches all the time.

Hindsight is 20/20. I hereby predict that someday a terrorist will attempt to bomb a football stadium. Should the government now disallow the use of football stadiums indefinitely just in case?

[lodi90]

This is not good. Not good at all. Trump’s initial statement would stand, but this is getting into a territory I do not think I can support.

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Bush never defending himself. That being case, no reason for anybody else to. Trump taking down the Bush family will only help conservatives in the long run.

[onyx]

You don’t say much in writing, but whenever you do:

BOOM!

[jimbo807]

I appreciate the effort on your part, but I still hold him responsible.

IIRC, we were hearing about compassionate conservatism and no child left behind and a bunch of other bullshit at the time. Even the response to 9/11 was turned into finishing Daddy’s war.

Bush themes:
Kinder Gentler
Compassionate Conservative
Act of Love.

Bush results: war, taxes, expanded social programs, surveillance, incompetence in the face of tragedy, etc.

No thanks. America first.

[ExGeeEye]

There is a certain lack of specificity in all of those “predictions”.

The only effective response, rounding up and expelling people based on race, creed, and national origin, is so alien to the American Way that I doubt more than 10,000 in the country would have considered it on 9/10.

It would have been an eventual national scandal outdoing the internment of Japanese-Americans (hate hyphenation but it’s the language) during WW2 (oh and certain German- and Italian-Americans too, but so far they and their descendants haven’t turned into a lot of whiny annoyances about it).

[nickcarraway]

Trump is not a conservative. He is a big government liberal. The media is lying to you.

[Cementjungle]

I appreciate the effort on your part, but I still hold him responsible.

What exactly would you have done if someone plunked a report on your desk saying that terrorists someday might try to:

Hijack a train, plane, ship, truck or some other vehicle
Might try to poison a water supply, or might try to blow up a dam
Might try to disperse some chemical or biological weapon at some public event
Might try to blow up the power grid or power stations
Might try to attack/blow up/poison or otherwise attack Congress, the WH, or the Pentagon, or some other agency building.

It's just months into your first year on the job, and you're still hiring agency heads and creating policy. You have the entire military under your command, with numerous activities going on around the world (some of which are covert). You're dealing with a recession, budgets, and other presidential duties... treaties, meetings with world leaders on all sorts of topics.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

The only effective response, rounding up and expelling people based on race, creed, and national origin

OR based on overstaying your visa and/or reviewing Visa applications so that people who don't fill out half of it or put obviously false information don't get approved or, if approved, get immediately revoked!

[jimbo807]

Fortunately, I made up my own mind about him.

He may not be a “conservative” however you define that term. He is however an optimistic American who is patriotic and conservative enough for me. His support is broad and deep and he will win.

[jimbo807]

Sounds like Bush 43 is actually a victim here.

LOL. Your line of defense is to point out how weak and ineffectual he was?

His daddy ran the CIA. I am pretty sure he had some connected people in high places on day one (cough Cheney cough).

[nickcarraway]

So he can expand the government, bury us in taxes, and flood the country with illegals? No sale.

[jimbo807]

Wuuuuut? I thought he was going to lower my taxes and kick out all the wet backs.

Somebody must be lying somewhere.

[dead]

“Redefining conservatism”! LOL! That’s like redefining gender. It is what it is, even if you want to call it something else. Trump is a big government populist without a conservative bone in his puffy body.

[nickcarraway]

Bump

[jimbo807]

Really? So how effective have the “conservatives” been lately?

He is conservative enough and the populist message he has is definitely on the right. I hazard to guess that he would get more done for the conservative cause than the minority in the house currently does.

Is it about ideological purity or results? Reagan signed amnesty into law, you know. But the economic freedom he unleashed revitalized America and buried the Soviets. He was a great president, but not necessarily ideologically pure.

[dead]

The “results” argument might have some merit if there was something in Trumps history that pointed to common goals with conservatives, but there isn’t. He is and has always been about big government solutions in service of big money interests. He will grow the government exponentially, which is as far from conservatism as you can get.