Posted on 05/16/2002 5:04:48 PM PDT by codebreaker
President Bush was given detailed plans for a worldwide war against Al Qadea two days before Sept. 11 but did not have the chance to sign them before the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, United States and foreIgn sources told NBC News.
The document, a formal National Security Presidential Directive, amounted to a 'game plan to remove Al Qaeda from the face of the earth,' one of the sources told Jim Miklaszewski.
The plan dealt with all aspects of a war against Al-Qaeda, ranging from diplomatic initiatives to military operations in Afghanistan, sources said on condition of anonymity.
ME TOO, Annie! Me too. I watched Nancy Pelosi-I think that is her name, the congresswoman from CA, on with the Rep who is chair of the sub committee on intelligence oversight today on CSPAN. She looked like a deer in the headlights. Muffled, kind of uncomfortable, covering her tracks, trying desparately to defend Gephardt's and Daschle's pathetic, un-American and horrendous innuendos over the memo fiasco. I watched her closely-she was embarrassed. No doubt.
Meadow muffins. There are all kinds of plans produced regularly by the government. Why was IPBM included in Mil-12-C?
/john
And that's being generous!!
I'll be more specific. The formulation and signing of a National Security Presidential Directive of the type given to Bush is a preparation for war. Bush must have known in advance that something would happen serious enough galvanize the Amreican public enough to support or even require a war.
Methinks you give the media too much credit. After all, four year olds typically have their bowels under control.
The soviets did not kill over 3 thousand americans on our own soil. They also never destroyed any of our skyscrapers. Clearly, the muslim extremists are a proven greater threat. When they get a hold of a nuke, we will lose an entire city. Our borders are wide open and we are ripe for the picking. For proof ask any drug addict how easy it was to get hard drugs. The modern day muslim extremists are just like the ancient Huns. Playing the US Empire for fools, just like the Huns played the Romans. The outcome is far from certain and we need to deal with the Barbarians as they deal with us.
Do you have a source for that? Or special knowledge? National Security Presidential Directives are prepared on a contingency basis as well as for direct actions. Nothing about this proves that anyone in the administration had positive knowledge of a specific threat. They obviously had a general knowledge of a general threat, and did their job by preparing a plan.
I noticed you signed up on May day. Welcome to FR.
/john
On a Sunday?
Rintense - Tenet and the entire upper echelons of the CIA and FBI and defense dept were put in by Clinton. The "leaks" could be going from any of these Clintonites to the terrorists.
And these people are still there - many of them, esp. Tenet and Minetta.
It is a summery of world hot spots, best intel etc.
And, quite honestly, I probably would not have either. Quite a few folks on FR thought the War on (Some) Terrorism was planned to supplant the War on (Some) Drugs as a way to continue the erosion of rights in this country. Well, in some ways it was ... but the threat WAS real as it turns out, not fabricated ... now where did I put that platter of roasted crow I was gonna eat for lunch?
Perhaps Bush, Rice, Cheney and yes, even Powell were smart enough to have taken seriously the warnings that Clinton ignored. Perhaps he wanted to take the action to bin Laden and bust his organization up before he had a chance to do something unspeakable. Kind of like the way the Bush team sees energy as being a big problem for our country's future so they're trying to open up ANWR for drilling and have more power plants built.
Looking down down the road to the future- not looking under your desk for the intern. That's called good leadership- something we hadn't had for the previous 8 yrs before Bush.
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