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Title: Trump Doubly Correct On Bush And 9/11: His Watch, And He Weakened Arab Airline Screening
Source: VDare
URL Source: http://www.vdare.com/posts/trump-do ... eakened-arab-airline-screening
Published: Oct 18, 2015
Author: Patrick Cleburne
Post Date: 2015-10-18 15:33:04 by nativist nationalist
Keywords: None
Views: 1278
Comments: 6


The Buck Stops...Where?

Donald Trump has done it again: a crowd of GOP Establishment types is frothing with fury because he has pointed out that as President George W. Bush bore responsibility for 9/11

“When you talk about George Bush, I mean — say what you want — the World Trade Center came down during his time,” Trump said.

Bloomberg’s Stephanie Ruhle then interrupted and said Trump couldn’t blame Bush for the attacks that left nearly 3,000 Americans dead.

“He was president, okay?” Trump responded. “Blame him or don’t blame him, but he was president. The World Trade Center came down during his reign.”

Trump faces backlash for blaming ex-President George W. Bush for 9/11 Erin Kelly USA Today October 17, 2015

In fact of course Trump is technically correct in his (actually very moderate) remark. Navies the world over, for instance, regard the captain of a ship as invariably responsible in principle for the fate of his vessel, regardless of the circumstances. His observation is far less controvertible than his (defensible) comment on ‘Tokyo Rose’ John McCain.

But as it happens, there is more justice in his assertion than perhaps Trump may remember. As Steve Sailer pointed out in Ten Years Ago–9/11 Remembered, Bush`s War On Profiling Forgotten

Here`s an article I wrote for UPI on the evening of 9/11:

LOS ANGELES, Sep. 11 — Ironically, in an attempt to appeal to the growing number of Arab-American and Muslim voters, exactly eleven months ago George W. Bush called for weakening airport security procedures aimed at deterring hijackers.

On Oct. 11, 2000, during the second presidential debate, the Republican candidate attacked two anti-terrorist policies that had long irritated Arab citizens of the U.S….

Bush said during the nationally televised debate, “Arab-Americans are racially profiled in what`s called secret evidence. People are stopped, and we got to do something about that.”

… In the debate, Bush conflated two separate policies that Arab-Americans and Muslim-Americans felt discriminate against them: the heightened suspicions faced by Middle Eastern-looking travelers at airport security checkpoints and the government`s use of “secret evidence” in immigration hearings of suspected terrorists.

Steve noted that although these remarks had immediate electoral utility Bush was actually doing something about Arab profiling and stern policing

…the Bush Administration publicly agrees with the civil rights organizations that even a nonracial airport profiling system that had merely a disparate impact on Arabs and Muslims would be objectionable…To ensure that no disparate impact is occurring, the Bush Administration carried out in June a three-week study, first planned by the Clinton Administration, of whether or not profiling at the Detroit airport disparately impacts Arabs

…the number of Arab immigrants detained on secret evidence has dropped sharply. Hussein Ibish of the American Arab Anti-discrimination Committee told UPI in June, “Two years ago there were 25 in prison,” he said. “Now we`re down to only one.”

He further points out that in 2005 the U.S. Air ticket agent who had checked in the terrorist leader Mohammed Atta said

“I got an instant chill when I looked at [Atta]. I got this grip in my stomach and then, of course, I gave myself a political correct slap…I thought, `My God, Michael, these are just a couple of Arab businessmen.”

Sadly, a very substantial case can be made that Bush 43’s actions did facilitate the World Trade Center atrocity.

And his irresponsible fecklessness about Arabs continued as James Fulford observed in January 2002 in Er…Why Does Bush Have An Arab Bodyguard Anyway?

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#1. To: nativist nationalist (#0)

Imam Bush


The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul

Hondo68  posted on  2015-10-18   16:10:07 ET  (2 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: nativist nationalist (#0)

Have you noticed that Trump is pissing off the GOP elites and they are making comments they normally would never make!

Im not surprised that the dimwit elites have not called up the repug elites and demanded that they stop Trump! LOL

Just like when Cruz pissed off the repugs and they went after him instead of the dimwits!

Its not been a good few years for the repug elites.

Justified  posted on  2015-10-18   16:52:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Justified (#2)

Didn't Obama claim credit because bin Laden was killed while he was President?

Well, there you go.

misterwhite  posted on  2015-10-18   17:30:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: nativist nationalist (#0)

Jeb let his mouth outrun his brain and Trump pointed it out. Jeb took it personally. It's better now than as a president. Jeb isn't ready for prime time.

Psalm 37

Don  posted on  2015-10-18   17:40:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: nativist nationalist, *Bang List* (#0) (Edited)

It's Bush's fault for not weakening so called "security" to the point that it was entirely eliminated so that passengers were free to arm themselves in accordance with the second amendment, for a safe flight.

A well armed populace is the best security. Predictably congress acted in 100% the wrong way by creating TSA to make flying even less safe by disarming passengers and crew, while pilfering their belongings and sexually molesting them too.


The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul

Hondo68  posted on  2015-10-18   17:45:07 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: misterwhite (#3)

Obama takes credit for all good and claims all bad is done by the radical conservative base which all elites hate on both sides of the isle.

Justified  posted on  2015-10-18   18:01:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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