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Title: Yes, George W. Bush kept us safe
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URL Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin ... 5-b9c1-f03c48c96ac2_story.html
Published: Oct 20, 2015
Author: By Marc A. Thiessen
Post Date: 2015-10-20 14:16:02 by no gnu taxes
Keywords: None
Views: 1301
Comments: 13

Donald Trump says it is ridiculous for Jeb Bush to claim that his brother, President George W. Bush, “kept us safe.” “The World Trade Center came down during his reign,” Trump says. “He was the president at the time, and you know, you could say the buck stops here.”

Blaming Bush for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks is an absurd, left-wing talking point. The fact is, when Bush took office on Jan. 20, 2001, planning for 9/11 was well underway. Bush inherited a world where terrorists had been permitted safe haven in terrorist states and were engaged in a virtually unimpeded offensive. Under his predecessor, they had launched a string of attacks against the United States: the first effort to bring down the World Trade Center in 1993; the murder of 19 American airmen at the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia three years later; the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania; and the attack on the USS Cole in 2000, which caused the deaths of 17 American sailors.

In none of these cases was there a forceful U.S. response. As a result, al-Qaeda was convinced that the United States was soft and that if they hit us hard enough, we could be forced to retreat and withdraw as we had in Beirut and Somalia.

They miscalculated. Unlike his predecessor, Bush did not respond by firing cruise missiles into empty tents and abandoned obstacle courses. Within weeks, U.S. special operations forces were on the ground in Afghanistan, and in less than a month they had destroyed the Taliban regime and driven al-Qaeda from its sanctuary there. After Afghanistan’s liberation, the United States and its coalition partners captured or killed hundreds of al-Qaeda leaders, managers and top operational commanders responsible for day-to-day planning of the terror group’s activities across the globe, including 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed.

To uncover and disrupt follow-on attacks, Bush established a program at the National Security Agency to monitor terrorist communications. He built new programs at the Treasury Department to deny extremists state-of-the-art banking and financial tools, thus making it more difficult for them to raise funds, move money, pay operatives, bribe officials and finance new attacks. He established the CIA program to detain and question top terror leaders — an effort that doubled our intelligence on al-Qaeda. He created the Department of Homeland Security and a new director of national intelligence and transformed the FBI and the Justice Department to fight terror.

Using these new tools and doctrines, the Bush administration disrupted a series of planned al-Qaeda attacks on our homeland, including a 2002 plot to fly a plane into the tallest building in Los Angeles, a 2003 plot to crash airplanes into targets on the East Coast and a 2006 plot to blow up multiple passenger jets flying across the Atlantic from Britain to North America. The administration also thwarted a series of planned al-Qaeda attacks on U.S. interests and allies abroad, including a plot to blow up the U.S. Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan; a plot to hijack passenger planes and fly them in to Big Ben and the Canary Wharf district in London; and a plot to blow up U.S. Marines at Camp Lemonier in Djibouti using explosive-laden water tankers — an attack that, if carried out, would have rivaled the 1983 terrorist attack on the U.S. Marine Barracks in Beirut that killed nearly 300 U.S. and French service members.

Asked whether Bush should even get credit for keeping the country safe after 9/11, Trump says, “I’m not sure that anybody can answer that question. Because you don’t know.”

Yes, we do. What does Trump think — that after 9/11 al-Qaeda simply gave up trying to attack the United States? Of course it didn’t. It was stopped.

Bush made a lot of mistakes, especially in his prosecution of the war in Iraq. But this much is indisputable: Thanks to the actions he took, the institutions he built, the doctrines he established, the United States went 2,688 days on his watch without another attack on our soil. That is an achievement few thought possible when the rubble of the World Trade Center was still burning.

Even more ridiculous is Trump’s claim that, unlike Bush, he would have stopped 9/11 because under his immigration policies “these terrorists wouldn’t have been in the country” and because “a good leader would’ve made sure that [the CIA and FBI] would get along and talk.” Trump seems wholly unaware that several of the 9/11 hijackers were already in the country when Bush took office and that most were here legally on tourist visas. He also seems oblivious to the fact that there was a legal wall between the intelligence and law enforcement communities that prevented them from sharing information — a wall Bush broke down when he signed the Patriot Act.

According to a recent poll, more than 80 percent of Republican voters agree that Bush kept us safe. Blaming Bush for 9/11 and denying him credit the actions he took to stop al-Qaeda from striking us again are things one would expect from the Democratic presidential nominee — not someone vying for the Republican presidential nomination.

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#2. To: no gnu taxes, boosh globalists, reconquistas, homegrown terrorists (#0) (Edited)

George W. Bush kept us safe

an absurd, left-wing talking point

Boosh is left-wing globalist scum, and a homegrown terrorist just like his daddy.

Booshbot, Atzlan idol

Hondo68  posted on  2015-10-20   16:11:28 ET  (1 image) Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: hondo68, no gnu taxes, BobCeleste (#2) (Edited)

Boosh is left-wing globalist scum, and a homegrown terrorist just like his daddy.

All of the Booshes are. Here's how Jebbie "kept us safe".

Report: 9-11 Hijackers Obtained Florida I.D. Cards under Governor Jeb Bush’s Watch

However, in spite of that - Jeb will be the nominee in 2016 and will go up against Hillary.

Deckard  posted on  2015-10-20   18:46:22 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Deckard (#3)

" Jeb will be the nominee in 2016 and will go up against Hillary "

If he does, I predict he will lose.

Stoner  posted on  2015-10-20   20:03:02 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Stoner (#4) (Edited)

" Jeb will be the nominee in 2016 and will go up against Hillary "

If he does, I predict he will lose.

Does it really matter at this point?

The New World Order agenda will proceed no matter which puppet is president.

Which is why Trump does not have any chance - he'd refuse to be a puppet.

Deckard  posted on  2015-10-21   8:44:45 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Deckard (#12)

" The New World Order agenda will proceed no matter which puppet is president. "

Well, that is true, but I am not ready to head up into the mountains and hole up.

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