lies, damned lies, and the Bush Administration

[winterbadger]

from MSNBC Countdown

RICE: I don’t think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center.

DICK CHENEY, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: There wasn’t any way then we could have anticipated what was about to happen, of course, in—-on 9/11.

(1995, Philippines uncovers plot to fly planes into Pentagon and World Trade Center.)

(September 1999, U.S. study: Al Qaeda might crash planes into Pentagon.)

(Spring 2001, New York City trial testimony: Bin Laden sending agents to acquire planes.)

BUSH: These terrorists had burrowed in our country for over two years. They were well organized. They were well planned. They struck in a way that was unimaginable.

(July 2001, FBI told of Zacarias Moussaoui‘s interest in flying jumbo jets.)

(September 2001, FBI memo: Moussaoui could fly something into the World Trade Center.)

[The rest of the article includes details of how the Bush Adminsitration ignored advice from the Clinton Administration on how to deal with AQ, even refusing to study it until after 9/11, and how the Bush Administration ignored a pre-9/11 offer from the Taliban to turn bin Laden over to Saudi Arabia in return for easing of trade sanctions.]

Comments

[gr-c17.livejournal.com]

Let's not forget the gentleman who attepted to shoot his way onto a plane at National Airport to dive bomb the Nixon White House. He was killed, but not before killing an officer.