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Originally Posted by ArtificialBrandon
Suppose that Bush had taken stricter measures after receiving the intelligence. Let's suppose that he even made a preemptive strike against terrorist camps in Afghanistan. I GUARANTEE you would be crying foul and calling Bush a war criminal.
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Your argument is irrelavant. The fact of the matter is that the Bush Administration took NO STEPS to increase efforts to stymie al Qaeda. By all accounts, it cut staff to the counter-terrorism department for which Richard Clarke was responsible. It ignored a PDB by its hand-picked intelligence advisors that warned an attack against an American interest by al Qaeda was in the near future, viewing the report, as Dr. Rice described, as a historical analysis. It was feting Taliban officials, the very patrons of al Qaeda, in the summer of 2001.
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