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9/11 Info
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
He's seemingly still sticking to the patsy plotline, but getting
more bold, flirting with a LIHOP position. Sen. Albert Gore, Jr. as
interviewed by Gentleman's Quarterly :
"Okay, on to 9-11. What were you really feeling? Was there a
part of you that felt a sense of relief that you weren’t in
charge that day?
You mean a sense of relief that I didn’t have to deal with it?
Oh no. Not at all. Not for one second. Not for one second. Why would
I? I mean, well first of all, it just didn’t occur to me to
feel anything like that. What did occur to me was to feel what every
American felt, the outrage and anger and righteous anger, and support
for the President at a time of danger… And, honestly, I was
focused on the reality of the situation. And I wasn't president, so,
you know, it wasn’t about me. Now, I do wish, now that we have
some distance from the events, and we have all this knowledge about
what this administration did do, I certainly feel that I wish that
it had been handled differently, and I do wish that I had somehow
been able to prevent some of the catastrophic mistakes that were made.
Do you feel that we would be safer today if you had been
president on that day?
Well, no one can say that the 9-11 attack wouldn’t have occurred
whoever was president.
Really? How about all the warnings?
That's a separate question. And it’s almost too easy to say,
"I would have heeded the warnings." In fact, I think I would
have, I know I would have. We had several instances when the CIA’s
alarm bells went off, and what we did when that happened was, we had
emergency meetings and called everybody together and made sure that
all systems were go and every agency was hitting on all cylinders,
and we made them bring more information, and go into the second and
third and fourth level of detail. And made suggestions on how we could
respond in a more coordinated, more effective way. It is inconceivable
to me that Bush would read a warning as stark and as clear [voice
angry now] as the one he received on August 6th of 2001, and, according
to some of the new histories, he turned to the briefer and said, "Well,
you’ve covered your ass." And never called a follow up
meeting. Never made an inquiry. Never asked a single question. To
this day, I don't understand it. And, I think it’s fair to say
that he personally does in fact bear a measure of blame for not doing
his job at a time when we really needed him to do his job. And now
the Woodward book has this episode that has been confirmed by the
record that George Tenet, who was much abused by this administration,
went over to the White House for the purpose of calling an emergency
meeting and warning as clearly as possible about the extremely dangerous
situation with Osama bin Laden, and was brushed off! And I don’t
know why—honestly—I mean, I understand how horrible this
Congressman Foley situation with the instant messaging is, okay? I
understand that. But, why didn't these kinds of things produce a similar
outrage? And you know, I'm even reluctant to talk about it in these
terms because it's so easy for people to hear this or read this as
sort of cheap political game-playing. I understand how it could sound
that way. [Practically screaming now] But dammit, whatever happened
to the concept of accountability for catastrophic failure? This administration
has been by far the most incompetent, inept, and with more moral cowardice,
and obsequiousness to their wealthy contributors, and obliviousness
to the public interest of any administration in modern history, and
probably in the entire history of the country!
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