Left Wing Blame Game Incompatible With Historical Timeline Leading Up To 9/11

This was going to be just one post on how great Hollywood has done with the 9/11 coverage and specials. But people on the left had to ruin it because Hollywood didn’t take advantage of this opportunity to take swipes at Republicans. The left’s posts and coverage put down President George Bush and distort history & facts to put the full blame of 9/11 on the Bush administration.

Here is an interview between Markos Moulitsas and Keith Olbermann about National Geographic’s interview of President Bush about 9/11 and the days following.

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In other words Markos & Keith are upset because National Geographic didn’t use this opportunity to criticize President Bush and Republicans. They say Republicans take advantage of 9/11, but it’s them who want to take advantage of it if they want to see Hollywood to use 9/11 as a way to remind us of President Bush’s “failed” presidency. Sick.

This post at Daily Kos set me off. The diarist thinks we should concentrate on why 9/11 happened and what we missed. Unfortunately, I see all the blame on President Bush and asked why Bush or Condi Rice didn’t take action. My question is why didn’t Bill Clinton or his Democrat administration take action? I encourage Markos & Keith & others on the left to watch National Geographic’s series “Inside 9/11”, especially the first episode “War on America” that describes the events leading up to 9/11. They would quickly learn that it’s not George Bush’s fault! Shocker I know. Pay attention to the dates please and remember Bill Clinton was president during the majority of this time.

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Osama bin Laden chose us because he didn’t get his way in 1991. Saudi Arabia knew they weren’t safe when Iraq invaded Kuwait and sought protection. bin Laden offered his services because in his mind only Muslims should protect Muslim lands. However, Saudi Arabia accepted President George H. W. Bush’s offer of help. bin Laden got upset (even though ironically he and others accepted our help to fight the Russians in Afghanistan) and declared us the Great Satan.

The biggest warning we had was the World Trade Center bombing February 26, 1993.

Patrick Fitzgerald, US Attorney, says that the name Osama bin Laden appeared in every terrorist group they read about. He was everywhere. Unfortunately the CIA in Sudan was given instructions to only watch and not take action.

In the Philippines the police managed to capture Abdul Hakim Murad and confiscate the computer of Ramzi Yousef, a part of the ’93 WTC bombing & Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s nephew. After a month of intense interrogation Murad breaks & tells of other plots. These plans included killing Pope John Paul II, dive bombing a plane into CIA headquarters in Virginia, and using a team of hijackers in commercial jet airliners as missiles against landmark buildings in the United States. This was January 1995.

Peter Lance, author of “1000 Years for Revenge,” goes on to explain what was found on Yousef’s Toshiba laptop. Included were 10 men who were in flight schools in the USA and a list of 7 targets which included the WTC and Pentagon. Colonel Rodolfo Mendoza insists he shared all of this information with the FBI. The FBI claims they did not receive information about the 9/11 plot.

Our government received this information in January 1995.

An informant in Sudan who embezzled money from bin Laden asked the CIA for protection & agreed to spill secrets. He names names, recruitment methods, and having to sign contracts to join al-Qaeda. It is now clear to United States officials Osama bin Laden is the mastermind behind the conspiracy to kill Americans. This is 1996.

That same year (1996) the CIA forms a bin Laden unit. Their findings include learning he has a worldwide committee to take down USA interests worldwide & wants to get his hand on nuclear weapons.

Osama bin Laden gave an interview to ABC News in 1998 about his declaration of war on the United States. So not only do we have tons of information through sources but we now have bin Laden on American tape telling us his plans to destroy America. The interviewer, John Miller, asked bin Laden when, where, and how the war would start. bin Laden told him in the next several weeks.

Several weeks later, August 17, 1998 was the first day of this war. Truck bombs detonated outside USA embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Daressalaam, Tanzania killing 224 people, among them 12 Americans.

Attempt #1. Now comes my favorite part in this Nat Geo special. Let’s talk about the TWO times Bill Clinton refused to kill bin Laden. On May 20, 1998 the CIA run a plan to capture bin Laden. At the last minute a satellite picture shows a swing set indicating there may be children present and in harm’s way. The US scrubs the mission.

On December 2, 1998 Clinton’s brief includes a warning al-Qaeda is planning on using airplanes as missiles. Airports are put on full alert, but this alert is lifted in January 1999.

Attempt #2. February 1999. Osama bin Laden is on vacation & the CIA has permission to take him dead or alive. But that pesky satellite image shows bin Laden is with a crowned prince of the United Arab Emirates, an oil rich nation with good relations with the US. So Clinton must decide to risk ruining our relations with an oil rich nation to capture a terrorist that, yes, many Americans do not know, but a terrorist who has declared war on America & has plans to use airplanes as missiles on American soil. They decide to cancel.

Osama bin Laden doesn’t cancel his plans and decides to move on with the planes mission. Those pesky hijackers were able to get into America! Don’t forget the years! 1999-2000. President Bill Clinton is still president.

An Air Force base reviewed charts naming Mohammed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi (two of the 9/11 hijackers) as members of al-Qaeda operating within the USA. But the men cannot pass this information to the FBI because they hold valid USA visas.

October 2000 is the bombing of the USS Cole. Clinton claims he will hold those responsible for this attack. However he takes no action against al-Qaeda.

Now we get to Bush. He decides not to retaliate against those responsible for the USS Cole bombing.

Summer 2001 they are noticing increased chatter. They intercept 33 communications about a huge attack coming on. The FAA runs tests to see how well security is at airports and most of them fail. But the FAA hides their findings and do nothing.

Ken Williams, an FBI field agent in Arizona, sent a memo to DC that many men with terrorist ties to al-Qaeda enrolled in Arizona flight schools. The report doesn’t reach the higher ups until after 9/11 and the lower end agents didn’t take action.

Bush is given a briefing in August about a potential attack, but decides there is not enough information to pursue. That same month an Arabic newspaper in London, Alquds Publishing, receives info about imminent attack against the USA, but decides not to report it.

We all know what happens next. September 11, 2001.

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