Quote from bugscoe:
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a Truther in da house!
No, we have another know-nothing rightie in da house.
I didn't say Bush caused 9/11, I said he let it happen.
Here's proof:
In January 2001, practically the same week as his inauguration, GWB was handed a bought-and-paid-for, gift-wrapped new national security plan (including anti-terrorism) called USCNS/21. It was the final output of the bipartisan Hart-Rudman Task Force on Homeland Security formed by the Clinton Administration.
All Bush had to do was implement the plan and he would have been a hero.
In their infinite arrogance, the Bushies decided to trashcan Hart-Rudman and to start all over with their own "Bush 43" anti-terrorism commission. This was in May 2001. There is no indication that the new commission, headed by Cheney, ever held a single meeting.
In August 2001, Bush receieved an intelligence briefing titled "Osama Bin Laden determined to strike within the US." Reports conflict as to whether Bush yawned during the briefing.
I am not a truther but given the grotesque incompetence and utter indifference of the Bushies towards terrorism prior to 9/11, I completely understand why truthers believe what they believe. I mean, how could a sitting US President be so blithely indifferent towards the safety of Americans? Oh yeah: he's George Bush.