9/11 Probably Preventable

[MTAtech]

In a joint television interview, the commission's chairman, Thomas H. Kean, a former Republican governor of New Jersey, and its vice chairman, Lee H. Hamilton, a former Democratic House member from Indiana, indicated that their final report this summer would find that the Sept. 11 attacks were preventable.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/05/po...rtner=USERLAND

Mr. Kean and other members of the commission also agreed in interviews Sunday that the Bush administration's skepticism about the Clinton administration's national security policies might have led the Bush White House to pay too little attention to the threat of Al Qaeda.

[M_Six]

Oops.

Although to be fair, there is most likely a whole, long string of events that would have had to have happened just right for the attacks to have been prevented. The questioning of Bush administration higher-ups should prove interesting.

[Epidemic]

So what I am to take away from this is that if Gore was elected that there would have been shoot down orders given to pilots, Airports would be searching all bags and taking away nose clippers, and the terrorists who were in aviation schools and entered during bill clintons term would have been apprehended.

Interesting. in all likelyhood false ... but interesting none the less.



Now I and virtually everyone believes that it could have been prevented. However absent the attack the required actions would never have passed law enforcement, aclu, Business, Airline, democrat, or republican muster.

Seriously in a pre 9/11 world the actions required to insure the attack did not happen would never have happened.

[Atomic Rooster]

Of course it could have been prevented. Just like all the other terrorist attcks. So what's the big deal?

[Omardeth]

i don't like bush but i can't put alot of the blame for 9/11 on him nomatter how much i don't like him .

now that that is said . he should take more blame on the amount of the damage i think . after the first plane hit and 3 other were seen off course and not responding i think more should have been done . there was alot of time between each hit . thats where the blame should fall .

but to say that he could have stoped it all . i think that is not the case . sure it could have been stopped but like Msix said there was to much that had to happen to prevent it .

[osprey4]

The purpose of the commission was to propose solutions, not point fingers.

But newspaper editors (and other dregs of society) prefer pointing fingers, don't they. I guess it sells more papers.

[John Prophet]

ok, when they say "preventable"..do they mean preventable in the 9 month period after bushs election?? or do they mean preventable if actions had been started going back into clintons period?

Hard to see how it can be laid at Bushs feet...since the problem has been brewing for YEARS..and especially since Clinton was in office for 8 years and then Bush for 9 months...and AlQaeda was obviously active and strengthened during Clintons reign.

JP

[Chuckiechan]

What they mean is that knowing what they know now, it is. Before 9-11 they didn't know what to prevent. They knew they had a terrorist organization in Afganistan, but they didn't have the cajones to just plain tell them to get out or we will throw you out!

We had been groveling to the UN for ages about this problem and that problem and were blown off, and being blown off seemed to meet the political needs of Bill Clinton.

"Hey, I asked and the UN said No. I've done all I can. Send in my intern!"

[tony_j15]

Preventable eh? I'll just call up Tom Clancy, he can write a book on how Jack Ryan Jr. saves the the twin towers.

[teengeek88]

now that that is said . he should take more blame on the amount of the damage i think . after the first plane hit and 3 other were seen off course and not responding i think more should have been done . there was alot of time between each hit . thats where the blame should fall .

what was he going to do??? order 3 civilian carrying jets shot down by military fighters?? u got to remember even tho there was time inbetween the hits there wasnt enough to notice what was happening because it had never happened like this before

remember hindsight is 20/20