Do we have any answers after all these years why so many 9/11 forewarnings were ignored?

[LymphocyteLover]

Not just the famous Aug 6th PDB, but there were at least 2 high profile FBI whistleblowers saying that their warnings were being ignored, including Colleen Rowley, who was in charge of the case of the 20th hijacker who was arrested before the attacks, Zacarias Moussaoui.

https://accuracy.org/release/9-11-cover-up-whistleblower-coleen-rowley/

http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,249500,00.html

Also keep in mind that the great Robert Mueller was in charge of the FBI at that time.

[dlk]

1. When it comes to Republicans, follow the money

The answers usually lie there.

[Champp]

2. Yes. Republicans were in charge.

Repubs like to attack Dems all the time on security matters, but they themselves FAIL America over and over and over.

9/11 was just one pathetic example of Republican FAIL.

[Botany]

3. Because this map was on Dick Cheney's desk in March of 2001 and he needed an excuse to ...

invade Iraq and steal their oil.

[2naSalit]

5. And siphon off billions...

From the treasury. This wasn't his first time as a Cabinet member, he and Rummy changed places for the W admin. and nobody answered any questions that could lead to the truth.

They had a well oiled machine going and nobody was going to stop them, as we have seen.

[Botany]

8. For 6 months to one year after we invaded Iraq they pumped out billions of $s worth of oil ...

... that was never measured. And Dick Cheney's stock portfolio went up 3,281 % after we invaded
Iraq too.

[2naSalit]

9. And that was only one of many...

Crimes they committed.

[HAB911]

4. The president was a MORAN

[elias7]

6. Not so, he wasn't in charge.

There is a strong body of evidence suggesting they LIHOP, though we’re not really allowed to talk about it, because of course, Republicans (and neo-cons) would never play such hardball with people’s lives.

[yonder]

7. I think we will be asking the same question in a few years

regarding Covid, both of which will be precursors to the grandest, most damming question of all, if we are even able to ask it by then: Do we have any answers after all these years why so many climate change forewarnings were ignored?

The answer, IMO, is what post number 1 pointed out: blindly following the money, the greed, the unhindered pursuit of wealth and power, above all else.....above everything including the future of our planet as we know it.

[LymphocyteLover]

16. Yes... though we have a good explanation of why warnings of global warming were ignored--

the fossil fuel industries effectively paid off politicians to ignore the problem and mounted massive propaganda campaigns against renewable energy.

COVID19 is harder-- no real clear answer for why Trump disabled our pandemic response and downplayed the virus but could be Putin told him to do it, as he was a Russian agent put into place to damage this country, no doubt in my mind.

[electric_blue68]

24. I remember when Ray-gun removed The WH's Solar Panels

We could have so much farther along with Renewables!!!

[JHB]

10. Because the Smartest People In The Land (Just Ask Them) were in charge

Remember how when Bush came in someone (maybe Cheney, maybe an appointee) quipped that "Now the adults are in charge"?

Bush's top national security/Pentagon/foreign policy positions were heavily larded with appointees who'd spent the previous right years camping out at the neoconservative think tank Project for a New American Century (often abbreviated as PNAC). They were obsessed with Saddam Hussein, were convinced that only state-sponsored terrorism was worth worrying about, considered non-state actors like bin Laden and al-Queda to be irrelevant sideshows, and were openly, utterly contemptuous of the Clinton administration for taking him seriously. They jeered about how Clinton would fire off "million-dollar missiles to get a guy in a tent."

They thought they knew better than everyone else. Bush's administration was so deeply-rooted in that groupthink that they just treated contradictory information as a bunch of scare-em crapola from entrenched bureaucrats.

Bush moved assets away from tracking bin Laden, de-prioritized counter-terrorism, and, of course, threw out an existing plan for beefing up airport security because one of the names on that plan was "Al Gore."

And when they were proven to not be so smart, their first response was to use that attack on us by Saudis and Egyptians as an opportunity to launch one of their pet projects in Iraq.

[LymphocyteLover]

17. The PNAC that wanted a new Pearl Harbor event that would activate the American people

for war?

And just coincidence they got what they wanted?

[JHB]

20. I don't believe they had a hand in it beyond their own colossal arrogance...

...that counter-terrorism was something that could sit any wait until they got around to it. That nobody else had a less lackadaisical timetable.

Despite their high opinions of themselves, they were not masterminds.

However, they were consummate, unrestrained opportunists. So instead of having to spend a year or two drumming up excuses to attack Saddam, they grabbed with both hands at the one that fell into their lap due to their own negligence.

[LymphocyteLover]

21. Uh huh...

[MoonRiver]

11. IMHO, LIHOP

Afghanistan was the gateway to Iraq.

[LymphocyteLover]

18. does seem that way... a massive crime that's never been brought to trial

[scarytomcat]

12. becausse they let it happen

just look what the got .... two 20 year wars for the military industrial complex ....trillions spent for nothing but more wealth for warmongers

[malaise]

13. No... butBenghazi

That is all

[treestar]

14. Hindsight if 20/20

The real problem was having a right wing POTUS with a VPOTUS straight out of the military industrial complex. They used it. It was their opportunity to get the wars they wanted.

[lark]

15. Yes, we know why.

Profits for Cheney from oil and from war profits off of Haliburton and Bush's owned a company making munitions as well. It was always a war for right wing & MIC profit from the very beginning until now.

[Kaleva]

19. Same reason why so many are ignoring the warnings about climate change

There is no exodus of people from the South West, the Gulf Coast, Florida, areas subject to flash flooding or fires. People may give lip service to the calamity that climate change is bringing but their actions, or lack of actions, suggest they are ignoring the warnings.

[DickKessler]

22. Because a bunch of (mostly) Saudi terrorists didn't fit Bush's narrative of who "the enemy" was.

Or that of Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz et al.

Moreover, investigating Saudis might have made some things inconvenient for a lot of powerful people, including Bush’s own family.

[crickets]

23. Bingo.

Welcome to DU, DickKessler!

[DickKessler]

25. Thank you!

[keep_left]

26. Does anyone remember the story about the high school student in Brooklyn...

...who allegedly predicted 9/11? There is an NBC article about it:

[link:https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna3067562|

Not much seems to have come of it. This might have been a "word on the street" situation. The student was never found to know anything incriminating. However, he did predict the attack a week in advance. His teacher (who reported the incident) was described as "100% credible" by the NYPD.

[LymphocyteLover]

27. Yes, I remember that. Apparently there was word on the street from some in the Pakistani community

I had heard that anyway... there were a lot of predictions actually.