What do Republicans/conservatives say when confronted with 9/11 happening on Bush's watch ?

[steve2470]

I never talk to them or read their crap (except in corporate media), so I have no clue. Thanks for your time.

[muntrv]

1. They blame Clinton.

[steve2470]

4. I'm sure whatever "failings" Clinton supposedly had, they doomed Bush

Nine months is never long enough to do anything !

[Summer Hathaway]

2. On whose watch?

George W. Who?

According to the GOP, the office of POTUS was unoccupied for eight years. There was never any such person as George W. Bush.

So whatever happened on 9/11 must have been on someone else's watch.

Dubya? They've never even heard of the man ...

[DOOMS]

3. How about those gas prices!?

[MrScorpio]

5. As if Obama is to blame for that

Because we all know that it's the White House that sets the price of gas, right?

[Bruce Wayne]

15. Newt says he can bring it down below $2.50 a gallon

And it won't cause pollution because cars will emit unicorns and gasoline will smell like peanut butter and from now on traffic accidents will only kill atheists and Mexicans. Yay!

[Bruce Wayne]

6. They say whatever they feel like; they make their own reality.

Nine months after Bush took over, the fault for 9/11 lay in Clinton's legacy. Nine seconds after Obama took over, the job-bleeding was his own fault. Yet two years after Obama took office, the seeds Bush planted in national security policies led to the killing of bin Laden. On the other hand, when the US military kicked ass through Afghanistan and Iraq, it wasn't because of the build up and policies created by Clinton's 8 years in office--stark contrast to how George HW Bush's military build-up led directly to Clinton stopping Serbian aggression against Kosovo without loosing a single man in 1999.

But let us consider the recent spate of Republican sex scandals... clearly these were all the result of Clinton's moral lapses transfering onto the rest of society. And most recently, the economy has started to improve. Rick Santorum assures us the market is anticipating a Republican victory. But things could turn sour if the Greek debt crisis starts to sink the European economy. If that happes, it will be because Senator Obama supported the bank bail-out in 2008. Damn him.

In physics this is called relativistic causality. Not that Republicans believe in science or such.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

9. You did a great job documenting the Republican thought process

I will have to remember this and pull it out whenever arguing with a winger!

Kudos!

[Bruce Wayne]

11. Yes, I feel sometimes I could be good at infiltrating evil organizations.

But.... nah. I don't want to give up my Saturdays playing polo or hanging out at the country club with my pals, Donald Trump, George Soros, and Lex Luthor.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

13. LOL

You've probably got "bats on the brain," don't you?

[Old Union Guy]

7. It's pretty obvious Al Qaeda was preparing the attack for many years.

Do you really suppose it was a spur of the moment thing provoked by something Bush did?

Blaming it on any president is insanity.

Clue: Presidents aren't omniscient. Not even good ones like Clinton.

[doc03]

10. Wasn't Bush warned a few weeks before 911 that a terrorist attack was being

planed involving planes but he was too busy trying to find a reason to attack Iraq? I seam to remember someone going to the Whitehouse frantically trying to warn Bush of those attacks but he was just blown off.

[VWolf]

14. That was Richard Clarke n/t

[steve2470]

12. I never hinted that Bush *caused* 9/11

However, due to his negligence, it did occur. That's irrefutable. Clinton would have been impeached and possibly convicted for the exact same situation. The first priority of any President is to protect the country - he failed at that duty.

The Republicans could bring up Pearl Harbor and FDR. I'm no expert on that evidence.

[gulliver]

8. They shake their head and beg forgiveness for voting for Bush

The ones that know the truth and have integrity do that. The others just blame Clinton. They either don't know, don't care, or have forgotten that it was Bush.

Bush didn't do anything while the I/P situation deteriorated. His famous "Now watch this drive" video happened after a horrendous terrorist attack. Quite a chuckle. Imagine if Clinton or Obama had done that. What would the Republicans have said?

Bush didn't do anything when warned (while on a month-long vacation no less) that Bin Laden was a threat. Bush didn't do anything when Masood was assassinated... Again, just imagine Clinton or Obama doing nothing in those cases like Bush did.

Bin Laden pulled the trigger, but Bush walked the country into Bin Laden's scope.

[spanone]

16. they don't acknowledge the bu$h* presidency...it never happened. george who?