Reply #18: Yes. No doubt, and Bush practically proved it when he [View All]

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after 9-11 passed every one of the proposals that Clinton and Gore had made BEFORE 9-11 but that were rejected along straight partisan lines.

You left off the Gore Commission and the terrorist funds seizure bill, both of which were defeated by Repubs, and both of which Bush accepted after 9-11.

The Gore Commission recommended standardizing airport security and tighter baggage checks and passenger searches. He predicted that terrorists would hijack planes in America sometime within the next five years if security wasn't improved. One airline head claimed that no foreign hijacking had ever occured in America, and none ever would, and that Gore was just a fear monger. The Repubs defeated it in committee, on a straight party vote.

No question the Gore Commission would have prevented 9-11.