Reply #60: I beg your pardon! [View All]

[bvar22]

Please re-read my OP and point to:

"talking points look like they come from the RNC."

Since you obviously haven't read this thread, I will give you an easily understood summary:

The bush* administration discontinued many anti-terrorism policies that were SOP in the Democratic Administration under Bill Clinton. Aside from some emotionally based GUT feeling that Clinton/Gore would have stopped 9-11, no one has pointed out a definitive, particular Anti-Terrorism Policy that would have definitely STOPPED 9-11.



Today, the New York Times reported that:
"More than a year before the Sept. 11 attacks, a small, highly classified military intelligence unit identified Mohammed Atta and three other future hijackers as likely members of a cell of Al Qaeda operating in the United States,"


The following is from the Gore Commission on Aviation Safety and Security which was VOTED DOWN by the Republicans in 1998.

3.7. The FAA should work with airlines and airport consortia to ensure that all passengers are positively identified and subjected to security procedures before they board aircraft.

Curb-side check-in, electronic ticketing, advance boarding passes, and other initiatives are affecting the way passengers enter the air transportation system. As improved security procedures are put into place, it is essential that all passengers be accounted for in that system, properly identified and subject to the same level of scrutiny. The Commission urges the FAA to work with airlines and airport consortia to ensure that necessary changes are made to accomplish that goal.

If the information revealed by the NYTimes had been combined with the recommendations from the GORE Commission(especially 3.7 cited above), the 9-11 Attacks WOULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED.

I have always felt like the Democrats, because they were more vigilant, would have intercepted the 9-11 attack (as they did the Millennium attack). HOWEVER, I have been unable to point out a SPECIFIC ANTI-TERRORISM POLICY that would have definitely stopped it.

I would like to PROVE that the Democrats would have stopped 9-11. If you can point to a specific policy that was SOP under the Democrats that was discontinued by the Republicans that would have prevented 9-11, please post it here and save me the trouble: