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Subject: 
Re: Bush Knew?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Tue, 28 May 2002 18:11:59 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes:
> > > Wow -- if that turns out to be true in the long-term I think I am feeling
> > > fairly outraged.  Bush has done nothing but use the whole crisis to boost
> > > his popularity, and now it may be that he knew in advance.
> > > 
> > > Shades of what Roosevelt knew about Pearl Harbor -- except this time Bush
> > > lacks any possible justifiable motive to enter us into a war.  O wait, maybe
> > > it's just the businesses that he and his pals all profit from...
> > > 
> > > Can't argue with the $$$.
> > > 
> > > -- Hop-Frog
> > 
> > 
> > Be careful Richard. The USA is at W A R. As such, your comments are
> > unpatriotic. The thought police will be knocking on your door any moment now.
> > 
> > Scott A
> 
> (here it comes...)
> 
> Yeah, well, I'm not American and I couldn't give a rat's patootie what some
> gun lovin' hick from Texas thinks of me.  I'm giving him the benefit of the
> doubt, unless *proven* that he knew specifically that 9/11 was going o
> happen, but that doesn't change how I feel about him.

I seriously doubt that anyone in authority knew 9/11 "specifically" was
about to happen.

I think it is pretty clear that something like 911 could have been
predicted{1}, and that perhaps air security should have been tightened a
touch (and/or the public informed of the threat). That said, these things
are often easy to “predict” after the event.


Scott A

{1} There was a threat of an imminent hijack & and an OBL air attack threat
was public knowledge during the G8 summit in Italy a couple of months
before. Those are two rather large dots.



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(...) (here it comes...) Yeah, well, I'm not American and I couldn't give a rat's patootie what some gun lovin' hick from Texas thinks of me. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt, unless *proven* that he knew specifically that 9/11 was going o (...) (24 years ago, 28-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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