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The country and our world would have been far safer and better off today if Mr. Bush had indeed “ignored all of the intelligence available” regarding Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction. There weren’t any. Furthermore, there was no connection between Iraq and 9/11.
What should not have been ignored is the intelligence, repeated warnings and evidence that al-Qaida was planning a major attack for fall 2001.
It is idiotic and hardly a bragging point to proudly proclaim that “There has been no further attack on our homeland since Sep. 11, 2001.” Any moron has enough common sense to defend themselves after an attack, but a competent government protects its people on its own soil before an attack occurs at all. We should be amazed at the incompetence in our government that allowed this to happen in the first place.
This was not a strategic attack carefully planned and executed by a foreign government. This was a rag-tag group of terrorists in a cave, whose participants trained at our own aviation schools, and used our own civilian aircraft.
Like others, Mr. Violette failed to raise the question of the ineptitude of our government, or to question what sort of idiot is so incompetent as to allow an attack on our own military headquarters (the Pentagon), using our own airplanes?
This careless stupidity is unmatched throughout history, here or in any other nation.
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