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[kentuck]

Americans have given up much of their freedoms since 9/11 and it was done under the threat of another "terrorist" attack.

However, if George W Bush had acted on the August 6th memo that he had received before he went on vacation to Crawford, Texas , they could have probably stopped the attack of 9/11. But he told the person that gave him the memo, "OK, you've covered your ass". Then, a few weeks later, the planes hit the World Trade Center. It could have been stopped.

And it could have been stopped without the Homeland Security Dept, without eavesdropping on American citizens, without Americans giving up their 4th Amendment, if Bush had only done his job and acted on the memo of August 6th.

All this debate today is extraneous cover-your-ass excuses because we had a moron in the White House that did not do his job. There was no reason to continue his cover-up and there was no need for the people to give up their privacy rights.