Reply #14: I did not state that Bush had prior knowledge of the attack and

[Hoping4Change]

have never suscribed to that belief. I take issue that you, like people who believe Bush knew about the attack, are guuilty of filling in the blanks.

It is not for us to imagine why Bush sat mute. Unrelently pressure should be put on Bush to explain his non action. It's not just sitting dazed and frozen, he also has to account why he lingered to take photos.


Frankly I think people who contend that Bush knew are letting him off the hook. They in effect are playing into repuke hands. Instead of demanding a full accounting they insert a conspiracy theory into the blanks. People who have questions about Bush get brushed off as cranks and Bush is let off the hook.

As to Bodanksy. Although I respect him as a terror expert he was not in the Adminstration. CLarke who was in the Administration has testified that plans initated by Clinton in 1998 were not in play when Bush took office. The failure to react to the Cole bombing once the CIA identified the perpetrators, the fact that Clarke was demoted when Bush took office, the blatant disregard of warnings in the summer of '01 all point to the fact that this adminstration was not interested in AQ.