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Originally posted by onetime2
You're talking about a ridiculous amount of manpower and money that would never have been approved before 9/11. Hell, even now, post 9/11 there isn't enough manpower to check on every visitor from an "Arab" country.
Based on this memo he'd also have had to station people at every federal building and every airline terminal in the NY metropolitan area to even have a shot at doing anything. And even then there would be little they could have done about it since the rules in place at the time didn't cover most of what the hijackers did.
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Nice job selectively responding. As I said, there was plenty of evidence out there. Had Bush followed the Hart-Rudman report, gotten the intelligence from the INS and FBI, and acted on it, there was enough data there to foil one or more of the hijackings.
Instead, he was clearing brush on his ranch during the longest presidential vacation in 30 year.
You asked "what could Bush have done?"
My answer: something, anything.