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Hmmm. Good question. I would probably have immediately launched a blue-ribbon investigation into the causes of the war. I would have fired the heads of the NSA, CIA, and FBI and put in new leaders that were interested in reforming the broken intelligence community.
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Then you don't have the slightest idea about how those groups run. You think they're sitting there with their thumbs up their asses?
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I would have called Saudia Arabia on the carpet for their role in the 9/11 attacks.
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Bush will get to them soon enough.
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I certainly would not have proposed the Patriot Act. The 9/11 attacks were perpetrated by foreigners with visas, so the visa system needed overhauling, not domestic survelliance.
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While people already in the country, and illegals, aren't watched. Terrorists want in America? Just go the the Mexico boarder and walk on in.
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I would not have gone to war with Iraq, since Iraq had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks.
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But there was a threat that something bigger could have happened with Saddam and Osama. Proactive is a hell of alot better than retroactive when talking about this. Oh, and he just finished something that should have been finished a decade ago.
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If I was going to use the political leverage of 9/11 to do anything, I would have used it to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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You actually think that's feasable? They're going to be fighting until they kill each other. Just because we were victim of a terrorist act doesn't mean their fighting will end.
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I would probably have taken some action against Afghanistan to root out Osama Bin Laden, although I'm not sure that the way we went about it was the right approach. I would have to think a little more about what exactly I might have done better.
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What we could have done better? The only thing we could have done better was kill Osama, which means nuking all of Afganistan so we get him for sure. I'm not sure you're in favor of that.
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I would have reminded people about the internment camps for Japanese-Americans during WWII, and how we will not repeat those mistakes.
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No, you wouldn't, because any speech writer and any cabinet member with half a clue would beat you upside the head if you even suggested that.