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‘VS SCHULDIG AAN 9/11 IDIOTEN’, NU IN DE MEERDERHEID IN AMERIKA.
Raar blad: NEW YORK POST.
Maar deze peiling is opmerkelijk. Van de Amerikanen denkt nu 62 procent dat president Bush in 2001 waarschuwingen over aanstaande terroristische aanslagen met vliegtuigen op het World Trade Center en het Pentagon (9/11) heeft genegeerd. De kop boven het artikel is: VS schuld aan 9/11 idioten in de meerderheid.
Het is bekend: Amerikanen zijn gek op complottheorien. Zie Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy en ook aids, Pearl Harbour princes Diana, Marilyn Monroe en Roswell. Maar deze 9/11 theorie heeft niets met een complot te maken, want is simpelweg feit.
Memo To New York Post: The Bush Administration Was Warned About 9/11
New York Post reporter Andy Soltis writes of the latest Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll that finds a great majority of Americans believe the government failed to heed warnings about 9/11. Soltis writes that this poll shows increasing support for 9/11 “conspiracy theories”:
Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the federal government had warnings about 9/11 but decided to ignore them, a national survey found.
And that’s not the only conspiracy theory with a huge number of true believers in the United States. […]
Sixty-two percent of those polled thought it was ‘very likely’ or ’somewhat likely’ that federal officials turned a blind eye to specific warnings of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
The NY Post’s headline blares: “Blame U.S. For 9/11′ Idiots In Majority.” As frequent readers of this site are well aware, ThinkProgress does not condone 9/11 conspiracy theories which allege the attacks were an inside job. But whether the Bush administration failed to heed warnings of a terrorist strike is not a conspiracy theory - it is a fact.
Here are some bits of information the NY Post may want to read up on:
1) Bush received intel briefing on Aug. 6, 2001 entitled “Bin Laden Determined To Strike In US.” The briefing specifically warned to “patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks,” particularly targeted at New York.
2) CIA Director George Tenet briefing Condoleezza Rice and other top administration officials on July 10, 2001 about a specific urgent and looming threat from al Qaeda.
3) An FBI agent in Phoenix sent a memo to FBI headquarters on July 10, 2001, which advised of the “possibility of a coordinated effort” by bin Laden to send students to the United States to attend civil aviation schools.
The alarming nature of the Scripps poll is not that 62 percent of Americans believe the government ignored warnings of 9/11; it’s that nearly 40 percent still aren’t aware of that fact.
UPDATE: Malkin proudly trumpets the NY Post story as evidence of “America: Tinfoil hat nation.”
UPDATE II: Atrios pulls up this gem from the archives.
november 26th, 2007 at 10:48 am
Keep the public dumbed down and uninformed so they can be more easily manipulated.
november 26th, 2007 at 10:49 am
Mind you 33% of Americans believe God is going to show up this year and every year there after, Just shows how mad America really is
november 26th, 2007 at 10:50 am
Here’s the Aug. 6th PDB-The Smoking Gun.
After reading it, how can anyone say the Bush administration wasn’t warned?
november 26th, 2007 at 10:50 am
Malkin now turns on the citizens of America.
She’s a fair-weather fascist.
-GSD
november 26th, 2007 at 10:51 am
Ron Paul wants to reopen the 911 investigations to find out who failed on that day and the months before and exactly how so that we can prevent any future disaster and possibly punish those that should have received punishment in the first place..
Do you think he means it? What about Hillary or Obama? Will they just talk about it or DO it?
november 26th, 2007 at 10:53 am
Puh-leeeeeeeeeze
Puh-leeeeeeeeeze… most of my fellow New Yorkers will tell you that the New York Post is far from being a source of objective journalism. It’s owned by Rupert Murdoch - ’nuff said.
november 26th, 2007 at 10:55 am
And lest we forget, GWB’s vapid response to the topline CIA briefer who told him in detail the intel on an impending attack just prior to 9/11:
‘Ok, you’ve covered your ass now.’
Guess our illustrious prez was thinking along the lines of the one reason he might impart this kind of news
november 26th, 2007 at 10:56 am
The Post obviously forgets its own (misleading) headline from May 16, 2002: ‘BUSH KNEW’
november 26th, 2007 at 10:58 am
Ironically, this ‘tin-foiled hat nation’ rallied around and supported Bush with a 88% approval rating after 2002.
november 26th, 2007 at 10:59 am
Ironically, this ‘tin-foiled hat nation’ rallied around and supported Bush with a 88% approval rating after 2002.
Comment by djjames
I don’t believe that for a minute.
november 26th, 2007 at 11:00 am
Ironically, this ‘tin-foiled hat nation’ rallied around and supported Bush with a 88% approval rating after 2002.
Comment by djjames
Most of that was based on our, perfectly natural, wish for revenge. And, since then, we have learned to judge him by his actions. It’s hard to imagine anyone else going from 88% approval to ‘worst president ever’.