Would 9/11/01 have been different under a Gore administration?

I sometimes cannot help but feel that things would have been different under President Gore on September 11th, 2001. With all of the inconsistancies and the way the attacks were mishandled. Yes. I said mishandled. I tend to think that the attacks on that day could have been tharwted by intelligence under Gore's watch and 3,000 people would still be alive and New York would still have the twin towers. Do you think Gore and his security advisors would have stopped the attacks? How different 9/11/01 be?

Anti-terrorism would have a been a top priority in the Gore administration. A DHS would have most likely been established by 7/01, especially if the PDBs had been warning of an "imminent domestic threat".

They see another Bush elected and it looks like just another family empire to them. We were weak at the time and they exploited it. I doubt there would have been an attack on the united states on 9/11 (and that's not to say there would never have been an attack) if Gore had been elected.

and would have hit the White House.

Can you say President Lieberman ?

The BFEE would not have needed it if they had lost to Gore. They would just bide their hand until they won an election.

Fascism is an intergenerational effort.

I don't recall hearing about a second attempt... I'm not saying there wasn't a second attempt though...

The attacks might not have happened but with Lieberman in the VP, and gore being a political pud, not much would have been different with any of the post-attack. Maybe no Iraq, if that admin could buy a spine

but that's just me.

but the intelligence would have been the same, the analysts would have given much the same interpretation of it. The only real change is that I doubt that we would be in a ground war in Iraq to "free the people". I'm no Gore fan, but I do think the man would have been smart enough to give a swift response.

"Hindsight is always 20/20."

Ern

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Bush did know (on edit: was told) of possible hijackings that day. That much is certain.

He did nothing to try and stop it and he had the power to.

Assuming he's capable of thought, he was thinking that "Oh, it's just a hijacking. I don't care if some people get inconvenienced for a few hours by a bunch of nutters, or even if one or two of them get shot." (his own policies and dealings with people add to this theory as well. "Who cares what you think!" he told a person. I also saw a pic of him angrily yelling at a guy in a white/red plaid shirt who was probably a farmer... Bush is a jerk, liar, coward, cretin, anti-person, you name it.)

Now maybe he didn't know the true intent of the hijackers. Maybe he did. But one thing is for sure, he certainly went against his own bogus religion and morality by knowing that a serious crime was going to be committed and wantonly did nothing. Bush is an accssory to those hijackings, if not being a direct part of those who hijacked the planes. Period.

Notice I say "American" life. I think more mainstream Americans would tune in if "American" was used in place of "human". I'd otherwise prefer to use "human"...

I read some things lately that have turned me from LIHOP to MIHOP. Gore would not have done this.

butt reading a story about a pet goat in a school in Seattle, rather than Florida, then ran and hid in Tennessee instead of Nebraska. But I don't think he would have exploited the attacks for corporate gain as ruthlessly as Bush did. Moreover, it's less likely that the attacks would have occurred in the first place.

which had many recommendations for improving airport security, would have had many of those suggestions implemented instead of ignored and we would have been much more likely to have stopped the hijacking before it got started. And Gore would not have hidden somewhere in a bunny hole.