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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MJ who wrote (71318)	8/30/2009 10:31:18 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224720

they didn't only think that the white house and capitol building were the next targets, they absolutely were. The white house was the primary target, but the hijackers felt that the capitol building would be an easier target. en.wikipedia.org "Immediately after the attacks, there was speculation that Camp David was the intended target.[91] According to testimony by captured al-Qaeda member Abu Zubaydah, U.S. officials believed the White House was the intended target.[92] A post-9/11 interview with Sheikh Mohammed and Binalshibh by Al Jazeera reporter Yosri Fouda revealed that Flight 93 was headed for the Capitol.[93] The 9/11 Commission Report cited the actions of the crew and passengers that prevented the destruction of either the White House or the Capitol.[21] According to another testimony by Sheikh Mohammed, bin Laden preferred the Capitol over the White House as a target and Sheikh Mohammed revealed that the interview to Fouda was a lie to make the 9/11 attacks seem larger than they were.[27] Salim Hamdan, bin Laden's driver, told interrogators that he knew the flight was headed for the Capitol.[94]" Sheikh Mohammed en.wikipedia.org

To: MJ who wrote (71318)	8/30/2009 10:56:08 PM
From: calgal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224720

I thought they handled it well

To: MJ who wrote (71318)	9/2/2009 1:30:35 AM
From: RMF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224720

"After Washington-----Chicago would have been next." Yeah, that might have been the case. Here's how I understand what happened. Bush was told BEFORE he went into that classroom that one of the Twin Towers had been hit. Don't you think it would have been WISE to really get ALL the facts on that BEFORE you ever went into that classroom? You don't have the tallest buildings in the U.S. HIT by commercial airliners everyday so I would have sent my aides into that classroom and asked the children to wait a while. But Bush didn't do that, he went in like nothing had happened and started reading to the kids. Then, while he was in there an aide told him the OTHER tower had been hit. Did it take a GENIUS to figure out SOMETHING was going on here and CHICAGO COULD BE NEXT???? HOW comforted should Chicagoans have been knowing that New York had been ATTACKED and THEY could be next but Bush was STILL sitting there reading "My Pet Goat"?? Then Bush went to hide and Cheney went to hide and Congress went to hide. From there on it was pretty much chaos. Should they ground all the planes? Should they shoot down the planes that were already in the air? If you think that was maximum efficiency from our elected officials then I have to respectfully disagree.