Poll: More Americans blame Bush for 9/11

[OhioChick]

POSTED: 8:26 a.m. EDT, September 11, 2006

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The percentage of Americans who blame the Bush administration for the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington has risen from almost a third to almost half over the past four years, a CNN poll released Monday found.

Asked whether they blame the Bush administration for the attacks, 45 percent said either a "great deal" or a "moderate amount," up from 32 percent in a June 2002 CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll.

But the Clinton administration did not get off lightly either. The latest poll, conducted by Opinion Research Corporation for CNN, found that 41 percent of respondents blamed his administration a "great deal" or a "moderate amount" for the attacks.

That's only slightly less than the 45 percent who blamed his administration in a poll carried out less than a week after the attacks.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/11/911.poll/index.html

[SpiralHawk]

1. You know why? They have paid attention

and noticed the BushCo-Republicon lies and resistance to honest investigation.

Only the sheep beleive the republicon lies and propaganda any more...

[CoffeeCat]

2. Oh.My.Stars.

We don't know exactly who is being TPT911. There
are many unanswered questions. However, it is clear
that this thing wasn't produced, bankrolled and planned
by a group of isolated, non-partisan individuals.

I have to frickin laugh. The great news in this story
will carry me through the day.

Someone thought TPT911 was going to bring a mushroom
cloud of resentment toward Clinton, and take the heat
off of Bush--going into the November elections.

Frickin A!!! It did no such thing.

I love it that the producer called TPT911--"The movie of the decade!!"

These goons thought they had perfected the "Swiftboat" technique.

Sorry guys. All evil and no brains makes for a few duds now and then.

Thanks, for posting this article!!! :)

[roseBudd]

18. Swiftboating only works with 30 second commercials, no talent Xtians

making movies is no better than no talent xtians trying to be Pearl Jam

[AX10]

3. This is not the result that Rove wanted.

[underpants]

6. We are about a year and half away and his legacy is taking a nosedive

I hope that within 10 years this entire period is held up as an example of the worst we could have ever done.

[superconnected]

11. Actually many scholars already hold it up as that. :)

[vickitulsa]

19. Yep, and not just scholars!

I'm taking heart every day from the slow awakening I see among those who once trusted that criminal crowd in charge. And not just from the reports I see here at DU ... the shift is everywhere evident, especially in a redneck place like Oklahoma.

Hell, even Jeff Foxworthy's insightful humor aimed at his own kind isn't really funny anymore, just because of what has happened to our country since 1999.

One of my neighbors is actually so proud of being a redneck he has a large, red, slashing-letter version of the word plastered on his rear windshield on his classic '76 Cutlass (primer paint and all, yup -- a work in progress). But I told his "old lady" who is a friend and helper to me that he was just bragging about his f'ing IGNORANCE and retrograde attitude, displaying that sign on his car these days!

She just shakes her head in shame to be associated with him -- a condition she's working to change as soon as she can. But this guy is not politically involved and I very seriously doubt he even votes. He may have not been anti-Chimp in previous years but I'll bet even he is savvy enough to realize that he'd be stupid to express any admiration for the criminal-in-chief these days.

I fully expect -- and just this morning told my friend next door as I watered my flowerbeds -- that within a few years it will be common, accepted knowledge that this was the worst and most criminal presidency EVER in this country. Another neighbor in this RV park, a 20-year-old man who had settled in here just a couple of weeks ago planning to stay a year, was loading up his camper getting ready to leave the state and return to his native Arkansas where he has lived the rugged outdoor life all of his 20 years. He just can't stand it in the "big city" (I had to laugh at that, since Tulsa is far from "big"), and said he felt like he was in prison here. I had just begun to get to know him (and his wonderful red heeler puppy my dog was crazy about), and he's a great guy so I will miss him, but I do understand.

We stood there for a good half-hour this morning as I was walking Bebo, talking about how wicked this administration has been from the git-go. This guy is not even a TV-watcher or a person who follows political stories and the news, but he's smart enough to see through the criminal cadre in the White House! Doesn't take a rocket scientist, after all.

But it DOES take a lot of people like the near-100,000 here at DU to keep squawking loud and long until word gets out to the saturation point and awakens the sleeping gullible among us. Another friend who lives in Wisconsin in a small town said his fundie world there will NEVER turn on the Chimp, but at least I figure eventually they will end up going silent about their support and love for him eventually. His family are the ones who said recently, "We don't care HOW HIGH gas prices go as long as we can make abortion illegal again in this country!"

And I'm still hoping that in due time the Chimperor himself and many of his cohorts will be the first ever at their level of power to actually SERVE TIME for their crimes against this country and the world! Ya never know ... once people have TRUSTED someone and realize they've been lied to and used in a big way, the anger they feel can be powerful enough to drive them to demand justice, even if it's delayed....

[Demeter]

4. I'm Snickering (actually, Guffawing)

Hoist on their own petard! Those who live by spin and fabrication and exaggeration and falsehood, being done in by the fact that more and more, nobody believes them anymore!

The American public may be distracted, even thick, but they aren't THAT thick!

[Art_from_Ark]

5. He continued with a meaningless reading lesson for several minutes

after supposedly being told "The second tower's been hit-- America's under attack". Then he stayed out of sight for three days, while better men (and women) were rushing to the disaster scenes to offer their condolences and encouragement. Then he stonewalled what would have been a legitimate Senate investigation of this incident, going even so far as to personally phone Tom Daschle, who at the time was Senate Majority Leader, to tell him to cool it with thoughts of investigation. Then, when investigation became inevitable (and the Senate Democrats were safely out of power), he appointed his own commission, and set it up so that not only would he not have to testify under oath (before a mostly sympathetic audience), but he would get to have his puppetteer, er, vice pResident, hold his hand and guide him through the testimony.

[BR_Parkway]

7. The talking to the commission together has always been one of

the weirdest things to me. Even though I do'nt buy any of the other stuff they've come up with to say why they didn't want the commission in the first place, if I hadn't been lied to by them so often, I might be willing to give the benefit of doubt to their excuses.

By why in the hell two grown men, the two most powerful men in our country, would need to sit together to tell what happened has always been the oddest part of it all.

[JuniperLea]

8. I'd like to see a movie based on those three days when Bush

was scurrying around the country in fear. In fact, there should be two movies. One produced with exacting facts and accuracy. The second produced by Mad TV, showing Bush cowering in his cowboy jammies... oh wait...

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[dubyaD40web]

12. K & R!

Perfect for today.

[superconnected]

13. Wow, so the republicans think it's clintons fault and everyone else

thinks it's bush's fault.

At least they woke up to it isn't completely bin ladens fault. He was ALLOWED to bomb the towers.

I always knew half of america wasn't repulican - it's more like the mid - high 30's and usually lower 30's. There's nobody more surprised about winning majoritys(fixed elections) than the republicans. So these results are pretty consistent - 41% sounds a little high but it may not be. Interesting they aren't blaming Bush 1 for bin laden, but heck the level these people at for believing bush is fixing the problem instead of is the problem, probably means they can't understand back far enough that bush 1 was the first one to have bin laden on his plate. Or that Bush 2 hasn't done anything about bin laden for 5 years and is currently threatening us with more bin laden attacks.

[BootinUp]

16. LIHOP is not supported by facts

The most you can do is show extremely bad judgement and negligence. There is no smoking gun to make the final leap. You would need to show that the government new the timing and exact plan for the attack, anyone, any agent, any higher official had the whole thing and was in communication with the hijackers. And even though the efforts to find and foil terrorist plots was not given enough priority by Bush, I think you would have to explain why any anti-terrorist investigations arrests and surveillance were being done. Surely they would not want field agents to uncover the master plot.lol.


Instead of taking the mistakes and making a secret conspiracy out of it, consider that you are accusing fellow Americans of being traitors in such a cavalier manner and instead get some real evidence and kick the Republicans in the ass for not taking seriously the security of our country.

[CJCRANE]

20. In terms of

mainstream politics, yours is the most credible position.

However, between us all here at DU, most of us know it was at least LIHOP.

If you think fellow Americans can't be traitors what do you think of the proven cases of those who bankrolled Hitler, or sold weapons to Iran in the full knowledge that it was considered a rogue nation?

[BootinUp]

14. Pretty evenly split.

When it should be a better advantage to Democrats.

[electropop]

15. It's hugely better than it was, and still improving.

The public really are waking up to the truth.

[Jensen]

17. Bush is the boy who holler Wolf to many times.....

and we all know the moral of the story!

[wicket]

23. You got that right!

:kick:

[Straight Shooter]

21. If investigations are allowed to proceed, bush will become a pariah.

We need a Democratic majority in Congress so the truth can see the light and be out in the open. This excessive secrecy of our government is wrong and dangerous, and it's secrecy that we pay for with our hard-earned dollars.

There will always be those who support bush and his gang, no matter what they do, just as there will always be those with other weird character flaws. Such people are hopeless. Forget them. As for the rest, whose minds still operate independently from time to time, when the truth emerges they will be mad as hell, because for them the truth will bring the extra sting of betrayal when they realize they've been played for total dupes.

The rest of us, we're angry because we've known all along, and we're greatly saddened at how quickly our mighty country has degenerated to the point where we invaded a country based on a pack of lies, could not prevent two stolen elections, had an incompetent and criminally negligent administration at the wheel on Sept. 11, and watched as a much-beloved city and its poor inhabitants were left to die.

Rant off.

[Miss Chybil]

22. I'm sure Republicans blamed Clinton and Dems blame Bush.

I'm not sure that's a good sign.

[stepnw1f]

25. It's Not Only Dems and Pukes Though

People who know very little about politics just can't believe the official story, nor do they care to give Bush and his cronies the benefit of the doubt. These are folks who do not involve themselves in politics at all. Yet what they are faced with is the fact that Bush has been a failure during his last 6 years with the economy, health, education, Iraq, Not capturing Bin Laden and of course allowing 9-11 to happen on his watch while he was staring like a "deer in the headlights".

This alone, makes it easier to blame Bush, because... to put it plainly, he is a major fuck-up. Now if we have a mainstream media to actually do their job and expose the lies and the real truth, Bush would be tried and put in prison for life, endng the Bush Family dynasty, as they so egomaniacally like to think of themselves.

Regular folk don't like being lied to.

[Miss Chybil]

26. I couldn't agree with you more, but I was speaking strictly to the survey.

[stepnw1f]

24. This is Why ABC is Airing that Propaganda

The GOP and their investors, are scared shitless of a real investigation. If the TRUTH were to get out, NOBODY would vote Republican for maybe a couple generations, causing the Paridigm to shift back to the left to undo all the damage corporate America and the GOP have done in the last 12 years or so.