They did something......

[FormerOstrich]

To say they didn't do anything in those 8 months is letting them off too easy.

Apparently, there was much going on.

Cheney and his buddies had pow-wows on the Iraq plan.

But most telling of all.....someone was writing the Patriot Act. They rolled that baby out before the 2nd tower fell (well maybe it took them a little longer than that but not much). The Patriot Act was not written overnight.

To us it may seem like they did nothing to counter the attack of September 11th. In reality, they may have done nothing to counter for it, but they were preparing for it.

[Junkdrawer]

1. O'Neill: Bush planned Iraq invasion before 9/11

(CNN) -- The Bush administration began planning to use U.S. troops to invade Iraq within days after the former Texas governor entered the White House three years ago, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill told CBS News' 60 Minutes.

"From the very beginning, there was a conviction that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go," O'Neill told CBS, according to excerpts released Saturday by the network. "For me, the notion of pre-emption, that the U.S. has the unilateral right to do whatever we decide to do, is a really huge leap."

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http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/10/oneill.bush/

[Toots]

2. They managed to kill a bunch of Japanese Students

By letting their "Big Time" campaign contributors drive a nuclear sub around and crash it into a Japanese fishing vessel. Talk about divulging classified information.......Anyone think the helm of a Nuclear Submarine is not Classified?

[liberalmuse]

3. They not only did nothing, they went further...

and actually made it easier for the 9/11 attacks to happen. In the months preceding the attacks, the Bush administration took FBI survelliance off of bin Laden, they demoted Richard Clarke, the formost authority on Al Qaeda and terrorism, and disbanded the terrorism task force and put Cheney in charge. He did nothing but schmooze with the energy corporations during this time. The Bush administration gave $30 million to the Taliban around February 2001 and also lifted restrictions, making it easier for terrorist groups to launder money.

I sat in on a meeting with an FAA official in 1999, during which the FAA official told us about a report that stated that there was a 100% chance that a terrorist attack would occur on American soil within the next 25 years which would kill thousands of U.S. citizens. He figured it would be New York City. I think this may have been the Hart/Rudman report. The Bush administration essentially shelved this report as soon as they came into office. Their negligence allowed 9/11 to happen. People knew about 9/11 before it happened. My daughter had a friend whose brother, in the Navy at the time, had called his family on 9/10 and told them to stay away from the airport on 9/11. It is my belief that the Bush administration needed 9/11 for their power and money grab, and for the Iraq war they had long wanted to resume, and that they purposefully stood down to let the attacks happen. I hope one day this can be proven and everyone involved is punished.