Politico’s Mike Allen notes that while Repub blame the new (Obama) administration for the X-Mas day Terror plot, “Republican lawmakers, candidates, pundits and commentators — and the Bush administration — blamed the CLINTON administration for 9/11.” In other words, Republicans can’t have it both ways.
Well, not exactly.
1) The 9/11 attacks took place in early September of the new administration, vs. The X-Mas day thing took place in late December of a new administration, which gave the Obama people 2 and a half more months to take ownership of America’s intelligence systems and community.
2) Team Bush took over an America which had a destroyed intelligence community and a country that was zero-to-none focused on fighting terror, therefore it is open for debate how much more Bush’s people should or could have done to increase America’s terror vigilance, in time to stop 9/11. Team Obama however, scaled back dramatically the terror war, therefore anything and everything that takes place on this front is clearly the blame or credit of the new administration.
3) I agree that 9/11 is clearly the fault of Team Clinton, and I have a hard time getting my Dem friends to agree with me on this. So… If Dems blame the X-mas incident on Bush in exchange for finally admitting that Clinton is responsible for the 9/11 attacks that killed 2,700 people, then I am all ready to agree that Bush is responsible for the NWA incident.
In conclusion: ignoring and/or downplaying the terror threat only increases the possibility of more terror attacks, regardless which administration is at the helm of the USA.
