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Obama is an extremely intelligent and pragmatic man.
Obama would have listened to the pre-9/11 warnings coming in throughout the summer from other countries, and he would have tried to prevent the attack before it ever happened.
He would have also been completely honest with the public, and not try to cover it up the way Bush did.
You can tell these thing simply by the way he is handling the current economic crisis. He is being completely open and honest about everything. His Recovery.gov website is a perfect example of this.
He would have tried - but to prevent the attack he would have had to have fired Louis Freeh and cleaned up the FBI. The FBI bungled more than any other part of government in being negligent in preventing the 9/11 attacks.
Also, most likely OBL's body would have been found already (or perhaps he would have been captured alive) and the Taliban and Al Qaeda thoroughly defeated in Afghanistan without the massive waste of resources - human and financial - diverted to Iraq.
He was far from unbiased and no I do not think any of those people said any such thing about Bush, the President of the United States at the time and their boss. It is very naive to think that.
Have you READ that book? From how you're talking I doubt it.
At the time it came out the accusations of bias were coming from liberals who thought it was a glorification of Bush.
Why do you not think those people said it? Every interview in the book is documented.
I firmly suggest you read "Bush At War" before you criticize it.
He would have immediately sent troops to Afghanistan and not squandered valuable resources and money on planning war with Iraq, as Bush was doing in the wake of 9/11. In fact, Colin Powell and Tony Blair had to talk Bush out of invading Iraq in the wake of 9/11 and had to convince him to attack the Taliban/AQ instead of Saddam. Read Bob Woodward's "Bush At War"
I agree except that the war in Iraq was planned even before Bozo Bush was elected.
I have read it and I don't see how anyone can think it is a glorification of Bush. I never even understood why he agreed to it.
So you agree it's unbiased? You realize that we're not talking about Michael Moore or Al Franken here.
As to why he agreed to it, forgetting that Woodward knew Bush and the other politicians he interviewed in the book from his many years as a political journalist?
Let me ask you this since you seem to be so certain that it was unbiased: do you personally know George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Tony Blair, John ********, Paul Wolfowitz, or ANYONE who played a major role in making policy related to the War on Terror? If not, than how do you know there were any distortions? Woodward had personal access to all the personages involved and the Bush campaign in 2004 actually put "Bush At War" and "Plan of Attack" on its recommended reading list.
Ignoring Republicans who can only chant "no taxes", while picking their noses, and chewing their fingernails, he would've quietly devised a far more effective strategy that would've avoided war, saved hundreds of billions of dollars, and spared thousands of lives. Bin Laden would've been captured within a month.
He would've asked the question "why? why did they do this?" Then effectively resolved the matter without war or conflict.
I doubt any other person in the world would have reacted the way that W did to the news of 9/11. Here is the president who was advised months earlier that this could happen being informed of it being carried out and he can't excuse himself from a group of grade schoolers.
Talk about having to clean your pants.
The military response would have happened no matter who was in charge, the failure to capture OBL rests squarely on the shoulders of one man. If another attack does occur would it be due to that fundamental problem of the previous administration?
I would like to think that ANYONE other than Bush (McCain, Gore, Obama, whatever) would have taken those warnings seriously on Day 1 and PREVENTED the attack. As someone who saw it first hand - I have all the faith that Obama would take any warning very seriously and find an appropriate way to deal with it.
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