Shrub ignores news of impending attack
Seven years ago today, on August 6, 2001, this exchange occured:
The book's opening anecdote tells of an unnamed CIA briefer who flew to Bush's Texas ranch during the scary summer of 2001, amid a flurry of reports of a pending al-Qaeda attack, to call the president's attention personally to the now-famous Aug. 6, 2001, memo titled "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US." Bush reportedly heard the briefer out and replied: "All right. You've covered your ass, now."
Seven years later, Osama Bin Laden is still alive, al-Qaeda is stronger than ever, and 2,974 American civilians, 4,000 (and counting) American troops and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians are dead. Two countries lie in ruins; Iraq physically and the U.S. financially. And these people have dragged us down to the point that actual discussions have been had as to what constitutes torture.And do keep in mind that the so-called “adults” were “back in charge” (see photo above of Harriet Miers and Shrub at his “ranch” in Crawford) on the day —this day—seven years ago, when they got full warning of and still had a chance to avert this avalanche of depravity. Instead Shrub stayed on vacation.
h/t Digby
