Like Star Trek, an alternative universe

The media and certain members of the 9-11 Commission seem to think Bush had enough information, time, place and type of attack to prevent the 9-11 attacks.

Hind sight is always better then fore sight (I would have purchased Dell stock in 1995 and sold in March 2001).

The information Bush had was that the terrorists were planning to attack the US (this had been a standard press release from them for years), would use attempt to high-jack a US airliner to secure the release of those who were convicted in the 1993 WTC bombing. There was also some indication the terrorist would use the local US network for logistic and other support and that a government building in New York City would be targeted with explosives.

Well, the WTC was owned by a government entity, but I don't think most people would have thought of it as a government building.

A jumbo jet with lots of jet fuel can be called an explosive, but again, I don't think that is how most people think of the airlines (and the airlines definitely DON'T want you to think of them that way).

No use was made by the 9-11 terrorists of US based cells at all.

Before 9-11, airline high-jackings were used to secure the release of people in exchange for the hostages, not to turn the airplane into a guided missile.

But what if Bush had connected all the dots and on September 10 started to detain the Saudi citizens for their crime and bombed Afghanistan and invaded Iraq. Well, three writers have written on what our alternative history would have been. The simple matter is the US was not on a war footing before 9-11 and the things that have been done since then were not possible before events happened that showed they were necessary.
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