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Originally Posted by lostalex
Well i don't think they lied. I think they were wrong, but they didn't lie. They were honestly responding to what they thought was a real threat though.
You forget what it was like in 2003. When everyone was screaming at the government "why didn't you prevent 9/11!, why didn't you catch it!" so of course they were being overly cautious.
It's easy to sit back in 2013 10 years later and forget the atmosphere of the time...
We were still scared in 2003, and we had a right to be scared in 2003.
It's easy to forget what it felt like in 2003. That's one of the problems with history, it's hard to make people remember what it actually felt like in that time period. Unfortunately historians don't do a good job of really describing what it FEELS LIKE to be in those periods.
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We do know what happened because of people like Dick Clarke who have come out and told us. In the afternoon meeting on 9/11 the CIA was told to find a link between OBL and Sadam. The intelligence people told them there and then it was impossible as OBL hates SH, and thinks he's a heretic. So they lied there way to bollocks about 45minutes away from death, and WMDs being hidden.
I'll tell you what we, the people were doing in 2003, we were allowing our liberties stripped back through the politics of fear. As an American your rights are nothing like the rights envisaged the the founders. They've been stripped away after 9/11. We're all guilty.
21-02-2013, 04:30 PM
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