Anybody who believes the President was forewarned with enough information to shut down aviation because of the intelligence gathered, as this kind of stuff comes in daily, is a fool! Daschle and his croonies were screaming bloodly murder about some of the warnings that have been posted since 9/11, one in particular was that American Bridges would be attacked back in
April! They screamed that the Administration was causing undue fear and that the warnings were unneccessary! Democrats are grasping for straws as their political cards are not carrying much weight, and will do anything to try and win some seats in Congress in November! More Democrat mud that will go away very quickly!!! Charlie

Easy to point fingers after the fact. ****** Cheney said as early as 9/15 that we had had intelligence that something bad was brewing. Problem was, nobody could put together a coherent picture of what specifically that might be. People bitch NOW about increased airport security. What would people have said THEN? The elections are looming. Let the finger pointing begin(grin)! Having defended the administration on that, I will say this. I DO NOT like what they are doing to our fine balanced budget. Maybe we can get Ken Lay to pay for the war(undeclared) on terrorism as his punishment.

Rick,the question is/was what information the Bush administration had prior to 9/11/01.I simply stated my opinion on the subject and pointed out to you that your first two posts on this topic are clearly political ranting.I made no reference to you saying it was Bush's fault,I simply pointed out that you are clearly only ranting once again.I do appologize,I shouldn't have told you to "stop".Your rants can be truly entertaining(if one dosen't take them too seriously).RANT ON BROTHA!........LOL

jjohnson28: i don't give a damn who knew what when, but trying to organize our "inteligence" is more important. we need to find out how to close the loopholes that let info from a flight traing school that some arab wanted to learn to fly, not land was passed on. why the hell didn't they confiscate his computer and search it for anything. this country spent more time and money investigating what may very well have been a clinton dirty deal and im,peached him because he got a b**w job on company time. that was certainly important to our national security. i know he lied no i didn't if may mean if or not, poindexter, north and a host of others under the semi-watchfull eyes of the second dumbest president we had, bush wins hands down and wasn't elected. put your right arm over your head and grab your left ear. put your left arm over your head and grab your right ear. when you pull your head out of your a**, you might be able to think better. 9/11 was not bushe's fault!!!!!
cutting education while saying he will improve education is. "wacko liberal women's groups." you must be joking with a cliche like that. "you're a DOPE (like ALL Democrats)" and all brown horses are animals so all brown animals must be horses.

Before I start let me make this clear, I'm independent but I lean to the liberal side. This is not because I don't have the b*lls to pick a side, but because I don't whole heartedly agree with either side, so I vote the issues and the person. Now to begin, the media is blowing up all of this crap about Bush having actionable information to prevent the attacks, that's plain bull. No president would have been able to know what was going on, much less prevent it. However, It's obvious that our airports have had many problems for a long time, this I blame on the last 3 presidents. Are we so ignorant not to notice the level of security in all of the other major countries? We still are nowhere near the security at most European airports!! And, this is obviously not the first highjacked plane, but you would think that after all of the jackings in the 70's that we'd learn our lesson and maitain a good tight security system. And there was also clear knowledge of the destructive power of a jet being used as a missile since at least 1995. What's that phrase, "If you forget the past you're doomed to repeat it." Maybe we'll learn our lesson this time instead of just placing blame for a year or so and then forgetting about the whole event and allowing it to happen again.

Also, as far as the education issue is concerned, anyone who knows much of Bush's history in Texas should be scared of him running / changing our education program. My Aunt has been a teacher in Texas for 15 years, and she'll be the first to say that a lot of the changes he's made have hurt education in Texas. Because of the moronic testing program the teachers are forced to teach to the test even though they're technically not supposed to. We need to spend more on education, and we need to spend more intelligently on education. Teachers are shaping and molding the future of our country and yet we start them out at an average of 25k. I don't know about any of you guys but I'd find it quite hard to live on 25k, especially in Colorado! That's only 13-15 dollars per hour depending on the schedule. You can make more than that waiting tables!! Yes it's true that they're getting paid for a full year when they only work 8-9 months, but still do you really think they're working only 40 hour weeks? We need to pay teachers more and invest more in the future of our country! And I'm very scared that Bush is going to put us in a worse position than we were in before.