On-9/10/01-Biden warned Bush the ‘real threat’ may come in ‘the belly of a plane’

[kpete]

Flashback: Biden on 9/10/01 warned the ‘real threat’ may come in ‘the belly of a plane’

Before 9/11, the Bush administration’s national security focus was on missile defense, not terrorism. In fact, on 9/11, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was set to deliver a speech that focused “largely on missile defense.” Writing at the Huffington Post, Joe Cirincione — president of the Ploughshares Fund — this quote from Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) on Sept. 10, 2001, warning against the Bush administration’s approach:

We will have diverted all that money to address the least likely threat while the real threats come into this country in the hold of a ship, or the belly of a plane, or are smuggled into a city in the middle of the night in a vial in a backpack.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-cirincione/joe-knows-national-securi_b_121836.html

Cirincione writes, “If George Bush had listened to Joe Biden instead of Donald Rumsfeld, the history of the past seven years would have been very different. We might have prevented 9/11.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/27/flashback-biden-on-91001-warned-the-real-threat-may-come-in-the-belly-of-a-plane/

[speedoo]

1. K&R. Thanks for posting this. nt

[Muttocracy]

2. audio archive:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6725563

[valerief]

3. That's assuming Bush didn't deliberately contribute to the 9/11 attack.

[mediaman007]

4. Bingo!

The Bush* people assumed that it would be a hostage deal. No wonder the "Frat Boy" was zoned out in the classroom.

[bleever]

5. Has there ever been a vice-president this qualified?

No. Not in my lifetime, and not in remembered U.S. history.

[Chasing Dreams]

6. I agree, but Al Gore comes pretty close.

[bleever]

8. Yes, he does,

and maybe he was even more prepared.

Statesmen, both.

:thumbsup:

[MrSlayer]

9/11 is what they wanted, they didn't want to prevent it.

It was the "New Pearl Harbor" necessary to launch their insane plans into action.

[Alexander]

7. Wow. I did not know this. My respect for Biden just increased dramatically.