r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 1d ago

Soft Paywall Obama Breaks Silence on Trump’s ‘Unimaginable’ Presidency - “Imagine if I had done any of this,” the former two-term president said.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obama-breaks-silence-on-trumps-unimaginable-presidency/
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u/Khanscriber 1d ago

Dubya stole the election then failed to prevent 9/11. One or the other is bad, but both should’ve been a (figurative) death sentence.

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u/Pivotalrook 23h ago

I don't think any president could have prevented 9/11 unless they had a crystal ball and wore a giant purple turban.

America wrote their own ticket after arming the Mujahideen, then just peacing out.

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u/Khanscriber 22h ago

The various intelligence agencies had already uncovered every aspect of the 9/11 plot, however it was up to the president, who was in charge of all of those intelligence agencies, who was responsible for putting that intelligence together.

Read the 9/11 commission report. 

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u/Pivotalrook 22h ago

Hindsight intelligence is exactly that.