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George W Bush Influence On 9/11

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George W. Bush; are his lies blowing up in his face? On September 11, 2001, the United States of America faced its biggest attack in history, two commercial airlines flew into the World Trade Center in New York City, and another plane flew into the Pentagon in Washington D.C. But during these attacks, our Command-in-Chief George W. Bush was not protecting himself from harm, he was in Sarasota, Florida reading about goats. The people of America question is Bush and his staff should be held accountable for these attacks. As Bush did not act as any other president would, he continued to read “The Pet Goat” instead of making an attempt to protect himself, as if nothing was happening. But on the other hand, there are reason to believe that President Bush was not informed about the warnings and threat and that he was practically blindfolded until the time off the attack, and that the attack was planned and …show more content…

In late July 2001, Afghanistan’s foreign minister Wakill Ahmed Muttawakill learned that `Osama bin Laden` was planning a huge attack against America. The attack was going to be imminent, and would kill thousands, he learned from the leader of the rebel Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which was closely allied with al-Qaeda at the time[History Commons, 1]. In 1999, British intelligence gave a secret report to the US embassy. The report stated that al-Qaeda had plans to use commercial aircraft as possible flying bombs[2]. Five days before 9/11, the priest Jean-Marie Benjamin was told by a Muslim at a Italian wedding of a plot to attack the US and Britain using hijacked airplanes as weapons. He was not told time or place specifics. He immediately passed what he knew on to a judge and several politicians in Italy. These warnings should have been taken more seriously, if they had been things might have been

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