{"id":1680,"date":"2004-04-30T12:13:32","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T17:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1680.html"},"modified":"2004-04-30T12:13:32","modified_gmt":"2004-04-30T17:13:32","slug":"guess-who-else-argued-that-bush-paid-no-attention-to-the-problem-of-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/guess-who-else-argued-that-bush-paid-no-attention-to-the-problem-of-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Guess who else argued that Bush paid ‘no attention to the problem of terrorism’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s play everyone’s favorite game, Source That Quote. I’ll give you the comments; you guess who said it.<\/p>\n

In a speech to a terrorism conference six months before the Sept. 11 attacks, this person felt pretty strongly that the Bush White House wasn’t taking the terrorist threat seriously at all.<\/p>\n

“The new administration seems to be paying no attention to the problem of terrorism. What they will do is stagger along until there’s a major incident and then suddenly say, ‘Oh my God, shouldn’t we be organized to deal with this?’ They’ve been given a window of opportunity with very little terrorism now, and they’re not taking advantage of it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Was the speaker:<\/p>\n

a) Clinton and Bush counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke
\nb) Senator John Kerry
\nc) Former Vice President Al Gore
\nd) French President Jacques Chirac
\ne) Bush’s hand-picked Iraqi coalition leader Paul Bremer<\/p>\n

I’ll give you a hint. Bush once described this person<\/a> as one of nation’s “best citizens,” a man of “enormous experience,” and someone who “shares the same values” as the American people.
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\nIf you said, Paul Bremer<\/a>, you’re right.<\/p>\n

You know who else was right, six months before 9\/11? Paul Bremer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s play everyone’s favorite game, Source That Quote. I’ll give you the comments; you guess who said it. In a speech to a terrorism conference six months before the Sept. 11 attacks, this person felt pretty strongly that the Bush White House wasn’t taking the terrorist threat seriously at all. “The new administration seems to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}