Whodathunkit?

Teh Loon:

First of all, we were essentially blindsided by 9/11. Yes, there was intelligence that suggested that what happened on September 11, 2001 was possible, but the notion was never taken serious, nor was the exact style of attack (flying airliners into the World Trade Center) fully expected. Essentially, we were attacked because of many factors, including our complete lack of taking action and dealing with the terrorists during Clinton's administration while they were attacking our embassies and other targets (including the WTC at on point) which drove Islam to move up to the next level of an attack, and also because of the failure of imagination at the highest levels of government that such an attack could happen in such a manner, or that the enemy would even be willing to do such a thing. In fact, the attack surprised most Defense Department officials, just as Iraq's attack on Kuwait did (because they were unwilling to look at the signs).

Except.. you know.. that's total horseshit (yet again).

(CBS) Two years before the Sept. 11 attacks, an analysis prepared for U.S. intelligence warned that Osama bin Laden's terrorists could hijack an airliner and fly it into government buildings like the Pentagon.

"Suicide bomber(s) belonging to al Qaeda's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives (C-4 and semtex) into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or the White House," the September 1999 report said.

The Bush administration has asserted that no one in government had envisioned a suicide hijacking before it happened.

"Had I known that the enemy was going to use airplanes to kill on that fateful morning, I would have done everything in my power to protect the American people," Mr. Bush told U.S. Air Force Academy football team members who were visiting the White House on Friday. It was his first public comment on revelations this week that he was told Aug. 6 that bin Laden wanted to hijack planes.

CBS Senior White House Correspondent Bob Schieffer reports that other top officials were less forthcoming. The usually talkative Attorney General John Ashcroft just stared when reporters asked him about the terror warnings. FBI Chief Robert Mueller also refused to comment.

White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said the administration was aware of the 1999 report prepared by the Library of Congress for the National Intelligence Council, which advises the president and U.S. intelligence on emerging threats. He said the document did not contain direct intelligence pointing toward a specific plot but rather included assessments about how terrorists might strike.

"What it shows is that this information that was out there did not raise enough alarm with anybody," Fleischer acknowledged.

Doug concludes his fear mongering with this nugget;

Back to that question I asked earlier from a liberal point of view.

"Do you really think that Islamic Terrorists can actually just do everything that Ahmadinejad is threatening?"
Absolutely, unless we do something to stop it.

And what, exactly, is this "something", and are you going to send your own son to the next bloodbath?