Obama administration blames Bush for airport security failures

[Emma]

Can anyone give me the quote that proves the thread title true? I asked anakin but he must have bunkered down in his cave.

Obama administration blames Bush for airport security failures

First she said "the system worked". Now, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano admits the system failed miserably, but repeatedly points out it was a system put in place while George W. Bush was President. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs made similar statements.

The "Blame Bush" mantra helped get Obama elected and has been used as an excuse for his entire first 11 months as President. Now they are using it as an excuse for allowing a Nigerian terrorist to almost blow up a U.S. bound plane on Christmas Day. Interviewed this morning on "Today", Napolitano repeatedly tried to shift blame to Bush for the numerous failures of her department. She kept noting "the rules have been in place since 2006" or "for a number of years".

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was on a watch list, had no passport, and carried explosives onto the plane. His own father warned officials at the U.S Embassy in Lagos, Nigeria, that Abdulmutallab had became radicalized. That means Hillary Clinton's State Department knew about him. Our government had a file on him. Abdulmutallah should have been on the no-fly list. But the warnings were ignored.

The rules that have been in place since 2006 (AKA before me and under bush) Today Show Video Player

Thats what people are going on ravi. Thats where this claim of the Obama admin trying to shift the blame comes from.

Oh dear God in Heaven. Anyone who takes what she said as "blaming Bush" is thin-skinned beyond belief.

 

[Truthmatters]

Why?

 

[Ravi]

Agreed she is incompetant and needs to be replaced with a better person.

Stick here somewhere else if you dont wanna fire her but for all of our sakes please put someone competant in the job.

Napolitano should be replaced. (shouldn't have been in the position in the first place, IMO)

Why do you think that?

 

[Emma]

Agreed she is incompetant and needs to be replaced with a better person.

Stick here somewhere else if you dont wanna fire her but for all of our sakes please put someone competant in the job.

Napolitano should be replaced. (shouldn't have been in the position in the first place, IMO)

Why do you think that?

For the same reason I felt Ridge was a poor choice. Neither had experience in security issues, at least not enough to justify being placed in such a position.

 

[Emma]

Why?

Because she clearly wasn't blaming Bush.

 

[namvet]

The dems backed Bush after 911.

He then lied to us to go into Iraq and lost our trust for good reason.

The Rs would never back a dem president no matter what happened.

Now who is the party over country party?

Clinton had chances galore to kill or capture bin laden. why, dog shit, did he pass ????

 

[The T]

OMG. The administration is a joke.

Indeed. They have assumed command but refrain from responsibility.

Why doesn't someone ask Obama why he has Rescinded an executive order from Reagan regarding INTERPOL?

READ ALL ABOUT IT

 

[The T]

OMG. The administration is a joke.

And WE bear the brunt...and are the BUTT of the Joke.

 

[SFC Ollie]

Curious....do you also believe they lost with the shoe bomber?
Almost the exact same scenario....coulda shoulda woulda....but it didnt ignite.
Was that also a loss for Al-quaeda?

Yes, same scenario. They found a weakness, exploited it and fucked up the execution

In neither case could Al Qaeda use the incident as a recruiting tool to show how they are putting it to the West. In fact, the west is beating the shit out of Al Qaeda

And they made us change our lives forever.
Some victory.
Time to take your leftist progressive liberal blinders off and see what is happening.

Shoe Bomber and we have to take our shoes off at the Airport.

Now we have the underwear bomber...............

 

[WillowTree]

Yes, same scenario. They found a weakness, exploited it and fucked up the execution

In neither case could Al Qaeda use the incident as a recruiting tool to show how they are putting it to the West. In fact, the west is beating the shit out of Al Qaeda

And they made us change our lives forever.
Some victory.
Time to take your leftist progressive liberal blinders off and see what is happening.

Shoe Bomber and we have to take our shoes off at the Airport.

Now we have the underwear bomber...............

 

[rightwinger]

Yes, same scenario. They found a weakness, exploited it and fucked up the execution

In neither case could Al Qaeda use the incident as a recruiting tool to show how they are putting it to the West. In fact, the west is beating the shit out of Al Qaeda

And they made us change our lives forever.
Some victory.
Time to take your leftist progressive liberal blinders off and see what is happening.

Shoe Bomber and we have to take our shoes off at the Airport.

Now we have the underwear bomber...............

Don't think we want to see you in your underwear Ollie

 

[SFC Ollie]

And they made us change our lives forever.
Some victory.
Time to take your leftist progressive liberal blinders off and see what is happening.

Shoe Bomber and we have to take our shoes off at the Airport.

Now we have the underwear bomber...............

Don't think we want to see you in your underwear Ollie

I don't even want to see me in my underwear.

 

[namvet]

I am sick of this crap. They have blamed George Bush for every single problem in the world. Now, when their system fails, Obama's minions do it again.

Obama administration blames Bush for airport security failures

Under that logic 9/11 is Bill Clinton's Fault and you can blame vietnam on FDR (so what i skipped a president or two)

I have actually seen cons claim 911 was Clintons fault

we know Clinton admits he had chances to kill or capture bin laden.

why did he hit the chicken switch ???? can't answer up or don't want to ????

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

you get the rep.

Agreed she is incompetant and needs to be replaced with a better person.

Stick here somewhere else if you dont wanna fire her but for all of our sakes please put someone competant in the job.

Not according to the 911 report.

They said it was the intercommunication of the security entities that caused this type of shortfall, you know just like the shoe bomber. Why did Bush not fix this after that one?

He sure left alot for Obama to fix ,it would have been nice if he did something instead of just leaving messes for Obama to fix.

didn't obama fire almost all of bush's people and replace them with his own? Hasn't Obama been president for 11 months already? Why hasn't he fixed it?

The door swings both ways...two sides to every coin....Pointing to bad behavior doesn't justify other bad behavior....two wrongs don't make a right.

Both presidents had an identical fail and you only defend obama, at least some of us see both situations as failures for the administrations in charge at the time.

Pointing

 

[keee keee]

Obama will fix the problem by appointing the underware bomber Czar of NSA in charge of leaking information on how to sneak in and attack the United State using Airliners and ships.

 

[kyzr]

9/11 happened 8-months into Bush's 1st term, the Nigerian-bomber happened 11-months into Obama's. Its Obama's mess to deal with. How can he not fire "the system worked" Napolitano? She's a joke, more than that, she's dangerously incompetent.

 

[namvet]

Osama takes no responsibility here at all.

 

[SFC Ollie]

9/11 happened 8-months into Bush's 1st term, the Nigerian-bomber happened 11-months into Obama's. Its Obama's mess to deal with. How can he not fire "the system worked" Napolitano? She's a joke, more than that, she's dangerously incompetent.

Worse than dangerous, I still would have loved to have been there when she had to eat crow and apologize to the American Legion National Commander.

 

[Yurt]

9/11 happened 8-months into Bush's 1st term, the Nigerian-bomber happened 11-months into Obama's. Its Obama's mess to deal with. How can he not fire "the system worked" Napolitano? She's a joke, more than that, she's dangerously incompetent.

obama and his worshippers do not even realize that when obama said there was a systemic failure....he admitted he failed

 

[namvet]

the bombs and sleeper cells were, and still are here long before Bush. their just waiting for the call.