Was Kerry to Blame for 9/11?

[Pergatory]

OMG Kerry was told that our airport security sucked and he didn't do anything about it?! The terrorist attack must be his fault! Thousands of deaths are on his shoulders now! Burn him!

Hind sight is 20-20. If you put yourself in his place, you'll see that he did the right thing. He forwarded the issue to the department that handles those issues.

He doesn't have the right to claim that he was a whistle blower because he didn't take any extra effort in making sure that it was taken care of, but that's beside the point. To blame him for weak airport security is like blaming the Post Office for your phone bill being incorrect.

I think the motive behind this was not to make Kerry look dirty, but to draw attention away from the Bush administration. I think it's obvious that nobody would hold this against Kerry, but they might be less inclined to hold the blame to the Bush administration because it was obviously "everybody's fault" that this happened.

 

[Shadow]

Of course, 9-11 is automatically President Bush's fault! It had NOTHING to do with the administration before him, that's for sure...

 

[skywise]

This thing with Kerry seems to be a distractionary tactic to keep from asking the tough questions like this one-

"Andrews Air Force Base is a huge military installation just 10 miles from the Pentagon. On 11 September there were two entire squadrons of combat-ready fighter jets at Andrews. Their job was to protect the skies over Washington D.C. They failed to do their job. Despite over one hour's advance warning of a terrorist attack in progress, not a single Andrews fighter tried to protect the city. The FAA, NORAD and the military have cooperative procedures by which fighter jets automatically intercept commercial aircraft under emergency conditions. These procedures were not followed." If the FAA is required by law to notify the US government of a reported hijacking, as they did before the first hit at the WTC, why then, with well over half and hour before the attack on the pentagon, were no preventive military actions taken by Andrews Air Force Base?

http://unansweredquestions.org/topic.php?tid=45

 

[schwarzchildradius]

More than 11 weeks later, Kerry finally replied to his well-informed and anxious constituent. "I have forwarded your tape to the Department of Transportation's Office of Inspector General [DOT OIG]," he said in a brief July 24, 2001, letter, a copy of which I've obtained.

He did a hell of a lot more than Bush did about it. If anything in the article is true, it shows that there was a reaction to the possibility of a terrorist strike. But "oh what could Bush have done?" Kill Bin Laden.