Basically, the president botched the response to 9/11. He should have gone right after Afghanistan, right after bin Laden and then he made the whole war on terrorism so much worse by invading Iraq.
Richard Clarke criticizes President Bush's handling of the response to the September 11 attacks and the subsequent invasion of Iraq.
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He ignored it. He ignored terrorism for months when maybe we could have done something to stop 9/11. Maybe. We'll never know.
If societies can offer people an alternative pathway, employment perhaps, meaningful life, education, a chance to move up, you're not going to see as much of this.
I will make you pay a price. We haven't been willing to make them pay a price, except for economic sanctions.
I think it is. I think Al-Maliki, despite all of our warnings and all of our efforts to reach out to the Sunnis and the Kurds, to have a real government of national reconciliation and he's consistently refused and been aggressively going…
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