this is pretty incredible

Flashback: Biden on 9/10/01 warned the ‘real threat’ may come in ‘the belly of a plane’

Before 9/11, the Bush administration’s national security focus was on missile defense, not terrorism. In fact, on 9/11, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was set to deliver a speech that focused “largely on missile defense.” Writing at the Huffington Post, Joe Cirincione — president of the Ploughshares Fund — recalls this quote from Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) on Sept. 10, 2001, warning against the Bush administration’s approach:

We will have diverted all that money to address the least likely threat while the real threats come into this country in the hold of a ship, or the belly of a plane, or are smuggled into a city in the middle of the night in a vial in a backpack.

Cirincione writes, “If George Bush had listened to Joe Biden instead of Donald Rumsfeld, the history of the past seven years would have been very different. We might have prevented 9/11.”

(Think Progress)
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It is so sad to think how different our lives would be if the Supreme Court hadn't vetoed the American pubic and Gore had become president in 2000.
So many "ifs" - if we had a president who listened to warnings and we were able to divert 9/11, if bush didn't start an unnecessary war, if Kerry had won in 2004, if bush hadn't been so pro-business at the cost of us average Americans, is we didn't have oil men in the White House, and on & on...
It is heartbreaking to think about how this country has so unnecessarily gone down the drain. I only hope we have a chance to recover...