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1. What was President Bush doing when he heard of the attacks?
He was listening to a class reading
2. According to President Bush, what is the first thing a leader needs to do for the country in times of crisis?
Stay calm, show a sense of calmness
3. Why did the Secret Service refuse to allow President Bush to go back to Washington D.C. right away?
He could have gotten attacked at the White House
4. What did the US government/military do to to ensure another attack did not occur?
stop all air trafic, tell all planes in the air to land, shoot down all aircraft that are not responding
5. Why was President Bush sent to Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha?
Most secure, it is in the middle of America
6. Why did President Bush eventually insist on going back to Washington D.C. later that day against the will of the Secret Service?
He thought the terrorists would have one if he was giving a speech in a bunker in the middle of America. He wanted to be in charge
7. What was the point of President Bush's message to the nation on the evening of 9-11?
Stay calm, bring the terrorists to justice
8. Why did President Bush decide not to blame the CIA/FBI for not doing their job?
He didn't want to point fingers at anyone and it would have been hard to tell.
9. How did President Bush feel when he heard that Osama bin Laden had been killed?
He wasn't rejoicing but he felt that justice had been done.
Why did they attack us? They wanted to start a jihad against us, we were helping governments(isreal) that they didn't like, the U.S stationing troops in Saudi Arabia, supporting Indian people in cashmere, troops in Iraq and isreal, went against Muslims in Somalia, supporting Russian atrocities against Muslims in Chechnya, supported Jewish aggression against Muslims in Lebanon, Economic Sanctions against Iraq,
Saddam Hussein invaded the tiny, oil-rich country of Kuwait, we feared Saddam would invade Saudi Arabia too
Airports closed for few days, National parks and landmarks closed due to potential attacks, professional and college sports were delayed, many shows and movies were cancelled, changed or delayed, went to war in Afghanistan as that is where al-Qaeda was based,
DHS - Department of Homeland Security
FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation, investigate any federal crimes
CIA - Central Inteligence Agency, it deals with spying outside of the U.S, infiltrates enemies and they bug phones, tries to gather intelligence
NSA - National Security Agency, Hack into networks and spy on technology
We found out CIA prevented FBI in investigating Water Gate Scandal, helped assassinate people in other countries, danced with the devil to protect our country, CIA was stripped of power,
Started to do more things that public doesn't like, water boarding, CIA needs to do things like that and don't get caught or we will get upset,
After 911, Department of Homeland Security was set up, to protect borders and inside U.S,
Patriot Act, gave government more power to tap into lines and might have led to water boarding, whistle blower leaked all of information that CIA had discovered
Bush Doctrine-Have the right to secure itself against countries that harbor or give aid to terrorist groups, U.S should depose foreign governments that represented a potential threat to the security of the United States, Encourage democracy around the world, especially in the Middle East as a strategy for combating terrorism, encourage democracy around the world
What is al-Qaeda: We helped build up al-Qaeda, we helped fight with people who were anti-communist, started in late 80s, started because they were fighting soviets, we helped make them strong,
Reason why U.S is targeted by al-Qeauda: the U.S supports Israel, Palestinians are mad because we took their land and gave it to the Jews,
situation in Iraq is now focusing on ISIS
Syria - refused to step down, we supported Syrian rebels, military is looking to bomb Syria, we are in bad blood with Syria, working with Syria in a way to fight ISIS, going to help syria fight ISIS, we are just air striking Syria. Not attacking Syrian government, fighting ISIS,
Iran, started in late 1970s, they were sick and tired of the U.S. Iraq and Iran went to war, we supported Iraq,
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