Between March 2001 and 9/10/2001 George Tenet brought warnings to the White House, Rice and the Security Council that al-Qaeda was planning an attack on the United States. He documents those warnings in his book, At the CENTER of the STORM. Many of these warnings were given a 100% confidence rating by the CIA. In every warning, the CIA said these attacks were being planned by bin Laden and al-Qaeda. There was NO involvement of Saddam or Iraq. The CIA also documented that it was bin Laden and al-Qaeda that had been responsible for the 1st attack on Twin Towers, the Marine Barracks and the Cole. Again there was NO involvement of Iraq or Saddam of those attacks.
Prior to 9/11 Bush and the entire Security Council which was lead by Rice did NOTHING to act on the many CIA warnings that Tenet himself warned about.
It is one thing to be unaware of a possible attack and quite another to IGNORE the warnings from the agency that is charged with proving intelligence to the President and the Security Council. For Bush and Rice to not act on warnings brought from the Director of the CIA is CRIMINAL. No one can say that if Bush and Rice had acted on the warnings that 9/11 would not have happened. But to IGNOIRE these warnings is dereliction of duty on the part of Bush and Rice.
After 9/11 and the confirmation by the CIA that the attack on 9/11 was conducted by bin Laden and al-Qaeda, Bush attacks Iraq who had NOTHING to do with 9/11 or the other attacks on our country! Bush and Rice had the responsibility to PROTECT this country and to ignore the specific warnings from the CIA Director is criminal. Both should be IMPEACHED for their failure to act on those warnings and do all they could to protect America!