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PatSeg

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8. I just found this though
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 08:57 AM
Oct 2015

Joe Biden stated the following in a speech given ONE day before 9/11:

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.”

http://defendingthetruth.com/warfare/40254-joe-biden-predicted-9-11-one-day-before-happened.html

There was a video on KOS back in 2008, but that video is gone. It was a speech to the national press club.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/09/18/602930/-Biden-sorta-predicted-9-11-on-9-10-video

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It would depend on what he has to say. madaboutharry Oct 2015 #1
I had totally forgotten about that PatSeg Oct 2015 #2
CNN should have it - Larry King fadedrose Oct 2015 #3
I think it has been scrubbed PatSeg Oct 2015 #4
Maybe it was a different show? UrbScotty Oct 2015 #5
Edwards was not on that night fadedrose Oct 2015 #6
I was going to suggest PatSeg Oct 2015 #7
I just found this though PatSeg Oct 2015 #8
WAS running. fadedrose Oct 2015 #9
Yes PatSeg Oct 2015 #10
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